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LeafyGreens
May 9, 2009

the elegant cephalopod

Ah crap :( Well that sucks, it's a shame to have to waste a good bow.

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Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Dammit, I thought I did everything that stupid little girl wanted and she gave me an empty flask at the end of the quest.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Alteisen posted:

Dammit, I thought I did everything that stupid little girl wanted and she gave me an empty flask at the end of the quest.

From what I know this is what you have to do for a perfect run of that quest:

- Don't bump into her and stay close to her. You'll also probably be arrested if you pick her up
- Catch her quickly in hide and seek
- Give her a flask of water when she asks, quickly(you have enough time to run to storage/a shop and back though)
- Lose the race, but barely. Don't walk during the race either, just double back if you're getting ahead of her

Buttermonster
Jul 11, 2003

Prism_Pink posted:

Wooow, Buttermonster, thanks so much for the level 3 Bitterblack gear! :3:

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.

Awesome, glad it gave you a good weapon on the first cleanses!


Is there a cap in regards to how much xp you can earn per kill? I've been killing hard mode Daimon and Death with pilgrim's charms, and they usually yield 999,999 x2. I'm level capped, so can't really tell from my xp counter how much will count towards the guest pawn rift crystal conversion. Either 999,999 or 1,999,998.

bonzaisushi
Nov 15, 2003

doo dee doo dmt, lsd doo dmt, lsd doo dmt...

Prism_Pink posted:

Wooow, Buttermonster, thanks so much for the level 3 Bitterblack gear! :3:

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.

:( I wish, ive been grinding for that lvl 3 bbi magic bow for over a week now. Lucky

Murodese
Mar 6, 2007

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We're looking for fine Men & Women to help Protect the Australian Way of Life.

Become part of the Legend. Defence Jobs.
I don't even have a level 2 BBI Magick Bow ;_;

Tried second-round Daimon tonight (without demon periapts) and basically did no damage at all to his second form, even ninefold. Normal shots with holy enchant did some damage, but eventually everyone died to meteorspam.

teknetik
Jan 13, 2010

SO
JEWISH
What's the three best places to put portcrystals down for Escort Quests? I know Bloodwater Beach is one, but any others?

Daric
Dec 23, 2007

Shawn:
Do you really want to know my process?

Lassiter:
Absolutely.

Shawn:
Well it starts with a holla! and ends with a Creamsicle.

teknetik posted:

What's the three best places to put portcrystals down for Escort Quests? I know Bloodwater Beach is one, but any others?

A few people go to that Healing Spring on the way to Soulflayer Canyon, right?

Murodese
Mar 6, 2007

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We're looking for fine Men & Women to help Protect the Australian Way of Life.

Become part of the Legend. Defence Jobs.

bonzaisushi posted:

:( I wish, ive been grinding for that lvl 3 bbi magic bow for over a week now. Lucky

I got mine tonight on my first farm-ish try. Grab Godsbane out of your stash, run past everything and get to the Fallen City, save at the entrance. Check these two chests:



The yellow and red upper right. You can jump across rooftops to get there and ignore the dragons, quickly check both chests. If the red one has a lvl 3 weapon (the yellow are level 3 gear/novelty, blue are level 3 armour), portal out - if not, Godsbane and try again. Took me about 5-6 tries to get the weapon. When you go to purify it, change yourself/pawn both to pure yellow classes - strider/ranger. This limits the possible outcomes pretty heavily - and the purification outcome will change depending on your/pawn's class.

Incidentally, there's two easy lvl3 armour chests as well, in Midnight Helix - save at the entrance, belt over past the dragon up the stairs and right across the wooden bridge. The first chest is either a rift crystal or a lvl3 armour - jump off the convenient cliff if not. If it is, go back to the entrance and exit/enter to save it. Other chest is at the very top of the bridges - the winged demons are a pain in the rear end, but the top chest is a pretty good chance, too.

PunkBoy
Aug 22, 2008

You wanna get through this?
Shadow Fort has a few escort quests, I think.

Nahxela
Oct 11, 2008

Execution

teknetik posted:

What's the three best places to put portcrystals down for Escort Quests? I know Bloodwater Beach is one, but any others?

