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CharlestonJew posted:postgame stuff: Well he aint my boy but the brother is heavy
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Is there a good way to max out vocations fast? I'm sick of playing a mage at level 23 but I'd like to get the buff augment
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Mar 31, 2024 15:58
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Broose posted:I think for my next playthrough when they finally release any big DLC I will get a mod that decreases player XP earned from small mobs (but leaves vocation XP the same). I've just got done exploring everything in Vernworth and about to do the coronation, but I'm already level 40+. The big guys are nothing, and I have a feeling what I meet in the desert will be the same. I don't really have a problem with the difficulty, but I outlevel everything so quickly just checking every nook and cranny. This could be a big help, in my repeat run I'm like halfway through the initial Brandt quests but I decided to wander off to do the Sphinx riddles, unlock Trickster and Magic Archer, and put portcrystals down in the Volcanic Isles/Bakbattahl and generally fart around. Now I'm over level 30 and everything in Vermund is pretty much irrelevant, and I tried to run from most fights but occasionally had to stop and kill some things (I was surprised that I could, frankly).
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Mar 31, 2024 16:01
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Jose posted:Is there a good way to max out vocations fast? I'm sick of playing a mage at level 23 but I'd like to get the buff augment Best option I know of is to play Warfarer because it levels up all the vocations together
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Mar 31, 2024 16:02
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Jose posted:Is there a good way to max out vocations fast? I'm sick of playing a mage at level 23 but I'd like to get the buff augment You get a boost to dcp (as well as xp) gain for running around with support pawns that are a much lower level than you, or none at all.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:03
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Phlegmish posted:It's peak Dragon's Dogma for this entire system to be hidden from the player. I don't know who would ever organically end up maxing out their affinity with their pawn. Who the gently caress is visiting the hot springs every ten minutes? I didn't do it even once during my first playthrough. High fives raise pawn affinity.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:24
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I really liked how the ending sequence gives a highlight reel of your most used/longest travelled with pawns as well as showing who your best friends among the NPCs are. Glyndwyr was my second closest friend despite me fobbing off his requests to do escort quests three times. Postgame was a bit confusing, I think I was meant to talk to NPCs more before going to the glowing points of interest on the map but I could never find anyone with anything relevant to say on that subject, even if the journal entries suggested some stuff was following their plans.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:39
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Any mods that adjust falling damage? I'm tired of seeing a cool cliff I wanna jump off but can't bc I don't want to be asked about my wake stones.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:39
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Khanstant posted:Any mods that adjust falling damage? I'm tired of seeing a cool cliff I wanna jump off but can't bc I don't want to be asked about my wake stones. https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/178 Alternatively employ the advanced traversal techniques: https://twitter.com/DragonsDogma/status/1773127351867473970?s=20
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i got in trouble with the castle guards a few times for walking places i wasn't supposed to. after casually strolling out of jail for the 3rd time i tried to escort the girl from the slums up to the noble quarter for that quest but the noble kid started punching me as soon as i walked into his house so i killed him and his maid and every guard who came running and now the little girl is just following me everywhere with no option to send her away. guess i could throw her off a cliff but now i'm wondering how long she'll follow me
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Mar 31, 2024 16:42
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Reive posted:Would I enjoy Dark Arisen after finishing 2? I've had it for forever and always felt it was incredibly difficult but my mindset for 2 tells me I should give it another try. I'm playing it now and I'm only early on but DD2 doesn't seem that much of a step up lol In fact I may end up preferring it if only because it tells you which characters have quests.
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the goon pawn sheet cannot be sorted by level, its column is locked. can someone with permissions please sort it by level?
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Mar 31, 2024 16:55
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Incidentally, has anybody else on PS5 noticed this game absolutely shits through controller battery? I thought it was just my pad batteries getting tired but i was playing another game yesterday and it was normal, then onto dragdog again today and again, bottom of a mcdonald's milkshake noises from the batteries. e: VVV huh, i would have expected "no it's just you" but not "no, and in fact it's the opposite". wtf. Stanko-Prussian fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Mar 31, 2024 16:59
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Stanko-Prussian posted:Incidentally, has anybody else on PS5 noticed this game absolutely shits through controller battery? I thought it was just my pad batteries getting tired but i was playing another game yesterday and it was normal, then onto dragdog again today and again, bottom of a mcdonald's milkshake noises from the batteries. no, my controller batteries have lasted an unusual amount of time playing this compared to most of the other games I play.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:00
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I don't think it helps that it's using vibration feedback for a lot of little things. At one point it was just non-stop 'bzzzzzzzzzzzt' vibrations when I was fighting the poison asps alongside a troll and a gryphon. My controller runs out of charge very quickly anyway, but it's very fast on DD2. The dualsense battery has always been anaemic, and games like DD2 just highlights it.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:03
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SHISHKABOB posted:That they didn't add more vocations is definitely my biggest disappointment about dd2. I don't really understand why they got rid of those other ones. Assassin and thief sure I guess, but they coulda made assassin the advanced form of thief. There were like, 9 vocations in the first game, if my math isn't wrong this game has 10. Definitely wish they'd kept the classes they dropped though, mystic knight was my favorite class in the first game and nothing in this one replaces its unique skillset.
