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Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Just got this, was it a mistake to start as a mage? It seems kind of bland, and during on of the monster fights at the beginning my pawn kept screaming for me to jump on the head which wouldn't have worked really good.. thinking of rerolling a strider dude for climby-stabby goodness

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Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Anyone else not very far and casually playing the game? I'm level 25 (also have a 17 on another account) and it would be nice to have some reliable pawns to play with and also people progressing through around the same time roughly

My pawns are -

PSN - xDanith,
Pawn - Aveline, level 25 fighter
I tried to make her look like Aveline from Dragon Age 2 and was trying to get her personality the same. She works pretty well for me.

PSN - xDanith2
Pawn - Magda, level 17 mage
Was tired of going to the Nexus and seeing 90% of the pawns being short girl-childs so I made this pawn fat, tall, and old. When I was using her she was doing a better job healing and buffing me then any other pawns I've tried. Although with her being tall, fat and old she hasn't had one person hire her out :(

edit: Anyone have any objections of editing the spreadsheet a bit.. like making separate tabs for ps3 and xbox 360? Maybe adding checkboxes/dropdowns for pawn class and stuff?

Danith fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 3, 2012

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Renoistic posted:

I wanted to make a bad-rear end strider Geralt of Rivia (from the Witcher games/novels) but messed up. It doesn't really show in the screenshot, but he is way too feminine and weird-looking, and his pony tail clips through EVERYTHING. He makes the best faces, though, and makes me laugh every time he shows up in a cutscene. I can forget about taking anything remotely seriously!



I'm pretty happy with his best friend/pawn Zoltan, though. He looks like a world-weary warrior with a hangover and serious sleep-deprivation.



BFFs :unsmith:



Any chance of the slider settings to make a good Geralt and Zoltan? I'm bad at making characters look good :(

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I haven't seen this mentioned yet but yesterday when I was playing as a sorcerer and had a goons sorcerer pawn with a tip popped up saying pawns will notice when you are casting a long spell and if they mirror it you cast it faster :o

It works too! Also, when the pawn was 1/2 way through casting his metorer spell, I started casting it and the cast bar immediatly went to 1/2 done. Thought that was a neat thing to add to the game. I wonder if it would go super fast with a party of 4 sorcerers.

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I was thinking doing a hardcore run would be interesting (especially the 'how I died' descriptions :) ).. Maybe when I beat the normal game I'll try one.

We could do rules like -
Start from new game only
Can only use other hard core running peoples pawns
If a hired pawn dies you can't use them again

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Renoistic posted:

A long time ago ITT someone asked about my Geralt and Zoltan characters, but I never got around to buying the thing you need to edit existing characters so I could check how I made them.
Well, now I've finally bought it so I thought I'd share.

When I write colors as numbers I count them from left to right.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 etc..

Geralt of Rivia

Voice: 1

Hairstyle: 25 Color: 18
Face: 40 Size: 7 (from 1 to 9) Color: 5
Eyes: 15 V: 2 (1 to 5) Sp: 3 Size: 3 Color1and2: 18
Brows: 34 V: 3 Sp: 3 Color: 11
Nose: 13 V: 3 Size: 3
Mouth: 01 V: 3
Ears: 02 V: 3 Pos.: 3

Stature: H: 6 W: 3 Color: 5
Musculature: 4
Torso: 03
Arms: 03
Legs: 11
Posture: 4
Stance: 4

Scars: 27
Wrinkles: 3
Facial Hair: 01 Color 4
Makeup: 02 Color: 7 (Makes the eyes "pop" but he looks pretty funny in some cutscenes)


Zoltan

Voice: 2

Hairstyle: 39 Color: 2
Face: 27 Size: 5 (from 1 to 9) Color: 11
Eyes: 24 V: 2 (1 to 5) Sp: 1 Size: 1 Color1and2: 4
Brows: 37 V: 1 Sp: 1 Color: 1
Nose: 28 V: 5 Size: 5 (Don't ever ask him about his nose)
Mouth: 21 V: 5
Ears: 06 V: 1 Pos.: 3

