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Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

lionsheadnebula posted:

You need to kill Grigori. You will find the Ur Dragon in the post title fight content, without going into new game plus.
Oh yeah. I forgot about that. :shobon:


Just kill poo poo and do the billboard fetch quests. You probably won't be rolling in gold until late- and post-game. If you're on 360, I can give your pawn some weapons you can use or sell for cash. Some of the higher stuff can get you a couple hundred thousand gold.

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lionsheadnebula
Feb 13, 2014

Don't you see my majestic mane, I am a lion. A beautiful misunderstood lion, who is not a horse. I'm just here to show the world the way. :roboluv:

Evil Mastermind posted:

Level 39/Assassin 10, doing the "get jumped by assassins" and "find the guy who stole the ring" quests. I'm pretty bad at this game.

At what point do you typically run into problems against the drake?

BattleTech
Jun 6, 2010

Is this easy mode?
Fun Shoe
Woooo, just finished the last quest I needed for the Hero achievement and thank god that is over. I had to play through 3 extra times than what I had planned because I kept missing obscure super time sensitive quests. I'm kind of tempted to run through BBI a couple of times to push my pawn to level 200, I'm over halfway there and murder time is getting drastically easier.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I've learned that it's basically a fool's errand to play DD without this page of the wikia open at absolutely all times:

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Side_Quest_Progression

The way they did timed sidequests in this game is such horseshit.

Supreme Allah
Oct 6, 2004

everybody relax, i'm here
Nap Ghost

Evil Mastermind posted:

Level 39/Assassin 10, doing the "get jumped by assassins" and "find the guy who stole the ring" quests. I'm pretty bad at this game.

Get yourself a sorcerer pawn in the 30s that has Gicel/High Gicel or the tornado spell, and some violent inclinations. Then run around distracting the drake (and rezzing your pawns) until the sorc gets one of those off, then go sick house on him when he falls. It shouldn't take but one or two of those massive spells to do it.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

lionsheadnebula posted:

At what point do you typically run into problems against the drake?
Pretty much right away. I'm barely scratching his paint before he two-shots me.

Supreme Allah posted:

Get yourself a sorcerer pawn in the 30s that has Gicel/High Gicel or the tornado spell, and some violent inclinations. Then run around distracting the drake (and rezzing your pawns) until the sorc gets one of those off, then go sick house on him when he falls. It shouldn't take but one or two of those massive spells to do it.
I'll give that a try, thanks. I haven't been trying out new pawns for a while.

Cometa Rossa
Oct 23, 2008

I would crawl ass-naked over a sea of broken glass just to kiss a dick
If you farm Soulflayer Canyon and Leaper's Ledge (or even just Leaper's Ledge, really) and sell everything you don't need, you will be rolling in money ages before the post-game. A couple of the weapons in there are guaranteed spawns and go for around 100k.

Mr. Baps
Apr 16, 2008

Yo ho?

Cometa Rossa posted:

If you farm Soulflayer Canyon and Leaper's Ledge (or even just Leaper's Ledge, really) and sell everything you don't need, you will be rolling in money ages before the post-game. A couple of the weapons in there are guaranteed spawns and go for around 100k.

Seconding this. If you make sure to find every chest, leaper's ledge (and the rest of soulflayer canyon, because you're already there so why not) will get you big piles of gold. Probably your best bet before the post-game. Also make sure you do any sidequests that reward golden weapons, those sell for a ton.

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer

Walrus Pete posted:

Seconding this. If you make sure to find every chest, leaper's ledge (and the rest of soulflayer canyon, because you're already there so why not) will get you big piles of gold. Probably your best bet before the post-game. Also make sure you do any sidequests that reward golden weapons, those sell for a ton.

I kept all my golden weapons because they silenced things when upgraded fully.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

CJacobs posted:

I've learned that it's basically a fool's errand to play DD without this page of the wikia open at absolutely all times:

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Side_Quest_Progression

The way they did timed sidequests in this game is such horseshit.

Make sure you do escort quests as soon as you're able since those will also disappear permanently at random times.

Mr. Baps
Apr 16, 2008

Yo ho?

Fibby Boy posted:

I kept all my golden weapons because they silenced things when upgraded fully.

Pff, a sword to the throat silences people pretty well too :black101:

I can see keeping a golden staff/archistaff around though, since having mage-wars against a whole bunch of enemies can be frustrating.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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Lumpy the Cook posted:

Make sure you do escort quests as soon as you're able since those will also disappear permanently at random times.

On the other hand nobody cares about them.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Count Uvula posted:

On the other hand nobody cares about them.

They give good rewarda.

