Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[Hirato]

I assume you're playing around in the well?

Capcom decided to do a straight reduction system, ie if you have 500 attack and the enemy has 300 defence, the end result is 200 damage, give or take some for the slash/whatever resistance.
If you find you're doing basically no damage, you're not getting through their armour.

I'd suggest going to the encampment and getting Reynard to upgrade your daggers to 3 stars, it should put you in a much better position to take them on.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Advice for them lizards-
"THE TAIL IS SEVERED!"

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I've just started playing this after picking it up for the Christmas sale. Got my ass kicked in the well with a level 7 strider and two starting pawns. There just seems no end to those lizards. I'm either really bad at this type of game or merely underleveled. It's been fun so far.

smashing_axe if anyone's still playing.

First, you should have recruited a third pawn (i.e. a second support pawn) in the Encampment before leaving it anyway. You can still do that easily as there's a riftstone in Cassardis just by the entrance to the well. Second, consider what tactics you're using against the Saurians

Spoiler

i.e. cut off their tails

. Third, consider your party composition in terms of vocations (also, you'll want to occasionally replace your support pawns for new ones at your current level; IIRC, the first support pawn you're given, Rook, is level 4). Fourth, consider purchasing better weapons and upgrading them.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Savour the well experience because it's one of the few times the game feels properly difficult. Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but it becomes too easy too quickly.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Started playing today, 14 hours played already D:

 

[Barnabas]

Started playing today, 14 hours played already D:

What class are you playing as

 

[PirateScum]

What class are you playing as

Masterworks all, you can't go wrong!

 

[LESS T_T]

Director of DD is teasing a new game:



Could be a new Devil May Cry, Rival Schools 3, or a completely new game. (Or, Dragon's Dogma 2 )

 

[Correct_Carlo]

Exert himself? WTF? Only 25% of that tweet makes sense.

 

[Delterius]

He's new years drunk and this is tweet is No Joke.

This is the seventh time we could hope for a Dragon's Dogma. After the Japan only MMO, the mobile card game and the mobile dating game we don't have the right to be hopeful. Odds are it will be Rival Schools 3.

 

[Hyperion]

Or worse, a sequel to that DMC abomination.

With this cocksucker directing it again. Fucking Star Trek extra with a man bun.

 

[Shackleton]

This current trend of men having topknots is excellent. Now I can pick out the complete bellends at a much greater distance than before.

 

[Hirato]

how would the combat compare to monterhunter?

It's definitely heavily influenced by it, as each weapon type plays quite differently, as they would in MH.
There's also a whole slew of other MH influences such as the storage and combination system.

it's much more accurate to compare it to MH as well as opposed to something like Dark Souls.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Ranger here.
Did Griffin Bane (with aftermatch in Bluemoon Tower) but still got no feathers from it (not ever one so Black Cat is out of question) for 3rd upgrade so I wanted to grind them.
Though dragons were post-game things but to my nasty surprise - there is one that spawn few steps away from camp placed south-east from Shadow fort (the one from Wyrm hunt quest pack). Though it was wyvern looking like these from Twitcher series but once they grabbed my pawn and talking - shit got real.
Started combat in the morning, ended next morning. Feels like their wings hitbox is bigger than wings themselves and stop most of my arrows.
And got dragonforget random pants that I forgot to change for better. Bleh.
I think I can handle final boss but the need to deal with quests from that pseudodragonbane Duke slow things down.

 

[Haplo]

Post game you'll get Dire upgrades of drakes

 

[Lazing Dirk]

I've only encountered a drake once so far, and that was little more than a brief hello after saving the game first. Pawns dying all over the place and finally wrecked before even getting 1 dot down, so I guess I'll come back for it a bit later. I also had a brief foray into the Bitterwhatsit place, but I think I'll need to leave that until later too. On the other hand, I'm annihilating manticores pretty reliably now, and I assume griffons would go down pretty quick too, if I ever encounter another one. They must be hiding.

Just finished getting warrior to max rank after spending most of the initial game as fighter. I'm really missing Burst Strike when it comes to speedy buggers like wolves, but the sheer FUCK YOU power of a charged up swing from a fiery warhammer is great fun. It's like using Dragon Tooth all over again. Whomp. I guess I should give Arc of Deliverance a go; the charge up time was rather off-putting, but it sounds like it's worth it.

My main pawn is a mage so I can have a (sort of) reliable healer without gambling with other pawns, but it's been tricky to find a skill set and disposition that doesn't result in them doing dumb shit. I ended up getting rid of the blindness sphere thing after she'd run into enemy groups to cast it ("I'm being usefu- urk!") and just add some more offensive spells instead. 2 different elemental attacks, the dark bindy thing, the holy weapon buff, the debuff removing spell, and healing seems to work okay with a utilitarian/medicant. She's stopped running into groups so much, and doesn't constantly start a spell then cancel it to cast something else ad nauseam. I did have medicant as primary, but she just used healing near-constantly and didn't otherwise do much of use. Now with medicant as a secondary she could do with using healing a bit more. Life is pain.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Should probably switch out my ranger pawn for something else till such time I get hands on anti-ghost gear. Can't wait to toss the pawn into the sea forever.
Also I accidentally waifu'd Selene or whatever her name. Fuck.

 

[Haplo]

Arc sure is powerful. But it's also slow. May not be everyone's cup of tea. I personally didn't use it much. Found in that time it took me to charge it, I could do a lot of other stuff. And it's really a shame to loose the charge, miss it or fire it on a half-dead enemy, which happens all too often.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Arc sure is powerful. But it's also slow. May not be everyone's cup of tea. I personally didn't use it much. Found in that time it took me to charge it, I could do a lot of other stuff. And it's really a shame to loose the charge, miss it or fire it on a half-dead enemy, which happens all too often.

Yeah, then I found I could move while it was loaded.

 

[Haplo]

Very slowly though. Some enemies are quite mobile. And you can get ragdolled while holding the charge... Enemies I really wanted to use it on rarely gave me the chance. And a lot of stuff just dies very fast, before you get the chance to use it.
I acknowledge it might be great for some, but it just didn't cut it for me.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And you can get ragdolled while holding the charge

Some talents lets you resist that, mind.
Granted, it takes skill to use.

 

[JBro]

What's the quickest way to grind out levels?

 

[Haplo]

Why would you?
Are you one of those people that want to start actually playing the game at level 200?
It's more fun to just progress as you go...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Just play the game, you'll level up very fast.

 

[Hirato]

What's the quickest way to grind out levels?

Run through Bitterblack Isle and kill everything you see.