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I don't remember this being the case in DD1 but you can straight up run to the very last shop in the game and buy essentially maxed out weapons. kinda weird and I regret doing it because it hosed with my progression. (i did not do it for that reason i was just exploring)
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also those of you who tried mystic spearhand or haven't yet, don't sleep on the invulnerability bubble. combined with the mage augment that increases buff timers i can make my entire team invulnerable for pretty much ever. i killed a drake earlier pretty handily with it, you can even revive pawns while it's on you. it's goofy!
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Got a randomly generated escort quest of an old lady wanting to go home. Turned out she lived at the Border Gate Town on the edge of the beastren kingdom, where I had never been before, so I was like 'hell yeah, grandma, let's go on an adventure!' Two full days of goblins, lizards, caves, orcs, ogres, a drake who REALLY wanted to throw down, and my first chimera, we staggered into the deserty town, and she said thank you and gave me my much deserved reward: 1300g and a bottle of fruit compote. Thanks, Granny.
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Vintersorg posted:Seems everyone here picked melee? No posts about casters so I can get hot tips? Sorcerer is absolutely busted ridiculous... once you get the 2 Maister spells. They do suffer pretty heavily from 4 moveslot syndrome but your bread and butter will be to have one big nuke spell (pick Meteoran or Maelstrom, the Maister spells) and the others covering the other elements but faster casting. I personally go with Levin/Frigor as they're good for small flying/ground units respectively. Then a flex slot depending on ypur playstyle. Make sure any spellbooks that go in your 'valuables' tab you don't use since you need them for both Maister quests. One of them requires you to hand in real books the other you can get away with turning in forgeries. Its fun to learn how to exploit openings in enemy patterns to get off the big nukes. Once you're in the mid 30s and have a good Archstaff a single cast of Meteoran can usually kill or mostly kill Cyclops/Ogres/Chimera/Griffons/Minotaurs/Liches/Dullahans and rip through like half a drake's health. It rules and makes you feel powerful as hell.
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I came across someone's pawn in the rift that had 3 ranks in every single available vocation, at level 20. Also, the default "wakestone shard for traveling a day/night" pawn quest seems way better than most others I've encountered, except maybe the "10,000 for killing a Cyclops" one.
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Mar 25, 2024 03:03
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MeatwadIsGod posted:These are all spoilers for early-ish to mid game quests in the Vermund capital: I got the Glasses outside of this Brant Chain by completing a Gracious Hand Chain that involved getting evidence and apprehending a Priest poisoning the patients. Which to me to the Goal tower providing access to the Mascarade Hall. So there's likely heaps of questing interconnection intentional or not.
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Ytlaya posted:I came across someone's pawn in the rift that had 3 ranks in every single available vocation, at level 20. I mean its a way to incentivize people to hire new people's pawns. The later quests are all player designed and assigned and cost resources from the player assigning them (though tbf it pays out to anyone who completes it and only deducts from the host once) Incidentally is anyone else swimming in Wakestones compared to game 1? I have like 20 just lying around at this point and that was the postgame goal in 1.
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Man, Mystic Spearhand really feels like the “Main Character” class, huh? Air Dash, ranged slow, and a (maybe?) invulnerable shield with no cooldown that affects allies too?
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Nuebot posted:Fighter is way too dependent on you being really, really, good at blocking and parrying - a literal skill issue if you will. I can't count the number of times I've raised my shield to block or parry only to be off by like, an inch and have the enemy hit my elbow instead, or be too slow by a fraction of a second, and then ragdoll my character for like five more hits while I desperately try to find a way out of the hit stun because the fighter gets no dodge roll or anything to just get the gently caress out of there. I really want to unlock warrior already. btw, for parrying are you supposed to tap the button or hold it when the hit is about to connect?
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Mar 25, 2024 03:07
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Pawns are pretty annoying with their chatter. Anyway to only shout important things?
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Vintersorg posted:Seems everyone here picked melee? No posts about casters so I can get hot tips? mage is easy, i just had empyrean/frigor/lightning one (and eventually their high versions) along with celerity as a buff, i rarely remembered to use it though so you could switch it for whatever. empyrean is useless against anything that isn't undead pretty much but i was able to kill a wight in a dank rear end lich library with it, very early in the game while i was going with gregor to melve. poor gregor died fighting it but thankfully i had a wakestone for him. was incredibly intense though, everyone in my party had like 20% max health by the end due to the amount of times i died/revived everyone. love doing those fights when your extremely early and weak as gently caress! anyway sorry idk what tips to say other than use the element that works best, frigor in general is pretty great for little guys cause it'll toss em up and either kill them outright or let your pawns just brutally stab them on the ground. lightning in general is a great all arounder. idk that it's worth it to max mage before doing sorc, maybe? the top end mage augment is good (increased stamina recovery) and probably good for sorc.
