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are there any loadouts folks particularly like for mages? they seem like they always have their healing utility, and the aoe haste feels great to me (I'm maining archer + been pulling in another archer so we spam machine gun arrows and liquidate enemies with it haha, my first battle with a gryphon I just ended up feeling bad for it...), but are there any other standout spells or doodads? been generally going with haste + fire buff + upgraded frigor + upgraded lightning and the coverage seems to be nice, but man attacker pawns are so much easier to setup haha also I was worried about stamina (i made the largest man possible), but I just stand next to ralsei and they'll immediately hug me up if I'm exhausted. some incredible power of friendship goin' down Everdraed fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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dang woke up to a nice lil chunk of RC so finally got da boy his glasses (and a big fancy hat to hide 'em behind) to celebrate I set his pawn quest as 10k gold for killing a cyclops, does anyone know how exactly that works? does it charge me for every completion? if so, uh, I guess make me poor??  06IFOTXMRSSI loves to heal and hold hands n make 'em hot there's no dyeing right? if anybody sees a red scarf or green pointy hat n robe, please alert me haha unrelated but very cool experience: got my first drake kill last night, and my first attempt that ultimately failed at 1/10th of their final health bar after using literally every consumable (every apple counted since my health loss-reduced down to like a sliver and they were full heals haha) was probably the whitest knuckle gaming I've ever done. just a constant scramble and I refused to let a single trusty pawn die, so each meteor spam would force a team wipe and recovery, all in pitch darkness. going into my inventory and seeing i was outta apples was devastating was able to get 'em on the second attempt much more effectively once I knew their moves, really can't beat DD for the party vs boss playouts
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Ytlaya posted:My pawn has never been summoned even though he's level 15. Maybe giving him Chirugeon will help. unfortunately for getting randomly hired it feels like it's gonna be pretty rough n infrequent, especially since they also stacked up 'official' pawns and that's on top of like, influencer pawns who some players are going to stick with constantly and reduce overall pawn uses imo they should have added an additional system: the pawns that get spawned in the world should return you special bonuses too. I've had battles where they've massively helped me and I wanted to thank 'em, but there's no convenient way to do that unfortunately. that bit of 'my pawn did see other worlds and learn things' as an underpinning even if they didn't get hired woulda felt great
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I got real excited for a second after finding a dye merchant in Battahl but sadly it's only for tattoos, hair, skin sorta stuff? and on doublecheck there is indeed no clothe dyeing options unfortunately. given pawn fashion they really shoulda leaned into dyes and cosmetic slots imo on the plus side I got some nice green dye if I ever wanna turn ralsei into shrek
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I swear I waited hours for this goddamn quince to ripen (very important an old man gets a ripe quince, I Get it), and a pawn I offhandedly summoned to help kill some headless bastard logistician'd it to themselves and ATE it seriously considering an inn reload over a fukken quince edit: do NOT hire this pawn they are a QUINCE THIEF they did it before they will do it again  of course  Inclination: Serene Calm as they knowingly pluck a vital quince and consume it whole (doesn't even taste it) just to see an old man die Everdraed fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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  so shines a good deed, in a weary world thank ya so much Bloomington! to pass on some kindness, pmchem posted:
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Shoehead posted:Everdread I guess you can be a guinea pig for this but I really wonder if that 10000g is going to get duplicated for everyone who took Ralsei out and killed an ogre or just the first person I wasn't super scrutinizing but it appears the single initial charge covered all of it, so I think it duplicates those rewards I'm debating about putting up a portcrystal lol fakeedit: actually you can't? the really primo stuff they must not let ya pawn-mission, no portcrystal or ferrystone (though you CAN put up the fake partcrystal and ferristone haha), no goldbugs, no sorc quest tomes, etc BUT, it WILL let me put up an extra forager tome, so doing that for cyclops and seein' if it dupes a bunch out:  06IFOTXMRSSI they're level 39 so if folks wanna friend me on steam for da free recruit friend code 30298569 edit: if ya do get a tome give a heads up (at least to check if it's multiplyin' heh), would be nice to know if there's a limit or it's time based or what Everdraed fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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having played quite a bit, elfland and catland not having dedicated portcrystals is so incredibly stingy, probably the single biggest marge-hmmm to me for restrictive design that ya can conveniently pay a few bucks to help alleviate like if you don't wanna do the main quest and instead clandestine enter battahl (which is totally supported and an interesting option!) it's sorta inconceivably inconvenient without a portcrystal to place, so without paid dlc the only option is to do elf stuff but there's no way to know that'll be a reward for it it's miserly to the point of inhibiting grand adventures and possibly sourin' them, which is a real bummer imo Sixto Lezcano posted:Oh my god I just realized the number of things you could gently caress with using the (spoiler for the border checkpoint town) forgery system!! Like no, I will not give you back that thing you lent me .
