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Funkmaster General posted:Every encumbrance level has a speed modifier. Lower weight = faster. There's a strider augment that lowers your effective encumbrance level as it pertains to speed by 1. Thanks! Is there a pretty big difference between Very Light and Light? Also, I'm enjoying my strider character, but how is the magic archer?
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Robo Reagan posted:Haha, I got lucky and the fucker just toppled off the ledge and fell down to it's death. Haha. Same thing happened to me, too While I was on his back. Body-surfed that ape monster like an express elevator to quest progress.
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Jun 11, 2012 08:15
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VDay posted:Drinking a potion automatically makes that inclination your secondary, unless it was already that in which case it becomes the primary. Basically you can completely change your pawn's main/secondary affinities with 3 potions. 2 to get whatever you want as primary, then one to make that thing secondary. When I made my main pawn a Mage, I gave her Medicant/Utilitarian. After I turned her into a Fighter, I gave her two Mitigator and one Nexus. It made her Mitigator/Nexus. After a while she became Mitigator/Medicant. So obviously, the potions add a set amount but it is easy to revert back to their old ways. What does a fighter do to encourage Medicant anyway? Edit: Also, due to my lootwhoring ways, she became an Acquisitor. When she was a Mage, when she was Medicanting or Utilitaring, she was poking things up for me. jerichojx fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jun 11, 2012 |
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Jun 11, 2012 08:15
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Your actions have a direct impact on your pawn's inclinations. They're, in essence, learning from you. If you run around and constantly pick poo poo up during battles, they'll get "points" in acquisitor and eventually that'll become their secondary and then primary affinity. If you constantly spam the "Go!" command to send them forward, they'll eventually gain the Pioneer affinity. If you always focus on killing mages/archers they'll lean towards Challenger and so on and so forth. It's the reason a lot of people's pawns have lovely affinities. They make them how they want them at the beginning, but then forget to check every once in a while if their pawn's affinity changed, so after a dozen hours of constantly picking up poo poo mid-battle, their pawns switches to Acquisitor and suddenly the badass warrior they made is running off and picking herbs while a bunch of wolves gangrape you.
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Jun 11, 2012 09:13
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VDay posted:If you constantly spam the "Go!" command to send them forward, they'll eventually gain the Pioneer affinity. I believe this only applies when out of battle, and it might up scather or something during battle but it's also the most useful one of the d-pad commands. It's pretty much an "actually do something to the enemy now" button.
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Jun 11, 2012 09:16
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Does it matter which direction (left or right) to use the "help" command? And what inclination does that give the pawns? I do that a lot, to get pawns to cast elemental weapons on me if I see enemies a ways off.
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Jun 11, 2012 09:25
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Samurai Sanders posted:Does it matter which direction (left or right) to use the "help" command? And what inclination does that give the pawns? I do that a lot, to get pawns to cast elemental weapons on me if I see enemies a ways off. No, but context matters. If you're hurt, "help" means "heal me." If you're in combat, but not hurt, "help" seems to mean "attack enemies close to me," or "attack what I'm fighting," but if you're outside of combat and not hurt it means "cast an elemental boon on me," which really should be the response any time you ask for help and aren't significantly hurt. I think this context matters for inclinations, too. Asking for help with fighting, or with a warrior/fighter/etc as your main pawn, is going to push them towards the dreaded Guardian, while asking for healing is going to push toward medicant and asking for enchantments is going to push toward utilitarian. Also I'm pretty sure you can ONLY push your own pawn's inclinations, so really what class your pawn is matters a lot here; asking for help will make magic pawns more useful and combat pawns less useful. edit: All of this is based on personal experience, so it's not totally pulled out of my rear end, but it's not something I've gone researching on either so take it with a grain of salt.
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Jun 11, 2012 09:31
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What am I supposed to do when I get attacked by a griffon during an escort mission? Whoever I'm escorting just goes down on the first pass and a minute or so later I get a message saying mission failed. Already lost one escortee to the bastards.
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Jun 11, 2012 09:55
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sassassin posted:What am I supposed to do when I get attacked by a griffon during an escort mission?  Huh... Carry them over your shoulder and run until the griffon lands?
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Jun 11, 2012 10:12
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What the hell does being soaked do, besides putting out my lantern? Do you spend more stamina with attacks since your clothes are wet?
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Jun 11, 2012 10:18
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Honest Thief posted:What the hell does being soaked do, besides putting out my lantern? Do you spend more stamina with attacks since your clothes are wet? I believe it makes you/things weaker to lightning, though it might mess with your stamina in addition to that.
