If I let my uber 112lvl Sorc go, can I get another uber level partner? Or was it a one time deal?
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Dragon's Dogma |OT| For the night is dark and full of terrors
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If I let my uber 112lvl Sorc go, can I get another uber level partner? Or was it a one time deal?
Crawl onto his head, he will swipe at you, knocking his helmet off. This is the only method I know =(.
Urban Scholar
Member
Are you for real? I'll try that next time
Yes I am!
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
The best way is to climb on their back and take a few swipes near the shoulders, it'll try and grab you but as long as you're not too close to its head, it'll miss and knock off the helmet.
Pretty much everyone in the game is bisexual because Capcom is open to all kinds of options, not due to borky in-game systems that makes no distinction for different player characters.
sublimit
Banned
I've encountered some very rare instances though where this tactic didn't worked. :/
Vigilant Walrus
Member
I need this on PC, like a junkie needs his coke. (not Soda!)
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
OK picked this up over the weekend. Just getting started but some quick questions.
1 - Is my main pawn automatically made available for others to rent? Do I need to do anything to make her available for use? Also, if someone is using her... does she leave my party?
2 - I heard some people say the game is easy, would yall recommend not going with a full party right away? I dont want to steamroll everyone and have the combat be an afterthought, should I go with 2 pawns instead of 3?
3 - Can warriors roll? I saw that they dont get a shield, do they get any kind of evasive maneuver?
4 - Silly question but Im just curious... can you sever limbs or heads or any kind of nasty finishing moves? (Just curious, like I said I have barely played the beginning so far and combat feels good regardless)
1 - Is my main pawn automatically made available for others to rent? Do I need to do anything to make her available for use? Also, if someone is using her... does she leave my party?
2 - I heard some people say the game is easy, would yall recommend not going with a full party right away? I dont want to steamroll everyone and have the combat be an afterthought, should I go with 2 pawns instead of 3?
3 - Can warriors roll? I saw that they dont get a shield, do they get any kind of evasive maneuver?
4 - Silly question but Im just curious... can you sever limbs or heads or any kind of nasty finishing moves? (Just curious, like I said I have barely played the beginning so far and combat feels good regardless)
Supermanisdead
Member
1. As long as your system can connect online other people can rent her and she doesn't leave your party.
2. It only gets easy after you've beaten most of the hard shit anyways. If you want, you can change the difficulty though.
3. I'm not sure about this one, sorry.
4. Sever - sometimes, and there are some "finisher" type moves with a cinematic camera, but I found them annoying and they aren't very common.
sublimit
Banned
1.You only need to sleep at an inn once and then she'll always be available for other to rent.Everytime your character rests at an inn your pawn is being updated with all any new equipment or skills you might have bought for her.And no she never leaves your team unless you throw her off a cliff or something.If she dies you can get her back by touching a riftstone.
2.The game is definitely not as hard as the Souls games (for examble) but i think it would be wise at the start to have a balanced party of 4 members.Some enemies (like bandits) may give you serious trouble in the beggining.You'll also need the other two pawns to help with carrying your loot.
3.No they can't roll but there is a skill that lets you slash and evade simultaneously.
4.Yes you can
sever the tails of Saurians or cut the head off a Chimera snake
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Fighters have a move where you can evade backwards without a stamina cost... it's that one move where you jump backwards and then charge and slash... forget what it's called. Anyway, if you hold both triggers, dude will just leap back, no charge, and no stamina cost.
Pretty handy actually. But not sure if it's worth using a skill spot to have...
Pretty handy actually. But not sure if it's worth using a skill spot to have...
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Warrior is a fun class imo... but it's really hampered by the fact they only let you equip three skills. Every other class has six, but warriors have to make the really hard choice of which three skills to equip. Hurts the enjoyment of the class quite a bit unfortunately. Especially since some of the skills are pretty awesome.
sublimit
Banned
That and i also found them a bit too slow to be honest.For me Fighter was a much better class than warrior at least for the beggining and until halfway through the game.
