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Captain Oblivious posted:Learn Maelstrom and Golems become the least threatening thing possible to Sorcerers. I just threw Maelstrom at one and it completely no sold it while raging around  Meteoron got it mostly dead real fast, but that last medal refused to go down.
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Is there any way to find out enemy elemental weaknesses beyond "see if the ability does more damage"? Pawns never seem to comment on it, and I can't find a bestiary. Thundarr posted:Golems are somehow the most dangerous monsters in the game because even if your pawns have physical attacks, there's always that one last medal they just don't want to attack, and meanwhile the golem can one shot your scrawny sorcerer rear end even at fairly high level. I had some extremely tedious Golem fights when playing as Magic Archer, where I got to the last medal and the pawns had trouble hitting it and I also seemingly did nothing to it (and didn't have the ice block physical attack equipped). I can't remember how I finally won. Fortunately my pawns had an easy time avoiding the Golem's attacks, so I was never at risk.
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Ytlaya posted:When would you actually want to use the weird zoom-in Archer skill? Getting a couple shots on a target from far away before a fight starts doesn't seem worth a skill slot. I took Lycean Sight initially because I thought it would either let me work as a sniper hitting things in the head for big damage, or let me use Explosive Arrow from way outside of range (like the Magick Archer's Flamefang Arrow. Neither turned out to be the case, so I ended up dropping it since combat always happens pretty close in when I'm trying to support my melee pawns. I wish someone would dig in and pull out the actual damage formulas for these skills. I know there's a mod that shows damage numbers, but I kind of want to know if using Deathly Shot is better because it has more knockdown. Thundarr posted:Archer rules and the only reason I am unlikely to main it after maxing everything else is because magick archer exists (and also sorcerer, for those times I want to drop meteors on the heads of everything in visual range). Magick Archer has felt really empty for me after playing Archer. The skills are powerful and easier to use, but I just miss the satisfying feeling of putting and explosive or deadly arrow into something.
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Before the game came out some prescient soul in this thread remarked that warfarer would probably have access to all armor and would be the ultimate Fashion's Dogma class. I would have passed on that class entirely if I hadn't remembered that, so a big heart-hands and a thumbs up to that person. "Nay, for mine charge hath always been and wilt forever remain to slay."
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Valdent posted:Player damage feels like it's got a few permanent periapts compared to the first game and stagger infliction is way too high for the PC and team on a bunch of vocations. enemies not gaining any sort of resistance or temp immunity to being staggered or knockdown means that any boss fight after a point falls over and dies on the spot and you don't even need stamina restores to do it. The numbers are just tuned to be really easy Stagger and interrupt in general is really high and friendly units can wind up just as ragdolled.
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Crackerjack posted:Before the game came out some prescient soul in this thread remarked that warfarer would probably have access to all armor and would be the ultimate Fashion's Dogma class. I would have passed on that class entirely if I hadn't remembered that, so a big heart-hands and a thumbs up to that person. Warfarer seems very nice in general, and seems to basically enable hybrid melee/ranged stuff pretty easily. I played Archer/Thief Warfarer for a while when going to do the elf guy's quest in NG+. How big is the stat loss from it anyways? Not sure how to tell. Defensive stats at least are probably offset by being able to freely choose whatever you want.
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Nemo2342 posted:I did it in the highish 20s with a mostly maxed out first vocation (Archer). You'll want to follow a guide if you're skipping the story quests, and if you have the RC hiring some stronger pawns helps a lot for encounters you don't run from. I did manage to make it to that big city with the dyes at level 24 (and a vocation level 2 sorcerer because I am dumb). Well, I started quite a bit lower there were some pretty great fights along the way, yay for narrow corridors and big ole stone guys who can't fit through them I'm glad that's still a thing. Honestly this is the stuff I like most, I made my own quest line of "get this sodding vocation if I have to die sixty times on the way" and it's the most fun quest yet. My pawn somehow only died once and that was being knocked off a tower that I don't think I was supposed to go to by a griffon. She also seems to have picked up the habit of sneaking up behind something with a huge stone and beaning it in the back of the head.