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Play posted:I mean you can easily get to Battahl from checkpoint village or the main city. And so far the elf city doesn't have that many quests. Still, I managed to find two portcrystals and put them in exactly those spots. If I find another it'll probably go somewhere around the starting area up north or maybe south batthar, not sure how much land is left to discover there. 40 hours in and I have 3 portcrystals, 2 feel sorta mandatory for the mentioned hubs, so 1 Free Choice which generally feels best being carried and placed during exploration and quests for a return point without the main quests it'd be possibly 1 from elftown or 0, which is brutal heh
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pmchem posted:do you lose the 10K gold for every time someone unique hires the pawn and does the quest? like could you go bankrupt? pretty sure it duplicates gold / items to however many people go for it, so i'm interested to hear if multiple people got the foraging specialization tome from my current pawn mission 06IFOTXMRSSI also, can you do a pawn's mission multiple times? or does it say something like 'already completed' if you dismiss + rehire again?
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Ytlaya posted:Is there any reason you'd want to use Logistician on your pawn? Having them combine stuff on their own sounds like a nightmare! I deliberately let fruits age do I can turn them into dried fruit, for example. and yeah each specialization tome is a single 'turn specialization to this' consumable, nothing further, only use them if you want that specialization going forward as you'd need another tome to go back to the previous one ya had. I don't like it! at the very least it could be made more clear Everdraed fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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wanted to get the +HP augment for ralsei and man... that's just darling now lets just put the best statted armor on 'em and oh. oh no 
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Tabletops posted:just an fyi you can get the same pawn quest reward multiple times  06IFOTXMRSSI lvl 46 so feel free to friend me on steam to get free recruit 30298569  please help wake up dis sleepy boy I looked through da possible reward items, this seems like (if someone will at least gift you one back) it'll allow duping of any armor weapon ring etc you have in your possession? it doesn't allow bugs n seekers n ferrystones n portcrystals, but you can put in as many as you have of allheals elixirs? this seems incredibly broken haha Everdraed fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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I think I'm going to have to call it on trying to find my first seeker token, I swear I had two on hand going into heyverncity and I had used the oxcart from melve to get there initially, but even with a large swathe of that route unexplored and checking all the remaining areas pre-vern using the interactive map, I just couldn't find the sucker. if I had actually adventured outta vern before the first that's a big ol rip haha going through the initial areas I had a lotta 'ooh this must be it' moments which were actually for goldbugs, those feel a lot more rewarding and memorable I woulda sworn the first token (or at least an early one) I got was on top of the melve ballista tower, since I had seen it on the interactive map and went up there a few times + rotated the sucker, but when I went there just now I had somehow missed it completely?? I really wonder if it was somehow bugged for me, because it was so immediately obvious now I can't actually imagine missing it 3 times saw a few people remark in different places 'it straight up isn't there' and tokens needing reloads to appear so I'm honestly wondering if there's some token glitchiness and if so double, triple rip haha  oh well, apparently it's fine to miss one question? just no specific chest with 3 ferrystones and miss the achievement which I don't care about so not gonna fret it too much it'd be great if a future patch implemented a zelda-ish 'arisens path' concept, that's a fun feature and would be IDEAL for remembering the early journey for this exact scenario heh Everdraed fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Everdraed posted:forget all dis poo poo  thinking about it I distinctly remember going 'ah christ, I musta missed an unbelievable number of these so far' when I found it haha, riddle of rumination indeed now to never pick up another token again, and see how that affects doing the quest in ng+'s edit: the quest item is pawn giftable... I assume it would still complete the quest / it'd be possible to help somebody out if they had missed a different riddle already and you could send yours as your one miss? or imagine that situation, but you give them a forgery..... Everdraed fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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could anyone do me a big favor and hire my pawn and gift a pointed fang? 06IFOTXMRSSI (pawn quest is 10k for a waking powder so feel free to grab that) I can't seem to find a source for 'em dropping after looking quite a bit, random guides say it should be from wargs in Battahl but they seem to spawn as garms for me and only give sinister fangs, dunno if that's a level'd thing or wrong info and there's a better place to get 'em it'd be really nice if 'reward' was visible in the pawn search menus (among other info), going through a big group individually to check is a pain haha
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Phlegmish posted:Thanks a bunch, saves me a lot of trouble. Holler if you ever need anything.
