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[Pooya]

I ran into my first Dire Wolves recently, at night of course. One pack is bad enough, but it was one after another until I finally ran like a bitch to my destination. Had to leave one of my pawns behind to die.

you have to kill them before they call more be quick. I fought a huge pack and a Cyclops at the same time at night, SO INTENSE.

 

[Prime crotch]

Golden Idol, whos the best merchant to give it to?

 

[NinjaJesus]

Golden Idol, whos the best merchant to give it to?

Caxton

 

[Anteater]

oh man post game is so fun, they should really think about focusing on the action and improve performance on next gen consoles at 60fps for the sequel, the graphics are fine as it is to be honest, I'm pretty sure the shortcomings like bad textures are due to performance issues.

 

[Auto_aim1]

Loving Ranger so much, my favorite vocation, Mystik Archer was quite underwhelming :S overall I'd rather have my pawns as mage roles than play myself as one. Ranger's skills are pretty satisfying. man, no RPG has got archery as good as Dragon's Dogma, shooting feels right, totally role playing Legolas

the main annoying thing for me is all the backtracking and that enemies appear in same areas everytime I go back, gets old :|

- If only they copy/pasted RDR's horse riding into this. I'd buy horse DLC I don't really want easier (cheaper) fast traveling, I just want horse riding and combat.

this game is so cool but a lot more can be done on top of it, hoping they get to make a sequel.

Yeah, one support Pawn as a Mage is highly recommended. Also, firing arrows at Goblins while mounted on a horse sounds so fun. I hope they implement that in the sequel - if there's ever going to be one.

Golden Idol, whos the best merchant to give it to?

They are masterworks, all. You can't go wrong!

 

[RiderKairuu]

Been taking pics like a mad man. Here are some of my favs

 

[semiconscious]

Anyone else get boned on the Shadow Fortress quest by letting the lead soldier die to the goblins after opening the gate?

I did the Wyrm hunt quest at too low a level -well technically it was my low level mage-pawns for hire who were getting smooshed by every explosive bolt from the emplacement and he died while I was desperately trying to get them to follow me...

I'm assuming I can't get into the building with the door the goblins open now? Tried looking all around (and under via the frontier caverns) and aside from there being a maybe method to get into the area at the back-right with the door barred from behind with a NPC assisted jump (?) seems like that area is lost to me.

easy way out, when things go south - get killed & opt for 'retry'...

once you're in the courtyard,

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climb the ladder, man the ballista, take out the 2 ballistas firing at you, & then take out the 2 cyclops & any other goblins you see. then open the gate...

afa getting into the building at the far end from the gate, not sure if there's any way to open it other than the goblins doing it...

 

[creid]

I can't believe 2 Ur-Dragons have gone down today. Won't be back home until late tonight so I can't collect the spoils ;_;

UGH. Serves me right for exploring.


So I happened upon the Waterfall which contains the Altar of the Watergod Quest, but I cleared it out BEFORE I activated the Quest.

After initiating the Quest, I returned to the Waterfall, went back through the area, only to realize that to finish the Quest, you need to retrieve the 5 Altar shards or tablets. Well, on my initial pass through, pre quest, I picked up 2 of them, but I had no idea what they were. And they were freaking HEAVY. So I stupidly dropped them in order to lighten my load. I will save everyone the time: IDIOT! YOU FUCKING IDIOT!

I have no idea where I dropped them, and the quest is now not completeable because of that. ARGH.

Someone had a similar-but-different problem 50 pages ago - I think if you sleep at the inn for a week or so, the chests might respawn. Have you given that a try?

 

[itzknickknac]

I have a question.

My friend tells me Story Dragon Boss

Spoiler

forges all your equipped wpns n armors

What is the % chance of others doing this? aka Drakes? I've fought and killed this thing 3 times and no luck.

I also want to note that I'm still in the middle of Wyrm Hunt quests, I've got one left, but I'm taking out side quests first before I move on. Could my story progression be a factor of why I didn't get anything upgraded?

 

[Auto_aim1]

I have a question.

My friend tells me Story Dragon Boss

Spoiler

forges all your equipped wpns n armors

What is the % chance of others doing this? aka Drakes? I've fought and killed this thing 3 times and no luck.

