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Phlegmish posted:As I predicted, my pawn is getting hired less often by random people after I covered her up completely and put her in a turban, even though she has much better stats lol Memories of DD1 and every early pawn in the rift wearing the overpowered-starting-equipment princess dress...
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Maxed Thief starting vocation at the weekend, and am now at the point where I want some of those other passives but that means not being a thief for a long while.  At least, I collected some decent gear for other vocations so it's not quite like starting from scratch.
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The Lone Badger posted:Often three pawns can completely carry you and you can just let them fight while you collect DP. Oh, I'm not stressing about difficulty, it's just that I enjoyed the toolkit a lot and will likely go back to it afterwards. I just feel like I need the carry weight passive from Fighter and the faster climbing from (late) Archer. I deeply resent the latter in fact, like wtf Capcom? I like the Strider/Assassin/Ranger split into Thief/Archer, but faster monster climbing should have been on the Thief side. 
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Apr 2, 2024 12:44
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Jack Trades posted:ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! yeah, the jank is real. I had a random poison saurian myself, but it happened during a dialogue, which was funny. And then as it was a quest dialogue where the NPC just disappeared in a fade to black transition, the saurian was gone before I got to deal with it. I also had my thief arisen stuck in the grappling hook pulling animation after a fight, with the hook/rope tied to a cliff face and my character desperately trying to pull down the rocks apparently. Had to save+reload to regain control. Also save+reload required to fix my pawn stuck on the spot with her hand desperately out for a victory clap. You could feel the loneliness as the whole party moved out around the hill until I realised she was missing, and here she was, on the location of the last fight, in the same position, hand extended, still seeking validation from the arisen... 
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Apr 2, 2024 15:04
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I got poisoned early in game too, but had a mage pawn, so every now and then they'd cast the green healing bubble (rank 0 core skill) which was enough to keep going until I found a campsite. Poison goes away on sleep. That mage bubble does some heavy lifting at low levels. If they don't cast it by themselves, just hit the "Help me" order and they should do it.
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Section Z posted:Because a lot of what you hear is "Friction is great" and "So my pawns were eaten by a slime while I was camping", I assumed I would get a case of "You have now saved over someone dying from poison in your sleep, what did you think would happen" I won't lie, I was a bit nervous hitting that sleep button, but thankfully it worked out well. Wasn't sure if it was going to clear out, still be there on waking up, or if I was going to get a popup telling me I died.
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I love how I've been assuming that Checkpoint Rest Town was a community nickname for a village, but no, that's literally the in-game town name.
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Owl Inspector posted:I'm continually disappointed how much they nerfed the baseline effectiveness of monster climbing. it used to be one of the best ways to do DPS and was worthwhile even with just regular climbing attacks, in DD2 it's mostly just bad damage until the monster thinking an angry thought makes you randomly fly off and take fall damage. I'm sure the specific "usable while climbing" skills are better but at least on thief there's no reason to use them when skull splitter also exists Was wondering if it was my rose-tinted glasses speaking because I was thinking the same. I have all the climbing passives between thief and archer, and it still doesn't feel like the Strider of old. And that's before the being thrown off all the time which seriously ticks me off. I still go for it because Draw and Quarter looks awesome, but man, does it feel like effort mode at times. FishMcCool fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Apr 7, 2024 21:15
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I'm getting irrationally annoyed at the fact that "oxcarts only run during the day because night travel isn't safe" and the fact that 90% of my oxcart trips somehow get ambushed in the middle of the night (and the cart destroyed or ox killed of course).
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Apr 8, 2024 09:06
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Phlegmish posted:All the material-related lines are so asinine that they loop back around to being good. One of them goes "Materials? I shan't deny they have their uses". Yes, I agree, physical objects do have their uses, thank you for bravely sharing this controversial opinion. Here I thought ballistas were fast parcel delivery devices, but thankfully my pawn informed me that actually it would be most beneficial to use these in combat.
