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Second runthrough of the final boss is hilariously difficult, even on easy.
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Dominic White posted:Do you mean the new dungeon has its own NG+ mechanic, or are you just talking about a second playthrough on Hard mode? It has a NG+ mechanic, and it is insane.
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Apr 28, 2013 03:52
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Where do I find the berserk gear?
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Apr 28, 2013 03:53
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Danith posted:Where do I find the berserk gear? There's a quarry to the northwest of Gran Soren. Talk to the dude outside, agree to kill Ogres in the quarry for him. Do so, he moves into the quarry and will sell good poo poo including the Berserk stuff.
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Apr 28, 2013 03:54
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Danith posted:Where do I find the berserk gear?
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Apr 28, 2013 03:55
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Just FYI: he takes a bit of time to set up shop. You can rest a bunch somewhere to make the time pass faster.
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Apr 28, 2013 03:57
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Thanks to everyone who's been renting my pawn (PSN: Mr_Dread). If you've picked her up recently, I am sorry about the gear. Since I started my fourth time through the story, I decided not to use my stored gear until endgame / Bitterblack. Since I'm only using whatever gear I can find, we're back to wearing thrift store mismatches for a while. E: If your pawns are of a high enough level, you can cling tenaciously to the ox for the entire hydra head escort and ride along doing nothing while Mercedes' men and your pawns kill all the low-level monsters. titties fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Apr 28, 2013 04:24
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Tyskil posted:I've got like two of the things and Im under level 40, I haven't even started the Wyrm Hunt quests yet, they actually aren't all that rare! BogJenBog posted:Just FYI: he takes a bit of time to set up shop. You can rest a bunch somewhere to make the time pass faster.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:23
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Is there a list of 360 goons? All I can find is the PSN doc edited into the first post. Just got the game today, although I haven't done any of the new stuff yet. Been awhile since I played so I kind of just floundered around until I got my bearings again.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:32
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Rascyc posted:You still need to get them in the DLC area right? I was just kind of ignoring the area to save the experience until I was leveled, but now maybe.. You do but the DLC area is really big and composed of a couple of dungeons-within-dungeons, and you ought to be able to get as far as the second NPC by level 15-20, and he's in a huge open room with tons of hidden treasure chests and no enemies at all. Also some rooms don't always have the exact same enemies in them each time you go in. One time I went in this big boss arena and it had 2 Scrub tier normal Chimeras, the next time I went it it had a drat Beholder so I'm pretty sure if the dungeon is throwing stuff at you you just can't handle you can go outside and sleep until it feels like spawning killable things. Edit: Honestly it really feels like you weren't meant to do the dungeon all in one go. Just show up and hang around until you hit a meatwall of unkillable enemies and then go use all the cool poo poo you got to destroy the main quest until you feel like hopping back in stronger. Tyskil fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Apr 28, 2013 05:39
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AriadneThread posted:Is there a list of 360 goons? All I can find is the PSN doc edited into the first post. The buttons are on the bottom of the page, you can see PSN/360 ID and Statue locations.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:48
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titties posted:E: If your pawns are of a high enough level, you can cling tenaciously to the ox for the entire hydra head escort and ride along doing nothing while Mercedes' men and your pawns kill all the low-level monsters. I've done this every time since I saw somebody do it in one of the very first previews from the game. It's the best.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:56
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epitasis posted:I've done this every time since I saw somebody do it in one of the very first previews from the game. It's the best. But then you can't kick the ox to make him go faster! After the billionth time doing that quest, you really need to be able to kick the ox unless you have a good book handy. Also, you know how you can play Catch the Pig with your pawns by throwing around a pig? Well apparently it works with spiders too. I tried to chuck out of the way of something because I honestly couldn't be bothered to kill it, and when I turn the camera to see where it landed my main pawn threw it directly at my face  Can't get it to work anymore though, they keep splatting on the ground before anyone catches them.
