Tips:
You can change vocations at level 10 at the Gran Soren inn or BBI.
Character appearance can be changed later on.
You don't need pawns, but they help.
Don’t miss your sidequests: http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Side_Quest_Progression
Further info on "Must Do" sidequests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qS9A47duONEwozGu8A6_oX_HyCxgBwbquGmlZqEQqqg/edit?usp=sharing
Make sure you understand the romance system before you get too far: http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Beloved
>Wiki you lazy shit
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon%27s_Dogma_Wiki
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>NEW /ddg/ Pawn Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/156IeHCRWMcCTU4nkIIwGgjVBetjVu47C9TvAlAc5HUY/edit?usp=sharing
>Stat Growths
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Stat_Growths
>RC Calculator
http://opsc.dark-arisen.com/calculator.php?cmd=calculate
>In-depth Beginner/Advanced Player Guide and FAQ
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Avxu-W6BCjDrglXtHg8Z3sKB_z_5tlWhV1Vmf_YWHw
> Old /ddg/ Pawn Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150pTBJ-IJ8ktH3mzObUI5pA4Rzsh88rfgFpwZf9wxe8/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
>Character Creator Sliders
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QfNzxImmAvPk0jUhfKdyjxwUBg8OUl9iQhLMBL_pEl8/edit?usp=sharing
>Collection of small mods (model/color swaps etc.)
http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.uXOgwZkXAy5/latest
>Current mods available
http://pastebin.com/jcbPgLdj
>Hotkey Script for PC Players
http://pastebin.com/7gju0zt8
>Modding on console and old pawns
http://pastebin.com/NMTBXnxA
>Guide to get DDO
http://pastebin.com/hywvK0qT
>DDO Beginners Guide
http://pastebin.com/xgzbcXNg
>Screenshot Guide
http://pastebin.com/6YtfNbcb
>Make webms
http://pastebin.com/4ipnGRND
>[un]official Steam group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/postsliders
Previous Thread: >>147089345
>tfw your pawn gets posted
always a grand feel
What purpose does this object serve?
>>147308257
A bucket? Dear god.
>>147308257
Hat of Shame
>>147308482
What about the pole and the hooked chain and that weird base? And why is it arranged that way?
>>147308650
It's probably all for butchering.
>>147308723
w-what
>>147308650
Probably for butchering.
>>147308752
Oh come on anon, pole to hang the carcass and a bucket to catch the blood and guts.
>>147307352
is this from DDO?
>>147308903
You lads are pretty clever. The best I could come up with was "bathing".
>>147308995
yes
>>147309007
well it does look like a weird set up for anything large but it's the closest thing I could think of
How can I track down Reynard easily? I want to give him the journal to solve his daddy issues so I can move on to Reward and Responsibility
>tell yourself you are going to play video games
>don't play video games
tomorrow. i swear
>>147310591
No!
You stop posting right now and you start a session of Dragon's Dogma this instant Anon.
>>147310591
>want to play Dragon's Dogma and murder a lot of shit
>starts the game
>I'm in Gran Loren
>4 quests are unmarked
>the last one requires me to go see Selene
>and walk AAAAAAAAAALL the way there
Fuck walking.
>>147310591
Me, all day. Only then it's past midnight and I start and regret.
>>147310591
>have PC set up so I can use it while laying in bed
>able to alt tab out of game and read 4chan at any moment
It's the only way I've managed to cope. I end up splitting my time 30:70 between the game and 4chan.
>>147310004
Nevermind, he finally appeared on my map.
>>147310591
Eh, why not plan ahead what you'll play for a couple weeks before you do so instead of starting and stopping every single day?
How can I trigger Escort Duty early? Do I have to give Fournival shit?
paizuri
post comfy
Can I redo a quest? I'd like to hear my Arisen get whipped again.
Why the fuck do mystic knights not carry their shield always in combat pose and only when blocking
it looks so dumb just whipping out a giant ass shield out of your back pocket every 2 seconds
>>147313340
You wouldn't like Kingdom of Amalur.
Is Warrior the worst vocation in BB? I can solo all of BB with all vocations except Warrior.
>>147313401
No one likes it...;_;
>>147312825
I love hanging around the beach in Cassardis, it's super comfy.
>>147313746
I remember trying it, going for a stealth run.
The bosses always teleport in your face, taunt you, then teleport away. The second you enter in their room, they teleport in, find you immediately, and charge you.
Fucking piece of shit.
