I just heard it yesterday! it was Austin from Waypoint, (he used to be on Giant bomb). Spreading the gospel or should I say Dogma.
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Ya' know, I've never played vanilla DD, so I'm sure this isn't some new take, but I think I can understand the design idea behind not wanting you to have fast travel. Most times when I set out on an adventure, I'm leaving the capital city at the crack of the morning. So as I make my way to whatever direction I've decided to head into, the day continues on and finally when I do make it to my location (which always seems JUST far enough), night has fallen and that's when the fun happens.
yeah, the lack of a fast travel for the majority of the game added to the experience in vanilla for me
but I also get why people would be annoyed by it so I'm glad it's an available option
Not for this playthrough, but is there any desire for a disabler sorcerer pawn (petrification, voidspell etc) or do people mainly want a sorcerer pawn that casts offensive spells? Lol I'm already planning my second playthrough with a different main build/pawn build.
Also, does anyone have a Roomba pawn? I'm kinda in the market for a pawn that runs around and picks things up. I don't think I can search by inclination so it's been a bit of a crapshoot.
Also, does anyone have a Roomba pawn? I'm kinda in the market for a pawn that runs around and picks things up. I don't think I can search by inclination so it's been a bit of a crapshoot.
I'd say any good Sorc pawn should have at least Comestion and Miasma on since those are S-tier spells, but after that, support + disables are definitely good. I think Petrify is situational but Lassitude and Exequy are great alternatives to just making a straight damage pawn that will honestly spend more time getting knocked out of casting animations than doing actual damage.
Anyone else annoyed by your party crowding you incessantly? I'm 4-5 hours in and this is probably bothering me more than anything else.
Yeah it's a bit annoying. I wish they would give me some space.
Another weird thing: the battle/danger music sometimes just won't turn off, even I killed all the enemies and there aren't any more around. Once, it kept playing even during a cutscene, which made it hard to understand what the characters were saying.
I didn't even know fast travel was a thing and I jumped in at Dark Arisen. I don't think I ever fast traveled in my first playthrough... Wait is fast travelling those crystals in a circular configuration? I picked those up and stashed them in storage. D:
The thing is the first time you play the game it's nice to be limited in fast travelling and force you to "adventure" yourself in the wild.
But if you play the game again (say in and Expansion *wink*) it's nice to be able to do things a bit faster.
That being said I'm not a fan of the eternal ferrystone. Cheaper ferrystones (+ additional portcrystals) would have been enough.
Edit: Or introduce a limitation to the eternal ferrystone like a cooldown or something (or make it weighty I dunno). It's weird that they cheapened ferrystones yet even for free they would be 100% useless (I mean why are they even in the game ...)
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Yeah, the crystals you can find are basically checkpoints you can choose to place, and ferrystones (if you had the OG save with last gens DA, or any of the current gen versions, you can get an infinite use one) are used to teleport to them.
Oh you can put them anywhere or does it have to be on those circles?
Anywhere.
The circles are preset ones though, but you can pick up some single ones that you can place elsewhere.
Decided to triple dip and pick up this game on Switch and, man, I forgot how much I love this game. I also forgot how unforgiving and how much of a "fuck you" attitude it has regarding auto-saves which may as well not exist at all since it's so rare for the game to do it at all. Like, the most important rule that I'd totally forgotten was that you need to manually save every 30 seconds or every couple minutes otherwise you could lose several hours of progress in an instant.
And just like the first time, I'm still in total disbelief that horses don't exist in this universe lol But anywho, got two playthroughs going, male fighter with female strider pawn on one and female strider with female fighter pawn on the other and right now my strider is basically my main playthrough because across like 5 playthroughs back on the ps3, I've always rocked male fighter/mystic knight. Really digging playing as the strider but the aim speed is so slow lol
And just like the first time, I'm still in total disbelief that horses don't exist in this universe lol But anywho, got two playthroughs going, male fighter with female strider pawn on one and female strider with female fighter pawn on the other and right now my strider is basically my main playthrough because across like 5 playthroughs back on the ps3, I've always rocked male fighter/mystic knight. Really digging playing as the strider but the aim speed is so slow lol
Almost anywhere. Basically anywhere in the "open world" of Gransys, but not in "dungeons" (cities count as "dungeons", think "instances").
Finally decided what I'll be doing for my Switch run, and have quoted myself to bring forward my Switch FC, since I think it's relevant. I've also edited most of the contents of this post back into my threadmark.
