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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen |OT| deep down darkness
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Augemitbutter
Member
goty.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Right now I have a problem with my pawn, his secondary inclination keeps slipping back into guardian. It's a pain - I gotta keep using the chair everytime I visit Soren.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Do you use the come command? Never use it. Never.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
No, I don't.
I just don't issue command to my pawn.
It's just, like it happens. I have a feeling utilitarian and guardian are closely tied and the smallest thing knocks her back into guardian.
Anyways, I switched from mage to sorcerer, heals are no longer an issue because I can buy herbs anytime and I hope to get better nuking.
edit for tenrius: ogres are the biggest assholes out of the "small game" bosses. That frigging grab does so much damage when they are chewing your ass.
Onion_Relish
Member
As was already started don't say come. If you're taking to much of a beating that could be why it is going to Guardian. As i said buy a shit load of potions and pump them in, should fix that problem.
dancingphlower
Member
Sounds like I'm in for a good time!
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I play a fairly aggressive assassin and get hurt a lot, might be a factor.
So what's the method, buy 10 potions at the camp and spam them?
Onion_Relish
Member
I wouldn't clear everything its not necessary. Then your pawn just seems lifeless
That's because you're not popping dem pots. From my experience drinking a single potion will only move that stat slightly higher than all others in the queue. In order to make real head way and keep your inclinations the same you have to chug a bunch so that they outweight the others heavily and have less of s chance to slip.
As I understand it taking damage does lead to the Guardian inclination. Conclusion: git good or git wreked.
I wouldn't clear everything its not necessary. Then your pawn just seems lifeless
That's because you're not popping dem pots. From my experience drinking a single potion will only move that stat slightly higher than all others in the queue. In order to make real head way and keep your inclinations the same you have to chug a bunch so that they outweight the others heavily and have less of s chance to slip.
As I understand it taking damage does lead to the Guardian inclination. Conclusion: git good or git wreked.
I'll test your theory this weekend.
I pop ALL the pots though, my pawns are lazy asses. I have to pick up everything and manually distribute the load.
I was exploring the area around the Hillfigure Knoll at night and was ambushed by a chimera. Woah, didn't expect that. A quest notification also appeared, saying something like "ambush!" and "defeat your enemies", however there was nothing like that in my quest log. Was it a random event?
Ambushes count as quests in the way that it'll reward you if you win, but I don't think it keeps record of them in your quest book. They happen often, so don't worry if you fail it or have to run away from one.
Thank you!
Post game is really dull. Everfall hasn't led to anything worthwhile gear wise and the Xp rate is quite slow and I'm too low level for BBI.
I think I'm just gonna NG+ and burst through that and call it a day. Plenty other games to get through in my backlog
Edit: now the drakes have stopped spawning. Yep, I'm done
I think I'm just gonna NG+ and burst through that and call it a day. Plenty other games to get through in my backlog
Edit: now the drakes have stopped spawning. Yep, I'm done
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
Come back later, I had the same problems and then the mobs changed when I came back.
If you can do Everfall, you can start BBI. BBI is really cool, and far larger than I was led to believe. Don't miss it.
Augemitbutter
Member
should be possible. i don't know where you start off, but i know you can get your stuff at the warehouse if the game starts over.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Went ahead and pushed the game to ng+..I loved the entire beginning half of this game but the second half and even BBI just couldn't hold my interest too much. Not sure if I'll finish the plat..maybe slow burn it.
Cool. I'll probably pick Dark Arisen up next week. I feel bad for missing DD the first time around, but am pretty stoked about an updated re-release.
Hey kvothe, thanks for the hire. I'm level 23 now, so I'm not sure whether I should hire your level 45 pawn. Will probably wait a bit, I'm progressing quite steadily.
On another note, when should I switch to fighter/mage (and should I at all)? I'm 2 ranks away from the maximum mage rank now.
On another note, when should I switch to fighter/mage (and should I at all)? I'm 2 ranks away from the maximum mage rank now.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I just got my pawn hired, looks like to slay the bird at the tower.
27k RC's, not bad!
I'm sorry to make a deal out of this, but it's only the third time it's happened!
27k RC's, not bad!
I'm sorry to make a deal out of this, but it's only the third time it's happened!
Lemme take a look at my stats....
Times main pawn was hired: 151
Total RC obtained: 15 million
#swag
jfoul
Member
Does anybody need Cursed level 3 Armor/Weapon/Novelty? I'm going to be offloading these because they aren't purifying as "rare". I don't like wasting RC on stuff I don't need, and would rather the item go to somebody that can use it.
Feel free to add me if I'm not on your friendlist already from the pawn list.
GT: JFoul
Feel free to add me if I'm not on your friendlist already from the pawn list.