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Jun 11, 2012 10:20
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Count Uvula posted:I believe it makes you/things weaker to lightning, though it might mess with your stamina in addition to that. edit: you know what made me think of that? Last week I had family in town and they rented a car and brought a tom tom GPS device with them, which verbally gives directions. However, we were talking in the car and the drat thing kept interrupting us to tell us to turn left and right and stuff, drove me crazy. I got thinking, when a machine talks I suddenly have much higher expectations from it than if it's just text on a screen, maybe too high. Software just isn't smart enough yet to "read" what people need to know and don't need to know, and when. Only other humans can do that. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Jun 11, 2012 |
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Jun 11, 2012 10:35
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Manatee Cannon posted:Your equipment has a higher chance to be dragonforged at a higher rank (and none at all at base) so it's not that surprising it was forged. I've pretty much just been messing around with dragonforging by chance, but is it literally just "get hit by breath attack = chance of dragonforging?" Because that seems to be the only times I've had it activate with my equipment so I've gotten in the odd habit of running around dragons and just hoping they'll give me some of that sweet firebreath. 
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Jun 11, 2012 10:54
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hamburgers in pockets posted:I've pretty much just been messing around with dragonforging by chance, but is it literally just "get hit by breath attack = chance of dragonforging?" Because that seems to be the only times I've had it activate with my equipment so I've gotten in the odd habit of running around dragons and just hoping they'll give me some of that sweet firebreath. It also has a chance of dragonforging your equipment when you kill a drake/dragon-thing.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:02
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Just got this on Saturday, having a blast so far. Tossed my info on the spreadsheet. Been rolling around with a Strider and my Mage pawn named Yayoi to be my stalwart companion as she shoots for TOP PAWN.  Yeah yeah made one of those anime inspired ones but at least I have no plans to dress her horribly. I've seen some pretty impressive anime / other media inspired ones actually. I'm currently running around with a hired Warrior named Erza Scarlet and the resemblance is uncanny. And or awhile I was playing with one based on Leon from RE4. Their Arisen was even named Ada. It makes me wish I could mess with the character creator more... That all said I really have to restrain myself when it comes to hiring some of my PSN friends pawns, some of them are upwards of level 40ish and that would just feel like cheating this early on, even if they would be free.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:10
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Bleargh looks like I missed out on the gold idol quest cause I did that stupid bastard trial quest. I always feel like I should read a wiki before I do anything at all in these games.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:16
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Bleargh looks like I missed out on the gold idol quest cause I did that stupid bastard trial quest. I always feel like I should read a wiki before I do anything at all in these games. I've missed it twice if its any consolation.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:18
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It hurts a little more cause you can't have multiple characters for some stupid reason.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:23
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FirstPersonShitter posted:It hurts a little more cause you can't have multiple characters for some stupid reason. Use the cloud?
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Jun 11, 2012 11:29
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Are griffons supposed to sometimes just fly off after a pass or two or was that a bug? Also, coolest moment of the game so far: landing a full bend right into an ogre's face and forcing it to go down flat on its belly.
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Jun 11, 2012 11:54
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It has been my (relatively limited) experience that you need to lay into them fast and furious or they'll just take off with whatever hapless creature they pounced on in the first place.
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Jun 11, 2012 12:02
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Griffons are weird, one landed next to me while i was fighting those invisible lizard men and somehow one of the lizards latched onto the griffin when it took off. I just saw the transparent lizard chill on the back of the griffin while it flew into the sunset.
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Jun 11, 2012 12:51
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notZaar posted:Are griffons supposed to sometimes just fly off after a pass or two or was that a bug? If you are a sorcerer, the best way to keep a griffin grounded is to cast Comestion/High Comestion on him as soon as he lands(It tends to burn his wings, rendering him incapable of flight). Otherwise, if you aren't, then Flask of Oil/Burst Arrow(If you're a bow user) or Dragon's Spit/Throwblast tends to do the same thing
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Jun 11, 2012 12:59
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So, has anyone got a support mage with ice/fire/holy affinity, that has utilitarian/medicant? Honestly this is actually impossible to find. Pawns that the search finds are useless.
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Jun 11, 2012 13:14
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A BLACK PRESIDENT posted:If you are a sorcerer, the best way to keep a griffin grounded is to cast Comestion/High Comestion on him as soon as he lands(It tends to burn his wings, rendering him incapable of flight). Otherwise, if you aren't, then Flask of Oil/Burst Arrow(If you're a bow user) or Dragon's Spit/Throwblast tends to do the same thing Fire Affinity on the bow works just fine. Remember to aim for the wings.