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Apr 28, 2013 06:36
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Tyskil posted:But then you can't kick the ox to make him go faster! After the billionth time doing that quest, you really need to be able to kick the ox unless you have a good book handy. I fell from the sky once and my pawn caught me somehow. I saw a line of dialogue and the camera went all action sequence for like a split second so I have no idea what was said or who even caught me. I've never been able to recreate this 
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Apr 28, 2013 06:41
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titties posted:Thanks to everyone who's been renting my pawn (PSN: Mr_Dread). She still managed to basically tank an ogre for me  She was taking those dropkicks like a pro.
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Apr 28, 2013 06:51
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I got a bit into Bitterblack, got a significantly better staff than I had before, and decided to pull out. I think I will come back around the time I do the everfall, after all. Also, did this game eliminate the automatic pity-hires of your pawns? I haven't gotten one yet (and only one actual hire since I started playing again...)
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Apr 28, 2013 06:52
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For anyone that has beaten Bitterblack Isle already, did Barroch update his shop? I have read that he does, but he still sells the same garbage as before every time I check. I am assuming it is because I just started a NG+ file and the only main storyline quest I did was the escort to Gran Soren.
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Apr 28, 2013 06:52
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:For anyone that has beaten Bitterblack Isle already, did Barroch update his shop? I have read that he does, but he still sells the same garbage as before every time I check. I am assuming it is because I just started a NG+ file and the only main storyline quest I did was the escort to Gran Soren. He updated with a few pieces of armor and such that you can also get from Bitterblack Items. These items are not as good as what you could get from Lv.3 purification though. As well, I made a speed run video for boss rushing to get those Lv.3 Armor & Weapon Bitterblack Items. Have a look if you're curious! Dark Arisen Treasure Run
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Apr 28, 2013 06:54
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Man has nobody bought Dark Arisen or something? I have literally never seen a pawn that was able to be gifted anything and nobody ever hires mine. I threw up my PSN id at the end of the list so if any goons want to hire a mage who's got Halidom and Anodyne and huge shoulderpads then you know where to look.
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Apr 28, 2013 07:29
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Tyskil posted:Man has nobody bought Dark Arisen or something? I have literally never seen a pawn that was able to be gifted anything and nobody ever hires mine. I threw up my PSN id at the end of the list so if any goons want to hire a mage who's got Halidom and Anodyne and huge shoulderpads then you know where to look. Kreczor (My Pawn) is a DA pawn.Though a little low in level, you can gift him things!
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Apr 28, 2013 07:43
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epitasis posted:I've done this every time since I saw somebody do it in one of the very first previews from the game. It's the best. I just discovered it. I've played through the game several times, and re-rolled my characters several times. I must have done that mission 10 times before. Tyskil posted:Also, you know how you can play Catch the Pig with your pawns by throwing around a pig? I did not know this either. I'm on my fourth playthrough on one profile and halfway through the second playthrough on another. I probably have over 200 hours between both, and I never thought to throw pigs at my stalwart companions. It even references it in the thread title. Lunethex posted:I fell from the sky once and my pawn caught me somehow. I saw a line of dialogue and the camera went all action sequence for like a split second so I have no idea what was said or who even caught me. I've never been able to recreate this I've had it happen too, when grappled by harpies. Spam help and sometimes you'll be caught. Schlitzkrieg Bop posted:She still managed to basically tank an ogre for me She spent most of the first playthrough as a melee class just so she could cast spells and pretty much ignore everything else. Instead she leaps facefirst into tumbling boulders and no-sells the top-rope missile dropkick.
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Apr 28, 2013 07:45
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I don't know if something changed since this afternoon but when I tried searching for pawns just now, most of the ones that came up were Dark Arisen pawns. Before now I'd only ever seen two.
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Apr 28, 2013 07:47
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I feel like I'm not actually connecting to the online server or something. When I dismiss a pawn, I don't get the whole rating thing and the game seems to hang at the connecting portion longer than it should. Anyone know of a definitive way to test whether I'm connecting or not?