Actually i enjoyed the fighter class so much that i ended up using it for 80% of my first playthrough.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Ouch that stinks, yeah only having 3 skills would get old. Im actually liking the sword and board right now, I may end up going back if Warrior does work out. I just cant fight the urge to play a massive conan the barbarian type guy 
I do like how fighter has a good mix of offense and defense, seems pretty useful.
I do like how fighter has a good mix of offense and defense, seems pretty useful.
Deified Data
Banned
Ouch that stinks, yeah only having 3 skills would get old. Im actually liking the sword and board right now, I may end up going back if Warrior does work out. I just cant fight the urge to play a massive conan the barbarian type guy
I do like how fighter has a good mix of offense and defense, seems pretty useful.
I recommend leveling up as a warrior for a while, if only to take advantage of the HP growth and the augments you earn. Similarly, if you enjoy fighters you could become a sword and board assassin for a while to take advantage of attack growth and their special augments (the best in the game, IMO).
I don't mind being a warrior, but I don't think I'd like to spend the entire game as one.
sublimit
Banned
Ensnare/Implicate is a good skill to deal with those annoying direwolves early on.Biting/Cutting wind is great too.
Sanctuary
Member
General rule that I've found is to ignore any of the escort quests until you're at a minimum of around level 18 - 20 at least. After you hit level 25 or so, there's not really anything from normal or elite enemies that you can't handle. Something like the
Devil's Grove drake
I also didn't have too much of a problem with the Witchwood bandits at the earlier levels, except for that single Fighter type that seemed to have that "magic pixel" of health, where his life would not budge at all no matter how much I threw at him. The group that actually was the worst for me was the one that's on the northern trail close to Gran Soren that come out of the hut. They were already bunched up and they just swarm all over you.
Cutting Wind just has to be the worst name for an ability in this game. Which is sad, because it's also one of the best skills in the game. It's so good in fact, that I almost never had any reason to use Hundred Kisses if I wasn't on the back of some giant elite type. You can literally just mash Cutting Wind and dice up groups of enemies no problem. It also looks cool as hell and is a fantastic movement option. Makes me kind of feel like a Vanguard from Mass Effect or like I'm doing the "Maximum Spider", Spiderman super from any of the Capcom fighting games.
On a side note, is Hundred Kisses bugged? Sure seems like it. If you simply mash the ability, without letting it finish to the kick animation it never consumes any more stamina, and you can just whack away at something all day long.
Urban Scholar
Member
Sounds like it works to me! I love that move
AFAIK it should eventually end in a kick after a very long string slashes. Absolutely demolishes several health bars on larger enemies when staggered.
Urban Scholar
Member
Oh man a boss was down, a mage enchanted my blades with holy, went to town. *squee*
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
This game... it is good. I'm ashamed I waited so long to play it.
Kinda funny all the games I preordered and were hyped for left me a little underwhelmed and then games like this, Sleeping Dogs and Dishonored are games that I totally slept on but ended up blowing me away.
Upgraded my vocation to warrior today. Time to wade into the enemy.
Kinda funny all the games I preordered and were hyped for left me a little underwhelmed and then games like this, Sleeping Dogs and Dishonored are games that I totally slept on but ended up blowing me away.
Upgraded my vocation to warrior today. Time to wade into the enemy.
Revolutionary
Member
So... the year is nearly at an end. Anyone else consider this their GOTY?
It's far from perfect, but ill be damned if I had a better time in a game this year. No gaming experience this year has topped setting myself on fire and riding a griffin into the sky while stabbing and burning the shit out of him.
GOTY
It's far from perfect, but ill be damned if I had a better time in a game this year. No gaming experience this year has topped setting myself on fire and riding a griffin into the sky while stabbing and burning the shit out of him.
GOTY
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Yep. Absolutely my GOTY.
sublimit
Banned
Yup it's definitely my GOTY as well.
Augemitbutter
Member
GOTY.
Deified Data
Banned
Yep, GOTY. No other game came close. It's a shame DD won't get the recognition it deserves, but I don't mind so long as the community is strong.