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Tambaloneus posted:I did manage to make it to that big city with the dyes at level 24 (and a vocation level 2 sorcerer because I am dumb). Well, I started quite a bit lower there were some pretty great fights along the way, yay for narrow corridors and big ole stone guys who can't fit through them I'm glad that's still a thing. Honestly this is the stuff I like most, I made my own quest line of "get this sodding vocation if I have to die sixty times on the way" and it's the most fun quest yet. My pawn somehow only died once and that was being knocked off a tower that I don't think I was supposed to go to by a griffon. She also seems to have picked up the habit of sneaking up behind something with a huge stone and beaning it in the back of the head. The highlight of my time playing this game is when I literally unintentionally stumbled into Battahl City (and used that as an excuse to go get Magic Archer). It was wild when I was suddenly notified that I had crossed the border. I think the path I took is the same one advised if you want to get Magic Archer early, but I didn't know that at the time.
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The "cyclops kill quest for 10k" advice for getting your pawn hired is real. I was having trouble getting nearly as many hires as I always did in the first game and had no hires over 4 days, then I followed some advice to set the cyclops kill quest for 10k gold, and have gotten 8 hires this weekend. it does mean using an inn potentially costs 12k instead of 2k which isn't nothing, but it's worth it if seeing your pawn come back makes the good chemicals in your brain concerning second line, not sure if that means pawns dying or NPCs
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Random browsing had me find out that apparently, grain of salt and all that, that enemies pre-Battahl should cap at level 30, so whatever modded XP gain nerf settings should land you at that figure. Unsure if -25% XP is enough, maybe a full third or even half?
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Are there any mods/modding tools that let you re-name your pawn mid-game? Not being able to do so is legit the change I dislike the most from DD1, where I'd switch them up whenever the idea struck me. Right now I'm rushing to finish the game so I can start a new one with new Arisen/pawn.
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Cleaned up the map fog in Battahl and all I have left is where you get magick archer/wayfarer but from posts here sounds like there isn't much exploration there that isn't endgame story related. Also the game dumped on me one last sidequest when I revisted the hot springs to remove scars
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Elf archer guy is very lucky I was in the morgue looking for Dante's corpse and just happened to find him dead somehow following the Trial of Archery quest (I guess he just didn't make it back to the village?). Of course now the elf guy is in love with me as a result.
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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. at the very very end of the world having done all quests and about to finish, ralsei was one haircut away from loving me haha. so gave 'em a fancy coiffure and got da cutscene Ytlaya posted:Warfarer seems very nice in general, and seems to basically enable hybrid melee/ranged stuff pretty easily. I played Archer/Thief Warfarer for a while when going to do the elf guy's quest in NG+. another note about the true warfarer mod, beyond allowing 3 skills for each specific weapon it also lets you equip ultimate skills. definitely OP, but great fun for chill adventuring with all da options at your disposal. still looking for a method to unlock all vocations from the very start of a NG though, guessing there's a cheat engine way to do that
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The dad elf dude was my beloved lol. Probably because I had done the set of elven quests last and he was one of the last people I talked to, even though I had multiple max affinity NPCs from before. I think NPC affinity decays over time and it chooses based on recency, but why it gave me him instead of any of the hotter younger elves is a mystery. 😔 (Realistically because quest NPCs get naturally high affinity from their questlines, though in that case I'm not sure why it chose the dad instead of the son or the daughter.) Looking into it, I did get the "high affinity" pawn true ending though, so there's that at least.
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Phlegmish posted:
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puttered in NG+ running with the token finder augment and i gotta say some of these locations are cruel as gently caress. fwiw i was able to reach all of them so far with thief + concussive detonation or whatever its called. you get enough air time to get to most spots and many cliff walls have small ledges. I collected 180 or something but dont really want to find more, i do not get why they made the 220 reward the +DP ring. by the time you get 220 you wont need DP. probably going to take a break so my sorceror with like 1100 matk and maelstrom will be sitting there at 70 or something, its in the spreadsheet. it's definitely overpowered and if she casts maelstrom it will pretty much kill most big things so have fun with that
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Oh come the gently caress on; a harpy just dropped me half way down a river canyon. I can't climb up, and I can't even drown myself because I'll reappear on this tiny little ledge. Thanks game, love to spend a rift stone on this bullshit.