I also want to note that I'm still in the middle of Wyrm Hunt quests, I've got one left, but I'm taking out side quests first before I move on. Could my story progression be a factor of why I didn't get anything upgraded?

For Drakes to dragon forge your equipment you need them to be at 3 stars.

 

[UrbanRats]

So far this game has been fucking amazing.
It has its glaring flaws, but it still is amazing.

The thing i'm missing most right now is a bit more push on the "horror" side of things.
Something like this (for those who played Demon's Souls): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7T05Lm9mjw
Because there are parts that are going to shit your pants (being in the woods at night, escorting someone and hearing a Chimera growling in the dark) but still hasn't pushed on it as far as i'd liked.

 

[joe2187]

I have a question.

My friend tells me Story Dragon Boss

Spoiler

forges all your equipped wpns n armors

What is the % chance of others doing this? aka Drakes? I've fought and killed this thing 3 times and no luck.

I also want to note that I'm still in the middle of Wyrm Hunt quests, I've got one left, but I'm taking out side quests first before I move on. Could my story progression be a factor of why I didn't get anything upgraded?

Story boss will automatically Dragonforge almost all of your armor and weapons, whereas Drakes, Wyrms and Wyrvenn will have smaller chance to dragonforge one or two of your items.

 

[spk]

Been taking pics like a mad man. Here are some of my favs
[ MG]

Does the screenshot quality differ between the 2 consoles? My PS3 screens look much worse

 

[itzknickknac]

For Drakes to dragon forge your equipment you need them to be at 3 stars.

Story boss will automatically Dragonforge almost all of your armor and weapons, whereas Drakes, Wyrms and Wyrvenn will have smaller chance to dragonforge one or two of your items.

That's probably my case and I will look out for these. Thank you.

 

[RiderKairuu]

Does the screenshot quality differ between the 2 consoles? My PS3 screens look much worse

I'm not sure, I'm running with the 360 version. I also don't know if using HDMI/VGA/component cables make them look better/worse.

 

[Snuggles]

Does the screenshot quality differ between the 2 consoles? My PS3 screens look much worse

He downscaled them, which helps hide the blurriness and compression. If they were full sized pics they would probably look the same as yours. There might be some slight differences but the screenshot quality is probably about the same between both consoles.

 

[benzy]

It just started thunder storming for the first time in the game at the Blue Moon tower. Why can't it thunderstorm more often? :\

 

[Pookmunki]

Jsut got through Witchwood - I'm going to be very surprised if this doesn't end up being my GOTY ( Tekken Tag 2 notwithstanding)

 

[Anteater]

So far this game has been fucking amazing.
It has its glaring flaws, but it still is amazing.

Yeah no kidding, fucking capcom better fund a sequel, it would be god-like

 

[Dresden]

It just started thunder storming for the first time in the game at the Blue Moon tower. Why can't it thunderstorm more often? :\

I think that's scripted... thunderstormed for me too. Then I loaded up the save after killing the

Spoiler

griffin

and it was back to being sunny all of a sudden.

 

[benzy]

Well that sucks. The storm provided some immersion.

 

[deim0s]

Still on my first play through at level 56 I get a feeling, I'm over leveled at this time.

So I got the Final Battle quest and IT gave me another

Spoiler

bond

ring, I gave the first ring to the duchess (to be my LI), now I have another! With

Spoiler

Madeleine, Mercedes and the duchess

gone... Whom should I give this to? Just making sure I don't get some weird LI shit in the end.

Also, most of my gear's 3 -star upgrades are not attainable - since I don't see the species around Gransys yet. When would they show up? Post or NG+?

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Got to say, once I max out the rank on this mage I'm definitely not going back.

 

[K1LLER7]

Some kind soul used my pawn and sent me a weapon, life saver or something like that. Got my pawns attack up to 700+

 

[H3rTz DoNuT]

So I have my Strider and Ranger classes maxed out and not sure what to try next? Magic archer, Assassin or perhaps something completely different and go with the Mystic Knight? What would you guys suggest and what skills would be the best for those classes?

 

[edgefusion]

So I have my Strider and Ranger classes maxed out and not sure what to try next? Magic archer, Assassin or perhaps something completely different and go with the Mystic Knight? What would you guys suggest and what skills would be the best for those classes?

