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Babe Magnet posted:no, you can even still use the augments you unlocked on them. Tis a blessing, Arisen! This game is so... I don't even know how to describe it. It's loving wild.
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Internet Explorer posted:I ran into an ogre with some sort of boot/leg armor on and wasn't able to climb up his legs? Is that a thing or was I doing something wrong? My character kept trying to... I guess just grapple his leg when I tried to grab. You can break that stuff, or in some cases get them to do it. It's great. You could have climbed him in other ways, like jumping up or maybe climbing the back side of his legs.
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Vermain posted:it's less "scam" and more that you're paying a premium for getting an item immediately versus finding it in the wild somewhere. not every item is in a chest, though a lot of them are, but knowing where they are is another matter entirely to add onto this, you're likely to fall into more money than you can spend in any given area if you're doing a little exploring and questing. that stuff may seem out of reach now but you should be able to afford it and upgrade a bit before you move on
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Google Butt posted:What's the deal with gear? Are vendor prices a scam or the primary way to upgrade? If you can't afford new gear, check the upgrade possibilities out. Very early gear seems to have extremely low costs there and at level 1 needs no additional items; we're talking like 20 to 40g in a place where the inn costs two grand. The boosts are small with just a single upgrade but even a few points on each piece of gear bridges some of the gap to equipment, and I had random crap lying around that let me get the second rank in some stuff without trouble. The popup box said upgrades have different effects depending on the blacksmith's training and style, so I guess late game we'd want to be more cautious and where we upgrade our poo poo, which is a pretty cool touch tbh I was just fighting a cyclops and climbed him, stuck a powder bomb in his back, jumped off and detonated it, and then turned around and used Ensnare to grab him while he was off balance. My Arisen gets a hold of his head with the cable and gives it a sharp, sudden yank that just loving slams his face into a nearby rock, it was one of the most brutal moves I've seen in a game in awhile because it just had such a sense of impact to it.
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Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed.
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Axetrain posted:Does this game have a good amount of open world exploration ala Elder Scrolls games? I would say the first games exploration wasn't matched til Elden Ring, and it's sequel makes Elden Rings exploration look like an Ubisoft game. It's real good
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Ensnare is good to the extent that I think despite the lack of bow, Thief might be superior to assassin. Trivializes harpies and other light enemies, interrupts attacks on normal sized enemies you can’t just knock over immediately, can even throw large enemies off balance if you get the timing right. If it also let you zip-line to enemies to do a flying kick it would be the perfect skill. Vargs posted:Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed. Incredibly hosed up thing for Itsuno to do lmao I’m hosed. Somewhere between the starting city and the capital I think.
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Vargs posted:Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed. Oof, it was on a tower somewhere next to a big ballista.... I've seen like 50 of those lol
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So you can't really climb over the mountains, there's an invisible wall, but you can grab onto ledges using bomb jumps through invisible walls and that sometimes lets you climb higher. I got to some weird spot and it auto saved and I had to run all the way home once I eventually found a semi safe way down bc the reload penalty lol.
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Do pawn specialization books get expended when you use them, or can they be re-used so you can swap between specializations at will once you have obtained them?
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Started, made my dude an archer. Idk what I’m doing really but there’s a bunch of goblin pincushions laying around so my pawn and I are doing just fine. I unlocked rogue bc that was the other class I was interested in but I’m sticking with archer for the time being Just watched my heart get eaten. Is there anything I should pay attention to or is “gently caress it yolo” a good way to play the game
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Vargs posted:Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed. Oh sweet, mine was near a spot early on where you have to jump over a small gap to get to an area with a treasure chest near the harpy encounter.
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Vargs posted:Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed. why do you need to remember that?
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Vargs posted:Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed. Uhhhhh
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Kefa posted:why do you need to remember that? 
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*grabs you by the shoulders* why do you need to remember that
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Man the fall damage is kinda weird and annoying. I keep hopping off this dragon and somehow a little jump less than a thatch but high kills me flat even if I take only a tiny bit of damage when landing
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Also, gonna toss in re: gear that is another system that rewards changing classes. You'll find weapons of varying quality throughout your journey and being willing to adapt will give you power at a low monetary cost compared to targeting buying the best gear for one class early on - but do as you will, nothing wrong with either approach.