Daric posted:

A few people go to that Healing Spring on the way to Soulflayer Canyon, right?
The Healing Spring by the Blighted Manse is actually the one that's the escort target.
Other places are the mentioned Shadowfort, Greatwall, and Prayer Falls (right by the Abbey in the woods). If you want some other ideas for where to place portcrystals, consider the Waycastle, the ledge that exits out of Witchwood to Cassardis, Bluemoon Tower, and maybe Catacombs or Soulflayer.

CVagts
Oct 19, 2009
You can have ten Portcrystals down, right? Right now mine are:
  • Shadow Fort
  • Greatwall Encampment
  • Bloodwater Beach
  • Healing Spring near Hillfigure/Manse
  • Maul's bandit fort
  • Witchwood
  • The Abbey
  • Ophis' bandit fort

Going to put two more in the Bluemoon Tower and at the southern waycastle, I think. Am I forgetting anything?

Razzled
Feb 3, 2011

MY HARLEY IS COOL
I just realized that my online status pawn renting was set to friends only. gently caress. That's like 20 hours worth of goddamn rc I could have earned :[

:saddowns:

Anyways, now I'm like level 42 as a MK in Everfall and I don't really know what to do. I can kill the Everfall stuff well enough but BBI bosses are still too hard. I just feel like I don't do poo poo for damage. I have a dragonforged Almace, but I'm using Dragon's Dogma since it does way more damage. I'm currently using Full Moon Slash, Antler Toss, Great Cannon. Holy Fortress, Abyssal Riposte and Demonswrath for my shields.

Is there a particularly good way for me to quickly max out my vocation rank? I'm at 7 or so and it's slowed down so much. Also anyone have comments on Stone Forest/Holy Furor for killing bosses?

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Razzled posted:

I just realized that my online status pawn renting was set to friends only. gently caress. That's like 20 hours worth of goddamn rc I could have earned :[

:saddowns:

Anyways, now I'm like level 42 as a MK in Everfall and I don't really know what to do. I can kill the Everfall stuff well enough but BBI bosses are still too hard. I just feel like I don't do poo poo for damage. I have a dragonforged Almace, but I'm using Dragon's Dogma since it does way more damage. I'm currently using Full Moon Slash, Antler Toss, Great Cannon. Holy Fortress, Abyssal Riposte and Demonswrath for my shields.

Is there a particularly good way for me to quickly max out my vocation rank? I'm at 7 or so and it's slowed down so much. Also anyone have comments on Stone Forest/Holy Furor for killing bosses?

Since you have access to the Everfall, you can do some afk discipline grinding by going to the noble district and standing on the wall by the church, guards will spawn infinitely to try and kill you but they will ignore your pawns, so you can just plug in your controller and wait an hour for free maxed vocations.

TehGherkin
May 24, 2008
So I go to rest at an inn because even though I'm doing Fournival's Trial quest, it's only the 1st day and I just got Arousing Suspicion and I dunno if it specifically has to be THAT night.

And on the way there, I see something strange



and when I rested and got my pawn back, I saw something stranger (Thank you)



"How did I perform? I tried my hardest."

Anteas, please.

Dosvidanya
May 28, 2004

I don't advertise for free ;-*

Murodese posted:

When you go to purify it, change yourself/pawn both to pure yellow classes - strider/ranger

Yellow/yellow gets magic bows? Good to know.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

TehGherkin posted:



"How did I perform? I tried my hardest."

Anteas, please.

I like to send pawns back in Feste's jester outfit. Definitely worth the 220k-ish gold I spend on them each time.

Overbite
Jan 24, 2004


I'm a vtuber expert

Dosvidanya posted:

Yellow/yellow gets magic bows? Good to know.

Your pawn, man. How do you get that voice.

Dosvidanya
May 28, 2004

I don't advertise for free ;-*

Overbite posted:

Your pawn, man. How do you get that voice.

:twisted:

I forget but I think it was option 6.

Murodese
Mar 6, 2007

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Dosvidanya posted:

Yellow/yellow gets magic bows? Good to know.

Yeah, it's purely colour based. I started off not caring and just doing MA / Warrior pawn, so red/blue. Kept getting an asston of MK gear. Particularly for weapons, going yellow/yellow limits the options that the game can give you to Framae Blades, Darkening Storm and Blackwing Bow. Compare that to red/blue where you can get maces, swords, MA bows, longswords, daggers, etc.