Magick Archer is pretty good fun because all its arrows automatically home in on targets which is great against those fucking harpies. Right now I'm having fun with Magick Knight, ruinous sigil and great cannon are pretty awesome abilities. I'd say switch it up and go Magick Knight, you've done ranged combat so try out the melee.

 

[RiderKairuu]

So I have my Strider and Ranger classes maxed out and not sure what to try next? Magic archer, Assassin or perhaps something completely different and go with the Mystic Knight? What would you guys suggest and what skills would be the best for those classes?

Mystic Knight! It doesn't get awesome until the later ranks, but you can enchant your own weapons, become a blocking MACHINE! And Great Cannon paired with an enchant is godlike.

 

[Lucent]

Yeah, 52. It's down to 3 health bars. You guys should get on soon and get some stuff Dragon Forged

I'm starting to just ignore a lot of the really random quests now. Like the ones that don't really give you good rewards. I've already got about 45 hours in this and am about level 43 or so. Starting to just deal with the story quests so I can start getting on that post game stuff. Feel left behind. I can always try doing all the quests some other time in NG+. =;

I have to say though, that fight with the

Spoiler

Cockatrice near the pawn guild

was pretty tough. Luckily he went away. But only me and one other pawn survived it. He petrified the other two during the battle and crushed them or something. Makes me kinda weary about if I'm ready to go into post game or not.

 

[Arcteryx]

HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA, so I'm dicking around in

Spoiler

Everfall

and there's a golem, ogre, and a cyclops inside. When I enter, the cyclops and the golem are just standing there looking at each other and then all of a sudden...they start fighting each other. Needless to say, I let them battle it out until the Golem won.

Haven't seen two bigger enemies fight amongst themselves before.

 

[Clear]

easy way out, when things go south - get killed & opt for 'retry'...

Yeah I did all that, but for some reason it autosaved on me *after* the leader died. It was particularly annoying as I'd previously gotten past that point and actually into the goblin's tower. I got blinded while fighting a cyclops on a parapet and fell off and died lol... Then on retrying (from opening the gate for the soldiers), this shit happened!

Not a biggy really. That was hours ago and this is a big friggin' game. Just had some fun in Bluemoon and am looking around for a way into the blighted manse!

 

[burgerdog]

Capcom really fucked up by adding those weak points on the ur dragons wings. You can't climb them and he moves around so much and waves the wings pretty much almost the entire time. Makes that weak point hard as hell to target with arrows and if you're a warrior or fighter you can't do anything.

 

[itzknickknac]

Is anyone as behind as me? I've done all but one of the Wyrm hunts and I've been doing nothing but side quests and exploring. Do you lose all current quests if you do the last wyrm hunt? Which is when the duke gives you an audience for something idk yet?

Got to say, once I max out the rank on this mage I'm definitely not going back.

Yeah, that's why I'm saving that one for last

 

[Arcteryx]

Anyone on PSN want a Divine(Knight's Hospitaller looking robe armor) and/or Royal Surcoat?(Warrior,Fighter,Mystic Knight only)

edit: gone

 

[edgefusion]

I hate Cockatrices. From now on I am just avoiding any fight involving a Cockatrice. I just had two recently summoned pawns get obliterated by stealth petrification. Why does that have to unsummon them? So frustrating.

 

[cametall]

Sorcerer is ballin'.

It feels like I can one or two shot anything given enough time to cast the larger spells.

 

[AkuMifune]

Holy shit my mage is popular. overnight 9 players used her, generating 342,273 RC. the most I've ever seen so far is like, 80K

What skills do you have equipped? I'm trying to figure out if a mage with healing and a bunch of offensive spells is more popular than a mage who focuses on enchantment/curing.

My pawn is definitely more useful as a sorcerer, but seems to be much more popular when I have him set up as a mage.

Or maybe it's just about showing cleavage. Gamers sometimes man.

 

[NoirVisage]

I hate Cockatrices. From now on I am just avoiding any fight involving a Cockatrice. I just had two recently summoned pawns get obliterated by stealth petrification. Why does that have to unsummon them? So frustrating.