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Apr 28, 2013 08:52
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Lunethex posted:I found a magick bow with 950 base damage You will tell me where you found this thing. Additionally, if anyone has a spare blessed flower, I'd appreciate it if you passed a copy over to me. PSN name is Valatar, pawn name's Cyllix. I didn't go to Witchwood before the Hydra fight and am thus locked out from the quest that gives the flower.
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Apr 28, 2013 08:59
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I just went through the Dragon Battle on hard mode as a fighter. It was just as exciting the second time around. Capcom deserves praise for creating a giant boss battle that consists of more than swinging a weapon at a giant hitbox. Now release a PC version, for the love of the maker.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:05
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Sankis posted:I feel like I'm not actually connecting to the online server or something. When I dismiss a pawn, I don't get the whole rating thing and the game seems to hang at the connecting portion longer than it should. Anyone know of a definitive way to test whether I'm connecting or not?
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Apr 28, 2013 09:09
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Here's a video demonstrating that when uncursing BBI stuff the resultant item is dependent on your and your pawn's vocation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74g27_Y7ACQ So if you're hunting for gear for a specific vocation it's a good idea to swap vocations around.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:17
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My pawn now since I restarted is a big fat burly guy and he has not been rented out even once. Not even one of the fake-rents to give me hope I think they might have been taken out of the game.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:20
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Nahxela posted:In the start menu's options, you can check your connectivity to see if it's offline or online. Not sure what else you can do to check. You can also try resting at an Inn and see if it updates stuff for your pawn. Update what? Just online usage? When I rest at an inn, I just get the "receiving server blah blah" bar. Could someone try using my Pawn on 360? Her name is Artemis, my ID is Siknas. You don't have to use her long, I just want to see if i get any sort of message when I rest.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:21
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BBI Woes: Are all the monsters that spawn when there's corpses around (Elder Ogres, those dogs) immune to arrows or something? I'm a Ranger and I can't seem to damage them with my bow. I was doing okay since I'm using Nahxela's and Troffen's super high level pawns but now the third stratum is kicking my rear end. I got to a room with two chained gorecyclopses and three of those dark carrion dog things spawned  I don't know if that's intentional or not but I had to run down a hall and cheese them on a ledge with my pitiful damage bow and the high level pawns. Now I'm wondering how much more painful BBI would be with pubby pawns at my level that aren't armed to the teeth with bad inclinations. I've gotten a couple of gear upgrades for me and my pawn at least and every dragon I've fought in BBI has given me a forge.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:22
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Crimson Harvest posted:Here's a video demonstrating that when uncursing BBI stuff the resultant item is dependent on your and your pawn's vocation: So I guess that explains why I've gotten 4 goddamn longbows on my assassin 
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Apr 28, 2013 09:25
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Nahxela posted:In the start menu's options, you can check your connectivity to see if it's offline or online. Not sure what else you can do to check. You can also try resting at an Inn and see if it updates stuff for your pawn. After I started DA for the first time, it was set to offline by default and my pawn renting-out option was set to friends only for some reason
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Apr 28, 2013 09:25
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Valatar posted:You will tell me where you found this thing. The magick bow will come from a Lv.3 Weapon purification. It's called the "Blackwing Bow."
