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kirbysuperstar posted:Finally got DA and added myself to the list. Silly question - how does one go to Bitterblack Island? I had to start a NG+, so I've just gotten to Gran Soren and been down to the Everfall chamber. Aught. On the Cassardis Dock will be a lady who will only show up at night. She will shuttle you to bitterblack but after that you can just portcrystal there.
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Million Ghosts posted:All the time, style is far more important than stats as long as you aren't horribly crippling yourself. Oh god, that's going to make things a whole lot easier. I've been pushing on with a group that barely makes it from one rift stone to another and sucking mold off of rocks as nourishment.
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May 6, 2013 09:01
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Am I missing something or is there no way to fast travel and no shortcuts back to the surface on Bitterblack? When I rebuild a riftstone I keep expecting to find a shortcut somewhere but never do.
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May 6, 2013 09:06
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There's a fixed set of portcrystals on Bitterblack Isle, so you should be able to warp back to there. However, if you mean warp from inside the island, you need to use a lift stone, not a ferrystone. Ferrystones don't work within BBI.
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May 6, 2013 09:08
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Samurai Sanders posted:Am I missing something or is there no way to fast travel and no shortcuts back to the surface on Bitterblack? When I rebuild a riftstone I keep expecting to find a shortcut somewhere but never do. I've found two shortcuts so far, they aren't great but you can access them from the "beach" area. And as was said, you can use a liftstone to make it back to the entrance, but you can't warp any farther in.
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Nahxela posted:There's a fixed set of portcrystals on Bitterblack Isle, so you should be able to warp back to there. However, if you mean warp from inside the island, you need to use a lift stone, not a ferrystone. Ferrystones don't work within BBI. Million Ghosts posted:I've found two shortcuts so far, they aren't great but you can access them from the "beach" area. And as was said, you can use a liftstone to make it back to the entrance, but you can't warp any farther in. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 09:16 on May 6, 2013 |
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May 6, 2013 09:12
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Count Uvula posted:You probably need to set the game to online mode in the options. No XBL gold required. I have an amazingly poo poo Internet connection and no XBL Gold. Does this mean I can still rent pawns from other players and send mine out? Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 09:27 on May 6, 2013 |
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May 6, 2013 09:19
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Samurai Sanders posted:No no, I know I can get OUT easily but I'm talking about getting back IN easily, without going through all the old environments again. You will be able to unlock the first room with a shortcut in it after you find the void key. I think the key was in the same area as the giant ogre, so you should be close. Shortcut doors will be green like the regular ones, but they say 'leave' instead of 'enter'.
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May 6, 2013 09:21
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Samurai Sanders posted:Ah, so I'm just not far enough in to have seen them yet? drat, the place must be huge. Or I missed one somehow. I'm in a sewer-like place, just got killed by that uber-ogre. And I was so close to beating him too, since as someone said, homing ricochet wrecks everything in there. I can't remember right off hand, but I'm pretty sure the first shortcut is after that. Don't hold me to it, but I promise they do exist. Ricochet Shot is the only skill I use 90% of the time, Elder Ogres ain't poo poo compared to a pile of bouncing arrows.
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May 6, 2013 09:21
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Samurai Sanders posted:No no, I know I can get OUT easily but I'm talking about getting back IN easily, without going through all the old environments again.
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May 6, 2013 09:22
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The shortcuts are pretty much completely impossible to miss, and they both come right after boss fights.
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May 6, 2013 09:23
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So I just found 2 port crystals. Apparently I need to plant them myself, where should I be placing these? Don't feel like loving up their placement.
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May 6, 2013 09:26
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Putting one around the Dragonforged's place isn't a bad idea. Putting one on the cliff exiting Witchwood is a cool place, too. One in front of Shadowfort, Bluemoon Tower, or Great Wall are also good choices. Other nice places to drop port crystals are some of the escort mission locations, including Bloodwater Beach, the Healing Spring by the Blighted Manse, and Prayer Falls. That way you can instantly complete those missions, and yeah, ferrystones work with escorts.
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May 6, 2013 09:31
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Many thanks to Merchant of Death and Rollie the Guar for the Level 3 Armors and Weapons. The Dominion Claw was just what my pawn needed. Placed Portcrystals stays where they are in NG+.
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May 6, 2013 09:40
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Alteisen posted:So I just found 2 port crystals. You can pick them right back up again if you don't like where you put it, so don't worry about screwing yourself over.
