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Dragon's Dogma |OT| For the night is dark and full of terrors

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Augemitbutter

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Clear said:
Every escort to the healing springs I've done involves taking the client to the one North of the Blighted Manse, far East of the ones near the Catacombs.

Make sure you've got the quest set as primary so you can see the target marker on the map, its quite specific.
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ShockingAlberto said:
Yeah, there's two springs. One by Hillfigure Knoll and one by the rear entrance to the Duke's Manse with lots of Dire Wolves guarding the path.
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yea, i jumped the gun and walked to the nearest spring first. at the end, the third spring was the right one.

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btw, pawn on the right is the new guile/asura voice actor pawn. didn't notice anything special about him. has some rare gear from EF, but that's it. and he's named asura.
 
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itzknickknac

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When visiting the band of women thieves, everyone has to be female correct? What if I have my main pawn as male, but wear women clothing? Is there a certain vocation requirement? Bc none are strider/assassin/ranger. I was jw, bc as I made my way there, the female thieves were attacking me.
 
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ShockingAlberto

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itzknickknac said:
When visiting the band of women thieves, everyone has to be female correct? What if I have my main pawn as male, but wear women clothing? Is there a certain vocation requirement? Bc none are strider/assassin/ranger. I was jw, bc as I made my way there, the female thieves were attacking me.
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He can be wearing women's clothing, but the quest can be....glitchy. Sometimes it won't recognize it and they'll still attack.

Keep in mind, you will still be attacked by female bandits until you get to their waycastle. Then the ones in that immediate area won't attack you (unless you confront the boss and it decides your male pawn is, in fact, male).
 
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joe2187

Banned
itzknickknac said:
When visiting the band of women thieves, everyone has to be female correct? What if I have my main pawn as male, but wear women clothing? Is there a certain vocation requirement? Bc none are strider/assassin/ranger. I was jw, bc as I made my way there, the female thieves were attacking me.
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Wear women clothing. Because a band of lesbian thieves is often confused by a man in drag.
 
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Teknoman

Member
Asura? Is it one of the special Capcom pawns? I hired Dante and one of the female mages awhile back, and while helpful, didnt notice anything special.
 
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ezekial45

Banned
I really want to try Assassin, but i'm in the post-game now and I'm probably gonna get my ass kicked running around with a low-ranked vocation.

EDIT: In fact, I've never even tried the ranged or mage classes. I just stick with Fighter and Mystic Knight throughout the whole game.
 
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itzknickknac

Member
ShockingAlberto said:
He can be wearing women's clothing, but the quest can be....glitchy. Sometimes it won't recognize it and they'll still attack.

Keep in mind, you will still be attacked by female bandits until you get to their waycastle. Then the ones in that immediate area won't attack you (unless you confront the boss and it decides your male pawn is, in fact, male).
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joe2187 said:
Wear women clothing. Because a band of lesbian thieves is often confused by a man in drag.
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Thank you. I hope my male pawn's hair can convince them that 'she' is a dike
 
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Am I the only one who finds Cyclops cute? The harmless one near the bandit's hideout is so d'aww. Ogres can die though.
 
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Derrick01

Banned
Fucking
tentacle boss
. Spent about 30 minutes each try (3 tries) but it just kept infinitely respawning. I figured the big ones were the ones to kill first but I chopped about 4 off after a long pain in the ass struggle and nothing happened. Any tips?
 
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Pooya

Member
NG+ goes by soo fast, everything dies with one or two hits :| I imagine I can finish it in 7-8 hours.

about the Wyrm Hunt and and the achievement for doing all the quests. from what I read, quests I have done last time carries over, pretty sure on my first play through Maximilian had an option that let me talk to the Duke before finishing all the four tasks and he said something like the tasks will be given to someone else etc, I'm not there yet but if I pick that I can skip those safely?
 
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ShockingAlberto

Member
Derrick01 said:
Fucking
tentacle boss
. Spent about 30 minutes each try (3 tries) but it just kept infinitely respawning. I figured the big ones were the ones to kill first but I chopped about 4 off after a long pain in the ass struggle and nothing happened. Any tips?
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Don't fight it. Run. Run like hell.
 