>>147313834
I don't think stealth is really worth it in Amalur.
>>147313927
No shit Captain Obvious.
>>147313927
>>147313834
>>147313401
That fucking game fucked my state up
How hard is it to pull off Arc of ___ skills in hard mode and BBI?
I really like it but I'm playing on normal right now so idk if it'll become impractical later, from what everyone says it sounds like warrior is only good for its jump attack too.
>>147314137
It started great.
>backstab oneshots enemies, pretty fun without being too broken
It get shit real quickly.
>most beasts enemies don't get killed on the spot, instead take massive damage
>enemies quickly turn into damage sponge
>take 14,235 hits to die
I fucking hate when they do that.
>>147314393
My first run was as a mage and I twoshotted the final boss. It was supposed to have four forms. I just straight up skipped two of them. Don't let your memes be dreamsor be a dick-ass thief
If I restart the game, does my previous pawn disappear? As in, no one can rent my pawn from the rift?
Or is the rift full of old pawns from Arisens that were deleted?
>>147314685
I don't think I ever play mage. Except in Diablo-likes. For Kingdom of Amalur, Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma or the Elder Scrolls, I always go for Warrior and end with abusing the bow.
Except in Dark Souls where the bows kinda suck. I don't think I ever used a single spell in Dragon's Dogma.
>>147308650
You hang the bucket from the hook. When not in use, you put the bucket like that to drip dry.
I always thought Feste had long hair under this thing.
>>147314685
you used the fire top spell, didnt you
>got a thousand kisses ring and a violet ring so decide to try immolation+tk on awakened daimon for once instead of going mano-a-mano with ninefolds
>he dies in seconds
>immolation is over half my damage because I don't have adhesion yet
Magick Archer truly is a poorly named Flaming Daggerman.
>>147314862
I almost always play mages or archers, sometimes I'll play a spellsword/enchanter type character. Rarely play pure melee niggers, Dark Souls is the only exception really since I usually go with spears or swords in that. Magick Archer is a godsend, though I'd prefer if you could also shoot normal arrows that didn't home and had a trajectory and shit.
>>147312825
>>147314791
your old pawn will be overwritten once you upload the new one
>>147316609
ok thanks
>>147312825
I think that this screenshot is a very lonesome, forlorn kind of comfy.
>>147318160
Jesus. That genuinely spooked me before realised it was Selene. It looked like some kind of spookum with a giant toothy head or something.
>>147318305
your brain damage is your best feature
>>147318160
being a stalker isn't comfy
>>147319058
>lonesome
>forlorn
>taking pics of young girls through open windows
I blame society.
>>147318305
I see what you're talking about but I think it's pretty cute.
So, is mystic knight only worth it if focusing on spells?
>>147319895
It's good regardless, the spells are stronger though. Like MA, you can even play it as a support class if you're a madman. In fact I wonder how well it would do against daimon using the holy wall thing on the shield with a firing squad of ranger pawns behind you...
>>147320005
not him, but how much worse would it be going full physical?
I'm currently building a warrior/assassin but I want to keep my options open for trying out MK especially since I like Abyssal Anguish
>>147320041
You get plenty of magic from weapons generally. I'm actually not sure how it works with MK though since you cast with your sword and full physical swords seem to work fine. If magic cannon works the same as the gazer's cannon, physical attack on the weapon that strikes it determines the magic damage produced (because a low level character does 0 damage, only knockdown, on that cannon to the eye), so the other sword spells may work similarly.
>>147320005
Can I not bother with minmaxing then, and just switch to it now at level 11?
>>147320041
Physical MK is great. I use Abyssal Anguish, one physical skill, and Stone Jungle for nuking things on the side (even with physial based stats/gear, it deals a shit load of damage and stuns big enemies).
Physical MK is so strong, that I actually once killed Grigori during the chase sequence when he's breathing fire from the hallway. It skipped the entire boss fight sequence and the credits rolled right then and there. The maxed out BBI mace gives you attack power on par with a Warrior (it's only like 100 weaker maybe), plus the fast moveset of a Fighter, plus the stacked damage from AA and whatever other enchantments you have. Physical MK is one of the most OP builds in the game, it's just not as versatile as some other classes (though you can fix that by carrying a staff to switch to when needed).
>>147320041
>min/maxing
>>147320459
I'm not min-maxing in the sense of planning out a build and how many times I'm going to level x class, but I'm trying to keep my stats on the physical side since I know I don't really like pure magic casting that much.
