Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

There are two factors: The XP gained by the player who's renting your pawn, and the level of your pawn. The higher the renter's level, and the higher your pawn's level, the more RC you'll receive for X minutes of that player fighting enemies. A level 200 player renting a level 200 pawn will yield maximum RC gain. I've had my pawn rented for extensive periods of time and received something like 120,000 RC, while a level 200 player whose pawn was rented for a shorter period of time can receive something like 400,000-500,000 RC.

Warrior was billed as a strong tank by the game documentation/Wikia, though it's only decent later on, and has terrible magic defense of course. Fortunately, there are far more sources of physical damage in this game than magical—and due to the way magic works (long cast/charge times, large amounts of damage) and the way defense is calculated (straight subtraction), having an extra 100-200 magic defense is arguably no more effective than having an extra 500-1,000 HP (Warrior gains 10 more HP than Mystic Knight per level). You'll just need somewhat more curatives on hand. Also, Mystic Knight's offense growth is pretty terrible; many people recommend leveling up as a Sorcerer for a long while.

Besides which, at this juncture I see little point in "tanking" at all. One way or another, the Arisen must carry the majority of the weight in battle. The most dangerous enemies can't be kept (much) from murdering your pawns by use of taunts and tanking strategies, but killing them a lot faster certainly helps.

 

Those people are wrong. The MK strength growth is bad, but so is the Sorcerers. The 2 extra magic per level doesn't offset turning into a class cannon.

 

Man... the one problem I have with this game is that I'll go explore some far-reaching place, only to be met by locked doors and impassable areas. It's like a really elongated, elaborate "the princess is in another castle" routine no matter where I go.

Also, I don't even know what the main quest is, so that's probably a problem. I'm like level 30 now and the only real "boss" I've fought so far was the hydra at the start. I ran into the dude who hilariously drew a big stick figure on the side of the mountain.

 

Yeah I have no idea either. The only story seems to be "Must fight dragon, he terk mah job heart" but I honestly don't care. Going out, looking for trouble and doing random quests has been fun enough. I guess that can be attributed to decent world design and a sense of danger that's rare to find in most open world turds. At least when the sun goes down. I'm almost enjoying this as much as Gothic 1/2, as it's giving off a similar vibe and experience especially while exploring.

Would be nice if people didn't troll me by renting out my pawn and sending it back with a rock as a gift. Cheap assholes.

 

Yeah, I did some free-for-all exploring for a while, but the YOU MUST DO SOME SORT OF QUEST TO PROCEED bullshit eventually sent me back to doing quests.

My first rent, at level 18, I was gifted a Portcrystal, a dragonforged Dragon's Rancor (strongest shortbow pre-NG+), and a non-upgraded Heaven's Key (holy element daggers, reward for slaying "secret boss" type deal).

That... might be why I think Assassin's even more awesome than it actually is.

 

Rocks as gifts are typically the result of someone trying to abuse save restores actually (it turns everything you gift into a rock for a while) or computer generated pity rents (you'll know them when your pawn returns from helping someone but no online ID is listed).

 

I was wandering back to Gran Soren at night and fought a random mini-boss I hadn't seen yet. Some flying sorcerer with a bunch of reaper-looking henchmen. Who or what was that? A shame he was so easy.

I grabbed all the available equipment from Soulflayer Canyon and the Quarry salesman. Starting on the Duke's quests now after finishing up almost every non-kill "X" quest. Guess I should go try that dragon again soon.

 

a lich?

 

I'm thinking about picking this up today. So the expansion starts with a hard mode? Would it be wise to pick that from the start if I don't mind a little bit of Gothic-brand mortality in my open world games?

 

With hard mode its much more enjoyable,imo.More sense of danger,preparation before adventuring(wich abilities to memorize,wich pawns to hire,etc.)is more meaningful,you have to exploit better the abilities you have in combat(as opposed to normal where you don't have to bother as much to learn how to fight),exploration is more rewarding(you take much more damage and stamina goes down faster so finding curatives is more important) and it gets too easy later(at lv 30 cyclops can still one-shot you).

 

Eliminators in Dark Arisen are fucking annoying.

 

Not sure, I never got a good look at him. I don't want to Google up an enemy list and accidentally spoil any future encounters.

I fought my first golem, a bit too similar to ogres/cyclops aside from having to hit sweet spots. Why make all three enemies basically the same? Ah well. Bluemoon Tower was pretty damn cool and actually made griffins seem formiddable, at least until you get him on the roof and wipe the floor with him. Liked the change in atmosphere though, which made me wonder why in the world this game doesn't have weather cycles.

 

hit the head. it makes them stagger even when they are charging.

it has a weather cycle, just not enough variety in it (sunny day vs greish clouded). maybe they'll fix it in the sequel.

liches are robed guys that float in the air and summon skeleton warriors to fight you while casting archspells.

golems are different because they cannot be damaged by magic and only damage to their disks counts, not dmg applied to their bodies, plus the disks have their own hitpoints after which you have to find the next one. that is vastly different from ogres or cyclops that can be damaged anywhere by anything and have permanent weak-spots that don't go away. still, the enemies in DA are overall better.
and there is a harder kind of golem. you can fight it in the witchwood later, unless you missed helping quina in there after fighting the hydra in the pawn camp.

 

I am getting this vidya game, and will reference this codex for advise.

How the hell do you get corrupted saves even when pulling the plug? Whoever wrote the save game code, API or plugin should be fired, but it seems like DD had a lot of other problems, also.

 

Because the game uses an auto-save feature and doesn't keep backups.

If the game is going to force you to use a single save time, it should have a backup. Pokemon does it and has done it from the GBA games onward, but apparently every AAA game can't seem to figure it out.

 

ps3 generally has a lot of issues when turned off while a game is running, not just the ones with autosave. don't do it.

 

Beat the main quest.

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Killed the dragon, saved mai waifu (Mercedes. Thankfully did not get what this poor fucker got.), and watched Gran Soren turn to hell. Gonna do the expansion quests now.

 

I found a better solution: Cast Lightning Trance and blow it up with Ruinous Sigil/Great Cannon.

Melee combat is suicidal with him, but he dies to ranged-lighting attacks.


PS: If you can kill an Eliminator before beating the main quest you broke the game lol

 

if you need to melee, climb on its back and, again, hit it on the head.

 

Thankfully MKs don't NEED to melee.

EDIT: If one of my pawns is disabled for the one-hit-kill move I just try to do a lot of damage rather than stun the Eliminator. Reviving the pawn right after is pretty trivial.

 

the second time i got to the sunken city there were two strong dragonkin with unlimited casting range (joy) and the streets were filled with at least a dozen or so eliminators. great fun.

 

I am going to give this game an 8/10 after playing it further. There's a lot more under the hood than you first realize. I'm almost through main storyline and haven't progressed much in the new content, but my MK is kicking serious ass. He's nearly unkillable. ;P Fun game. I'd give it a kkkodex seal of approval.

 

Go to Bitterblack Isle.

 

I will, soon. ;P

 

Has anyone tried the 3 sorc, 1 fighter group composition?

I'm interested in doing so but that means starting over or some nonsense... wait, I can just backup on a thumb drive and test it myself. Regardless, I pose the question.

Edit: I just realized that 3 sorc, 1 fighter sounds like a bad nasty porn phrase similar to 2 girls, 1 cup.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYyHrfBM2I