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Anteater

Member
Derrick01 said:
I went down that huge spiral staircase just to run? Oh well I think it did say I completed the quest when the enemy spawned. I noticed a tiny stone doorway somewhere down there too, guess I'll look at that first.
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There were more rooms to the dungeon before you reach the bottom, it doesn't have to do with the tentacles but it does have some loot and additional enemies, you reach those rooms by not pressing the first switch and make a turn to explore all the corridors if I remember correctly

It will still bring you to the bottom at the end but from another room
 
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Actually when you visit Everfall for the first time, you can get access to a lot more chambers with incredible loot. You just have to play with those gates to find secret areas. Can't believe I found that out in my third playthrough. Once you reach post-game, all those areas will be gone.

miladesn said:
about the Wyrm Hunt and and the achievement for doing all the quests. from what I read, quests I have done last time carries over, pretty sure on my first play through Maximilian had an option that let me talk to the Duke before finishing all the four tasks and he said something like the tasks will be given to someone else etc, I'm not there yet but if I pick that I can skip those safely?
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Yeah, you can skip it and go meet the Duke.
 
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Anteater

Member
Meisadragon said:
Actually when you visit Everfall for the first time, you can get access to a lot more chambers with incredible loot. You just have to play with those gates to find secret areas. Can't believe I found that out in my third playthrough. Once you reach post-game, all those areas will be gone.
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I took the long way the first playthrough when I saw that there were all those corridors you could miss if you just run straight for the bottom, that dungeon turned out to be my favorite one, since I had to fight a lot more stuff, I was running out of items, it was pretty great

also got blasted by mage skeletons when exiting out of one of the corridors, had to do some epic platforming to get rid of them
 
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Anteater said:
I took the long way the first playthrough when I saw that there were all those corridors you could miss if you just run straight for the bottom, that dungeon turned out to be my favorite one, since I had to fight a lot more stuff, I was running out of items, it was pretty great

also got blasted by mage skeletons when exiting out of one of the corridors, had to do some epic platforming to get rid of them
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Yeah, weird placement. I also fell down a lot of times while fighting them; it wasn't that damaging, thankfully.
 
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ShockingAlberto

Member
Meisadragon said:
Actually when you visit Everfall for the first time, you can get access to a lot more chambers with incredible loot. You just have to play with those gates to find secret areas. Can't believe I found that out in my third playthrough. Once you reach post-game, all those areas will be gone.


Yeah, you can skip it and go meet the Duke.
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You have to do one quest before you can hear the Duke's directive, just choose whatever would be fastest for you.
 
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The_Hitcher89

Member
I fucking love this game. Level 27 now, a little worried that I might be overlevelled a bit. I'd rather be underlevelled and have to grind to continue than be overpowered and breeze through 2/3 of the game
 
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John Harker

Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
This game is hard. Not even Demon's Souls-rewarding-hard. More like, 'there is a random super difficult bandit hidden in a bunch of easy bandits that keeps randomly killing my mage and I have to spend 15 minutes just walking back to this spot on my reload' hard.

Conclusion: I need to not be a Mage anymore. I'll try Mystic Knight or something with armor.
And considering my backlog, I'll probably never beat this. Which is sad. I still kinda like it though. It's just... kind of soulless right now.
 
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Pooya

Member
anyone else really love the inventory design in this? I like it because it works so fast, you push back/select, menu is up instantly, everything mostly has it's own distinguishable icon placed in grid view, navigating is very fast, giving items to other members is very fast. I never had trouble finding something I was looking for, it doesn't take more than a few seconds. Dumping all the stuff I picked into the storage is really fast too.

Comparing this with Skyrim, you press B then left on Dpad just to bring up the menu, then you have to go through a long list of boring names a couple times to maybe find the thing you picked up earlier. Dragon's Dogma's isn't perfect but I really like it just because it's fast and you spend a lot of time in there.
 
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Anteater

Member
One thing I wish you could do is being able to equip a piece of equipment right from the inventory instead of having to choose "move to equipment" first
 
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MagicWithEarvin

Member
miladesn said:
anyone else really love the inventory design in this? I like it because it works so fast, you push back/select, menu is up instantly, everything mostly has it's own distinguishable icon placed in grid view, navigating is very fast, giving items to other members is very fast. I never had trouble finding something I was looking for, it doesn't take more than a few seconds. Dumping all the stuff I picked into the storage is really fast too.

Comparing this with Skyrim, you press B then left on Dpad just to bring up the menu, then you have to go through a long list of boring names a couple times to maybe find the thing you picked up earlier. Dragon's Dogma's isn't perfect but I really like it just because it's fast and you spend a lot of time in there.
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I just wish there was a feature where you can register a set of equipment from weapon to armor like in Monster Hunter. No need to individually equip a set for Assassin/Warrior/Sorcerer, etc.
 