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I'm not very fond of Mystic Spearhand and it's making me miss Mystic Knight. It has individually cool moves, but its entire moveset feels pretty awkward and unfocused and the aesthetics suck rear end. Symmetrical double weapons are dumb as hell and the names of all of its skills are aggressively silly. Dragoune's Stabbe?? Gross Edit: The game already calls magic "magick" why does this one call it Magike how loving dare you, ddog 2 mdct fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Kefa posted:why do you need to remember that? Oxxidation posted:*grabs you by the shoulders* why do you need to remember that Spoiler for details without giving away the whole bit: there's a side quest later that asks you to return to the spot you picked up your first Seeker's Token & return under a time limit, if you don't you can't progress to part 2 of the quest. Mine was easy cause it was the one in the little drop down between the border outpost and Melve that you run past in the beginning of the game. Where can I find advanced vocations beyond the first two? I thought the elf Arborist would lead to Magic Archer but no dice.
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I swear I waited hours for this goddamn quince to ripen (very important an old man gets a ripe quince, I Get it), and a pawn I offhandedly summoned to help kill some headless bastard logistician'd it to themselves and ATE it seriously considering an inn reload over a fukken quince edit: do NOT hire this pawn they are a QUINCE THIEF they did it before they will do it again  of course  Inclination: Serene Calm as they knowingly pluck a vital quince and consume it whole (doesn't even taste it) just to see an old man die Everdraed fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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I killed the superbandits by managing to throw them into the brine and then stunlocking the last one with the group. I got the tutorial about reviving characters with wakestones and this dead bandit is the first thing in the game I've had the option to revive. I guess I just broke some quest I'll learn about in 20 hoursKhanstant posted:Man the fall damage is kinda weird and annoying. I keep hopping off this dragon and somehow a little jump less than a thatch but high kills me flat even if I take only a tiny bit of damage when landing it's super weird how the first game let you faceplant and keep trucking but in this one you instantly drop dead from like 8 meters
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 this pawn has been good murderizing goblins and harpies. digging thief so far but... pawn quests are a thing? I need someone to hire my pawn for them to complete quests, I guess. come get a free wakestone Wonder Woman (level 9 thief) Simple Pawn ID X3AZ5KDK96GB edit: platform PC/steam pmchem fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Nancy posted:Spoiler for details without giving away the whole bit: there's a side quest later that asks you to return to the spot you picked up your first Seeker's Token & return under a time limit, if you don't you can't progress to part 2 of the quest. thanks for the spoiler tag will try to remember where I picked up mine lol
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Goddamn the exploration in this game is incredible, everywhere looks amazing and I just want to keep going and going until I'm so laden I can barely move. Random NPC asked me to escort them well outside of known territory, got chased by a loving dragon bellowing challenges at me for half the distance, found a new town, headed north, found ANOTHER dragon fighting a cyclops, escaped into some castle ruins after Experiments With Ballistas Went Awry, and now I'm doing combat riddles for a giant actual goddamn Sphinx. Game owns.
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So how much missable, but kinda vital stuff is there? I’m still a bit traumatized from my first playthrough of DD1. 
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I have a bunch of vocations at max or near max and I think Thief's Headsplitter/Skullsplitter is the highest raw damage per second attack I've seen. By the time you get Desert-level weapons it vastly outpaces even high-end Sorcerer spells - in fact, it makes every other damage-dealing attack in Thief feel wimpy by comparison. This is probably less true at lower levels since its power comes from hitting a ton of times very quickly, so against enemies with high defense relative to your attack it will be worse and may deal less damage than a single big attack. Mystic Archer seems like it may be close in raw DPS when I get max rank - especially the Ice attack that shoots homing arrows that repeatedly pirece their targets and just keep hitting for a while, and the stone/physical spell that can hit one target like 12 times. Sorcerer is definitely outclassed by the time you hit the desert, and Mystic Spear doesn't seem very damage-heavy at this point either. Warrior is very very strong early on but it it has kind of fallen off as my Attack eclipsed enemy Defense because of how slow its hits are - as a thief I can Skullsplitter 50% of one health bar off a minotaur 1-2 entire times in the time it takes to wind up an attack as a Warrior which won't do as much damage as a single Skullsplitter. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Nancy posted:Spoiler for details without giving away the whole bit: there's a side quest later that asks you to return to the spot you picked up your first Seeker's Token & return under a time limit, if you don't you can't progress to part 2 of the quest. I hate it. I remember vaguely where mine was, but I hate it.