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Apr 28, 2013 09:29
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I asked this before release and now that people have had a chance to play DA, I'm curious about performance of the game on each platform. Did performance increase on 360/PS3 compared to vanilla DD? Also, is there a platform that seems to have better overall performance? I've been burned on buying for the wrong platform in the past, so I just want to be sure I make the right choice.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:33
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Elder Ogres and Garms (the giant dogs) are both weak to lightning. Get a pawn to enchant your bow and you'll be in much better shape against them. Magick Archer's Ricochet Hunter or the Fulmination sorcery will make quick work of them too. Also Troffen your guy was pretty cool but he became a statue. We ran into two liches that just spammed petrification over and over and eventually I ran out of curatives for it.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:35
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On the subject of my dumbass pawn, are there any inclinations more suited to sorcerers than scather? His favorite thing to do is start casting a big spell then cancel it halfway through to jump on the enemy's back and die immediately since he has no health and then I'm playing pawn revival whack-a-mole. Jesus gently caress this game has terrible AI
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Apr 28, 2013 09:41
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I've been trying to cycle through Goon pawns. Some of the lower level ones get into trouble too far down Bitterblack, so I may make some side-trips out into the regular world with them for some good ol' fashioned quests so they don't get utterly annihilated by whatever's attacking. After I go through one more time again(I'm about to face the end boss a second time soon) and get my loots(Does anyone know if there are Hellfire Gauntlets?), I'll be heading back out into the world a bit to go see where some of the new monsters are. Then I can take some lower-levels with me again for old times sake. Btw-can anyone confirm if that Drake near the Shadow Fort is the new Super Drake now or did they leave that one alone? I heard they plugged some of the harder dragons around the world, but I'm wondering where. Once I get the Hellfire Cloak I think I'm going to start hitting up some dragons with my main as a plate class so I can get them Dragonforged properly for my pawn. (I'm asking mainly since if it's the Super drake, I'm going in as a Mystic Knight with Ice Cannon and cheesing that poo poo shamelessly.)
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Apr 28, 2013 09:50
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Azaael posted:I've been trying to cycle through Goon pawns. Some of the lower level ones get into trouble too far down Bitterblack, so I may make some side-trips out into the regular world with them for some good ol' fashioned quests so they don't get utterly annihilated by whatever's attacking. After I go through one more time again(I'm about to face the end boss a second time soon) and get my loots(Does anyone know if there are Hellfire Gauntlets?), I'll be heading back out into the world a bit to go see where some of the new monsters are. Then I can take some lower-levels with me again for old times sake. I believe all the new monsters can only be encountered on Bitterblack Isle, Gran Soren has been left untouched minus the new equipment.
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Apr 28, 2013 09:53
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It looks like most of the DLC monsters only show up when you take on the appropriate notice board quests (from the top of Bitterblack, the Warrior's Respite, and the Arisen's Respite rooms, the places where you find Barroch and the resting benches). For instance, there's a Dire Drake in the Everfall (post game), a Dire Wyrm in the Water God's Altar, and a Dire Wyvern on top of Bluemoon Tower, but those seemed to only appear when I took on the relevant quest. The latter two are probably also post game only, and replace the regular ones that would otherwise normally appear.Notinghamington posted:I believe all the new monsters can only be encountered on Bitterblack Isle, Gran Soren has been left untouched minus the new equipment. I think there's an Eliminator and Pyre Saurians in the Tainted Mountain, Goblin Shamans in the first part of Witchwood, Silver/Gold Knights before post-game Everfall (pregame Everfall?), a small Gorecyclops in Soulflayer (in place of the regular one), one or two Living Armors in the Catacombs, and two large Gorecyclopses in Shadowfort. Nahxela fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Has there been talk of peoples saves being corrupted / erased? A friend's friend just reported that happening to him. Not sure if it was 360 or PS3, however. Unrelated: I'm starting a new file, myself, and I was curious as to what powerful weapons can be gotten early and easily. I've beaten the game once, so I remember the location of a couple. The Obliteratrix is worth almost 40k and can be quickly gotten from the ancient quarry, if you can handle a mess of warrior and mage bandits guarding it. At 177 attack power, it's quite formidable for an early character. The bandits make it a little tricky to grab, however; as a level 12 warrior with a trusty sword, I could barely make anything in there stagger. I'm wondering what else I could snatch early by running somewhere unexpected and evading / slowly fighting my way through things at a low level. A nice sword and staff would be ideal, but I can't remember where any fixed ones are.
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