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Schwabe

Member
earvcunanan said:
I just wish there was a feature where you can register a set of equipment from weapon to armor like in Monster Hunter. No need to individually equip a set for Assassin/Warrior/Sorcerer, etc.
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that would be nice!

i'm also a little bit sad about the own house at cassardis. a inventory/equipment chest there and the ability to sleep there would be great. i don't mind spending 50G at Pablo's, but i don't want his affinity to go up like Asalams, only because i am managing my inventory and sleep scedule there O,o

On my thrid playthrough the affinity-sound popped up the first time i met Fournival xD I instantly drew my weapon to scare him, after i bought a maker's finger ...
 
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Angelus Errare

Banned
Finally got this game...bought it at 7:30pm didn't stop playing until 2:38 this morning =O It's sooooo awesome, very brutal....but awesome. And I'm only level 11 lolol.
 
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maomaoIYP

Member
Schwabe said:
that would be nice!

i'm also a little bit sad about the own house at cassardis. a inventory/equipment chest there and the ability to sleep there would be great. i don't mind spending 50G at Pablo's, but i don't want his affinity to go up like Asalams, only because i am managing my inventory and sleep scedule there O,o

On my thrid playthrough the affinity-sound popped up the first time i met Fournival xD I instantly drew my weapon to scare him, after i bought a maker's finger ...
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A really easy way to deal with rising affinity is to use the strider's steal skill on him. A few times won't cause him to attack, so just do it until he raises his fist at you whenever you approach. Doesn't solve the problem with Caxton though.
 
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RyanardoDaVinci

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StunandStab said:
Is there anywhere to find griffins and chimeras in post-game?
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Griffins? No.

Chimeras? Yes. Six of them.

1. In the forest north of the male bandit camp, with suarians.
2. South of Devilfire Grove.
3. Southeast-ish of the Abbey, with goblins. Day only, two Ogres are there at night.
4. In the forest below the female bandit camp.
5. Southwest-ish of Hillfigure Knoll.
6. Rear entrance to the Blighted Manse.
 
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StunandStab

Member
RyanardoDaVinci said:
Griffins? No.

Chimeras? Yes. Six of them.

1. In the forest north of the male bandit camp, with suarians.
2. South of Devilfire Grove.
3. Southeast-ish of the Abbey, with goblins. Day only, two Ogres are there at night.
4. In the forest below the female bandit camp.
5. Southwest-ish of Hillfigure Knoll.
6. Rear entrance to the Blighted Manse.
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Thanks. I noticed chimeras have the same spawn locations as always. Too bad about the griffins, though.
 
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Amir0x

Banned
StunandStab said:
Thanks. I noticed chimeras have the same spawn locations as always. Too bad about the griffins, though.
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There's no specific area, but he's wrong if he's saying there are no griffins in post game. I was escorting Symone in the post game and I encountered a Griffin. It randomly comes out sometimes when you're wandering in Gransys, so you will encounter it given enough time.
 
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Augemitbutter

Member
so after you beat the game for real
my wife, the duchess didn't show up to wake me up at cassardis shore, madeleine did. does this mean the highest affinity changed again, or was it madeleine for everyone?
 
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maomaoIYP

Member
Augemitbutter said:
so after you beat the game for real
my wife, the duchess didn't show up to wake me up at cassardis shore, madeleine did. does this mean the highest affinity changed again, or was it madeleine for everyone?
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Oh man, I was wondering the same thing. My first playthrough I had madeleine as love interest, but selene came for me at the shore. After NG+, I had fucking asalam as love interest but madeleine came for me at the shore!
 
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demigod

Member
Damn my main and pawn can barely carry shit, 65 and 50kg. Would making my character taller increase it or do i have to be fat? I don't want to be fat :( .
 
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StunandStab

Member
demigod said:
Damn my main and pawn can barely carry shit, 65 and 50kg. Would making my character taller increase it or do i have to be fat? I don't want to be fat :( .
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Rank up the Fighter vocation until you get the Sinew augment, it adds 10kg (I think?) to your carrying capacity, and that's all on the "very light" portion of it so you won't get slow until you're really carrying tons of stuff.
 
