Thanks for the new gear for my pawn, Eusis.
So at this point I did the
bit where everyone hauled ass out of the dungeon and have begun doing some quests in Gran Soren. I grabbed a crystal down in that previously mentioned area, but people are saying there are four or five of them. Should this one be my first or have I missed one or more?
And do I need to do anything to make it possible to return to Gran Soren? I have a ferry stone. I guess I should probably always carry at least two? I'm just thinking about this because I've got a quest to return to Selene all the way back in the Witch's wood and that's a bit of a walk. I don't want to have to walk back too.
Ferry stones cost 1000-2000g depending on what vendor you buy them from (black cat or fournier , both are in grand soren) , just use it and it lets you teleport to grand soren or cassardis (the starter town) because there are already fixed teleport crystals there.
Any port crystals you find (like the one in everfall, which is indeed the first one you find) you can place anywhere on the world map (not in dungeons or any instanced area) will make a new teleport point.
So when you use a ferry stone you can choose from a list of points, both grand soren and cassardis and any spot where you put a port crystal.
I'd suggest putting one at the female bandit camp (you'll know when you get there) and one at the entrance to witchwood.
I personally put my other ones at the grassy knoll hill and at the rest camp near the great wall.
edit: actually let me list the stuff I wish I knew when I started playing:
Bookmark these they'll answer a lot of questions, no spoilers:
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Pawn_Inclination (to understand how to get your pawn to behave the way you want to)
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Gold_Idol (you don't want to miss this)
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Shopping (just as a reference)
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Come_to_Court the game will warn you when some quests will expire if you accept this, use this as reference at that point, read it all at that point it shows some missable quests at that point as well!
General advice:
-Level yourself and your main pawn as rank 5 fighter ASAP to get the SINEW augment, this will allow you to carry 20 kg more weight and will help a LOT with stamina and movement speed and inventory managment throughout the game.
-give your pawns a pickaxe, mining nodes are easy to miss and they'll often mine for you when you didn't notice them nearby
It also saves you from moving heavy ores to your pawns to carry
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DO NOT LET ESCORT QUEST NPCS DIE! You can lose stores, quest chains etc if they die.
-check the bounty boards across the map every now and then, when the main story progresses you often get new board quests, which give you a nice chunk of gold for completing (you'll complete almost all of them by just playing the game normally, most are killquests)
-take a good hard look at what each ability does, experiment and try them all, try different vocations too (especially your main pawn's one so you know what skills to give to him), there are a lot of interesting and fun abilities in the game
-in the pawn rift when you search for pawns, you can select 5 pawns to summon, there is an option in that window to change the search settings, what this does is allow you to apply filters and search for one vocation only, a certain spell they must have etc, it really makes finding a pawn to hire much easier
-don't give hired pawns gear (unless you don't mind losing it or want to give something to the owner of the pawn), if you equip them with stuff you won't get it back, you can have them hold anything you want and get it back but if you equip them with anything it transfers the item to the player who owns the pawn.
. Played for 20 minutes and had to turn it off.