My Blackwing was actually an MK mace the first purify - reloaded and swapped to yellow/yellow and it came out as Blackwing.

e; you can also do the same to modify the type of l3 armour that comes out (ie. red/red for warrior gear), but the enchantment on it will remain the same regardless.

Murodese fucked around with this message at 02:39 on May 28, 2013

Dosvidanya
May 28, 2004

I don't advertise for free ;-*
I knew about the limits, just didn't know that MA was on the yellow/yellow table. I thought it was pure blue/yellow or yellow/blue :)

see you tomorrow
Jun 27, 2009

I got the Blackwing Bow as a Ranger with a Mage pawn. :shrug:

Rascyc
Jan 23, 2008

Dissatisfied Puppy

tooooooo bad posted:

I got the Blackwing Bow as a Ranger with a Mage pawn. :shrug:
Why the shrug? You have a yellow and a blue so you will pull from either the yellow or blue loot tables.

It's just a lot more straight forward to control your loot tables by sticking with the pure classes for yourself and your pawn. There's only three loot tables: yellow / blue / red.

SebastianK
Dec 4, 2011

Congratulations
Guys my pawn just returned to me with a whole 56 rift crystals! I don't think I've ever been so loving excited.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

SebastianK posted:

Guys my pawn just returned to me with a whole 56 rift crystals! I don't think I've ever been so loving excited.

I got like 4 the other day. 5 star reviews across the board. Guess my pawn did a real stellar job of watching some guy kill a rabbit.

Sylphosaurus
Sep 6, 2007

TehGherkin posted:

and when I rested and got my pawn back, I saw something stranger (Thank you)



"How did I perform? I tried my hardest."

Anteas, please.
That was from me.

I brought Anteas along for the Ophis quests so he and I suited up and were the belles of the ball, so to speak.

Count Chocula
Dec 25, 2011

WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
IF YOU SEE ME POSTING OUTSIDE OF THE AUSPOL THREAD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M MISSED AND TO START POSTING AGAIN
BBI is exactly what I want the main game to be. Two questions: how do I avoid being stoned by the cockatrice? And are Beholders (or whatever they call the giant eyeball things) immune to magic?

I wish they'd slightly rename Hundred Kisses so I could cut monsters a thousand kisses deep.

Nifft
Oct 5, 2001
I'm absolutely spiffng!
Wanted to switch my level 55 Assassin over to a MA? Would I just start leveling as a sorcerer and pickup the mage augments?

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Count Chocula posted:

BBI is exactly what I want the main game to be. Two questions: how do I avoid being stoned by the cockatrice? And are Beholders (or whatever they call the giant eyeball things) immune to magic?

I wish they'd slightly rename Hundred Kisses so I could cut monsters a thousand kisses deep.

Don't get breathed on by the cockatrice if you don't want to be petrified (or just carry secret softener/panacea/cockatrice liquor), and I think there are two Evil Eyes in the Everfall and one is immune to magic, but the one in BBI is not. They do all have shields though that they put up and you can only stab tentacles til they drop the shield.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

Count Chocula posted:

BBI is exactly what I want the main game to be. Two questions: how do I avoid being stoned by the cockatrice? And are Beholders (or whatever they call the giant eyeball things) immune to magic?

I wish they'd slightly rename Hundred Kisses so I could cut monsters a thousand kisses deep.

Maybe after purifying hundreds of bitterblack gears, you too can thousand kiss. And by you too, I mean just you. Because no matter how many of these loving things I throw at Olra, she won't stop giving me drench resistance Master Rings and Magick Archer garbage.

For the cockatrice, you can shoot the big puffy ballsack on its neck when it's about to breathe, and if you do an amount of damage that couldn't be described as "utterly pathetic", it should stop. This is all theoretical though. I find that unless I'm overpowered as gently caress, cockatrices are the absolute worst. Sometimes you can hang out on ledges and they'll end up really wanting to petrify the ground below you to no effect. I try to carry a few panceas on me at all times, which helps. Say goodbye to your pawns though.

see you tomorrow
Jun 27, 2009

No reason not to carry ten Secret Softeners with you at all times. They're light and literally life-saving. Cockatrices aren't the only monster in BBI that can petrify you.

Cowboybot
Sep 27, 2007
On a steel horse I ride
Just beat BBI round 2. Was a tough fight, but I literally had to hopscotch up Daimon's body, and start stabby stabby. Got a rank 3 strider bow, and some decent armor.