Stature: H: 1 W: 5 Color: 11
Musculature: 5
Torso: 09
Arms: 11
Legs: 08
Posture: 1 (It's a dog's life)
Stance: 5

Scars: 34
Wrinkles: 4
Facial Hair: 23 Color 2
Makeup: 01

Here they are as they first started out :unsmith:


Awesome, thanks! Have to make these characters and maybe finish the play through this time

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I deleted my previous game and restarted a couple days ago (I was only past the first 3 wyrmslayer quests anyways). I'm at pretty much the same place now and looking for PS3 goons to hire my pawn, and me to hire some goon pawns - around level 33. PSN ID is xDanith, pawn is named Merlin - an old sorcerer dude who is a bit absent minded.

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Na, my dude is old and grey bearded and level 34 or so.

This game keeps making my PS3 pause for a few seconds to load poo poo. I don't know if it's my PS3 dying, my new HDD being crap (WD Blue 500GB) or the blu-ray drive dying. It sucks to run up to a big monster and hit grapple only to have the game pause for 3-4 seconds while the yellow loading light comes on the ps3. Also happens breaking some barrels and other moves.

Tried rebuilding data and deleting the game data and still doing it. Making me rage so hard.

I wish the PS3 had a install to HDD option :(

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Want to remind people about the google spreadsheet with goon pawns - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjSfcATozBXidFB3ZVVQUDA2d2tfZElncXB4ZXk0OWc#gid=0

Also to say to grab my old man Merlin and get angry at him as he starts casting, moves a step and cancels and does it over and over :)

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Well, I made a form to enter in info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dFB3ZVVQUDA2d2tfZElncXB4ZXk0OWc6MQ

and wanted to make a 2nd part that would take the info and if it is PSN then put it in the PSN sheet, if 360 then put it in 360 sheet..

But I can't think atm and I'm stupid :|

edit: maybe remove form and just split up the sheet manually into those 2 tabs...

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Wooph posted:

So once Capcom is done with RE6 for the PC they'll port Dragon's Dogma over too right? .....right?:smith:

No, I believe they said it wouldn't happen ever

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

The game would actually be too good with a smooth framerate and sick texture packs and stuff and they don't want to make other developers feel bad.

well maybe we can try a Dark Souls thing and start an internet petition :rms:

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Bakalakadaka posted:

Has anyone ever fought the Everfall ogre without it flying off the edge to its death? I feel like its scripted to do that every time.

I've never had it do that :(

It does like to take my pawns and throw them to their death as I run past though!

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Woo, I beat the dragon. What do you think about that Merlin (my pawn)?

Merlin - Crates may hold aught of use

:3:


edit: bah, goblins. I'll just mow through these in a second and continue on my w.. :stonk:

Danith fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 30, 2013

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Meowjesty posted:

I've learned of this beast.


On a related note, if I could get the Catarina armor for Dragon's Dogma I'd do nothing but roam around with me and my four Onion bros.

On a related note, if I could get the Catarina armor for Dragon's Dogma I'd do nothing but roamroll around with me and my four Onion bros.

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
sorry if I missed this, but will you be able to load your dragons dogma save in Dark Arisen or will you have to start over?

Danith
May 20, 2006
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Looking at those amazon screen shots I'm thinking 'Why don't my screenshots look that good!' :argh:

Danith
May 20, 2006
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All blurry muddy brown horse poop screen shots :(

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

jonjonaug posted:

You level up pretty quickly once you reach Gran Soren again. The trek back there after killing the Dragon was one of my favorite parts when playing the game, just because of how the game takes the kid gloves off and proceeds to pummel you in the face until you learn to stop being so bad at it.

I wish the post game wasn't so dark. One of the reasons I moved on was that it was always dark and hard to see things.

