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SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I can't figure out how to actually use the Chirurgeon specialization thingy. Do I need to go to the pawn guild to use it?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 21:52

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 22:52

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Ytlaya posted:

Ugh, I beat a Gryphon but had to use a wakestone (my only one) because it one-shot me near the end. It only had like half of its final health bar left! The fight took forever, and I think it didn't help that my level 8 Mage pawn was underleveled (I immediately replaced him with a level 15 one afterwards, since that's my level).

Is that Gryphon attack a scripted part of the quest where you deliver a letter to Melve via oxcart?

Speaking of that quest, it had an hourglass in the quest log. I did it immediately because I wasn't sure if that meant it was timed (though from the description it doesn't seem like it should be timed, so the hourglass may have just been referring to the need to take the cart at a specific time).

Was it in the town itself with a bunch of NPCs helping because lol poo poo I am not fighting a Gryphon!

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 23:44

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I have some warrior pawn with me who sucks rear end because he literally runs in circles around me during big monster fights or he does the thing where he flings me into the air for no reason. Like dude wtf are you doing go hit the ogre with your giant sword.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 00:27

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Grondoth posted:

That's really cool if you're a melee guy, but... not useful otherwise. Pawns don't seem to know that they should take the ride, and probably would need to see it happen to think to do it themselves.

I think I watched him chuck my fighter onto this dragon thing I was fighting who had a lot of fun on it im sure. But then he spent the rest of the fight doing literal circles around me.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 01:18

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victrix posted:

what's up with the steam reviews, this is tracking like a horrible mobile game or some poo poo

They're steam reviews dude it's just like an online newspaper comment section.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 01:27

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Is there a point to "multiclassing" vocations? Like ahould i get max rank mage? Or can I just go the whole game as sorcerer and it's fine.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 18:51

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Deified Data posted:

Look at the augments each class can learn on the vocation change screen and decide what if any of them you'd like on your pawn - you can equip augments learned as one class onto any other class.

Oo that's useful.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 18:54

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I love it when I randomly come across a squad of 4 adventurers running around killing poo poo just like me.

Third World Reagan posted:

What if a cyclops falls onto the cart?

Because that happened and it refused to move.

Everytime my ox cart gets ambushed at night I think I accidentally blow it up with my spells lol

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 20:08

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I finally discovered you can use levitate to go straight up higher by watching a pawn I hired do it.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 20:59

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8-bit Miniboss posted:

Wha� what did you think levitate does?

Listen the game has funky controls.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 21:44

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Are things like Jasper and Tiger's eye mostly just for selling and for maybe giving to people to raise affinity?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 23:21

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

So i'm level 26 with 491 magick power but I dropped on Meteoron on a Gryphon and it lost all its health except uhhh

about that much.

I used Maelstrom on a cyclops and it didn't do hardly that much damage. I think there's a lot of luck in whether or not your spells make good contact.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 00:48

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Vintersorg posted:

Seems everyone here picked melee? No posts about casters so I can get hot tips?

Ive been playing as sorcerer and it's fun. I bring a mage, warrior and fighter with me and it seems to work decently. Using High Levin a lot but also High Hagol which if you cast it enough it tends to slow monsters to a crawl. High Seism did a lot of damage vs a golem.

I just got the two maister skills maelstrom and meteoron and they are both sick as gently caress.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 02:51

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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

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 03:28

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I feel like the progression in this game is kinda funny. I did pretty much everything in Vermund, and am like level 30 in Battahl now and have all my skills unlocked. I just want to be a sorcerer, there's no vocations that I'm interested besides it. I know the game is like "you should try them all!" but I don't want to. I'm just gonna keep casting hagol, levin, seism and meteoron at people I guess.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 17:01

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Broken Cog posted:

Literally nothing changes. It's extremely anticlimatic lol

Edit: Actually, anyone tried doing that quest without your main pawn summoned?

How do you unsummon your main pawn

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 17:03

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Jimlit posted:

throw them into any body of water.

oh : )

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 17:15

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Broken Cog posted:

If you have a red pawn, fighters seem to get summoned a lot more than warriors.
I guess everyone turns their pawn into a warrior when they can, so there's a lack of fighters on higher levels. And fighters probably complement a group better as well, so they're easier to fit.

What weapon skills do you guys find best for pawn fighters. I haven't really had any issue with my guy using like, the blink strike, compass aoe, skyward attack and uh some other thing I think it was shield bash. But I'm curious if anyone has any opinions.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 22:24

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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

It really is fuckin' wild how, as I'm closing in on Level 40, so many of the players are putting up pawns around that level with no specialization, bad vocation skills, no Pawn quest, and dogshit starting equipment. Whoever these people are, I am not going to hire their tiny hot gal in booty shorts, she's garbage.

Also, is the MainPawn thing a joke that I'm missing or...?

Edit: just discovered the MainPawn thing is what happens when you don't set a pawn name and only set a moniker.

Specializations don't seem that important, but its extremely lol when I see a level 30 mage with anodyne and levin.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 01:04

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

The kid in the house doesn't give you the quest if her grandparents are in the room fyi. Idk if that's the problem, but I picked them up and set them outside and the kid was happy to beg for dangerous magickal grimoires.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 01:12

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

I didn't lose access to anything as far as I could tell but also I finished most of the side quests before I did it. The ones I found, that is.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 01:28

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Does the main quest take you to the elves or should I make my own way there.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 01:50

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DeadFatDuckFat posted:

I don't think so, you should do the quest with the guy hanging out in the capitol city in front of the weapon shop

Omg the dork who always says "this is quality!"??