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lmao we were going through Trevo Mine guided by a pawn who had been here before, and my own pawn says something like "These narrow passages could easily hide ambushes, be careful" and the guide pawn goes "I'm aware of the particulars." in a really snippy tone, it was funny as hell Also I don't know what killed the last few gobbos in there, I just started getting XP drops and after like four of them the quest completed.  e; Can someone explain how exactly pawns and items work in terms of other worlds? If my pawn is carrying random crap is that gonna be available to someone who hires her? And more pressingly, if I have someone pack muling (thanks lymarra, Phalanx is a kickass pawn in and out of combat  ) and I dismiss them is all the stuff I gave them to carry going with them or what? I had assumed not but at some point I seem to have misplaced my camping gear and though another one was easily sourced, the only thing I could think of that got rid of it is if I had it on a hired pawn and then dismissed them.
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Tabletops posted:mage is easy, i just had empyrean/frigor/lightning one (and eventually their high versions) along with celerity as a buff, i rarely remembered to use it though so you could switch it for whatever. Sorc really doesn't need the increased stam recovery augment because its dedicated class action is just 'rapidly refill your stamina'.
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This new Thief pawn I just replaced my last Thief with seems to suck and get hit *way* more than my last Thief pawn did. I wonder if it's because the AI is worse at using some skill it has equipped.Zore posted:Incidentally is anyone else swimming in Wakestones compared to game 1? I have like 20 just lying around at this point and that was the postgame goal in 1. I wish I was lol. I've only gotten 2 full ones so far, though I haven't been swapping out pawns as much as I should have. Hoping I don't die before I can get another (only need one more shard at least, which I'll get from my current pawns). Going to switch out pawns a lot more frequently from now on.
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Zore posted:I mean its a way to incentivize people to hire new people's pawns. The later quests are all player designed and assigned and cost resources from the player assigning them (though tbf it pays out to anyone who completes it and only deducts from the host once) I just wish the options opened up quicker; I've only got Kill Cyclopses and "Give me an item" quests, even though I've killed a couple other big monsters.
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Tiny Timbs posted:btw, for parrying are you supposed to tap the button or hold it when the hit is about to connect? Tap it I think and you'll do a dark souls style shield deflection and the enemy stumbles, then hit Y and you'll do a fancy stab like you do on fallen enemies and stuff. At least I assume that's a parry. Maybe I've been doing it wrong this whole time. Ms Adequate posted:lmao we were going through Trevo Mine guided by a pawn who had been here before, and my own pawn says something like "These narrow passages could easily hide ambushes, be careful" and the guide pawn goes "I'm aware of the particulars." in a really snippy tone, it was funny as hell Were there any slimes? Sometimes slimes will kill dudes. I was in the waterfall cave and as I walked into a room one just scooped up a lizard man and then after a few seconds that lizard was dead.
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Ytlaya posted:This new Thief pawn I just replaced my last Thief with seems to suck and get hit *way* more than my last Thief pawn did. I wonder if it's because the AI is worse at using some skill it has equipped. danny devito is awaiting your call Zore posted:Sorc really doesn't need the increased stam recovery augment because its dedicated class action is just 'rapidly refill your stamina'. oh thats rad, i haven't played it yet cause i unlocked mystic spearhand right as i was about to...
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Geomancing posted:Got a randomly generated escort quest of an old lady wanting to go home. Turned out she lived at the Border Gate Town on the edge of the beastren kingdom, where I had never been before, so I was like 'hell yeah, grandma, let's go on an adventure!' Blessed elder
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Vermain posted:illusionist feels like a pet project that started from someone having a cool idea for a vocation without giving much thought to how it'd interface with the other vocations, because "use magic to distract and debilitate foes" is a great napkin pitch until you remember that high hagol exists and does the exact same thing but better Probably my favorite spell in the game that I've seen. Just fantastic for slowing down everything.
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For those of you looking around for seeker tokens, it helps to get one rank up in the trickster class. It unlocks an augment that makes them gleam really brightly and makes a repeating noise when you're near one.