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SHISHKABOB posted:That they didn't add more vocations is definitely my biggest disappointment about dd2. I don't really understand why they got rid of those other ones. Assassin and thief sure I guess, but they coulda made assassin the advanced form of thief. What did Assassin have in DD1 that isn't available in DD2?
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Sea Lily posted:Best option I know of is to play Warfarer because it levels up all the vocations together i'm level 23 and still dicking around verheim how long will it take me to get it? magick archer losing dagger skills sucks. Using immolate to climb on monsters ruled
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Mar 31, 2024 17:06
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Stanko-Prussian posted:Incidentally, has anybody else on PS5 noticed this game absolutely shits through controller battery? I thought it was just my pad batteries getting tired but i was playing another game yesterday and it was normal, then onto dragdog again today and again, bottom of a mcdonald's milkshake noises from the batteries. My controller has lasted about as long as it usually does. Are you spending lots of time out of breath from sprinting so the controller loudly makes panting noises? E: you should be able to use Warfarer to replicate DD1 versions of Assassin and Magick Archer easily enough. Mystic Swordsman fans out of luck though. Thundarr fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Mar 31, 2024 17:08
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Jose posted:i'm level 23 and still dicking around verheim how long will it take me to get it? Warfarer and Magick Archer are unlocked right before the end of the game if you follow the story missions.
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Jack Trades posted:What did Assassin have in DD1 that isn't available in DD2? The only thing I can think of that might matter to someone out there is the augment that boosted your stats if you were playing without pawns.
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Nuebot posted:There were like, 9 vocations in the first game, if my math isn't wrong this game has 10. Definitely wish they'd kept the classes they dropped though, mystic knight was my favorite class in the first game and nothing in this one replaces its unique skillset. There should be a million vocations imo. With a lot more spells too. Where's my Uber lightning ability???
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SHISHKABOB posted:There should be a million vocations imo. With a lot more spells too. Where's my Uber lightning ability??? I just want a punchman class with gauntlet weapons. Every game needs that, solely to appease me. Because I'm that important.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:13
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Jack Trades posted:Warfarer and Magick Archer are unlocked right before the end of the game if you follow the story missions. well that sucks
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Jose posted:well that sucks If you want, you can unlock it as soon as you get to the big desert city, if you look up where to go.
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v1ld posted:I went back to DD:DA after about 20 hours in DD2 - not because I disliked my time in DD2, was having a lot of fun, but more because it makes sense to wait on patches and DLC for DD2 while finishing the game I always liked but never got more than 20 hours into. My biggest problem with DD back in the day was trash mobs feeling overwhelming, the trek with the oxcart to the capital killed my interest every time because of the constant harpies and bandits, everything felt like it hit way too hard and had too much sponge health. I'm curious how much of that is me playing dumb or if it was an actual issue.
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Reive posted:My biggest problem with DD back in the day was trash mobs feeling overwhelming, the trek with the oxcart to the capital killed my interest every time because of the constant harpies and bandits, everything felt like it hit way too hard and had too much sponge health. I'm curious how much of that is me playing dumb or if it was an actual issue. Did you...uhhh...play on Hard Mode? Or have you not acquired any gear at all before doing that mission?
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Nuebot posted:I just want a punchman class with gauntlet weapons. Every game needs that, solely to appease me. Because I'm that important. And that's valid.
