Dragon's Dogma
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Hentanize wrote...
Guess I'll start playing the game soon, any tips?Always have a lantern for you and your pawn. As well as a fair supply of oil and healing items. Make sure that when you have these, your weight should stay in the 'very light' zone. Also, your physical build(Tall, short, fat, skinny) affects how much weight you can carry as well as your stamina recovery. How you make your character is up to you! I just don't recommend making a character and pawn that are 4'11!. Below is a class guide to everything you need to know about the basics. No spoilers of the story are provided.
SAVE OFTEN. THE GAME WILL SCREW YOU OVER IF YOU DON'T.
BE AWARE THAT PAWNS YOU HIRE ONLINE FROM A RIFTSTONE DO NOT LEVEL UP!
This requires that you change your pawns on a regular basis, maybe every 8-10 levels or so, if you want your party in tip-top form.(But sometimes the pawns you hire online will be absolute garbage, for example a mage that puts priority in attacking enemies, rather than healing, buffing, and enchanting the partys' weapons)
Pawns 'do not die'. If your main pawn disappears. Simply touch a riftstone and poof, they're back!
First real tip. Try to make a 'balanced' party. Mine consists of
Fighter, Warrior, Mage, and (Me)Ranger/Strider/Assassin/Mystic Archer(Ranged)
When I first started, I chose the strider class. You get Rook as a 'mage' class but he is useless. He's more of a pack mule. I intended on making my pawn a mage, but I was worried I had to buy mana pots(Silly me) so I made her a fighter. Never regretted that decision.
STRIDER CLASS
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FIGHTER CLASS
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MAGE CLASS
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Note these are based off my experiences, so there's probably more than meets the eye!
Edit**: Does anyone know why Iron Headgear doesn't cover the face? I think my game glitched and for some reason when I took off my helm, it didn't cover my face anymore. Now it looks like an awful hat. Back to the bandit's mask! :[
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Alrighty, now for Romancing.
Important Item: Arisen's Bond (not necessary, but very cool to use plot-wise)
Aelinore (the Troubled Duchess) Route
Madeleine (the Flighty Merchant) Route
Mercedes (the Princess Knight) Route
As before: Do not do ANY of the other numbers in the other routes. Don't even talk to the duchess.
That's what I've confirmed so far. I'll help out more as I experiment and look around.
Important Item: Arisen's Bond (not necessary, but very cool to use plot-wise)
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Aelinore (the Troubled Duchess) Route
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Madeleine (the Flighty Merchant) Route
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Mercedes (the Princess Knight) Route
As before: Do not do ANY of the other numbers in the other routes. Don't even talk to the duchess.
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That's what I've confirmed so far. I'll help out more as I experiment and look around.
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Kadushy
Douchebag
MegaTenLove wrote...
Alrighty, now for Romancing.Important Item: Arisen's Bond (not necessary, but very cool to use plot-wise)
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Aelinore (the Troubled Duchess) Route
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Madeleine (the Flighty Merchant) Route
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Mercedes (the Princess Knight) Route
As before: Do not do ANY of the other numbers in the other routes. Don't even talk to the duchess.
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That's what I've confirmed so far. I'll help out more as I experiment and look around.
Adding on to this on who I just got last night - Selene.
1. Do the Quina quest where she visits the Witchwood.
2. When the quest about the Witch Hunt appears, do that quest and Selene will show affection for you. She'll go to the village you first start at and live in your home.
3. Give her items until her affinity is maxed. (I gave her whatever like some herbs, meat, foreign knives, lol).
Well, that's what I did. Not sure if it'll work, but it's something.
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Kadushy wrote...
MegaTenLove wrote...
Alrighty, now for Romancing.Important Item: Arisen's Bond (not necessary, but very cool to use plot-wise)
Spoiler:
Aelinore (the Troubled Duchess) Route
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Madeleine (the Flighty Merchant) Route
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Mercedes (the Princess Knight) Route
As before: Do not do ANY of the other numbers in the other routes. Don't even talk to the duchess.
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That's what I've confirmed so far. I'll help out more as I experiment and look around.
Adding on to this on who I just got last night - Selene.
1. Do the Quina quest where she visits the Witchwood.
2. When the quest about the Witch Hunt appears, do that quest and Selene will show affection for you. She'll go to the village you first start at and live in your home.
3. Give her items until her affinity is maxed. (I gave her whatever like some herbs, meat, foreign knives, lol).
Well, that's what I did. Not sure if it'll work, but it's something.
Very nice, mate! Can't believe I left her out.