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SkeletonHero posted:Looking up how to get maister skills, is there anything I can do if (Sorcerer) I already gave books to Myrrdin before I ever even met Trysha? Had no idea she even existed until I've already given him 3/5 books. I guess including the one I need to trade to the thief village girl to get another. Will I just not learn Meteoron this playthrough? Some of those books have multiple copies around. From memory, I know I had two of Nation's Death Knell at least, though I had to rebuy the second copy from the forgery guy since I had stupidly sold it like every other spellbook. You should be able to scrounge up another book and have 3 for the other quest. And check the forgery guy's special store as he seems to resell every important item you stupidly lost/sold.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:20
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Phlegmish posted:Someone on Reddit/Fextralife got hold of the numbers: To think I grinded max rank in archer just for +10% climbing speed... No wonder it doesn't feel any better.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:31
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Broken Cog posted:Fun fact, not all fruits and berries are found in every players' game, for example, I don't have blueberries in mine. Gift one of those, and make the recipient scratch their head. Sixto Lezcano posted:Wait y’all have blueberries?! But no raspberries?!? Animal crossing poo poo. I love this game. Owl Inspector posted:I have apples, grapes, cranberries, figs and quinces. I had no idea there were save-exclusive fruits. what on earth. I'm feeling so good about my strawberries now.
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Apr 9, 2024 07:27
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My sorceress pawn has maelstrom and meteoron for indoors/outdoors goodness and there's always that point in the fight where she decides I had enough time to try and play hard mode and it's her turn to just nuke everything and move on. I'm really glad there's no friendly fire.
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Apr 9, 2024 12:59
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Obligatum VII posted:This may be an unpopular opinion but I think Meteorn/Maelstrom are really bad on pawn sorcerers and not very good on play character sorcerers either. Maelstrom has a bit of a niche as physical damage with more reliable targeting than seism, but in all cases, the prescient/augural flare spell outperforms them. It casts in about 1/10 the time and does about as much damage but much faster and with an almost 100% chance of a knockdown when placed on a weak point if it doesn't just kill outright. I wouldn't know, I don't play magic vocations. But you can bet that if I unlocked a bigass aoe Maister skill which makes the game unplayable by obscuring everything until only a pile of dead bodies is left when it dissipates, I'm going to perma-slot it on my pawn.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:39
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Or with the thief grappling hook skill. That thing is so good.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:25
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Reached credits and overall it felt really flat and underbaked. Giant golem and dragon were more janky/annoying than entertaining/challenging. I'm in unmoored world though (after looking up what I was supposed to do once I was sent back to the dragonflight because I was completely clueless), so I still have more to do and see. But the whole volcanic island bit felt super rushed. I must have missed a ton of things because I never met Disa and am still unclear as to why I kept being pushed by the quest log to craft and bring Phaesus the ultimate item he apparently needed but didn't actually need and in fact he wasn't happy to see me. Was expecting some story beats addressing that but no: dragon fight and credits.
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CharlestonJew posted:Another note on how the main quest goes Well it's also a remote control for 2 lifts and a door, so there's that I guess?
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Apr 12, 2024 16:48
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Always worked as expected for me, and yeah, inn/house both work. I (ab)used it for free retries (bar the ferrystone fee) at the second Sphinx location amongst other things.
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If you have a doubt, save to title and reload. That will clear any exclamation mark that should be gone but failed to disappear (a monster loot drop, an oxcart you broke, a boulder you broke/released, a sign/book you read...). Ladders and uncollected seeker tokens will remain.
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veni veni veni posted:Would it be unfair of me to say that this game probably has the worst escort missions in the history of video games? Ferrystones being a thing (also the sphinx bottle) puts these amongst the least worst escort missions in the history of video games imho. They still suck because escort missions suck, but that's very much one of the most tolerable implementations.
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Broken Cog posted:I'm not sure I'd call them the worst, but they're some of the most pointless-feeling escorts I can remember encountering. ... which imho is another point in their favour. I'll take pointless/optional escort quest over required plot-critical escort quest any day.
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The Ulrika one is just the coast road to Harve and results in a romance scene. Think that's the only one that had something special, but then I declined/failed some too.