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 02:06

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Yeah I'm like 100% hosed on that. I know I got one in like maybe the trek to border checkpoint town, but if I seriously want to try and get it I'll have to do some nutty cross elimination with some websites map.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 02:58

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veni veni veni posted:

Do the statues serve any purpose?

Also jfc save rodge from the wolves is the most dragons dogma rear end quest in the worst way lol.

They point you towards locations. Very poorly at times I think. But one of them showed me where a fancy side quest exists in battahl.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 12:56

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Lakbay posted:

I’ve been selling those books that cast mage/sorceror spells, any other use for them?

The important books have a different little icon in the inventory screen. In the corner of their little card in the inventory screen. They went somewhere other than implements, I think.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 12:59

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Sakurazuka posted:

Is it at all worth forging a full set of these books so I can give both people who want them uh them?

Ya both the sorcerer mega spells are good and have their uses that sort of overlap but not entirely

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 03:58

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Broken Cog posted:

Is there any vocation that gets a holy damage skill, or is the healing sphere for Mage the closest we get?

Empyrean is a holy damage spell for mages. I think that's what it's called. It summons a big ball of light that covers an area with damage. It was bad against goblins but presumably it's good vs unholy stuff.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 17:43

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Thundarr posted:

Maybe I missed a house, these bougie mansions all look the same. I'll check again!

That marcher's armor set should work for anywhere that Vernworth guards are allowed to go. The gaol guards by the cells attacked me while I was in normal gear, but with the marcher's armor I borrowed from the well right outside the gaol they completely ignored me. There's probably some built in exceptions to screw with you if you get too confident though, like the Jadeite Orb quest has if you do the super obvious thing of making a forgery and then try to hand it over to Ed, lol.

Try it and talk to the forgery guy at the right time. You'll know when. Have money lmao

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 19:50

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Third World Reagan posted:

Two people want the jadite orb. Only one person wants the real one. So you give them the real one, they take it to the forger, the forger goes yep its real, and the guy is happy and walks away. The other character doesn't care that he got the forgery and doesn't check it.

I wanted that cat man to succeed in life.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 22:15

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404notfound posted:

I've fought half a dozen griffons but have never killed one. How do you stop them from just loving off when they take too much damage?

One shot them with meteoron lol hehe

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 22:15

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Ytlaya posted:

Which of the Sorceror Meister spells is better (or which situations are each better in)? Currently I'm using Maelstrom, which seems pretty good, but I'm curious to try the other.

Some quest stuff in this game is pretty unintuitive. I had looked up how to get the other Sorceror Meister spell + the Mage Meister spell, and you have to go to this house in the middle of nowhere that there's a good chance you already visited (and there's also a good chance the quest doesn't even trigger, since you need both grandparents physically out of the house). And you need to have made copies of the grimoires to get both spells. How would you know that normally?

Unrelated question - what's up with some Drake talking with me telepathically or something when I was in Havre Village. Surprised me and never figured out why it happened. There was a Drake nearby when I first arrived, so maybe it was him?

If you want you can still get Magic Archer earlier, though, right? I'm thinking of trying to do it while I'm (vaguely) in the area, since it's the vocation I was most interested in from the beginning.

As far as i can tell, the descriptions are accurate. Meteoron is good in wide open spaces, it needs to be able to launch the meteors into the air and have them shoot down. I had it fail in a cavern once that had a pretty high roof. It does a shitload of damage if all the meteors hit, but I can't tell if they track. It does NOT do a shitload to drakes, which presumably makes sense if they are resistant to fire.

I have used maelstrom a lot less, but I think it must do physical type damage based on the color of the skill. I used it on a cyclops once and wasn't impressed, but maybe I should try it a bit more on drakes.

To me, it made sense that the snobby rear end in a top hat would accept forgeries, but the kid who wanted to learn magic would need the real deal.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:05

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

My pawn does a great little thing with his voice when he says "above!" At the end of his ladder line

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 01:08

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Dd2 may be a 7/10 game but it's a perfect 7/10 game if you know what I mean.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 02:22

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Third World Reagan posted:

so I am in the ancient battlefield, escorting oskar, and I already stole the book he needs to calm the undead

thinking about giving him a forgery

Ancient nation death knell? P sure I wound up with that at the conclusion of his quest. He just rang some bell.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 14:51

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Third World Reagan posted:

the forgieries have different names and no magic

Oh sorry I misread your post.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 14:56

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Broken Cog posted:

Man, the "Come back in a few days" quest objectives are so drat annoying. Especially if the place is out in the middle of nowhere (Looking at you, Trysha)

I'd like it if the benches didn't kick you off and you could just chain snooze without moving.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 15:35

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Shoehead posted:

Woah a pawn I hired just called a Hobgoblin a slur. That's some pretty stupid localisation right there

You're gonna have to tell us what the slur was.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 23:51

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Unlucky7 posted:

While i hate the weird jumpscare esque thing where pawns automatically talk to you, I was pleased to see a pawn that I previously adventured with made themselves available again.

Yeah and sometimes it's like they're magnetic.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 00:36

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 22:52

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BadLlama posted:

Is it a big deal to change vocation?

The only thing you have to deal with is having to grind out all the skills. You can use all the augments from other vocations.

I believe your "leveled" stats automatically change to suit your vocation.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 03:17

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