Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[Grimlorn]

Fight a fire drake with a magic archer. The damage is too low with the bow and I'll end up with for a good 20 + minutes just to beat it. Not because it's close to hard, but because it has a massive health pool and pawns are too stupid to even enchant weapons, attack the heart or finish casting spells even when they're 90% finished.

All of this is wrong. I soloed the game as a Magick Archer. It never took me a long time to kill firedrakes. You just use the six fold bolt which does ice damage and also homes in on target and aim at the heart. It's easy. If your pawns aren't enchanting then you have their inclinations set wrong, but I don't think enchanting a Mystic Archer's bow changes the attacks since they're magical and already have an element attached to them.

You must not have had a decent bow, since the damage you do is heavily based on what weapon you have.

 

[Raghar]

What's the best body type for sorc pawn?

Barefoot cute girl.

 

[sullynathan]

Fight a fire drake with a magic archer. The damage is too low with the bow and I'll end up with for a good 20 + minutes just to beat it. Not because it's close to hard, but because it has a massive health pool and pawns are too stupid to even enchant weapons, attack the heart or finish casting spells even when they're 90% finished.

All of this is wrong. I soloed the game as a Magick Archer. It never took me a long time to kill firedrakes. You just use the six fold bolt which does ice damage and also homes in on target and aim at the heart. It's easy. If your pawns aren't enchanting then you have their inclinations set wrong, but I don't think enchanting a Mystic Archer's bow changes the attacks since they're magical and already have an element attached to them.

You must not have had a decent bow, since the damage you do is heavily based on what weapon you have.

I used the six fold bolt and its little damage. Something like 1/30th of one health bar every shot.

I have not found a bow better than this and I've had it since early game and it's upgraded to the 5th level. Magic archer doesn't get frequent bow drops from the BBI shit or even the base game.

 

[sullynathan]

As an aside, this game is day and night in comparison to the witcher 3. Just compare the Griffin fight in DD vs Witcher 3.

 

[Delterius]

As an aside, this game is day and night in comparison to the witcher 3. Just compare the Griffin fight in DD vs Witcher 3.

does the polish lobby know no bounds

 

[Grimlorn]

Fight a fire drake with a magic archer. The damage is too low with the bow and I'll end up with for a good 20 + minutes just to beat it. Not because it's close to hard, but because it has a massive health pool and pawns are too stupid to even enchant weapons, attack the heart or finish casting spells even when they're 90% finished.

All of this is wrong. I soloed the game as a Magick Archer. It never took me a long time to kill firedrakes. You just use the six fold bolt which does ice damage and also homes in on target and aim at the heart. It's easy. If your pawns aren't enchanting then you have their inclinations set wrong, but I don't think enchanting a Mystic Archer's bow changes the attacks since they're magical and already have an element attached to them.

You must not have had a decent bow, since the damage you do is heavily based on what weapon you have.

I used the six fold bolt and its little damage. Something like 1/30th of one health bar every shot.

I have not found a bow better than this and I've had it since early game and it's upgraded to the 5th level. Magic archer doesn't get frequent bow drops from the BBI shit or even the base game.

Read this on purification. It explains how to manage it and exploit it. It should be easy to get one of the top 2 bows. You can even get 2 chances by simply switching you and your pawn between a soceror/mage and a strider/ranger vocation. You just have to reload to try. The weapons come in a specific order as well.
https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Purification
https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Purification_Management

You can cheat to get more rift crystals. Seems sort of necessary if no one plays the game anymore and you can't get crystals through lending pawns out. They only made it like this to force the online component on you.

 

[Wunderbar]

As an aside, this game is day and night in comparison to the witcher 3. Just compare the Griffin fight in DD vs Witcher 3.

yeah, DD is better.

 

[Black]

Fighting the drake near Shadowfort when you're underleveled is very entertaining.

 

[sullynathan]

Fighting the drake near Shadowfort when you're underleveled is very entertaining.