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Slimes are the scariest monsters so far lol
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Nuebot posted:Tap it I think and you'll do a dark souls style shield deflection and the enemy stumbles, then hit Y and you'll do a fancy stab like you do on fallen enemies and stuff. At least I assume that's a parry. Maybe I've been doing it wrong this whole time. Yeah I think I’ve done it once but it’s really hard to practice with everything going on in the fights
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Drakenel posted:For those of you looking around for seeker tokens, it helps to get one rank up in the trickster class. It unlocks an augment that makes them gleam really brightly and makes a repeating noise when you're near one. Where do you get it
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Lawman 0 posted:Pawns are pretty annoying with their chatter. Anyway to only shout important things? Now that's something to see
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Thumbtacks posted:I don't remember this being the case in DD1 but you can straight up run to the very last shop in the game and buy essentially maxed out weapons. kinda weird and I regret doing it because it hosed with my progression. (i did not do it for that reason i was just exploring) In DD1, you bought gear from the masterworks all guy in Gran Soren who would get progressively more powerful equipment as you went through the main storyline. So no, you couldn't do this.
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I'm a dumbass who bought the Ferristone from the counterfeit guy lol
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Thumbtacks posted:I don't remember this being the case in DD1 but you can straight up run to the very last shop in the game and buy essentially maxed out weapons. kinda weird and I regret doing it because it hosed with my progression. (i did not do it for that reason i was just exploring) ...where is this shop located? Asking for a friend Ytlaya posted:I'm a dumbass who bought the Ferristone from the counterfeit guy lol lmao Now watch as it turns out that my Beastrun Mask that I just bought is also fake or something
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Do weapons in this game not have level requirements? I remember in DD1 if you used super high-end weapons at a low level, it would make every single thing you do take tons of stamina, so it wasn't really worth it.
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Lawman 0 posted:Pawns are pretty annoying with their chatter. Anyway to only shout important things? for better or worse, a significant part of the Meme Factor of DD1 was the pawns incessantly spewing nonsense and they felt obligated to keep the spirit of it intact in DD2
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Ytlaya posted:I'm a dumbass who bought the Ferristone from the counterfeit guy lol same. I alt tabbed when i cast it bc i get bored easily by scene transitions and came back and was like... bruh I trusted him because the jadeite orb i got from him was legit ............... come to think of it I bribed him into telling that one guy the counterfeit i made was legit so technically i have no idea if its real or not
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I ran into the Thief maister guy completely on accident, boy that ability seems.. not great!
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Ytlaya posted:I'm a dumbass who bought the Ferristone from the counterfeit guy lol I can't wait to see what kind of counterfeit shenanigans you can get up to in this game. Hopefully there's nothing as bad as the first game's gold statue.
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explosivo posted:I ran into the Thief maister guy completely on accident, boy that ability seems.. not great! it's very funny that thief has some of the game's hands down best base skills (notably ensnare and helm splitter) and inarguably its worst loving maister skills. the autododge is kind of thematically appropriate, i guess, but in what loving universe is "i rub my knives together so hard they explode and also damage me" A) useful and B) something a thief would do
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Vermain posted:it's very funny that thief has some of the game's hands down best base skills (notably ensnare and helm splitter) and inarguably its worst loving maister skills. the autododge is kind of thematically appropriate, i guess, but in what loving universe is "i rub my knives together so hard they explode and also damage me" A) useful and B) something a thief would do I mean on one hand its a callback to the MA skill in DD1. And its a clue that the 'Maister' isn't the real head of the Thieves guild. If you look at the skill it doesn't get the gold borders every other Maister skill gets lol
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Have they lowered the TTK on the monsters in this one? That was always one of the things I wanted polished out in a sequel. My very vague memories of playing through it blind on PS3 were mostly of how insanely good night was handled contrasted with 30-minute slogs through what should have been cool monster battles. Edit: Also sorceror spells that looked insanely cool and then did very little damage.
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Really wish thief had my favorite dagger skill from DD1: Toss and Trigger Also wish Concussive Leap was at all useful in combat. Can't even use it to get height to grab onto things, as least as far as I can tell. As-is it just feels like I'm sacrificing a skill slot for the basic DD1 double jump. Vargs fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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One thing I noticed when browsing various rift pawns is that lots of people do not keep their pawns geared well. Some haven't even updated their skills! I saw this one level 20 pawn with only a single skill equipped.SHISHKABOB posted:same. I alt tabbed when i cast it bc i get bored easily by scene transitions and came back and was like... bruh I'm curious how the Japanese version of the game does the distinction, since they can't really do the Ferri/Ferry thing. There might just not be any unless you look at the description.
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Nuebot posted:Were there any slimes? Sometimes slimes will kill dudes. I was in the waterfall cave and as I walked into a room one just scooped up a lizard man and then after a few seconds that lizard was dead. There were a couple slimes in the cave overall but I don't think I saw any around the last gobbos, can't say for absolute certain though with it being a big cave and lots of pawns running around and all
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