Selene is easy to get as a sort of surrogate daughter, but not so much as a lover. How tall/mature was your protagonist? I heard she can only become the true love if your protagonist is a kid/midget (the game distinguishes age by height and wrinkles).
I know that for Quina there's a quest after the first Witch Wood quest with her where you have to save her from bandits or something. Never got it myself, but then again I rarely checked back in with Cassardis during the game.
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MegaTenLove wrote...
Kadushy wrote...
MegaTenLove wrote...
Alrighty, now for Romancing.Spoiler:
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For Quina, the quest after Witch Wood was an escort quest to Prayer falls near the abbey. Where ------
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On a side note, I hit level 50 today! Also Asalam finally respawned! He died during an escort quest so I was stuck as a Mystic Archer, and my pawn as a warrior for a massive amount of time.
My pawn currently has 48k Discipline points to spend. She's completed Fighter and warrior 100%, she's 7 levels into strider. I've finished Strider, Mystic Archer, Ranger, and am 7 levels into Warrior.
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What does every element do?
All I mostly use is fire because everything is weak to fire. Then holy at the end
All I mostly use is fire because everything is weak to fire. Then holy at the end
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Cyndas wrote...
MegaTenLove wrote...
Kadushy wrote...
MegaTenLove wrote...
Alrighty, now for Romancing.Spoiler:
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For Quina, the quest after Witch Wood was an escort quest to Prayer falls near the abbey. Where ------
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On a side note, I hit level 50 today! Also Asalam finally respawned! He died during an escort quest so I was stuck as a Mystic Archer, and my pawn as a warrior for a massive amount of time.
My pawn currently has 48k Discipline points to spend. She's completed Fighter and warrior 100%, she's 7 levels into strider. I've finished Strider, Mystic Archer, Ranger, and am 7 levels into Warrior.
Oh right! I totally forgot about that quest with her! Nice call, mate. I told you Ass Slam would respawn eventually (I think I did, unless I had just read your post about a dead innkeeper and didn't reply, then my bad). Didn't think it would take THAT long, though. At least you're a beast with the Mystic Bow.
Also, congratulations! You're officially ready to beat the game, at least level-wise.
I just beat the Ur-Dragon after an all day battle. My thumb is killing me from mashing the button for my assassin's "Dire Gouge" skill. Also managed to finally get Mercedes, the character I was friggin aiming for. You have no idea how happy I am I got my black French woman. lol
Fucking took long enough. Madeleine was really good, though. A close second.
In other news: There's a pawn level 106 that costs 2 million+ RC to contract. Can you imagine someone actually contracting with that? First of all, there is not one point in the game you need to be 106. Secondly, who the hell would pay 2 grand for one pawn that will die just as easy as the rest when you can get two 50+ level pawns for cheap by the end of the game and finish in style? Summoning that pawn is like buying spinning rims to go for a drive in the countryside.
SeriousSAM wrote...
What does every element do?
All I mostly use is fire because everything is weak to fire. Then holy at the end
Nothing much. It pretty much goes as you've got it, man:
Pre-Final Sequence = Fire Enchantment
Final Sequence = Holy Enchantment
Don't know what the other ones do. Pretty sure ice freezes the enemies, but it doesn't even matter. It's good there's variety, but there's no need to stray from the Fire and/or Holy enchantments at any point.
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Kadushy
Douchebag
MegaTenLove wrote...
In other news: There's a pawn level 106 that costs 2 million+ RC to contract. Can you imagine someone actually contracting with that? First of all, there is not one point in the game you need to be 106. Secondly, who the hell would pay 2 grand for one pawn that will die just as easy as the rest when you can get two 50+ level pawns for cheap by the end of the game and finish in style? Summoning that pawn is like buying spinning rims to go for a drive in the countryside.
Look at the owner's PSN/Xbox Live Name and add as a friend. If they accept, you can hire it for free!
As for Selene, my Arisen was a female so I guess it could work?
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2nd run through was so fun
used my friend's pawn that was level 15 through the entire game having a weakling kept it entertaining with his constant death
used my friend's pawn that was level 15 through the entire game having a weakling kept it entertaining with his constant death
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Hentanize
rebaS
You guys...
Can't wait to get my hands on it tomorrow.
edit: fucking hell I'm really a top page poster pro :|
Can't wait to get my hands on it tomorrow.
edit: fucking hell I'm really a top page poster pro :|
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Fought a roaming drake near Shadow Fort today. Possibly the most entertaining fight I've endured.