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Man, I missed Dragon's Dogma. The setting and atmosphere is just so fun and cool to me.
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Got the true ending. The post-game was cool as heck. Everything was super easy because I was already level 60 when I got to it.
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I'm about done with the game for now, although I might do people's pawn quests just for fun, and obviously I will continue to beg for beetles (I would appreciate one if you're already past the cap, otherwise keep them for yourself). My review is up: https://steamcommunity.com/id/656549/recommended/2054970/ It was a difficult one. 57% on Steam is stupid and purely due to the drama, obviously it deserves more than that, so I knew I had to leave a positive review. At the same time, there is so much wasted potential in Dragon's Dogma 2. The longtime fans wanted more DD and that's exactly what we got, but we didn't really get more than that. My hope is that the game will continue to improve patch after patch, and that eventually they'll have the equivalent of Bitterblack Isle, and I do think this is realistic, so I am optimistic in that regard.
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RubberLuffy posted:Got the true ending. The post-game was cool as heck. It's kind of easy in general. The stealth mission early on is Baby's First Metal Gear lmao Still rad though but I do recall DD1/DA being a kick in the rear end if you ever slipped up
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My rating on DD2 is equal to the percentage of frames from 60 that it runs at
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Jack B Nimble posted:Item storage is full? Item storage is full!? If it’s special arrows then yeah they have a shockingly low storage limit, only 50
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Oh, ok, a stack is full, that's much less panic inducing. This frickin' pawn, I overburdened myself with crafting materials and in the ~10 seconds it takes to reach a vendor it took ALL of my materials and redistributed it to it's inventory. But I can't sell it from the pawn's inventory! So now I have to tediously reassign them all! No, no, no, no. I think I'm going to stop hiring Logisticians.
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Everdraed posted:
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Good lord that final golem phase is an experience. One jumped on my pawn, stared down at it, then just lasered that poor fucker for like ten seconds straight. I probably could have killed it during that time, because it stood still for a good long while. But like, I just wanted to see where it was going with this.
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Lmao pawns are loving obsessed with treasure, whether with acquiring it or telling other pawns that it's probably dogshit anyway
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Third World Reagan posted:My rating on DD2 is equal to the percentage of frames from 60 that it runs at I don't know if it's because of the update but I am now getting 100+ FPS in certain areas so I guess I should be giving it a 166%. Vernworth performance is still trash however, only thing that is certain other than death and taxes
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Phlegmish posted:Vernworth performance is still trash however, only thing that is certain other than death and taxes I thought people were exaggerating about it They weren't, it's rough
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RBA Starblade posted:I thought people were exaggerating about it Yeah, I take solace in the fact that it sounds like it doesn't really matter what your specs are, it's going to lag in vernworth.
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Jack B Nimble posted:
yes. I never want one. I manage the inventory, they are the worst. their bullshit only makes me manage it more!
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explosivo posted:Yeah, I take solace in the fact that it sounds like it doesn't really matter what your specs are, it's going to lag in vernworth. It's not actually that bad for me. Noticably slower than anywhere else, but not enough to actually make the game worse. But also for some reason anyone I'm not looking at will literally just disappear. The quest to follow the beggar got real weird when I spun my camera around and he just vanished and warped straight to his destination.
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I started the unmoored world and an realizing I would rather this be the last thing I do with the game. I wanted to start new game plus and do all the content I accidentally missed, but I'm unsure how. Is there no way to exit the post game if you start it?
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Jack B Nimble posted:Oh, ok, a stack is full, that's much less panic inducing. Wait, why can't you sell it from the pawn's inventory? I guess I feel personally attacked as someone who has a Logistician pawn, it's never really been a problem for me, although I'm loling at the people who tried to do the ripened quince quest but their pawn kept turning it into dried fruit
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LibbyM posted:I started the unmoored world and an realizing I would rather this be the last thing I do with the game. I wanted to start new game plus and do all the content I accidentally missed, but I'm unsure how. Is there no way to exit the post game if you start it? The unmoored world does actually come to an end, once you get rid of all the Purgeners (or let their regions be destroyed) and then interact with the final beam. You can just start NG+ after that, that's what I did.
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