Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

The one and only time I forgot to bring eyedroppers, I was blinded by goblins while advancing to battle the drake in Devilfire Grove.

Of course the support mage had High Halidom, but she has Scather primary like every other support mage in the Rift, and there were seven hundred and fifty thousand goblins there (and a drake) so she couldn't get a cast off. Bros, I'm so tired of fighting wolves, harpies, and goblins.

Doesn't matter, killed the drake with little difficulty.

 

The blinding effect is so awesome, the first time it hit me I didnt know what was going on while my pawns ran around screaming their usual shit "they hate fire" :p
And yeah Blaine most pawns suck big time, maybe that is why I have not changed my healing pawn because he has very good setup of spells and actually knows how to use them plus he always begins combat by casting holy on my sorcerer and magic defense on everybody
Right now my group of main pawn warrior, strider, healing mage and my sorcerer kick so much ass I just killed Salome with a meteor while he was screaming some shit after the cutscene

 

Blacksmith of the Innkeeper. I used to unsheathe my weapons at them every time they made that ringy noise and had the pink blur. Sometimes I would even pick them and throw them - but that would sometimes get me thrown in prison.


Worth it.

 

I agree.

I don't know if they changed it or not - because I'm too careful to get blinded now, but in the original getting blinded meant you could accidentally melee your own pawns. I gotta go check they Wiki to see if that's still the case.

Petrification and Blindness, my two top resist priorities.

 

Use a liftstone, the only other shortcut is behind Daimon. If you need to hurt him, use the stat boosting items or level up. Also taking wakestones is recommended.

 

If you use a ferrystone to teleport away before the Gran Soren guards reach you, they won't remember you've committed a crime, even if your teleport destination is Gran Soren itself. I'd rather spend 2,000 gold on another ferrystone than suffer the indignity of being jailed simply because I needed to lower someone's affinity.

 

I strongly feel that I earned the Eternal Ferrystone after walking to the same fucking places 20 times during my last playthrough.

I'm starting to remember one of the downsides of Dragon's Dogma and, I suspect, one of the reasons it's not as popular as it could be: The backtracking. There'll be a main quest, or two, in a given area, as well as two or three side quests in that area. If doing the Badge of Vows quests, add 2-3+ to that number. These backtrack quests often don't become available in a way that allows you to group them together, either.

Yes, they'll make you go to the Catacombs for one badge, then to Gran Soren, then to the Shadow Fort, then to Soulflayer Canyon, then back to the Catacombs, then to Gran Soren, then back to the Shadow Fort, etc., often for one badge at a time. It's absolutely unreal. All I can think is that Capcom was saying, "Fuck you, buy riftstones." All of the badges in one area should be available as consecutive quests.

Once you have the badges you can turn them in again in subsequent playthroughs for quick crystals, so you're strongly compelled to do them.

 

Man, don't do those badge quests. BBI has tons of chests that give you 2000-5000 rift crystals. I'm guessing they only put that in so people that didn't have the expansion and also had to play offline could afford the pawn facelift thing. You're on PC, just cheat if you want RC.

I think all the open world stuff was completely botched, and the fact that BBI looks like it had a rock bottom budget (they reuse level geometry and reskin enemies like they were trying to pay off a loanshark) yet is ten times more compelling shows they just had no capacity to make an open world game. Eternal ferrystone + lots of portable teleport crystals is just an acknowledgement that they made shit no sane person wouldn't want to skip 90% of.

 

I personaly dont feel cheating at all using the eternal ferrystone, since you have to set up the crystals to new places you have to discover them in the first place and even if you set them up in startegic places tou still have to trek a bit to get there
Btw what the fuck is it complicated to get a decent support mage, I mean I want high affinity, combustion, andoyne and maybe a decent combat spell or two an it is fucking hard
I have kept a level 37 mage (currently level 53) just because I cant find any decent mages ffs

 

Mozg If you do do all 100 badge quests, you'll get 210,000 RC and 100,000 XP essentially for free very soon upon starting NG+. That's hard to ignore unless your pawn is a Mage or (secondarily) Sorcerer, looks like a porn star, has amazing stats, proper affinity and desirable skills, and gets pimped rented out constantly.