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Volte posted:She has asked me to do that same escort quest three separate times now, and I've done it every time. I'm not doing it again!! Only had it once and had the beach romance followup immediately afterwards. Clearly that didn't impress my Arisen because the game decided that elven princess was The Beloved (tm). I guess chatting up elven princess in the nip when encountering her at the hot spring on my only visit of the place sealed the deal.
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Rolled the real credits. Good fun overall, but the postgame palette does wear out its welcome fast. Good thing it doesn't last that long. Final stats were a funny reminder of my early attempts at drakes, what with wakestone use on self... (well, that and the occasional cliff-diving shortcut)  Hope we get some kind of BBI down the line. There's plenty of room to fill up the bestiary.
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Thundarr posted:I can only assume somebody's found a way to mod themselves an arbitrary number of pawn ratings, since I can't think of any other reason there's a level 1 fighter pawn with 9999 likes and several thousand hearts. Don't think I got an achievement out of it, but I did get robbed. Was exploring the plateau SW of elf town, and thought I could jump to the top of a ring ruin on the plateau below. Missed the jump, fell flat on my face with 75% damage and activated the thieves who were chilling around the ruin, one of them helping himself to a ferrystone of mine as I was busy crying face flat on the ground and my pawns were still on the top ledge trying to understand what deep strategic insight I was obviously trying to impart to them. The forger special finds store teased me for the rest of the game with that lost ferrystone, requesting 20k for it.
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Flavahbeast posted:Why do my pawns keep tagging broken oxcarts with exclamation points, am I supposed to do something with these You can break them down to get rid of the mark, but other than that...
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Eldricite. loving Eldricite. I got one to drop eventually, but I'd have bitten your hand off at the weekend as this thing was blocking my tier 2 dwarven upgrade for daggers (and therefore tier 3 and 4). FishMcCool fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Nuebot posted:there's an item in the game's files called the eternal wokestone.
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Not sure who Gregor is, but I don't think the finder token is a big deal? You just miss out on a chest with 3 ferrystones but apparently it doesn't otherwise kill the quest chain.
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I didn't make much effort to sell my pawn, but ended with ~10k RC by the time I rolled credits. It's not like there's much to spend them on tbh. That's probably where I feel there's a better balance than in DD1/BBI where the whole best-in-slot equipment identify roulette pretty much required that you took part in shady pawn exchange schemes for those RCs.
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It's cool to see that some people actually use Warfarer as it was intended with smart multi-weapon setups and weight optimisation. From my personal use of the vocation, it could have been called Fashionista.
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Vintersorg posted:What was the point of that village? The only reason I went was to get the spell. It's part of one of the quests from Brant, the one about investigating the fake Sovran. But I don't think it's required as long as you do enough of the others, so it's likely entirely skippable.
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Neeksy posted:Battahl pays a lot more for apples and grapes, so playing the ripened fruit market between the two countries has been quite profitable. New elite vocation: Greengrocer
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I suspected there was a Medusa head thing for that sculptor quest, but since I had no clue where said Medusa was and I had enough of this in the quest log, i just went for the no-medusa-head strat, which is presumably suboptimal already. Then I managed to gently caress it up some more by forgetting to restrain my pawns so the griffin got nuked hard. Loved the "WTF?!" from the rich guy at the reveal party. And well, still got paid. 
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Jack Trades posted:I'm pretty sure you've seen the Medusa, no? In the tutorial obviously, but after that I didn't find her lair until the main quest sent me in the area. By then, I had hosed up the sculpture ages ago. Which was fine anyhow because I got the damaged version of the head which apparently isn't good enough.
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Picayune posted:I'm in NG+ now, murdalizing the world and trying to gently caress up less Here it's kind of the opposite. I just don't care about quest resolutions in NG+ and it's kind of liberating. If I can do it, cool, If I can't? Who cares? Not this Arisen! The locals better hope that my pawn doesn't catch the plague because I don't think I can be bothered with the cure and am kind of curious this time round.
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Third party pawns not selling themselves so aggressively is about time. Particularly when you're following/tailing a NPC during a quest and dumb pawn #5434 engages dialogue to tell you everything about his logistician specialisation.
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