>>147320251
Thanks anon, good to know that's an option.
>>147320240
Most of your attack stat comes from later OP weapons.
does assassin get more interesting than climbing onto something and mashing hundred kisses on its weakpoint
i'm still early on
>>147320868
you climb and gouge with a sword instead
so no
>>147312825
>>147321667
>>147320251
>Physical MK is so strong, that I actually once killed Grigori during the chase sequence when he's breathing fire from the hallway. It skipped the entire boss fight sequence and the credits rolled right then and there.Strider can easily kill him in the first encounter with brainsplitter spam and stacked augments. Even easier with the maker's finger.
>>147321667
>>147321734
>mfw every time I remember there is absolutely no fucking way Valmiro survives through his adventure
>>147321765
That's obvious though. You wouldn't normally expect it to be possible withnon-shitterclasses.
>>147321734
>>147321814
Actually, I don't know what to think.
His quests definitely make him look like a weak ass, but he as a good physical build and if you talk to him between quest, he gifts you rare items only found in dangerous areas. Also when you complete the last quest, he gives you post-game monster materials.He's probably a weakling and those gifts are just RPG sheanigans.
>>147321765
Pretty sure Maker's Arrow only takes one healthbar to BBI bosses.
>>147321840
>mystic knight
>non-shitter
barehanded warrior or bust
>>147321948
Good thing Grigori isn't BBI.
https://youtu.be/NsRRmcErZ-M?t=74
>>147322175
>Good thing Grigori isn't BBI.
Sorry, it's been two hours since I woke up but my brain refuses to activate.
>>147322175
>relying on Warrior's OP stat gains
Confirmed shitter. If you were an MLG pro like me you would play barehanded Mage.
Just kill yourself my man.
>>147321814
>>147321948
Valmiro isn't a weakling, he's feigning being hurt so you'll give him curatives because he ran out and he's too much of a cheapass to buy more. The only reason you're the Arisen and not him is that when the dragon attacked he was thirty miles away near Gran Soren slaying the cockatrice that Salvation would later resurrect.
>>147322316
>having access to feather jump
fucking casul
>>147322365
>buying any core upgrades
>buying any augments at all
>buying any skills
I bet you play with pawns and use curatives too you fucking faggot.
>>147322497
pretty sure feather jump is default on mage, you don't purchase it
>>147322593
Doesn't it only work with a staff equipped anyway?
I only play manly classes for manly men like me so I wouldn't actually know.
>>147322324
>thatsbullshitbutibelieveit.jpg
Now I'm tempted to make a Valmiro Arisen.
>>147321814
>posting a cat with congenital AIDS infection in its eyes
that's pretty gross anon
Does Acuity have any effect on Abyssal Anguish?
Hi guys, I was looking at this sheet and don't quite understand it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EBa1CNhY9LXq7qbyV6Gj4jxBmHSbc3ASp3rIrBrAxpI/edit#gid=274777126
So from what I understand of DD's damage system, each attack has a multiplier for your character's base Strength/Magic stats, and another multiplier for the weapon's stats. So the sheet has those values included, which is basically what you'd expect. But then it ALSO has an extra stat: "Power"? Does anybody know what that's supposed to mean? Is it a flat amount of damage added after the multipliers to strength/magic, or something?
>>147323597
Nevermind, I found the document that explains it.
Anyone kind enought to gift me a Feral Cape ?
It would go really well with my barbarian outfit.
>>147315390
>I usually go with spears
Mein negger.
>>147323032
yes
>>147325417
sent ;)
>>147326158
Really ?
I didn't even told you the name of my pawn !it's Octavia
how many levels does it generally max out vocations early on?
5?
10?
>>147326920
15 to 30, maybe? Depends on vocation, what level you are, which enemies you're fighting, etc.
When I do get "locked on rails" for the final boss fight? I still got BBI to finishtwicebefore fighting the S-man but I want to get as close to that as possible but I just can't remember. Can I safely hand in the 20 wakestones and go further or?
>>147327398
Once you give the 20 wakestone you are locked into the endgame.
Do NOT give the 20 wakestone unless you're set out to finish the game.
>>147327495
Phew, thanks a lot!
give me some magick archer builds
mainly gonna be using the bow
So if I have ten red dots in my vocation, I'm supposed to switch it, so I don't skip leg day, right?
It is so satisfying when your pawn does something really fucking good. I've noticed after learning enemies' weaknesses my sorcerer has started to apply the right spells and it's like some weird pride over a virtual pseudo-child of yours, love it
>>147327729
If you want a balanced build, yes.