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Tabletops posted:i managed to figure out how to beat the sphinx without using the unmaking arrow, if anyone else has had trouble with it. the clue was pretty obvious in retrospect but just wanted to let people know that:
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Tabletops posted:it was indeed. ahhh, okay, I was sorta assuming it wouldn't be too punitive on pawns' damage (I probably did 90%+ of damage annihilating her backside with erupting shots) but that was probably a dumb line of thinking given it's dragon's dogma haha given how you are immediately thrown into that fight and pawns will jump in, that's honestly a little too foreknowledge specific and unforgiving to me, unless waiting will totally prevent all attacking I suppose? Everdraed fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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what captured me forcibly and distinctively playing DD:DA (never played without the expansion) was pretty much 1. experiencing an adventuring group of helpful and entertaining pawns enabled by me and my friends' creativity 2. actively climbing all over giant goddamn monsters to savagely whale on their weakspots 3. exploring a world that has intriguing intricacies (especially in quests and npcs) that, whatever the actual implementations are, feel like they enable an impressive possibility space I think DD2 nailed the poo poo outta those core concepts just like the first, and while I'd have any number of personal opinions and tweaks on its friction design and mechanical conveniences, none of it seemed so off-putting to me personally that it hampered the goodness of those core elements. pretty much I just want more content and diversity to engage with them even more, love dat core I really, really hope they do something along the lines of DA, that they've gotten the resources to pursue that and won't be dissuaded from bothering by a maybe not-so-down-for-it generalized response, as much as I understand and get where that comes from and think there's a lotta validity in those feelings ain't nuthin' quite like dragon's dogma, for better or for worse haha
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is DD2 RE:framework stuff stable and mods kosher to use without causing some sorta account / pawn flagging (dunno if that's a thing at all) issue? if they are I'll probably finish up my playthrough and then mess with 'em in a NG+ world for funsies f#a# posted:gotta say, it takes a whole lot of something as a game dev to plop down portcrystals in two out of the three first towns you visit, only to have those be literally the only ones in the game bakbattahl not having a portcrystal while it DOES have a giant rift crystal despite the generalized hatred of pawns there? feels like it shoulda been graffiti'd up and covered in garbage you have to clear off to use it absolutely felt weird to me
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oh that was a big question I had, if you start an entirely new game, is the old char + pawn nuked / removed from online hiring? or is the pawn left forever out in da ether without a way to retrieve gifts? and how does any of that interact with making a backup save of a char and copying it back over?
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Third World Reagan posted:There is a steam guide somewhere about backing up saves but I haven't seen any specifics on doing that to preserve a playthrough while starting a new one, then trying to go back to the old and what it'll do for networked elements like pawns? I imagine with the actual button now folks will test it out soon enough, my guess is that whenever you rest at an inn it uploads your current playthrough data (pawn + arisen) and can only have one at a time, but will prrrrobably update to whatever your current data is? maybe with a 24 hour ban if ya do it repeatedly or screw with things a bunch? funny enough the 'my pawn will be gone forever?' aspect was actually why I never did another playthrough of DD:DA on PC Everdraed fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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outta curiosity are there any specifics to how the beloved choice plays out? I was assuming 'last interaction' with a max'd affinity'd NPC (which I think was how DD1 worked?), but I talked to my #1 choice last (who was also the last person I gifted an item to) and it didn't choose 'em. I did talk to them + gift, talk to who I DID get, then talked with the first again? so maybe technically the first time you talk in a day gives some affinity points and that shift of other NPC's points being last set da love and I accidentally whiffed it? liked 'em both so not a big deal, but if anybody does care about that maybe make sure ya talk / gift ya fave NPC on a fresh day and do no other interactions going into final main quests? though the overall significance seems very minor compared to 1 sadly
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toasterwarrior posted:drat, there's already enough mods out that I'm really considering a restart. waiting to play until a buncha mods are tuned, and possibly an expansion lands, might lead to the best first experience possible
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Pelican Dunderhead posted:Awesome I chose to not use a wakestone in the postgame and now all my progress has been removed. This was after spending six hours in the postgame and being almost ready to clear it.
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Sea Lily posted:There's some new caves in the postgame's new areas but I definitely didn't find many, and the one or two I found had pretty normal loot in them. Nothing special or endgamey. I saw one unmarked, un-interior-mapped tiny lil crypt dungeon that had an entrance at the bottom of an empty lake, which I think had some nice pants? and a skeleton knight apparently there's a pawn affinity system which if you manage to hit enough affinity with your pawn they can blush in conversation and you get a slightly different variation of the true ending. nothing major, but some neat emotion. talking to pawns, high-fiving them, bringing them to the hotsprings, giving them makeovers all give increasing points, though with cooldowns ended up installing a few mods, most notably infinite stamina outside of combat which I'll probably never play again without, and true warfarer which is a bit busted (lets ya have armament + 3 unique skills for every vocation) but just wayyy more convenient and fun. I'll probably try to figure out a way to do a new game with it + all vocations unlocked from the start
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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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SHISHKABOB posted:How much cooler is the 300k house?  it's not worth it, way less convenient location, though it does have a very cool view with an entire (missing?) wall overlooking the ocean. honestly wonder if it's an EB homage because it struck that chord so dang hard haha
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