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Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer

Walrus Pete posted:

Pff, a sword to the throat silences people pretty well too :black101:

I can see keeping a golden staff/archistaff around though, since having mage-wars against a whole bunch of enemies can be frustrating.

Yeah there's that. I also found it pretty funny that the big smashy three headed hammer also silences things.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Cometa Rossa posted:

If you farm Soulflayer Canyon and Leaper's Ledge (or even just Leaper's Ledge, really) and sell everything you don't need, you will be rolling in money ages before the post-game. A couple of the weapons in there are guaranteed spawns and go for around 100k.

Walrus Pete posted:

Seconding this. If you make sure to find every chest, leaper's ledge (and the rest of soulflayer canyon, because you're already there so why not) will get you big piles of gold. Probably your best bet before the post-game. Also make sure you do any sidequests that reward golden weapons, those sell for a ton.
Well, I guess it's a good thing I left a portcrystal outside the entrance then.

Fibby Boy posted:

Yeah there's that. I also found it pretty funny that the big smashy three headed hammer also silences things.
You can't talk with a crushed skull. :black101:

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Where the hell is this stupid griffin?

I'm in the post-game and I'm looking for the griffin on Hillfigure Knoll. I've been all over these hills, tried looking at different times of day, and I cannot find him.

Are there any griffins post-game or have they all been replaced by cockatrices and dragons?

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
The griffin is a physical manifestation of :smuggo: and will appear on its own terms whenever and wherever it pleases.

In all seriousness, If it's not where it should be rest a day then try again or try other spots, it's awfully random.

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

It definitely shows up post-game. I remember finally killing the drat thing after spending a few in-game days looking for it.

Geocities Homepage King
Nov 26, 2007

I have good news, and I have bad news.
Which do you want to hear first...?
I hate that Griffin. With a passion.

I saw it once. Started a fight, took off a bar of health then it took off and left, never to be seen again.

loving griffin.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

Seravadon posted:

I hate that Griffin. With a passion.

I saw it once. Started a fight, took off a bar of health then it took off and left, never to be seen again.

loving griffin.

Did you throw a strider with fire enchanted daggers at it? That usually works for me.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I saw the griffin just as I got mobbed by snow harpies. It flew away as they were taking turns trying to carry me off.

On the bright side, I got to see the wyvern too. Was pretty close to shooting it when I got frozen by snow harpies. The dragon flew off and I think suicided into the ocean.

It's grim up north.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Nihilarian posted:

Where the hell is this stupid griffin?

I'm in the post-game and I'm looking for the griffin on Hillfigure Knoll. I've been all over these hills, tried looking at different times of day, and I cannot find him.

Are there any griffins post-game or have they all been replaced by cockatrices and dragons?

My memory is spotty since it's been a while, but I think I eventually found him farther north than Hillfigure Knoll, like past the healing spring by a cave. The same cave you come out of if you rescue Queen Crazypants from that castle up there.

mirarant
Dec 18, 2012

Post or die

Nihilarian posted:

Where the hell is this stupid griffin?

I'm in the post-game and I'm looking for the griffin on Hillfigure Knoll. I've been all over these hills, tried looking at different times of day, and I cannot find him.

Are there any griffins post-game or have they all been replaced by cockatrices and dragons?

I got the slippery fucker to spawn in post game by murdering the goblin camp at the foot of the Knoll (southwest I think).

- Griffin Watch(tm)

Nahxela
Oct 11, 2008

Execution
And if you forgot about this comic, it's a good time to see it again:

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer
I got my pawn, Danger Ted, to level 76 and he's starting to turn into a walking engine of destruction. I say this because he completely annihilated an Elder Ogre while the two other pawns I had hired didn't know what the gently caress and kept dying. Seriously it took him three basic x-x-x combos to knock out one bar of health on the ogre. Knocking it down was like walk in the park for him. I looked at his strength after that and I think he was sitting pretty at 2700 and some odd strength.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Nahxela posted:

And if you forgot about this comic, it's a good time to see it again:


"Goblins be wrecking my aught!" will never not be funny.

Mr. Baps
Apr 16, 2008

Yo ho?

(spoiler tags here may be a little over-cautious, but there might be people reading who haven't finished the game) When does the game pick an Arisen to be the Seneschal for you to fight? When it turned out to be some random online player's character, I loaded back to before entering the Seneschal's chamber (but after handing in the wakestones) and set the game to offline, but it was the same dude when I went back in. I really love the idea of having your previous character be the "end boss" and was pretty bummed when I didn't get to see that.