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Amir0x said:
There's no specific area, but he's wrong if he's saying there are no griffins in post game. I was escorting Symone in the post game and I encountered a Griffin. It randomly comes out sometimes when you're wandering in Gransys, so you will encounter it given enough time.
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It does exist, but it's difficult to spot it in post-game. There's one that circles above the Hillfigure Knoll area.

demigod said:
Damn my main and pawn can barely carry shit, 65 and 50kg. Would making my character taller increase it or do i have to be fat? I don't want to be fat :( .
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Making your character taller helps in evenly distributing the weight, so you won't really appear fat - 180 cm / 66 kg is ideal. And yes, get the Sinew augment too.
 
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Cannon Goose

Member
Just finished it, so this is all ending stuff:

If you let Savan kill you then you turn into a dragon, continuing the loop he spoke about. But when you kill Savan he asks you to properly end his life with the Godsbane, leaving you as the Senechal. But then you just stab yourself with your own Godsbane and presumably have the same fate as Savan (freedom)?

Maybe my memory is not fantastic, but when/why did my Arisen get his own/a second Godsbane? Was it after I killed the giant red dragon? And if that's the case, then shouldn't Savan have also had a Godsbane that he could've used to off himself? And because of this outcome does that mean the world is without a Senechal?

I'm assuming that my main pawn either went back to the rift or got absorbed into the now former Arisen as he was plummeting into the ocean... But maybe I'm wrong?

If anyone has a link to a write up of the ending that would be nice.

Edit: Also,

Why did the Dragonborn turn to dust when the dragon died? And why did his clone person (The Fool) stick around? And why did the Duke get real old? Questions!!!
 
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Lach

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Cannon Goose said:
Just finished it, so this is all ending stuff:

If you let Savan kill you then you turn into a dragon, continuing the loop he spoke about. But when you kill Savan he asks you to properly end his life with the Godsbane, leaving you as the Senechal. But then you just stab yourself with your own Godsbane and presumably have the same fate as Savan (freedom)?

Maybe my memory is not fantastic, but when/why did my Arisen get his own/a second Godsbane? Was it after I killed the giant red dragon? And if that's the case, then shouldn't Savan have also had a Godsbane that he could've used to off himself? And because of this outcome does that mean the world is without a Senechal?

I'm assuming that my main pawn either went back to the rift or got absorbed into the now former Arisen as he was plummeting into the ocean... But maybe I'm wrong?

If anyone has a link to a write up of the ending that would be nice.

Edit: Also,

Why did the Dragonborn turn to dust when the dragon died? And why did his clone person (The Fool) stick around? And why did the Duke get real old? Questions!!!
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For the last question:
Well Savan was the last Arisen to kill the Dragon. Both the Duke (took the dragon's offer) and the Dragonforged (maybe took the offer or never actually challanged the dragon) never fought/killed the dragon and so never got their heart back. That was until you defeated the dragon. Being arisen and not having your heart probably prevents you from aging/dying?
 
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Anteater

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Cannon Goose said:
Just finished it, so this is all ending stuff:

If you let Savan kill you then you turn into a dragon, continuing the loop he spoke about. But when you kill Savan he asks you to properly end his life with the Godsbane, leaving you as the Senechal. But then you just stab yourself with your own Godsbane and presumably have the same fate as Savan (freedom)?

Maybe my memory is not fantastic, but when/why did my Arisen get his own/a second Godsbane? Was it after I killed the giant red dragon? And if that's the case, then shouldn't Savan have also had a Godsbane that he could've used to off himself? And because of this outcome does that mean the world is without a Senechal?

I'm assuming that my main pawn either went back to the rift or got absorbed into the now former Arisen as he was plummeting into the ocean... But maybe I'm wrong?

If anyone has a link to a write up of the ending that would be nice.

Edit: Also,

Why did the Dragonborn turn to dust when the dragon died? And why did his clone person (The Fool) stick around? And why did the Duke get real old? Questions!!!
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I think the difference between Savan and your Arisen is that you ended your life to end the cycle, letting the world guide itself without a god.

Your death also grant part of your soul to allow your pawn to live on as a real human being who now has (or inherit?) the will to live.

I think the duke is just old, he didn't age because the dragon has his heart, arisens with the heart taken by the dragon grant them some kind of immortality (even though they could die falling off a cliff or getting stabbed in battle), as for dragondude I'm not entire sure what he is other than him being one of the previous Arisens (he says only Arisen could see him), but for why he turns to dust, I think he's just super old and should be dead, so when they got their hearts back, they just go back the age they were suppose to be at
 
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