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Jun 11, 2012 13:21
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The Lone Badger posted:Fire Affinity on the bow works just fine. Remember to aim for the wings. I have never had a mage pawn cast any sort of affinity on me(I have a fighter as my main), so I didn't even think of that one!
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Killed a Cyclops by climbing him and bashing him repeatedly on the head. Cyclops was doing his "I'm dying" animation, me still attached to his neck. My pawn: "Beware! Falling from high places will hurt you!" 
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Jun 11, 2012 13:48
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Speaking of bashing Cyclopses on the head, how do you get a helmet off? My pawns seem to be able to do it, but I can never manage it.
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hamburgers in pockets posted:I've pretty much just been messing around with dragonforging by chance, but is it literally just "get hit by breath attack = chance of dragonforging?" Because that seems to be the only times I've had it activate with my equipment so I've gotten in the odd habit of running around dragons and just hoping they'll give me some of that sweet firebreath. The easiest way to get your poo poo dragonforged is probably slaying The Dragon in the main quest line because it dragonforges everything you have equipped.  ^^^^^^^^ You have to climb up on their back, and when they reach up to grab you (and eat your face) you jump off and they knock their helmet off. Also another thing on armored cyclopes: if you have a mage/sorceror pawn with levin you will probably never get it's helmet off because it will be stunned most of the time
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Mordred's such a good guy, he's a barrel chested mutton-chopped brawler that strip mines to the planet's core when he's not soloing ogres. Between this and Dark Souls i should probably finally hook my Xbox up online to share my brawny manservant. E: Where the gently caress is this guy that i'm to evict, i just fiddled with his son in an alley and threw his wife through some barrels to bring them round and now he's disappeared. Small wonder i guess. Captain Diarrhoea fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jun 11, 2012 |
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likecnsnnts posted:Speaking of bashing Cyclopses on the head, how do you get a helmet off? My pawns seem to be able to do it, but I can never manage it. You can either attack from low enough on the back that the arm will miss grabbing you or as the above poster said jump off before the arm gets you and they'll snatch their helmet instead.
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Captain Diarrhoea posted:Mordred's such a good guy, he's a barrel chested mutton-chopped brawler that strip mines to the planet's core when he's not soloing ogres. Between this and Dark Souls i should probably finally hook my Xbox up online to share my brawny manservant. His daily schedule is such that you won't find him anywhere in the morning but later in the day he'll be behind the inn doing the town crier thing.
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TescoBag posted:So, has anyone got a support mage with ice/fire/holy affinity, that has utilitarian/medicant? Do you want all 3 affinities or just 1 of the three? Mine has that personality last time I checked although she's been hired out a lot since then. Shes got holy affinity
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Souai posted:You can either attack from low enough on the back that the arm will miss grabbing you or as the above poster said jump off before the arm gets you and they'll snatch their helmet instead. Bizarrely, I've had several occasions where I've been riding his helmet and he's pull it off while I still held on to his face. I'm not playing a small character, either, so I can only imagine that with my reach I'm still holding part of the head with one hand as I bash the mask. I'm almost level 60 now, and cyclopes seem to have stepped up in terms of difficulty. The last two I fought never went down no matter how hard we hit them or where. They just kept trucking. I can only imagine there's some degree of level scaling going on but it's just not enough to keep up with how broken the Arisen can be.
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Welp, decided to restart on a brand new game since I was just playing NG+ in pretty much the same way as my first time through. Going to do what I had planned to do even before I had the game: play through once as Caster main with melee Pawn and then again with the positions reversed. Which is kind of funny considering how the game's plotline plays out at the end.
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Funkmaster General posted:Challenger/Scather, IMO. thanks! will try this out tonight. you're right about guardian. notice my pawn being less aggressive ever since she switched to this.
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Added myself and pawn to the PS3 section. I got the game this weekend and have been trying to make her a healer, not sure if she's set up very well yet but after losing the two hired pawns randomly in the Water God Temple we killed everything no problem. As soon as it was available I made my guy only use 2 handed hammers and it has been great. Runners are a bit of a pain though. Is there a way to make your pawns attack rabbits?
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Great, spent 15k riftbux to hire a warrior, went to fight the griffon boss and she jumped in the water and killed herself. 
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ExCruceLeo posted:
I'm kind of wondering that myself, like if I run around killing all the deer and rabbits and other forest creatures if they'll take up the habit. I think at one point they were killing rats and snakes and bats when I was in a cave (but it might have also just been collateral damage from killing some crates), but I can't get them to kill spiders for anything.
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Last night I was wandering around near the bandit fort when I was attacked by a lone, female strider at midday. Her name was "Rouge"  The Lone Badger posted:I just hired some Rangers to help me with the griffin. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jun 11, 2012 |
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