Danith
May 20, 2006
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So I made the shortest skinniest dude I could so I could check out those holes in that keep I could never get in but I find I don't like playing him. Is there anything worthwhile in those holes or to running a short dude?

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I think the spreadsheet should have separate tabs for xbox or ps3

edit: some pictures of my various adventures

The only way to ride


Smash!


Lizard wrangling


Danith fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Apr 27, 2013

Danith
May 20, 2006
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Kreczor posted:

Is it possible to change the vocation for my pawn? I don't think I want to keep him as fighter forever.

Gibbed, Quash joined my party yet again and we had great adventure. We had some escort to bring a peddler to some wall across the entire game world, and I chose to leave during the morning so I didn't have to get overwhelmed. Little did I know that this adventure took an entire in-game day to complete and had to kill two cyclops and two chimeras along the way. That along with an entire castle full of Amazon Bandits who kill men on sight made it completely epic and it was all for naught. My escort died 10 feet from the wall and I failed... thank god I had a transport stone!

I also managed to get thrown in jail like four times. Besides wasting 5k or having a skele key on you, is there any other way to get out of jail? - Also, should I be buying gear from vendors at all? I seem to waste all my gold on stuff like that.

Are those the women bandits at a wall at uhh.. somewhere? On my other play through they would just ignore me and if I tried talking to them they would say that the leader wouldn't talk to me because I'm not a women

Danith
May 20, 2006
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Where do I find the berserk gear?

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Nahxela posted:

In the start menu's options, you can check your connectivity to see if it's offline or online. Not sure what else you can do to check. You can also try resting at an Inn and see if it updates stuff for your pawn.

After I started DA for the first time, it was set to offline by default and my pawn renting-out option was set to friends only for some reason

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
you can also send a friend request through dragons dogma and it sends a nice message :3

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Someone mentioned it a bunch of pages ago and in a bunch of playing I never knew you could pick up the spiders, rats, and snakes that are around. Holy poo poo it's great throwing spiders back and forth between you and your pawns, and rats are so cute when you are holding them :3:

Danith
May 20, 2006
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Millions posted:

Holy god drat, that's going in the OP. If anyone else has any good screenshots of their Arisen/Pawn that are based on any real people or fictional characters, post them! The showcase section of the OP has been pretty barren since the beginning of the thread.

Samurai Sanders you never posted your Bowie pawn from vanilla DD :colbert:




:V

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I hit 41 and released the pawns I was using for 9-10 levels. Pumpkinreaper - Jivers, hopefully you got a lot of crystals, your little guy was pretty cool. BTW, in the nexus he has a normale male voice. I was initially disappointed when I first talked to him but as soon as he talked outside of the nexus I loved it.

Umm, healer pawn dude (I can't recall the name :( ) it healed pretty well. It did have a tendency to cast cold enchant way too much though :)


edit - Jivers is a sneaky fella. I kept trying to pick him up and throw him but as soon as I got close he would step away :(

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I beat the game, (well, the dragon. Now on post-game stuff)

Image dump!

Run!



Bird tits


Just sent a hellhound flying. Also, check out my 3-hammer weapon :v:


Tried to get a screenshot of my crew (auto-corrected color and sharpen filter in IrfanView so hopefully you can see things)


action shot


edit: someone deleted everyones level in the spreadsheet :(

Also Pumpkinreaper, I think you broke Jivers. He refuses to use any special arrows that I give him. Would have helped a lot when fighting a griffin :)

edit2: vvvv ok then

Danith fucked around with this message at 03:56 on May 3, 2013

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
I decided to step into the new area and check it out. It was all fun and games until I got to the chained up cyclops. Right when I enter the room my pawns decide to attack the chains and release it, and it proceeds to stomp around continuously killing them over and over as they all decide to run to the same place every time I revive them. After trying to damage it for awhile, I see some dragon thing decided to join the fight and I just gave up.

wtf, how am I supposed to kill it - am I supposed to change to a ranged class just so I can damage it? My party was level 54 warrior (me), 54 healing mage, 100 sorcerer, 53 strider.