R_thanatos
Member
yep riding a griffing and stabbing it to death to bring it down was one of the best experiences of the year
NOt sure if GOTY , but top 3 no problem
Supermanisdead
Member
Definitely tied for my GOTY. I still haven't tried out that Immolation skill, even though I unlocked it pretty early. How bad does it hurt you?
Deified Data
Banned
Not bad. And you only have to turn it on long enough to catch the enemy on fire.
R_thanatos
Member
did you really beat the game ? I hope you don't think that beating the dragon is enough to beat this game...
I think it's probably my GOTY as well, which really surprises me. I'll admit that I wasn't feeling it at first, and nearly quit within the first few hours. Initial impressions were that it looked and felt like a janky, watered-down Dark Souls.
Once I arrived to Gran Soren, worked on my armor/vocations a bit, loaded up a full roster of pawns and started exploring the world, I figured out that DD is actually (IMO) a better game than the Soul's series. I enjoy the game mechanics a heck of a lot more and, let's face it, nothing beats the feeling of random encounters and epic battles with Cyclops, Chimeras, Griffins and Dragons.
Once I arrived to Gran Soren, worked on my armor/vocations a bit, loaded up a full roster of pawns and started exploring the world, I figured out that DD is actually (IMO) a better game than the Soul's series. I enjoy the game mechanics a heck of a lot more and, let's face it, nothing beats the feeling of random encounters and epic battles with Cyclops, Chimeras, Griffins and Dragons.
Sanctuary
Member
Many people are saying it's their GOTY, which was the main reason I decided to revisit it, thinking I either missed something, or that they were crazy. I don't know if I could say that it's my GOTY, but I have been playing it about every day for two weeks straight, which is a hell of a lot of time for me to stick with a non fighting game. That being said, this year was actually pretty lousy for good games in general compared to 2010 and even last year. 2013 looks like it will be a winner for sure though.
Now that I think about it, the only other game that I played as much as DD this year would have been Darksiders 2. While I thought that game was pretty damn good, and a vast improvement over the first, this game just "did it" for me much more. I really dug ZombiU too, but I beat the shit out of it, finishing it three times without dying in the first week and then there was nothing left to do. I still have AC3 sitting unwrapped though, no idea if I'll even like it. I absolutely hate the first AC, but loved the second, and I keep seeing mixed opinions on the third.
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Hard Mode isn't hard at all when you're level 200. Sure, there's a noticeable damage increase but the enemies seem to have the exact same amount of health as on Normal.
The "rewards" for completing it are pretty underwhelming, as well -- though the new Abyssinal piece does look sweet with the rest of the set.
Now I need to see what the prizes for clearing the Speedrun are.
The "rewards" for completing it are pretty underwhelming, as well -- though the new Abyssinal piece does look sweet with the rest of the set.
Now I need to see what the prizes for clearing the Speedrun are.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Save some room for me too.
Deified Data
Banned
Yeah, I'm level 32 and it's starting to ease up a bit. I still have post-game to look forward to, though. I tend to restart from level 1 as opposed to starting NG+ because it's always been so easy.
Does Ur drop any new loot in Hard Mode?
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
How valuable is crafting? Are there any necessity items or really good weapons/armor that you get from crafting? I'm not gonna lie, I generally don't like to mess with crafting in games so I've been selling all my mats. But I'm only like level 11 so I'll change my tune if its worth it.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
It's better to hold onto mats in the early game, and just in general... even if you don't ever craft anything, they are used for weapons and equipment upgrading. And sometimes quests.
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
I don't think so.
Seems you only get 2 new items; the Abyssinal Outfit (clothing piece) for defeating Grigori, and the Duke's Robes for beating the game.
Speedrun looks to give you an outfit that looks like what Barnaby wears, and some lady-only long tunic of sorts.
I hope Dark Arisen comes with lots of new gear.
sublimit
Banned
I'm dying for a release date.I hope it's spring 2013.
They're only for enhancing your gears, so it's pretty much painless if you toss all your materials into the storage, enhancing them at the store will take whatever materials you have straight from your storage box.
It's not really necessary and you probably won't go and farm for materials. Just more of a bonus if you happen to pick up the right materials to use.
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