I'm going to recreate my Arisen (Nahat) and Pawn (Ahamet) from my PS4 playthroughs. They were physically identical twins, and shall be once again. Though I think I'll make them a bit taller (200) and heavier (69) to increase their carry capacity a bit. I'm attaching screen caps of what they look like on PS4.
Nahat will be a Mystic Archer this time around, instead of the min-maxed Assassin I last ran. She'll be following this build:
https://stackoverflow.github.io/dragons-dogma-stat-planner/#as000000000000003c1e000000000064000000
Ahamet will remain a mostly min-maxed Mage/Sorcerer, though I'm tweaking her build as follows to increase her survivability. Once she hits 200, she'll flip back to a Mage for the heals.
https://stackoverflow.github.io/dragons-dogma-stat-planner/#as003c0000001e000000000000000064000000
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No, stats are everything. Stats are absolute values in this game, not percentages.
Where's the next place I should look to get weapons after Gran Soren? Been using the same longbow and everything for a long time, it feels like
You can just stock up on grass and use it anytime, even while taking damage or climbing monsters. This goes for restoring stamina too.
Sorcerers don't heal- you'll need a mage for that.
The best way to heal is to buy a load of empty flasks, and fill them up with healing spring water. For the time being though, either rent a Mage pawn, or use greenwarish.
Ok, I'm very early on, just got to the main capital, did a bunch of Sidequests, I switched from Sword to Magick Archer at BBI and came back to the mainland. Now I'm using daggers, is it just me or is my dmg output insanely low. IDK how to get those numbers up. I've leveld up, bought the best daggers available at the moment in town, leveld them up to one star, it's all I can do for now, but damn, fighting anything is like me doing 1 hp of health to it
Sorcerers do not learn any healing spells. You can change her back to mage for free though, with nothing lost.
Gran Soren is really the only place to buy weapons, the weapons shop gets new stuff in as you advance the main story. Otherwise it's down to what you loot. Apparently Bitterblack Isle weapons are far and away better than anything you'll find anywhere else though.
In the rift you can search by pawns you've used before unless I'm mistaken. You can also favorite pawns, and find them later on your favorites list.
I am slowly going through the list of threadmarks and sending friend requests to everyone that hasn't already sent me one.
My NNID is the same as my nick here, Mejilan.
I recently revamped my threadmarked post with all of my pawn's relevant details (for now, as I get closer to max level, I'll be more worried about fixing inclinations and updating my post with them).
My NNID is the same as my nick here, Mejilan.
I recently revamped my threadmarked post with all of my pawn's relevant details (for now, as I get closer to max level, I'll be more worried about fixing inclinations and updating my post with them).
Oh dear 😧, is there a way to shortcut using healing items? Because i go to the menu, choose curatives then herbs, also the water is just the one you find on jars?
And, its better to keep sorcerer or change back to mage? Can the magic knight learn cure?
Pawns you hire from the rift world (whether they're from friends, from randoms, or if you're offline, RNG-generated) and 100% static and don't level up. In the case of REAL (not offline) pawns, the copies uploaded to the rift world get updated anytime the players that own those pawns rest at an inn or an encampment that is equipped with inn-like services. In the case of pawns created by your friends, so long as they don't stop playing the game, and periodically rest at an ill, you'll be able to poll the rift world for the most recent copy of their pawn.
Yup, Mages are more support, but get some decent offensive spells too. Sorcerers are almost purely offensive in nature. Sorcs get way better magickal stat gains per level than Mages, though. So even if you plan on running your Pawn as a Mage primarily, you'd do well to invest a whole bunch of levels as a Sorcerer (and unlock all of it's Augments, if nothing else). In the meantime and as others have suggested, hire a Mage pawn from the rift world.
Vendors tend to update their wares as you further the campaign's critical path, and knock out vendor-related side quests. That said, there are places you can go out in the world to find decent gear. But keep in mind that while chests may have fixed loot tables, those tables include both common and rare drops. IIRC, Heavenspeak Fort and Soulflayer Canyon are two pretty good sources of early to mid-game loot.
The only REAL magickal healer is the Mage vocation. Outside of that, consumables are your best bet. And of those, vials full of magickal spring water are pretty OP. Aside from your Arisen and created Pawn, you have two more spots for hired Pawns. Make sure one of them is a decent Mage, if you've switched yours out for a Sorcerer (which is a good idea for the boost in magickal stats a Sorc gets every level up over a Mage). Pretty sure you can map most consumables to a d-pad shortcut slot.