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Would there be any point to finishing the game and then going to the new area on new game+?

edit: ^^^^^^ He was stomping and shaking his arms pretty much non-stop. Maybe I'll switch to magic archer and see how they are :|

Danith
May 20, 2006
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RatHat posted:

This isn't possible. It's probably someone who left the game world so you can't tell if they're gone or not. If you mean you didnt get the ring dropping from the sky cutscene, that just means your beloved wasn't the person you gave the ring to.

what ring? In my 3 play throughs I never got a ring to give to anyone.

In my most recent game which I killed the dragon earlier today my lover was Julien, who I killed and brought back to life. :v:

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
So that chained up cyclops in BB, are you not supposed to kill him? I got up to level 74 and tried him again and as soon as the chains break he just non-stop stomps continuously and pawns just run around his feet getting killed over and over despite what ever orders I give them.

Also, Pumpkinreaper, Jivers got eaten by a mimic :v: I found he doesn't seem to be very good in BB :(

Danith
May 20, 2006
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Rascyc posted:

Prisoner goreclops is weakest to ice. Six/Ninefold shot tears him to pieces.

For melee, I've gotten way more mileage from ankle biting. There's only one sweet spot on his face that you are vaguely safe and it's dodgy because his constant swinging will bump you, plus the massive stamina drain every time he swings. His face being a weak spot is more about knocking him down and then finishing him off in the face, at least when it comes to melee.

I was magic archer and the abilities didn't seem to do much damage. The only one that made the health bar move a noticeable amount was sixfold arrows and it was a small amount I figured it wasn't worth it, especially when the pawns just run around like retards getting stomped.

Danith
May 20, 2006
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kirbysuperstar posted:



Also man do I ever love the "looks like butt' filter that DA seems to apply to its screenshots.

You can try loading the image into irfanview first and using the Image -> Auto Adjust Colors option, and then an Image -> Sharpen. Makes them look better to me at least.

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years
Where is Fornival in post game?

Danith
May 20, 2006
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ARACHNOTRON , I've been using your pawn and I think it's main issue is that the primary inclination is Guardian, which makes it stick close to the arisen and not do much.

Random Hajile, I've also been taking your pawn out for a little bit and gave her some extra stuff I had in my stash

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Danith posted:

ARACHNOTRON , I've been using your pawn and I think it's main issue is that the primary inclination is Guardian, which makes it stick close to the arisen and not do much.

Random Hajile, I've also been taking your pawn out for a little bit and gave her some extra stuff I had in my stash

I released your pawns and rested. Hopefully you both get your stuff (Magnanimous Cloak, forged gold idol and other random gear). I took them through a room of BB which ended up having a giant dog thing which took about an hour to kill because I was trying out mystic knight then we went and plundered the Everfall for awhile.

Also, my favorite class is the Warrior but as someone said above it feels like you pretty much have to be ranged with the latter things so got Mystic Archer filled out and drat it feels overpowered.

Danith
May 20, 2006
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I have the best outfit.

Also, my first attempt at an animated gif :v:



edit: now I need a nice action shot with pawns to do this on

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Danith
May 20, 2006
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oh god, I think that neutralizing potion, 15/15/15 potion breaks something. I did it earlier to get my pawn Utilitarian/medicant/scather. I just checked my pawn because she was picking up more items then I remember her doing before and now she's utilitarian/pioneer o0


edit: ^^^^^ switch to Mystic Archer (magic archer? whatever) and spam ricochet shot over and over. Otherwise thinks seem a lot more resistant to physical damage then the normal game, try lightning enchants

edit2: I think I also taught Jivers some bad habits - he's Scather/Acquistor :v:

Danith fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 10, 2013

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