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May 6, 2013 09:43
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Alteisen posted:So I just found 2 port crystals. Can't go wrong with one at the Greatwall encampment. The other is really up to you, but a preference of mine is to carry one around to plant wherever I happen to be when I need to zap back to Gran Soren for a minute.
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May 6, 2013 09:46
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Oh well now I didn't know I could grab em again, that makes significantly easier then.
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May 6, 2013 09:56
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Count Chocula posted:I have an amazingly poo poo Internet connection and no XBL Gold. Does this mean I can still rent pawns from other players and send mine out? Yes. The only times it connects are when downloading pawns in the background, and uploading/downloading pawn use when you sleep at an inn. If your internet is lovely, you just won't see the random pawns hanging out in the world unless you stand still long enough for the game to download their info (you can still hire pawns from the Rift itself reliably). You do need a XBL Silver account, which is free, though.
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May 6, 2013 09:58
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Thanks! Does transferring pawns take noticeable amounts of bandwidth?
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May 6, 2013 10:14
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Doesn't seem to. And if it does get problematic, you can always go back to offline mode and only go into online mode when you really need to upload your pawn/download player pawns.
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May 6, 2013 10:17
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I am feeling so alone and sad after the penultimate story mission No one was kidnapped! I had no loved one to rescue! I guess I didn't do any escort missions but I thought me and Mercedes had a connection. She sure liked all that free Cloudwine she got.
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May 6, 2013 10:54
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SoulChicken posted:I am feeling so alone and sad after the penultimate story mission No one was kidnapped! I had no loved one to rescue! I guess I didn't do any escort missions but I thought me and Mercedes had a connection. She sure liked all that free Cloudwine she got. I didn't know this could even happen. What was different about the cutscenes and dialogue?
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May 6, 2013 10:59
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SoulChicken posted:I am feeling so alone and sad after the penultimate story mission No one was kidnapped! I had no loved one to rescue! I guess I didn't do any escort missions but I thought me and Mercedes had a connection. She sure liked all that free Cloudwine she got. This isn't possible. It's probably someone who left the game world so you can't tell if they're gone or not. If you mean you didnt get the ring dropping from the sky cutscene, that just means your beloved wasn't the person you gave the ring to.
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May 6, 2013 11:01
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Just picked this up, and it's great, but I have a few questions. What's the best way to level up Vocations? I was digging the standard Sword n' Board Fighter, but I switched over to Warrior because Clout looks super great. Now I'm just trying to burn through those last three levels as quickly as possible. Does it run on just any EXP, or just kills? What is the point of giving gifts to people? I get that that makes them like me, but what does that do? Is there a tangible benefit, or is it just for be bros with townsfolk?
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May 6, 2013 12:20
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I've just beaten the dragon and decided to level up sorcerer to eventually go to magick archer. Doing the everfall though and I keep getting the chamber of confusion no matter what I do. Is this usual? Its not exactly easy as a level 1 sorcerer
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May 6, 2013 12:28
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Scott Bakula posted:I've just beaten the dragon and decided to level up sorcerer to eventually go to magick archer. Doing the everfall though and I keep getting the chamber of confusion no matter what I do. Is this usual? Its not exactly easy as a level 1 sorcerer Until you kill the beholder you can't explore any other part of everfall at the moment.
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Ok. I'd forgotten about that. Should probably change back because I do no damage as a sorcerer
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Crowetron posted:Just picked this up, and it's great, but I have a few questions. You level up vocations with discipline, which is earned as a percentage of experience on a sliding scale. Someone will come along and post the actual percentages, but you get a lot more discipline per experience point from kill worth less than 100 xp, and you get a single digit percentage from kills over 1000. If you're in the post game, a fun exploit is to aggro the guards near the castle and then run through the gate behind Fournival's house. Then stand on the wall above the stairs leading downwards. The guards won't be able to reach you. Let your pawns (this is great with sorcerer pawns) murder the mob as they keep spawning indefinitely and just wait as your vocations finish themselves! Gifts to people in the game world (as opposed to pawns and players) are a way of raising affinity, which is the game's way of tracking who is in love with you. This will come up later.
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Crowetron posted:Just picked this up, and it's great, but I have a few questions. I find leveling vocations is best done fighting stuff like bandits, goblins, saurians, undead, harpies, etc-since you earn a percentage of DP from the Exp, even though it's less, you get a higher percentage from the lesser XP. There's a chart somewhere in the last few pages that details how many XP/DEP you get.
