Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

The holy bolts can fire through walls too btw. Also, Exequy is hugely underrated.

 

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Oh yes, this exists.

Thank god.

 

The cool thing about using bows in the PC version is that I can reach up and grab the mouse (while holding left bumper) in a split-second, and use it to aim and activate two skills, or all three, if I assign the keyboard control for the third skill to one of the ancillary mouse buttons.

The uncool thing is that the special effects for weapon elemental enchantments, the lingering healing visual of High Anodyne, and the "glare sprite" of the lantern all make it impossible to see and aim at anything unless it's high noon on a cloudless day, and sometimes not even then. The glare from Fire Boon/Affinity is especially bad. Fortunately this is only an issue for mobs of smaller enemies; boss enemies are never a problem to aim at since they're large and their weak points tend to be higher off the ground.

Edit: Wow, DDZ posted while I was typing this post. Fuckin' coincidences, eh?

 

Haha ye, eerie.

But yeah, the glare is terrible. When I was fighting mobs like wolves or goblins at night they would completely vanish.

 

Yeah, I had no previous knowledge of the classes and went for Strider-Assassin because it sounded cool and now I can't enjoy the game with other classes. Feels bad man.

 

Eh, surely you could get some mileage out of Mystic Knight, Magick Archer, or Sorcerer if you wanted. They all can do things Assassin can't.

Still, Assassin is very effective and certainly the most versatile. It basically allows you to enjoy most of the aspects of the warrior and archer classes in a nice mishmash, with some extras thrown in.

 

I went for Mystic Knight but problem is, the only content I have yet to explore is BBI and after my first run into Elder Ogre and 20 wasted wakestones I am just too burnt out to try it further.

 

Assassin is good, but first he needs to collect augments from other vocations. His own are terrible.

 

Having the +20% strength/magic augments at rank 9 of warrior/sorcerer is dumb. There really shouldn't be any augments above like rank 4 or 5, where you try out the class for an hour and then whether you want to stick with it or not you have all the augments.

 

No, this is a Japanese game. You have to suffer very long time doing thing you don't really want to do to get good thing, gaijin bigeyes.

Assassin had one or two good augments back before the nerf. I'm not sure why +70% attack power while alone is considered overpowered, since two sorcerer pawns will dish out far more than that on the whole. Probably something about people killing Ur-Dragon too easily or some shit.

 

It was overpowered because it's multiplicative. 1.7 x 1.4 x1.2 x etc. and you end up with stupidly high attack power really quickly.

 

I was having issues with that until I turned HDR to low... After that it was like the console release where normal buffs don't blind you but standing in the middle of Anodyne and trying to aim would.

 

Finally max vocation in Mystic Knight, NG+ at the final battle. Now I am going to BBI. Been there before but the Gorecyclops owned me so hard.

 

That's not really a valid explanation, though, because in addition to nerfing Autonomy's offensive bonus from +70% to +20% in Dark Arisen, Capcom also implemented a hard cap of +80% to any attribute, regardless of how many augments are stacked.

In other words, an un-nerfed Autonomy plus one other augment would have reached that +80% cap and that's where the bonus would have stayed.

 

I think augment +% bonuses actually work like extra base stats, and the +80% capped thing that shows up as an "effect" (like a conqueror's periapt, or a magic archer using magic rebalancer) is separate. I know if you look at your status page while you have an effect bonus running it doesn't change your listed attack, while augments do.

 

My fighter pawn seems maxed out at level 50 and has over 30,000 unused points. i was thinking of switching her to a warrior to try to get some cool skills for her or maybe an assassin what eould you guys suggest? Since My char is a sorcerer both of those still make sense since she can do the shield drop skill to make enemies focus on her to give me time to cast, and making her an assassin still gives me access to a few of her weapons skills as to not have to baby her but maybe warrior has better skills down the road

 

Isn't assassin only for main character?

 

Correct, no hybrid classes for pawns.

 

Ugh... First fight that I almost had to flee from. Not because it was tough, but because it was such bullshit.

Metal Golem, MC Mystic Knight, seal in a fucking tree. GG.

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Magic Cannon deals magic damage... seal is impervious to magic damage.

 

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this fucker deserves exequys to the face, at least the version of him in the forest

Oh, what a coincidence.

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Your best bet is to use Abyssal Anguish for most of the seals and get Archer pawns to kill the seal in the tree.

 

Speaking of golems, don't ever leave the medallion on its foot for last. Trust me.

 

Yeah, Metal Golems are bullshit. Had a fight were the last medallion was floating high in the air and I was solo with a melee-only assassin...the solution was climbing on top of the golem and jumping to land like 3 hits in mid-air on the medallion.... like 15 times.

 

The camera in this game is a warcrime. Let me mount my enemies in peace.

 

The camera's not too awful in general for me, but the "action slo-mo cam" is a double-edged sword. It lets you know when your pawn has a tandem attack ready and so on, but is jarring and distracting.

 

I have a hot tip: Steam Family Sharing allows you to play multiple save files without file-swapping. It's similar in function to account-swapping on consoles.

Also, I'm interested in adding people to the ol' friends list so we can use each others' pawns and get rift crystals. Maybe we (all five or six of us actively playing) should start a convo. I'm afraid my pawn is a Strider/Archer with some Warrior DNA and not a healbot or nuke cannon, but

My Steam handle is Blaine, not too surprisingly, which could return a lot of results... I'm in the RPG Codex group.