Drake had an obnoxious amount of health, and only two true weak spots, head and heart. Took me about 8-12 minutes to kill with two useless pawns dilly-dallying during the fight.
Hilarious thing. I was playing Strider, and my pawn was Fighter. After 7-ish minutes, I went into my bags to use a heal when I noticed my pawn's HP. I never gave her curatives to hold or anything of that sort.
1788/2388. In 7 minutes, she only lost about a quarter of her health. That is laughably the most absurd thing ever. Her defense was so high it was completely baffling. She taunted the dragon and tanked him the entire fight. Never once was I in any mortal danger, EXCEPT when he did a shallow roar that instant 1HKO'ed my pawns all at once. But that wasn't anything a little pick-me-up couldn't fix now and then.
Drake had an obnoxious amount of health, and only two true weak spots, head and heart. Took me about 8-12 minutes to kill with two useless pawns dilly-dallying during the fight.
Hilarious thing. I was playing Strider, and my pawn was Fighter. After 7-ish minutes, I went into my bags to use a heal when I noticed my pawn's HP. I never gave her curatives to hold or anything of that sort.
1788/2388. In 7 minutes, she only lost about a quarter of her health. That is laughably the most absurd thing ever. Her defense was so high it was completely baffling. She taunted the dragon and tanked him the entire fight. Never once was I in any mortal danger, EXCEPT when he did a shallow roar that instant 1HKO'ed my pawns all at once. But that wasn't anything a little pick-me-up couldn't fix now and then.
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Kadushy
Douchebag
BloodyWind wrote...
Gotta love how my pawn comes back to me knowing the places im just about to wander into.PS3 or Xbox?
If PS3, then add me! I wanna use you guy's pawns - PSN: Kadouchey
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PS3 Lol Kads, MHtri all over again, except just our pawns this time.
Windknight111 ~ PSN Imma add you when I get on.
Oh Im just starting but people used mah pawn already.
Windknight111 ~ PSN Imma add you when I get on.
Oh Im just starting but people used mah pawn already.
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Kadushy
Douchebag
Lololololololwat.
So on my second play through (which I just finished right now as of writing)
I've played two females already with 2 male pawns... so Male time. My pawn will be female now.
Edit2: WTF.
So on my second play through (which I just finished right now as of writing)
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I've played two females already with 2 male pawns... so Male time. My pawn will be female now.
Edit2: WTF.
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Hmm, anyone know the rate the server refreshes? I hired a pawn of one of my siblings. As a gesture of good will. I geared him out the ass, because it says that it "Gifts" the items to the pawn's owner when you equip them with armor/weapons that aren't already prepackaged. For some reason, my sibling never received the equipment on his pawn on his account. I'm assuming it's a server refresh issue. Anyone else encounter this yet?
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Kadushy
Douchebag
Cyndas wrote...
Hmm, anyone know the rate the server refreshes? I hired a pawn of one of my siblings. As a gesture of good will. I geared him out the ass, because it says that it "Gifts" the items to the pawn's owner when you equip them with armor/weapons that aren't already prepackaged. For some reason, my sibling never received the equipment on his pawn on his account. I'm assuming it's a server refresh issue. Anyone else encounter this yet?I just jumped on my friend's account on my PS3 and looked at my pawn. She's at level 82, but is actually 89 as of right now. I guess it takes some time for it to load the current data.
Maybe they refresh it once or twice a day.
Oh, and I gifted him equipments and it works. Just need time for that server refresh.
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Kadushy wrote...
Cyndas wrote...
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Ahh, thanks. That's good to hear. I'd hate to see 450k gold go down the toilet for a miscommunication of text.
Edit:** Today I fought the dragon.
Now, I thought I'd get an assload of EXP for my vocation, so I decided to fight the dragon with a level 1 fighter vocation and my pawn with a level 7 ranger vocation. Upon entering the large arena for the final showdown did I learn.
I HAD MADE A HORRIBLE MISTAKE.
Now I had hired two pawns, approximately 10 levels higher than me. A warrior and a mage for support. Now when the dragon 'possessed' my main pawn Kagami, I thought to myself
'Oh no big deal, these two pawns should have no trouble taking her down.'
Watching those two pawns fly past me at a velocity similar to mach 3, I remembered. She's using my fucking equipment. To add insult to injury, her augments literally cause her damage to sky rocket. She was using Meteor shot, Tenfold Flurry, and Deathfire shot. Not only did she guard-break me constantly, I couldn't gear near her. After 2 Wakestones later, I beat the dragon and I must say.
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By the way is Dragon's Dogma-
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