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Healing spring water is unique. There are little hotsprings that will heal you, and you can fill flasks with it.
I believe the other current gen versions had item hotkeys, but I'm not sure how they work exactly. It's shoulder buttons and dpad thogh I think.
As for Mystic Knights, they do get a healing ability, which, while really good, is a bit odd, as it's a heal on a parry.
I think you can set most items to a shortcut in the item menu. The shortcut will then be R+L+ the d-pad direction you set. As for the healing water, it specifically comes from the healing spring, which is a location you may not have found yet. You'll want to bring some empty flasks to the spring when you eventually go, so you can fill it up with healing water.
As for the pawn's vocation, it depends on what you need. If you really need that healing then yeah it's probably a good idea to get her back to mage or just hire a different mage pawn in addition to yours. Sorcerers are great at dishing out damage though, and they have better weapon enchantment skills.
Are the DLC items very op? Wondering if I should not equip them. I sold the monocle though, based on some research, for a nice chunk of change
Hey Plum. I've tried adding you with this FC, but it says you can't be found. Can you double check it? If it does need a correction, you'd best edit your threadmarked post so that others get linked to the right FC. Cheers.
Yeah, that's wrong; it's 6162 at the start instead of 7171. My bad. I've edited it with the correction.
Welp. Turns out you already added me. But I'm happy I caught the error, and glad you fixed it ASAP. :D
I've accepted all friend requests and have taken out several low to high level pawns onto a number of quests.
But for the love of me I can't figure out who's who from the ERA handle name to the pawn/arisen name. I was only able to identify Aeana here since that was the same name used on her Arisen.
So with that said, I think everyone should update their Friend Code posts and add their Arisen/Pawn names. (Mine: Wilhelm/Elvira)
But for the love of me I can't figure out who's who from the ERA handle name to the pawn/arisen name. I was only able to identify Aeana here since that was the same name used on her Arisen.
So with that said, I think everyone should update their Friend Code posts and add their Arisen/Pawn names. (Mine: Wilhelm/Elvira)
What do people consider the most fun class to play? Magical Archer is certainly effective but it feels kinda boring to me.
Doubt that's it most of the time. Pawns usually sheathe their weapons indicating there is no immediate danger. And I usually check to see if there's no one around, plus I can save ...
Mystic Knight for sure.
Mix between solid offensive, defensive, and bullet hell setplay.
All classes are cool depending on your play style. I like mages a lot but you need to deal with the looooong casting times.
But a decent Sorcerer literally raining hell feels great (and hurts a lot).
I'm not a fan of other ranged classes if I recall.
Mystic knight was cool IIRC but that was because it was powerful and versatile (IIRC).
Not a big fan of the lack of skills and just general slowness of the warrior, even if hitting hard can be pretty satisfying.
Fighters are cool too as they're pretty quick and have good defense with the shield but don't hit super hard (they're more of a "tank" template of the holy trinity).
I logged in today and got close to six million RC from my pawn. I hope Yttr was helpful to whoever summoned her.
I don't even know what to spend all the RC on, guess I'm gonna go find a ton of bitter black items.
I don't even know what to spend all the RC on, guess I'm gonna go find a ton of bitter black items.
I've found Ranger to be a lot of fun lately actually. You more or less wind up spamming tenfold arrow but the movement and strategy is a bit more involved than Magick Archer using ricochets.
I remember reading a lot of people recommending Assassin. It's very versatile and not too OP so that it gets boring.
Awesome!
And I see you did this already, but it would be ideal if everyone else update their original thread-marked post since that's where most people will visit to view FC's.
Hey guys what's the best way to get some good weapons in this game. I'm a level 29 magick archer and i'm tired of walking around with the same stuff. I went to the Tomb of the unknown Traveler and i got a steel greatsword lol, i'm thinking about save scumming the tomb to see if i can get something good but i'll have to wait until the item respawns.
Thank you! I juuuuuust finished recreating my PS4 Arisen and Pawn. I sent you a friend request a few hours ago, so I imagine you've already accepted it. I've since updated my threadmarked post with all of my Arisen/Pawn details. I think I'll go in and toss a few more details in and organize things a bit for legibility, now that you mention it.
Era: Mejilan
NNID: Mejilan
Pawn: Ahamet