I did so. I randomly encountered him and came back a few levels higher and had an entertaining fight

 

[sullynathan]

Read this on purification. It explains how to manage it and exploit it. It should be easy to get one of the top 2 bows. You can even get 2 chances by simply switching you and your pawn between a soceror/mage and a strider/ranger vocation. You just have to reload to try. The weapons come in a specific order as well.
https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Purification
https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Purification_Management

You can cheat to get more rift crystals. Seems sort of necessary if no one plays the game anymore and you can't get crystals through lending pawns out. They only made it like this to force the online component on you.

Already read, already did. I get a staff and I'd have to farm for more rift crystals and bbi level 3 weapons

 

[Covenant]

They only made it like this to force the online component on you.

What is it with the Japanese and gating content behind 'Go outside/have friends' shit? Pokemon being the ur-example, I suppose, though I don't know if they changed that after the first one.

It's like goddamn Tanaka-san, I'm not sat in my hermetically-sealed doomsday bunker playing RPGs because I want more interaction with other humans, y'know?

 

[Wunderbar]

They only made it like this to force the online component on you.

What is it with the Japanese and gating content behind 'Go outside/have friends' shit?

they are fighting with hikikomori.

 

[Grimlorn]

I think it's possibly a bit of a DRM scheme on why there's rift crystals and you can only get enough by lending out pawns.

 

[Black]

I did it, level 200, hard mode, BBI and speedrun completed.
I finished the game, now they can start working on DD2.

 

[Black]

So here's a little thing modders made- https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/96?tab=description

Among many things like cheats, it allows for a pretty much full multi-classing system, letting you for example use both strider and assassasasasasasssin skills or removes limitations on equipment.
Also in-game clock!

 

[LESS T_T]

https://gematsu.com/2019/07/dragons-dogma-online-to-end-service-on-december-5-in-japan

Dragon’s Dogma Online to end service on December 5 in Japan
Dragon's Dogma online action RPG shutting down.


Dragon’s Dogma Online will end service on December 5 at 10:00 JST, Capcom announced. The free-to-play online action RPG is currently available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC.

According to Capcom, while it has sought to run the game in a way that all players can enjoy since launch, it has become difficult to continue offering satisfactory service, so it has come to the decision to shut down the game.

Capcom will stop offering downloads of the game client and all downloadable content across all supported platforms on July 11.

 

[Cyberarmy]

So maybe it's time for DD2?
Pretty please?

 

[HoboForEternity]

 

[Shrimp]

According to Capcom, while it has sought to run the game in a way that all players can enjoy since launch, it has become difficult to continue offering satisfactory service

Satisfactory service such as actually releasing the game to the west.

I hope this means they've begun working on DD2. I recall Hideaki Itsuno saying he'd been interested in DD2 but chose to make DMC5 first.

 

[Black Angel]

Nah

 

[Matador]

 

[Leitz]

What's the consensus on this game though? I'm tempted to buy it on steam.

 

[Matador]

It's fantastic. It's hard to not recommend it to any RPGcodex user for the price of the Steam sale.

 

[Delterius]

What's the consensus on this game though? I'm tempted to buy it on steam.

159 pages of YES!

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Game is fantastic, has the best gameplay of any hack and slash RPG around. Getting the team behind the Devil May Cry games to do a combat focused genre like a Hack & Slash went a hell of a long way in getting the combat to feel great. Has a really nice interesting intuitive create-a-character system too where stats are directly tied into what you make your character physically look like.

It's got some flaws, the open world isn't quite what it should be, but even the open world aspect has some really nice stuff like with how it changes at night and how dark the night actually gets; it can actually make you think about when you go do some quest so you're not traversing the map at night.

If you're playing it for the first time just know that in the first town you should probably do all the board quest there. Just take all the "kill X amount" quest at once, they aren't designed like most other games where you have to hunt down whatever, they're set up so you'll just naturally do with while fighting stuff around the town or while doing a board escort mission. You don't want to go into the first mission in Gran Soren (or the well in the first town) too under leveled, as they can be kind of a bitch.