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Sega 32X posted:Another question for y'all: is it better to beat the Everfall end-game content (and I think move on to NG+ as a result, right?) and then do BBI, or do BBI first? I say finish the Everfall and go to NG+ if its your first time through because the story might make a little more sense (or not it's weird). Plus, if you really need wakestones in your NG+ there's a riftstone in Cassardis that you can use to fight the Ur-Dragon whenever, so you can just murder him in offline mode for 20 of them. Also you get to have the nice sunny world instead of poo-cloud world when you go back to mainland.
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Defiant Sally posted:So nobody loves my pawn as a mage, but for the brief period I had her as a fighter someone decided to use her like gently caress and dumped her back to me with 50k RC and a full set of new gear as well as a badass sword and shield which I then copped for myself. Also some level 3 cursed item whatever the gently caress that does. You need to go to bitter black isle and have it purified by Orla. From the starting town at night you go to the docks and talk to her and she will take you there and then you can talk to her there and have her make it a useable item.
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May 26, 2013 13:42
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Count Chocula posted:I hosed up Fourival's quest somehow. I turned in 4 pieces of evidence (though one was Reynard's writ) in his favor, my pawns said he'd be found innocent, and yet he was found guilty! He deserved it but if looks like I screwed myself out of some awesome items. Did you get the witness to testify in his favor from the northern fort as well?
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May 26, 2013 13:54
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Nope, I didn't feel like making the trip.
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May 26, 2013 14:29
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doctor 7 posted:The "romance" in this game is, by far, the worst I have ever seen in a video game. This makes Bioware look like everything they've ever done is Gone With the Wind. I accidentally made the smith from Gran Soren the character with the highest affinity, so he suddenly became my love interest. Oh god, the sex scene in the end. "Masterworks all" indeed  .
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May 26, 2013 14:55
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Count Chocula posted:Nope, I didn't feel like making the trip. I believe that the witness (for, at least) is a rather crucial requirement.
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May 26, 2013 15:56
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Count Chocula posted:Nope, I didn't feel like making the trip. That'll do it then. You need three pieces of evidence AND the witness in order to find Fournival innocent, along with not submitting any evidence that would implicate him or denounce him.
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May 26, 2013 15:58
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I've gotten Fournival innocent with just the 3 petitions (guy in castle, priest, and his daughter). I think they way the quest works is that each petition/the witness increases the chance of him being innocent, but it's possible for him to be found innocent without getting everything.
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May 26, 2013 16:28
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It's easy to get the guy as the witness if you just leave a portstone at the castle he's at because you're gonna use it for a few other quests.
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May 26, 2013 16:48
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Can I be a decent mystic knight if I go fighter - mage?
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May 26, 2013 18:15
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Sure. You'll benefit greatly from the Warrior and Sorcerer augments as well though, so its worth doing the four relevant classes.
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May 26, 2013 18:16
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doctor 7 posted:The "romance" in this game is, by far, the worst I have ever seen in a video game. This makes Bioware look like everything they've ever done is Gone With the Wind. Well, aside from the characters who were clearly intended to be love interests(Quina, Selene(ugh), Mercedes, Aelinore, Madeleine, Valmiro, Julien) the romance is just "Hey you gave me tons of fish, now I love you."
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May 26, 2013 19:39
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I guess they added that in as an afterthought to appeal to a certain set of Japanese players. Also, not a single story-supported male love interest. If you have a female character she's lesbian by default.
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May 26, 2013 19:41
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Er, what? I named two male ones. I suppose Reynard might count too, but he never really shows any romantic feelings. Julien's romance is kind of hidden though.
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May 26, 2013 19:50
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RatHat posted:Er, what? I named two male ones. I suppose Reynard might count too, but he never really shows any romantic feelings. Julien's romance is kind of hidden though.
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May 26, 2013 19:55
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Actually no, the only way to get Julien's romance is to kill him during that fight and then revive him with a wakestone. He then surrenders and gets sent to the jail in Gran Soren.
