Or if you have enough RC buy some potions or whatever from the guy at the encampment and change your pawn's nature that way. Make sure to read up on the DD wikia too so you know how to best set your's, Guardian's stupidly common yet I get the impression it's one of the worst types to pick as they tend to stick to you.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen |OT| deep down darkness
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Kill all his tentacles and eventually he'll try his ultimate attack on you. You'll know it's happening when four or five eyes spawn in a circle trying to launch the attack. Kill them as quickly as you can and the big eye will fall and pretty much die if you nuts on the exposed eyeball.
Barber Shop in Gran Soran. Get the royal treatment, it lets you change voice.
. . . What kind of barber is this?
Item_Screen
Member
How do you know when side quests will become unavailable? And are they really important? I missed out on one from the beginning(the flower one) so I was trying to finish off the next set but some were too hard so I went and did a story quest. I know the 'kill x enemies' quests stay. What about the escort missions?
Snapshot King
Member
The game has 7 stages. Each stage is marked by a large quest that advances the plot in some way, it'll also wipe out a bunch of earlier quests from being completed. The first stage is everything up until going to Gran Soren, for example. There's a trophy faq for the Hero trophy on gamefaqs that's really helpful.
That being said the kill X quests last forever.
I've noticed that ranger pawns never shoot at anything, ever... drives me crazy.
Snapshot King
Member
I used to have a Ranger pawn and she was great.
My old ranger pawn was a beast. What always annoyed me was making her a sorcerer, she was capable of doing the incredibly powerful ice stalagmite magic that basically cut through health like butter, but would fuck around for half of the fight before doing it.
endlessflood
Member
No, it's just that you don't have time to practice when you're out on the road. Once you get to an Inn you're finally able to take off your shirt and listen to Snap!, at which point you discover that you have the (new) power.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I had two sorcerers and they would not stop running up to the enemy and trying to cast spells at point blank.
Needless to say they got one-shotted constantly and I honestly considered leaving them to die since they were turning out to be more of a liability than help.
I don't know if it's just me but my pawns have been acting more dumb than usual since I went to BB Isle. The inclinations I have for my pawn and the ones I hire are pretty good so I'm not sure what the issue is.
I just want God Eater: Burst level allied AI. :/
Not only that, but they will attack enemies that directly attack the Arisen and generally no one else. Your pawn will be annoyingly passive to the point of absurdity. Guardian and Nexus are awful inclinations and should be avoided. Nexus is Guardian with focus on your recruited pawns instead of you. I avoid hiring pawns that have either.
I've found utilitarian really awesome for my pawn as a tank. Focused on teamwork, grabbing enemies, deflecting attacks, taunting, etc. Scather is nice as secondary to help keep aggro on the biggest enemy and attack as needed while I clean up the trash on my strider.
I found another method.
Got sick of fighting tentacles and shooting his eye for 30 minutes and just leaped on him, crawled inside his eye and smiled as huge chunks of health were being chopped off from my Dragon Vein daggers. You get knocked off a time or two, but that is the way to take this bastard out.
Snapshot King
Member
I forget, how early in the game can you get the potions that change your pawns tendency?
I'll be doing that after I finish Two Worlds.
Baloonatic
Member
This is what I'm doing as well. Started completely fresh on hard mode, which I haven't tried before. I'm getting completely destroyed by bandits, not even at Gran Soren yet D:
DeathGlobe
Member
I suck ass at this game. I keep dying and I am just now on the what I assume is the second quest delivering the hydra head
Raptomex
Member
The beginning is hard. Don't stray from paths until you level up more.
DeathGlobe
Member
I guess my issue is lack of better equipment I am only level 8 though
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Did you visit the merchant in Cassardis for new equipment? When I first played, I missed him and the first several hours ended up being pretty brutal.
DeathGlobe
Member
I dont believe I did
FrostuTheNinja
Member
If I'm not mistaken, your initial equipment upgrades come from there. I'm not too terribly sure how Dark Arisen influences that, though. Included DLC equipment and all that.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
As was said, buy new equipment and upgrade your pawns as soon as you can. Rook is garbage. If you're short on money, go back to Cassardis and do the sidequest in the well "Deep Trouble" for 2000 gold. Look on the notice board for any easy quests (I think there are some for killing Seagulls, Snakes and Bats that give out decent amounts of gold)
DeathGlobe
Member
I started doing lost and found quest and was being killed by bandits in armor. And yeah I just got rid of rook
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
The only things available to me in the beginning were the three dlc rings.
Baloonatic
Member
There are certain points in the game that push the story forward and can make certain sidequests expire. There is a good guide on GameFAQs that lists the triggers.
Buy whatever you can from the starting town, do sidequests, explore and have fun!
endlessflood
Member
Do you mean Aestella, the merchant opposite the Inn in Cassardis? She sells the first pieces of equipment available to you.
The bandits will fuck you up at the start. The trek to the Witchwood and the quest down the well will both result in a lot of deaths at the start of the game.
Net_Wrecker
Member
So much troof. I managed to survive against an Ogre in the
Lure of The Abyss
Imma be back doe. I'll be back, and I'll kill them all.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
I guess that's the one. Shows how much I visited her! -_-
Just wow, that
9 health bars, every restorative at my disposal and about 40 minutes later he fell. Can't believe I made it through that one beings my pawns were pretty much useless and got rocked the entire time. This shit is getting nuts.
necro dragon. It's obvious where you need to hit him, but managing your party and whittling him down is the fun part.
R_thanatos
Member
Finally started the expansion.
The wind isn't pushing me anymore ..so i'm a little sad.
The wind isn't pushing me anymore ..so i'm a little sad.
Deified Data
Banned
Everyone who started afresh needs to rent each other's pawns! My fighter's lv.16. PSN is Deified_Data. I'd love to rent someone else's pawn around that level.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
At the encampment outside of Cassardis. Talk to the pawn guy by the riftstone.
That's nothing. Wait till you get to the room with
3 warg bosses, 3 sorcerers casting high level magick including High Seism and High Maelstrom and a harpy. There's also an Elder Ogre standing there who probably doesn't move until you hit him although I haven't tried that yet. Watch as your pawns die in 10 seconds and as you get rocked by stuff that's not even on screen. Also Seism and Maelstrom always kill me in one hit. Good luck.
Anyone know if there's a place where you can buy a lot of empty flasks in BB Isle?
Was fairly worthless in Vanilla.
Snapshot King
Member
Lost and Found is probably the most difficult quest in the game due to what levels you're at, how knowledgeable you are about the game systems, and the relative difficulty of the bandit groups you have to go through to get to Witchwood.
Deified Data
Banned
Good for killing rabbits. It's useless against anything large enough to actually warrant such a badass-sounding spell. Who wants to passively keep a bead on an enemy when you can smite them with thunderbolts?
Welp that's going out of rotation then.
Jake Tower
Banned
I have a low level pawn from a new vanilla game I can convert to Dark Arisen if anyone wants an Amazonian Ranger Woman.
Just beat it myself. I used all of my curatives along with 3 or 4 wakestones.
Before that encounter, what was the best tactic to beat those dark bandits(?). Only encountered a group once so far but from what I could see, they're only susceptible to magic?
Yeah, I may end up going back to level up a bit more before it's over. Nearly hour long battles with enemies that can take out your party in one shot with a myriad of attacks is getting into 'I feel weak as piss' territory. You can only carry so many health and anti-debilitation items.