Because they're solid stone? It sucks but its reasonable. RPG 101

 

[edgefusion]

Because they're solid stone? It sucks but its reasonable. RPG 101

So then let me use an anti-petrify potion on them instead of waiting on their dumb asses to fumble with the cork. Or just have them be stone statues until all enemies are cleared and then pop free. It's just super irritating to have a pawn get unsummoned in the middle of a fight, even worse that it's virtually inevitable because they spam that petrify ability constantly. Fyi I was in the room in the everfall with 2 cockatrices.

 

[NoirVisage]

So then let me use an anti-petrify potion on them instead of waiting on their dumb asses to fumble with the cork. Or just have them be stone statues until all enemies are cleared and then pop free. It's just super irritating to have a pawn get unsummoned in the middle of a fight, even worse that it's virtually inevitable because they spam that petrify ability constantly. Fyi I was in the room in the everfall with 2 cockatrices.

that would make them too easy, that sense of dread you feel fighting them now will become the fire of revengeance when you're strong enough to easily own them.

 

[itzknickknac]

Where are the best places to find crows? I got this quest to kill 25 of them. Pretty annoying.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Where are the best places to find crows? I got this quest to kill 25 of them. Pretty annoying.

Right outside the Abbey in Cursewood, or along the narrow path towards Bluemoon Tower.

Be sure to walk slowly when approaching them, and use a bow to pick them off.

 

[Schwabe]

Give them the antidot, secret softener. They will use it when they get petrified...

 

[UrbanRats]

What skills do you have equipped? I'm trying to figure out if a mage with healing and a bunch of offensive spells is more popular than a mage who focuses on enchantment/curing.

My pawn is definitely more useful as a sorcerer, but seems to be much more popular when I have him set up as a mage.

Or maybe it's just about showing cleavage. Gamers sometimes man.

Personally, i always have a mage who can heal and enchant/buff properly in the team, THEN i also look for a powerful offensive sorcerer, with maybe some buff stuff as extras.
I also look at their augments and equip, some pawns are barebones on those.
Last i check their knowledge, especially quest knowledge.

 

[itzknickknac]

Right outside the Abbey in Cursewood, or along the narrow path towards Bluemoon Tower.

Be sure to walk slowly when approaching them, and use a bow to pick them off.

Thanks, I'll try that. I was just leaving Bluemoon Tower and was only able to kill 3 of them

 

[Aeon712]

Did I just fight the grim reaper? It was really dark so I couldn't tell all I know is all he did was caste silence and was immune to malee attacks. Very easy fight didn't warrent the sudden ambush quest that popped up.

 

[PrinceOfApathy]

This is the best RPG this generation.

Human Revolution has been surpassed. I just escorted the Knight/Warrior to the Shadow Forte. I took the long way around, dodging Chimeras, I did have to fight an armored Cyclops that stupid Goblins drew his attention to me and my band. Managed to win, it was difficult but made it the Forte, just before I had to save some woman from Goblins, it just appeared randomly.

The horror didn't start till after however. In looking for a shortcut back to Gran Soren I stumbled upon a Quarry with massive beasts that I was literally doing NO damage to. None. Zero.

Flight response, mashing down on the D-pad . Found good loot, had an all out brawl with some bandits inside, found the quarry key and exited at the other side and got a quest from some guy directly outside who wants me to go back in?! Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, not for hell....not till I get better weapons and armor.

This game is beyond words.

 

[Papercuts]

Did anyone find a purpose for the cursed idols all around the general area outside the abbey?

 

[1stStrike]

Capcom really fucked up by adding those weak points on the ur dragons wings. You can't climb them and he moves around so much and waves the wings pretty much almost the entire time. Makes that weak point hard as hell to target with arrows and if you're a warrior or fighter you can't do anything.

I saw someone playing assassin on live stream using the 6 fold arrow to shoot those spots and he wasn't having any problems with it even with the flapping. Was just spamming it by that spot on the dragon's wings and it was doing enough damage.

Now, if you're pure melee focused, then yeah sucks for you. Hopefully you have some people using bows in your party that will be smart enough to shoot them

 

[~Kinggi~]

So how big is this game? Just played the demo and loved the atmosphere. Felt a lot like Demons/Dark Souls in how things are encountered. Combat effects also look really impressive.

 

[Grisby]

Man, I really screwed myself by exploring so much so early into the game. The loot I got from Soulflayer has yet to be surpassed in, like, 20 something hours.