GT: JFoul
Rickenslacker
Banned
Is there any easy way to equalize my pawn's level to mine? Just beat Daimon and he vortexed her moments before defeat, netting me 3 levels and her none. That gap is just going to annoy me.
If you want to collect the "rare" gear don't give away your cursed items. The stuff you get from purification are predetermined, picking up a cursed item only adds a "token" so that you can advance down the list. Giving away the cursed items won't change the items that you will get next, and the recipient won't get the item that you last purified as well.
edit: More screenshots!
jfoul
Member
Thanks for the heads up. Tested it, and you're spot on.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Augemitbutter
Member
true DD starts here.
Onion_Relish
Member
Congrats on the hire. It gets more exciting as time goes on because your pawn will go places and fight monsters you haven't seen before. It creates a sense of anticipation that is really awesome. It gets a bit less exciting when you've killed every monster done every quest and beaten bbi, but I always like seeing people hire my pawn because I'm proud of her and I hope she does a good job
Well your main pawn does level up with you. And if your struggling, you can go back to the rift and hire higher leveled pawns (at the cost of experience points of course).
Rickenslacker
Banned
Welp, I think I'm done with the game. I finished BBI and decided I wanted to get the entire Hellfire set, so I headed out to do more BBI; but shortly in I encountered a wyrm that wasn't particularly challenging, but took little damage. After doing two bars of life with 8 or so to go and encountering cinematic framerates and excessive camera clipping (that chest weakspot is horrible for this), I decided I really didn't need that armour and felt like closing the book on my DD play.
Which really makes it sound negative, but it's not, haha. It just dissuaded me from going the extra distance of completing some unnecessary post-endgame gear set. I'd love if the game had more weapon options like spears, or made rolling a sword ability as well, but I really enjoyed my time with the game and can't wait for Deep Down now. I think my only real bummer is that my pawn was hired a total of 3 times, but the system itself is really neat.
Which really makes it sound negative, but it's not, haha. It just dissuaded me from going the extra distance of completing some unnecessary post-endgame gear set. I'd love if the game had more weapon options like spears, or made rolling a sword ability as well, but I really enjoyed my time with the game and can't wait for Deep Down now. I think my only real bummer is that my pawn was hired a total of 3 times, but the system itself is really neat.
I'm adjusting... even killed some drakes in the last couple hours. but still if I get surrounded by 4 or more of those firewolves I have a fight on your hands! those bastards!
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Get a second moonbeam gem, decide to open the Dragon's Ire door. Start using the Dragon's Ire. Uncurse four level 2 weapons. Three of the four are Dragon's Ire.
So I have the original DD but haven't got around to buying expansion yet. Is it possible to buy just the expansion and not the full game at all? I'm guessing absolutely not because I'm not seeing it anywhere. That's pretty lame for people like me who have the original already. Who does that?
I hear that the expansion is comparable to Dark Souls in difficulty. Is this true? Perhaps the biggest flaw in Dragon's Dogma for me was once you hit a certain early level(like 20 or so) the world became super easy. When you're initially exploring it in going in places you weren't suppose to go, you would get destroyed in early levels. I remember trying to fight an Ogre at level 8 and getting owned by them. Not to mention nearly pissing my pants when he rushed my party randomly at night.
I don't like level scaling in RPGs but it can be good if done right. I think DD was a prime example of why you need at least a few areas with it.
I hear that the expansion is comparable to Dark Souls in difficulty. Is this true? Perhaps the biggest flaw in Dragon's Dogma for me was once you hit a certain early level(like 20 or so) the world became super easy. When you're initially exploring it in going in places you weren't suppose to go, you would get destroyed in early levels. I remember trying to fight an Ogre at level 8 and getting owned by them. Not to mention nearly pissing my pants when he rushed my party randomly at night.
I don't like level scaling in RPGs but it can be good if done right. I think DD was a prime example of why you need at least a few areas with it.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
They sweeten the deal with a non-consumable ferrystone and some other goodies. But yeah, it's quite the rough deal for supporters of the original.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
How does the length of BBI/amount of content in DA compare to other $15 DLC like for Mass Effect 3?
Onion_Relish
Member
I'm at 95 and 6.36 million
Vespian just came back with 1.8 million RC after 3 days, not bad
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Poor Penelope gets no love =(
Onion_Relish
Member
Xbox bro that is your punishment. Part of it though is that the bottom levels are clogged with pawns that don't play anymore from vanilla DD. once you clear level 60 you should become more visible.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
That's true tho, the occasional pawns I've hired look like they belong to inactive players.
Onion_Relish
Member
I found that on ps3 the level has to be around 60-65 before you start finding DD
A pawns. It truly is a shameI found that on ps3 the level has to be around 60-65 before you start finding DD
I've been seeing plenty of DD
A pawns on all levels up to 25. There's usually about a third of them on each level, that's if you search by level in the rift.