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May 26, 2013 20:00
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I just started playing this game about two days ago, and I've been loving playing as a Magick Archer. I don't know if I should upgrade this Magic Crutch I have, or wait until a new one becomes available from the store. I've been reading a bit online about where various Magick Bows can be found, but none of them really say much about when I can (safely) get to these areas. Is it generally worth it to upgrade early-game weapons/armor? Also, is Magick Archer viable for the entire game? I didn't really enjoy playing as a melee character, but I don't know if their stat gains or whatnot make them bad at the end of the game.
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May 26, 2013 20:03
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Thanatos Mazus posted:Is it generally worth it to upgrade early-game weapons/armor? Also, upgrading equipment increases its resale value, so its not like you are throwing away resources even if you upgrade something you end up selling soon.
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May 26, 2013 20:23
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Thanatos Mazus posted:I just started playing this game about two days ago, and I've been loving playing as a Magick Archer. I don't know if I should upgrade this Magic Crutch I have, or wait until a new one becomes available from the store. I've been reading a bit online about where various Magick Bows can be found, but none of them really say much about when I can (safely) get to these areas. Upgrading things to level 2/3 makes them pretty substantially better. There's no need to hunt for materials but if you have it you may as well spend it.
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May 26, 2013 20:28
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Thanatos Mazus posted:I just started playing this game about two days ago, and I've been loving playing as a Magick Archer. I don't know if I should upgrade this Magic Crutch I have, or wait until a new one becomes available from the store. I've been reading a bit online about where various Magick Bows can be found, but none of them really say much about when I can (safely) get to these areas. You can use the materials needed to upgrade from your storage too. So just bank all your materials every time you run into someone who can let you do that. In other news, gently caress Death. I can't even hurt him, he just shows up and kills all of my pawns. None of my attacks do a single bit of damage to him.
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May 26, 2013 20:33
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Thanatos Mazus posted:Also, is Magick Archer viable for the entire game? I didn't really enjoy playing as a melee character, but I don't know if their stat gains or whatnot make them bad at the end of the game. I'm not all the way through BBI, but through a good chunk, and yes, it is so far. I do use my daggers a fair bit, but use my magic bow more and as long as I'm using the right elemental attacks (or more often than not, just avoiding the one whatever enemy is resistant to), the bow works just fine.
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Daric posted:In other news, gently caress Death. I can't even hurt him, he just shows up and kills all of my pawns. None of my attacks do a single bit of damage to him. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 20:52 on May 26, 2013 |
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May 26, 2013 20:41
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Thanatos Mazus posted:Also, is Magick Archer viable for the entire game? I didn't really enjoy playing as a melee character, but I don't know if their stat gains or whatnot make them bad at the end of the game. Since they buffed the MA bows in DA the class has become very good.
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May 26, 2013 20:42
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Why does the person I'm escorting stick so close, why. 
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Alteisen posted:Why does the person I'm escorting stick so close, why.
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Mystic Archer's Ricochet is absolutely ridiculous in BBI's many, many cramped spaces. Shreds everything near instantly while they're stuck in permanent stunlock. You don't even need to aim, and it hits everyone in the room. Only thing I hate is fighting dragons, since it's finicky/impossible to get your arrows to lock on to the heart. Anyways, people sure do seem to love hiring healer mage pawns and not so much fighter ones. I'd have thought it would be the opposite, with most people having a support mage main pawn of their own. But my mage gets hired about 10x more than my fighter, which is a bummer because the mage account has around 4 million RC and the fighter one has around 500k, most of which I've gotten myself. My fighter has better gear, too! And is lower level, making that gear more appealing. Vargs fucked around with this message at 21:08 on May 26, 2013 |
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May 26, 2013 21:05
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Alteisen posted:Why does the person I'm escorting stick so close, why.
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For Drakes, I just walk up to their hearts and point blank fire Sixfold/Ninefold. They usually fall over and let me do it some more. For Wyverns, I usually do something similar, or I'll use Immolation/Fireshroud and Hundred Kisses. Sometimes I just use Explosive Rivet spam. The exposion splash is usually pretty generous so that you don't have to be too precise in where they latch on. That also goes for wyrms.