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Count Uvula posted:You probably need to set the game to online mode in the options. No XBL gold required. It asked me at the start whether I wanted online mode or not, and I said yes. I was able to rate pawns and such before. I don't think I'd be able to hire other people's pawns in the first place if I wasn't in online mode, the problem is when I get back to the rift, and I dismiss them, they just leave. No popup for gifting and rating at all.
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Crowetron posted:Just picked this up, and it's great, but I have a few questions. Discipline points run on exp, there is a way the game calculates how much you get based on the amount of experience you get from a kill or quest (I think quests count as well). Just keep playing and you will level up vocations, the higher levels may take a while. You gain a higher percentage of DP from things that give you less than 100 exp, so killing lots of smaller things might be quicker, however I don't know if that's really the fastest way to level because I think you can kill one cyclops quicker than 30 goblins and the net sum of DP might still be higher. sicDaniel fucked around with this message at 14:08 on May 6, 2013 |
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Similar to a guy a few pages ago I just started a new game on a different gamer profile (I wanted to use a female pawn to that'll hopefully get hired more often). I haven't received the rift crystals bonus yet though, do you get this later or will you only receive it on the profile you had a preexisting save on? I suppose I could hire this pawn on my other profile and transfer some..
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Man, my new unicorn tiara protects my head good and when I feel like getting kinky, I can! Now to figure out how to wear this thing upside down... E: At least it only took two kills of the drake to Forge it at 2 stars. Ironsolid fucked around with this message at 14:17 on May 6, 2013 |
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The new dragons forge at crazy high rates. Really nice quality of life change there.SombereroLad posted:Autonomy fighter solo run of BBI on hard mode Surprisingly, the hardest enemies for me were liches because they never come down low enough for skyward slashes. The purple phantasms take ages to kill as well even with a magical weapon. I just skip both at this point.
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TehGherkin posted:I don't think I'd be able to hire other people's pawns in the first place if I wasn't in online mode, the problem is when I get back to the rift, and I dismiss them, they just leave. No popup for gifting and rating at all. There are a certain number of pawns built into the game. You can recognize those by the lack of any sort of icon by their names when you talk to them and the blank creator information in their status screens. If you're sure they're actually other people's pawns, you still can't rate or gift things to vanilla DD pawns in Dark Arisen. Those have an icon like a package with a red X through it.
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This game can sometimes be awful, but then some stupid thing happens and I love it again: 1) I tried to jump down from a cliff and I knew I wouldn't die from the fall damage, but I've jumped on an edge of an other cliff face, rolled down from it and died anyway 2) I've thrown a boar to my pawn, who caught him and threw him at my other pawn, who didn't caught it 3) In the bandit fort, the chief said something about me lacking mettle. Knowing that the word means something like "guts", I've tried to carry him around and throw him down from a cliff, making him recognize my manliness. When that didn't work, I've carried him around and started throwing him at the other bandits, who then individually attacked my pawns and died. When that didn't help I've given him some things and he gave me the scroll in return  I'd really like for the upgraded gear in the shop to have some bearing on the "equipped/have" notifications, since it's cumbersome to check manually. Also, does resolving a quest differently change what quests I'd be able to undertake later? I know that rewards vary, but I just care about quests now, this first playthrough will mostly end up being a practice run anyway.
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Dragged a goons level 21 pawn through BBI to kill daimon's second form and amazingly didn't get sucked into the vortex. Magic archer with the upgrade ring for 6 shot to 9 shot really destroyed him in short order I was taking off a bubble of health per volley. Immolate is also very fun when you have 100% resistance to fire. Just grab onto something and watch it burn.
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Szurumbur posted:This game can sometimes be awful, but then some stupid thing happens and I love it again: As long as you don't get a FAILURE mark on a quest you can't be locked out of future quests, with the sole exception of one of Fournival's two quests being able to lock you out of the other one. Ironsolid posted:I can't seem to accumulate enough RC to perma set my inclinations and purify my cursed items. Suggestions? I could hire your pawn and get you a few RC. Only things you can really do on your own are the From A Different Sky quests (800-2,400 RC for each of the 100 tokens) or just kill more things in BBI. Count Uvula fucked around with this message at 14:56 on May 6, 2013 |
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