I also learned that striders are the murderpawns of the game, I had my pawn go through all the vocations with pretty boss gear. Fighter, he did nothing spectacular, mage/sorc he'd get pummeled, strider, he'd jump and slash, and go to town like a maniac. :mystery:

I also noticed that during dragon fights, pawns are absolutely garbage, they don't know to jump on the dragon and won't fight it, or dodge. After you rez a pawn, they sit there for 5 seconds confused as to what they should be doing. I think BBI breaks their AI or summat like it.

screech on the beach
Mar 9, 2004

Nifft posted:

Wanted to switch my level 55 Assassin over to a MA? Would I just start leveling as a sorcerer and pickup the mage augments?

You can if you want, I just straight up changed from Strider and Assassin to MA after 55 levels. I'm having zero problems and I'm at level 72 now. Just beat Gazer in BBI with no problems.

Electric Crayon
Jul 20, 2004

Oh, it's you!

tooooooo bad posted:

No reason not to carry ten Secret Softeners with you at all times. They're light and literally life-saving. Cockatrices aren't the only monster in BBI that can petrify you.

It's handy that they can petrify other enemies. A warg stumpled upon my party fighting the cockatrice when I was lower-level and I couldn't deal any damage to that horrible wolf-monster. Then the cockatrice did me a solid and petrified his rear end. Thanks, demon vulture.

Now that I think about it, if you have some rancid bait meats, it could be a convenient way to farm wargs if you have no other way to kill them and somehow received the "slay 5 wargs" notice board quest.

Razzled
Feb 3, 2011

MY HARLEY IS COOL

Electric Crayon posted:

It's handy that they can petrify other enemies. A warg stumpled upon my party fighting the cockatrice when I was lower-level and I couldn't deal any damage to that horrible wolf-monster. Then the cockatrice did me a solid and petrified his rear end. Thanks, demon vulture.

Now that I think about it, if you have some rancid bait meats, it could be a convenient way to farm wargs if you have no other way to kill them and somehow received the "slay 5 wargs" notice board quest.

Seriously gently caress those wargs. I got so frustrated fighting one, I ended up just changing out of Mystic Knight to Magic Archer and leaving BBI.

I think I'm going to go explore the world some more. Go west my wayward son!

Monowhatever
Mar 19, 2010


A big thank you to which ever wonderful goon kitted out my pawn ash, she kicks so much rear end now in great gear (the 500k RC was nice too)

Nifft
Oct 5, 2001
I'm absolutely spiffng!

LoG posted:

You can if you want, I just straight up changed from Strider and Assassin to MA after 55 levels. I'm having zero problems and I'm at level 72 now. Just beat Gazer in BBI with no problems.

Cool, so need to play as a sorcerer/mage. I'll give it a shot.

CVagts
Oct 19, 2009
360 goons: who needs RCs? I'm about to idle at Gran Soren cathedral for vocation points, and I figure I might as well use goon pawns. I don't know how much you'd get from it, but anything's better than nothing, I figure.

TehGherkin
May 24, 2008

CVagts posted:

360 goons: who needs RCs? I'm about to idle at Gran Soren cathedral for vocation points, and I figure I might as well use goon pawns. I don't know how much you'd get from it, but anything's better than nothing, I figure.

I can always go for RCs, GT is IllGarrett. Same goes for anyone who wants to take my pawn for a ride and actually use him, level 42 Ranger at the moment. Debating on whether to keep him a ranger or put him back to strider for more stabbiness.

Similar to this, any 360 goons who want their pawns taken for some serious questing and monster slaughtering let me know. One of my friends IRL bought the game so his pawn hogs one of my slots quite a lot of the time but I definitely still have time and space for the goons!

TehGherkin fucked around with this message at 22:49 on May 28, 2013

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Lunimeow
Oct 6, 2012

Shaken, not purred.
Finally picked up this game for ps3 after being interested in it for a long time!! I'm super excited, it should be here tomorrow! I have been reading the OP and thread and looking at the wiki to try and get a basic grip on things, does anyone have any must know tips for starters?

I'm not sure what class I want to play, I thought warrior looked sweet but from reading the thread people are saying they are actually the weakest? I'm pretty sure i'm going to make a small character so maybe I should start as a stryder instead?

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