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Nahxela posted:For Drakes, I just walk up to their hearts and point blank fire Sixfold/Ninefold. They usually fall over and let me do it some more. For Wyverns, I usually do something similar, or I'll use Immolation/Fireshroud and Hundred Kisses. Sometimes I just use Explosive Rivet spam. The exposion splash is usually pretty generous so that you don't have to be too precise in where they latch on. That also goes for wyrms. The Adhesion secret augment is great for Wyverns as well since you can just climb on their backs and wail on their hearts and it can do jack poo poo to you. For drakes and wymrs, it's generally quicker as a MA to have a good dagger and just slice up their hearts while staggered.
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:I accidentally made the smith from Gran Soren the character with the highest affinity, so he suddenly became my love interest. I've had Symone as my love interest once, it was as awkward as it sounds, especially once the love scene started, not since Dragon Age have I seen such awkward love scenes.
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Count Chocula posted:Nope, I didn't feel like making the trip. You can also get more than 1 writ from Reynard. I think it's 5 pieces of evidence to guarantee he's innocent.
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May 26, 2013 23:00
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Your pawns will yammer on about which way the trial is likely to go too, which helps let you know if you're going to need to do more evidence gathering or not.
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May 26, 2013 23:13
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a kitten posted:Your pawns will yammer on about which way the trial is likely to go too, which helps let you know if you're going to need to do more evidence gathering or not. It really only takes like 1-2 minutes to get everything to prove him innocent. 1 piece is in his house, 1 in the cathedral, 1 in the duke's chamber and if you have a port crystal at the fort you just teleport there, grab the guy you need to escort and teleport back.
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Daric posted:It really only takes like 1-2 minutes to get everything to prove him innocent. 1 piece is in his house, 1 in the cathedral, 1 in the duke's chamber and if you have a port crystal at the fort you just teleport there, grab the guy you need to escort and teleport back. There's two in his house if you've done the Escort Duty quest.
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a kitten posted:Your pawns will yammer on about which way the trial is likely to go too, which helps let you know if you're going to need to do more evidence gathering or not. Yeah, and they said he was going to be found innocent.
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Wooow, Buttermonster, thanks so much for the level 3 Bitterblack gear!  Incidentally, I now have a spare level 3 Bitterblack Magick Bow for anyone on PS3 that needs it, let me know your PSN ID and I'll send it over.
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Wow, I helped kill the online Ur-Dragon a couple of days ago and just re-entered. I managed to get an Ascalon out of the deal and it looks like that's pretty much the best sword in the game. Which is nice too because the Dragon's Dogma, what I was using previously, crossguard looks stupid. Now I upgraded it to two stars and just cross my fingers it'll get dragon forged out of a couple of Everfall fights then I'll move onto New Game+.
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doctor 7 posted:Wow, I helped kill the online Ur-Dragon a couple of days ago and just re-entered. I managed to get an Ascalon out of the deal and it looks like that's pretty much the best sword in the game. Which is nice too because the Dragon's Dogma, what I was using previously, crossguard looks stupid. Now I upgraded it to two stars and just cross my fingers it'll get dragon forged out of a couple of Everfall fights then I'll move onto New Game+. There are better swords in BBI.
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Prism_Pink posted:Wooow, Buttermonster, thanks so much for the level 3 Bitterblack gear! You can't give people BBI gear, unfortunately. Just the unpurified stuff. Which is a bummer because I just need one specific pair of boots before I have all the armor in the game that I want, but after dozens of L3 armor rolls, I still haven't gotten it. Meanwhile, that exact item sits in storage on my other account being useless.
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Prism_Pink posted:Wooow, Buttermonster, thanks so much for the level 3 Bitterblack gear! Can't trade BBI stuff unfortunately. Couldn't trade a Magick Bow anyway since a pawn would have to be able to equip it.
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