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Reive posted:My biggest problem with DD back in the day was trash mobs feeling overwhelming, the trek with the oxcart to the capital killed my interest every time because of the constant harpies and bandits, everything felt like it hit way too hard and had too much sponge health. I'm curious how much of that is me playing dumb or if it was an actual issue. That was my memory from my first runs too, but I picked better skills this time through. All of that felt pretty straightforward, including the Saurians in the well. I think DD2 has a better intro sequence and I was better at the game this time. But the 3 Ogres in the Quarry are another matter, though maybe I shouldn't have gone there straight after reaching Gran Soren. I brute forced the first one, but then went back to the city to figure out a better skill load out and also to craft better healing. Fighter feels really good so far, now that I've got some skills. I feel like I'm engaging more with the game's systems this time. Crafting better healing for myself and pawns for eg., not chewing through Greenwarish that can provide significantly better healing through crafting. Unlike the original, you get the Eternal Ferrystone right away when you get to Gran Soren - infinite but limited fast travel right out of the gate. There's also a very early Portcrystal at the bottom of the Everfall, make sure you pick it up in that first visit. So it's quite the gentler start than the original game when it comes to getting around. The combat does feel more consequential so far than DD2. It's easier to die/you have to stay more watchful. I may even put in a slower leveling mod to keep that feeling as I'm enjoying having to engage with the game's crafting and stuff.
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HUGE shoutout to the True Warfarer mod which works really smoothly and makes Warfarer infinitely more fun. Strong recommend. Easy as heck to install, too.
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Post-game silliness Told to go talk to city leaders to evacuate the city Go to Vernworth - Disa is locked in her room? talk to Sven, who now has a crown - he says I need to talk to Brant talk to Brant - he says if the world is ending I need to talk to Sven talk to Sven - "Brant told me the world is ending and we need to evacuate", but he needs to convince his mom and I need to convince the ox-cart drivers to help go to Disa's room, pick her up, carry her to Sven. Sven "hey thanks for bringing mom to me" go to the Ox-cart - Allard is throwing a tantrum because he wants to use the carts for his valuables. I pull out my daggers and he runs away screaming, then the ox-cart driver says thanks, quest complete. Go to the Elf village. Talk to the leader Leader - "We elves will stay here" talk to him again "we're staying" again "no" again "ok you convinced me, let's evacuate" I can see this kinda poo poo being frustrating or whatever but I just laughed.
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You know, have they said anything about a potential hard mode for this game? That was something that was added with the DA dlc in the original, no?
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Broken Cog posted:You know, have they said anything about a potential hard mode for this game? They haven't but you can easily replicate DD1 Hard Mode right now. https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/195
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Jack Trades posted:They haven't but you can easily replicate DD1 Hard Mode right now. Thanks, but I feel a mode made by the devs themselves would likely be more enjoyable. Especially if they did more than just tweak some values
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Broken Cog posted:Thanks, but I feel a mode made by the devs themselves would likely be more enjoyable. DD1's Hard Mode only tweaked those same values, for the record.
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Mystic Spearhand is pretty fun, I had my doubts moving from Thief but I'm loving being invincible and throwing everyone around like a Jedi.
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I may be crazy for this but I can't help but feel as though the ogres, trolls and chimeras have had their difficulties neutered in this game. The hardest time I had with the chimera was during the sidequest where you had to get the poison lover to be doused in chimeric snake venom. They're barely a threat otherwise and can either be chain stunlocked with well-placed shots or slashes, or get too lost in their own attack animations to really hit anyone? Comparing them to DD1 where climbing was far more effective at dealing damage encouraged the player to get real up close to them and it felt like their AI knew how to deal with that. Like I beat the Medusa earlier and it felt like they didn't have any idea where the party was.
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I'm looking at merging a couple of DDDA mods and unpacked game_main.arc. The names of the files that control vocation ranks are interesting, they don't match the names we see in the game itself. - Mage rank growth is in a file named Magic User (LvMagicUser.lvl.xml). Perhaps reflecting Itsuno's interest in early D&D? - Mystic Knight is Paladin. Another nod to D&D? - Ranger is Hunter. Well, there goes the D&D theory as Ranger was in og D&D and in AD&D wikipedia says. - Magick Archer is Trickster. So that vocation name was already in the original game. - Sorcerer is Wizard. - Warrior is Battler. - Fighter, Assassin, Strider all have the same names for their files.
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RubberLuffy posted:Post-game silliness My Vernworth experience was broadly similar but for the elves the chief's daughter convinced him to evacuate because I'd helped the tree by getting cinderscale for it earlier, and it was pretty nice to see how prior good deeds made people well disposed to your suggestions in the post-game. Was the same with the couple on volcanic isle saying they'd trust me because I'd done right by them before.
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"Oh man, doing Helmsplitter right now will be SOOO cool!" Do you want to use a Wakestone? Yes/No
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