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Nancy posted:Where can I find advanced vocations beyond the first two? I thought the elf Arborist would lead to Magic Archer but no dice. For Magic Archer unlock: (Minor/vague spoiler) If you find a big cave in the desert where an NPC at the entrance warns you against going inside then you get an achievement when you enter, you're on your way (More specific, spoiling an area name) An imposing cave in the south part of the desert brings you to Volcanic Isle where the quest is. (Spoiling exactly who/where it is) When you get to the Volcanic Isle (through the imposing cave in the south end of the desert) you'll find a short bald guy complaining about back pain. Give him 3 flowers to cure his pain, then he will lead you to his house. At his house you'll meet his wife, and the husband will throw out his back again. Offer to lead him to the Hot Springs. Once you do, his wife will appear and thank you for helping him, then tell you to visit her home later to learn how to be a Magic Archer. Pro Tip: You can just talk to her again right away to learn, without having to go to her house later. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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I fuckin’ hate my guy and my pawn is ugly and I am extremely upset they should let me run around and see him make stupid faces so I can see what it’ll actually look like
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jokes posted:I fuckin’ hate my guy and my pawn is ugly and I am extremely upset You made them
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Man, I got a tutorial popup about dragonblight or whatever the pawn STD is and  You can only get rid of it by passing it on to someone else. I got rid of that pawn as soon as I could (I found it outdoors or I would've immediately replaced it) but now there's no knowing if I have it instead.  Then I died to a wild dragon and the game crashed when I reloaded. I wouldn't have died if I was still playing thief but I was trying to level up mystic spearhand. It's a fun class but it doesn't feel as strong so far.
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mdct posted:I'm not very fond of Mystic Spearhand and it's making me miss Mystic Knight. It has individually cool moves, but its entire moveset feels pretty awkward and unfocused and the aesthetics suck rear end. Symmetrical double weapons are dumb as hell and the names of all of its skills are aggressively silly. Dragoune's Stabbe?? Gross Mystic Knight was the spellsword/paladin and a class like it is sorely missed. They used the big shields! Now there ARE no big shields!
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deep dish peat moss posted:I have a bunch of vocations at max or near max and I think Thief's Headsplitter/Skullsplitter is the highest raw damage per second attack I've seen. By the time you get Desert-level weapons it vastly outpaces even high-end Sorcerer spells - in fact, it makes every other damage-dealing attack in Thief feel wimpy by comparison. This is probably less true at lower levels since its power comes from hitting a ton of times very quickly, so against enemies with high defense relative to your attack it will be worse and may deal less damage than a single big attack. sorc's broadly powerful in terms of tackling groups and has a handful of spells like high maelstrom that chew through large monsters, although thief's still probably the best player vocation numerically. i don't think anything in the game can outpace the raw DPS of skullsplitter, and you can stagger most large monsters instantly if you hit a vital with carve i know warrior's whole fantasy is the "slowly charge monstrous attack" thing but i think it's genuinely too slow in DD2, and the risk-reward of standing stock still while you charge a swing just isn't there when thief can outdamage you with a single cartwheel
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I read something about an ox cart that's supposed to take you to the capital but I just reached it and never saw anything like that. it has been 6 hours since I last used an inn and the guy at the front won't let me in presumably because the NPCs who were supposed to go with me bugged out and vanished. I guess I have to find another way in.
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Clocks posted:Man, I got a tutorial popup about dragonblight or whatever the pawn STD is and Purge every single pawn in your party, it's the only way to make certain 
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I have almost maxed Thief but I don't even know if I want to change, wish you could just make your own with every skill or latent ability. Bomb jump and shredder spin are going to be hard to give up. Then again if none of the others are my favourite then I can always circle back in the end. Mystic Spearman is next and I love spear. Honestly I just love killin'
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