I didn't really find that the main open world was horribly botched. It's pretty great the first time through, leaping across roofs and digging through bags for stuff, exploring new and unknown areas, keeping an eye out for chests hidden beneath cliffs, etc.

Still, there was a lot they could have done far better. Enemy variety is one of those things. The vast majority of non-boss enemies are wolves, goblins, harpies, and bandits, with a side dish of saurians, skeletons, zombies, and phantoms.

 

Uh, just summon a bunch of mages and there will be one in between, just look if ithas the spells you want and check if under profile it had Ultarian as main inclination andere either challenger or migitator as secondary.

Hou could use my pawn, but she is level 70 or something, plus she doesnt use weapon enchants at the moment.

 

Yup I finally found a level 49 mage with holy weapons, high ingis, hi andoyne, spellshield and even a decent high ice spell plus she looks like an egyptian priestess....very nice, no combustion but I can manage that and crowd control while she buffs ny chars, heals and can cast high ingis
Getting close to the end of the main quest and kind of sad about it, while I still have most of BBI I have to say I an enjoying the game so much I might start a new replay with a fighter and mage pawn almost right away

 

Nah, just go tool around in BBI if you want rift crystals. I've had some lengthy pawn rents, but not a lot with my elf strider/ranger. I'm sitting at like 1.3 million rift crystals and have already purified most of what I want, have the pawn/arisen reconstruction thing, etc. I mean, do the quests if you like the treasure hunting aspects, but if they're just a pain, why bother?

 

Seriously, you can easily pick up 200k rift crystals in a tiny fraction of the time it takes to do all the badge quests by doing stuff in BBI. Since you're never going to beat the game the 20 times it'd take to make up the difference, it's not worth it unless you like searching for them.

 

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(i had to google picture that)

 

Favorite thing: mystic knight, blessed riposte, great cannon. Set up a cannon, then attract an eliminator. Perfect block riposte the eliminator's attack. Approximately ten thousand shots are then fired out of the great cannon in the next second by the blessed riposte. It's useless against Daimon or most other things because only a certain number of great cannon shots can exist at the same time, and from outside point blank range the new cannon shots being created make the ones that are further than like one video game meter away vanish.

 

Magick Archer's bracer arrow is pretty sweet; cures and prevents a lot of nasty debilitations like petrification.

 

So, i did BBI (almost) before Everfall. Big mistake, don't.

 

Welp, Caxton is my beloved.

JAPAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

 

If someone plays DD and still don't know it here is table for weight and height and what those modify in game:

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Weight
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Height

 

Killed second boss in BBI, but now I hit a wall.

Jesus Christ. Enter a new room, and there is DEATH, can't kill him. Leave and come back and he is gone, all is well, then the room with 2 Gorecyclops, looks like fun, bam, 3 Garms spawn, and 2 pawns insist on attacking the chained up Gorecyclops instead of the doggies, so leave again.

Got a hired Strider pawn now, first time, and it's amazing. The slow it inflicts on things, man I have been missing out this whole time.

 

What is the dogma that the dragons have?

 

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The dogmatic belief in the neverending cycle of death and destruction that leads to the rise of an Arisen to become the new Seneschal. The same cycle that your PC eventually breaks by committing suicide at the end of the game.

 

if you haven't made it past yet, there's a ledge that allows you to over look the area, the 'Condemned' gorecyclopes can't reach you there if you'd just like ot pick them off with magic and arrows. Ice is very effective.
If the garms spawn, have them follow you to another room so you can focus on killing all 3 of them rather than spreading your attention between them, the pawns, and the condemned cyclopes.

 

why? that's what I was doing when I left off...