Also, a weird thing happened that might be a bug? I killed and resurrected Julien in the mission where you can do that, and since talking to him after that maxes his affinity it made him my beloved for the Dragon-related stuff, he was in my house and everything. But then in the final ending cutscene, Caxton was there instead of Julien. :confused:

ChaoticGood
May 7, 2010
That isn't really a bug, or who knows, but anyway it's because the affinity system doesn't stop working after the dragon scene... Affinities go down with time, so if you don't talk or do anything with your chosen one his affinity can go down, and if you then talk to Caxton or whoever he gets picked as the new one...

jonjonaug
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Walrus Pete posted:

(spoiler tags here may be a little over-cautious, but there might be people reading who haven't finished the game) When does the game pick an Arisen to be the Seneschal for you to fight? When it turned out to be some random online player's character, I loaded back to before entering the Seneschal's chamber (but after handing in the wakestones) and set the game to offline, but it was the same dude when I went back in. I really love the idea of having your previous character be the "end boss" and was pretty bummed when I didn't get to see that.

Also, a weird thing happened that might be a bug? I killed and resurrected Julien in the mission where you can do that, and since talking to him after that maxes his affinity it made him my beloved for the Dragon-related stuff, he was in my house and everything. But then in the final ending cutscene, Caxton was there instead of Julien. :confused:

The feature you're referring to in the spoiler tags only occurs on New Game+. The first time you finish the game you fight the guy from the prologue/tutorial level.

Mr. Baps
Apr 16, 2008

Yo ho?

jonjonaug posted:

The feature you're referring to in the spoiler tags only occurs on New Game+. The first time you finish the game you fight the guy from the prologue/tutorial level.

Yeah, I know. I should've said so, but this was on NG+.

Head Hit Keyboard
Oct 9, 2012

It must be fate that has brought us together after all these years.

Walrus Pete posted:

Yeah, I know. I should've said so, but this was on NG+.

If I had to guess the "current seat holder" is updated when you sleep at an inn while online, much like everything else. Got no proof of that though.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


mirarant posted:

I got the slippery fucker to spawn in post game by murdering the goblin camp at the foot of the Knoll (southwest I think).

- Griffin Watch(tm)
I got the fucker. Thanks!

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
Very very late to the party but I just picked up this game and I'm really enjoying it! Any pawns I can take for a spin? Wanna use my lovely newbie pawn?

EDIT: Xbox 360 - gamertag is Vanan

Mad Wack fucked around with this message at 06:16 on May 23, 2014

Sylphosaurus
Sep 6, 2007

Mad Wack posted:

Very very late to the party but I just picked up this game and I'm really enjoying it! Any pawns I can take for a spin? Wanna use my lovely newbie pawn?
Sure, are you on PS3 or 360 and what is your gamertag?

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Sylphosaurus posted:

Sure, are you on PS3 or 360 and what is your gamertag?

I'm on the 360 and my gamertag is Vanan!

Cometa Rossa
Oct 23, 2008

I would crawl ass-naked over a sea of broken glass just to kiss a dick
I finally had my first truly bullshit fight. An Eliminator, a bunch of Skeleton Sorcerors and an Elder Ogre all in a tiny room filled with water so any time I rolled my lantern went out. My pawns were always dead and any time I wasn't dodging or reviving them I had Masterful Kill primed because otherwise I'd get dropkicked out of the darkness. The only reason I could see anything is because the room next to it had one of those RC-activated bonfires. By themselves I could've annihilated any of them in seconds but god drat that was rough.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Cometa Rossa posted:

I finally had my first truly bullshit fight. An Eliminator, a bunch of Skeleton Sorcerors and an Elder Ogre all in a tiny room filled with water so any time I rolled my lantern went out. My pawns were always dead and any time I wasn't dodging or reviving them I had Masterful Kill primed because otherwise I'd get dropkicked out of the darkness. The only reason I could see anything is because the room next to it had one of those RC-activated bonfires. By themselves I could've annihilated any of them in seconds but god drat that was rough.
I just fought 3 Silver Knights, some banshees and those poison zombies in the Black Abbey. They couldn't do poo poo to me, but those silver knights can apparently heal and revive each other (and heal the poison zombies, who are ridiculously beefy)

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Ah, that room. :3:

BBI taught my why a lvl 3 rusted bow is mandatory. Torpor is just incredible.

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

I hate being anywhere near water. Dummies will stand under a loving waterfall and burn through every curative in their inventory.

:downs:SOAKED TO THE BONE

Dummy used Panacea

Dummy used Panacea

Dummy used Panacea

Dummy used Panacea

Dummy used Panacea


I guess I'm the dummy for giving it to them in the first place and forgetting to take it out until it's too late. At least the vendor in Gran Soren has an unlimited supply.

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Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Wait you give your pawns curatives? I jealously horde them for myself.

I might give them something to cure petrification if they're not totally useless.

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