>>147327840
>first time my girl gets on an adventure without me
>has learned something about skelletons, and got called "cute":3
>>147328285
Before Dragon's Dogma I never knew frame drops could be badass
>>147327840
>tfw your ranger pawn tenfold blasts a cursed dragon to death before you even realize where it spawned
>tfw your strider pawn hundred kisses the condemned gorecyclops to death before it finishes breaking free of its bindings
>tfw your fighter pawn stunlocks a group of five eliminators into a wall by spamming back-to-back dragon's maw with stamina consumables
>>147328569
What makes strider/ranger pawns more liable to use actually good strats like climbing/hundred kisses or tenfold spam? Do inclinations help there or do you really have to limit your pawns to as few skills as possible? Been playing for a while, just really in the dark when it comes to pawn metagame
>>147327632
http://stackoverflow.github.io/dragons-dogma-stat-planner/#am002b0000002a050000000000000064000000
>>147328693
My Ranger only has Tenfold Flurry. Even then, she didn't use blast arrows until suddenly one day she did. I originally gave her Tenfold only because with Barbed Nails and goldforged Revenant, a pawn can stunlock Eliminators and kill certain enemies really quickly with certain status arrows by spamming tenfold. And if they have multiple skills, pawns will stop spamming tenfold in order to do other stuff.
Then one day she just started using Blast Arrows. I had her carry them for me whenever I farmed Death/Daimon. I've heard of training pawns, idk if it's a real thing, but maybe she saw me tenfold blast bosses so much that she started doing it herself.
I've heard Scather makes pawns more likely to climb. The first time I saw a Strider pawn do this was with the pawn in this video, who was a Scather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz-VYXtevYU
My own Strider was also a Scather. Even then, they don't always do it, and sometimes other pawns in your party will screw it up anyways. Like sorcerers who like to Gicel the cyclops as you're climbing it.
Fighters with aggressive inclinations will spam Dragon's Maw a lot if they have the stamina for it and are surrounded by enemies. My Fighter just happened to have picked up a couple sour ambrosials in the Lost City or w/e it's called, and ran into a big group of eliminators in a narrow alley.
So last. Might I gave the bandit chief several skulls. He says "this deserves some merit!" After 3 or 4 he just gives you the group.oire. I'm not going to gift him back the grimoire. To see his reaction. I will spending much of this playthrough trying to romance this bandit.
Can somebody see what happens if you steal it and then give it to him?
Edit. He's given me a quest now. This is all new to me. I've played through this game quite a few times. Never knee he would dish out quests.
>>147329408
Thanks for the tips. Jesus christ that video lol
>Going on a 2 week trip
>No /ddg/
I had fun guys and I am loving this game.
Try and hire Matadora, a cute loli warrior. Pioneer and Challenger if that is any good.
I need to change an aspect on my character that I fucked up.
>>147329806
Should I kill the other hand of thieves. Or do they have quests in store for me?
>>147330497
They do. But any that you kill will respawn in a week as if nothing happened.
>>147329014
>waiting until 200
these builds are so fucking stupid
>>147330738
Agreed.
You have to play the class you want to play, simple as that. Mix and match other classes to get their augments for 10 or 20 levels and you have a balanced build that won't be numbingly dull after 12 hours of powerleveling with Veteran's Priapt always on.
As a rule of thumb I'd say aim for at least 400 defense and 250 magical defense, should be enought to have good survivability. Physical attack and magical attack just depends on your personal tastes.
Just installed the ENB series mod. I like how sky lighting looks but unfortunately it makes it much harder to see when in shadow.
Any good texture mods? I saw an incomplete one but it said that there may be missing textures in places so I didn't really want to use it.
Gonnas ask again.
Anyone knows the mod that allows you to change your level and the level you spent as this class or this class ?
>>147330738
If you're making an alt (or have a friend who can help out) you can get level 200 in like 30 to 45 minutes by farming Living Armors with Fiend Luring Incense.
>>147327906
fuck, I played mage to rank 3 and I already hate it.
my pawn looks cute as a strider, but now she'll be shit for ages and get bad ratings oh god.
>just tried witcher 3
>good ideas, but it's fucking hard to see what's on the screen
>combat is too much button mashing and aggroing solo enemies
>and it's slow as fuck
Despite how bad Dragon's Dogma is, I still prefer how it handles combats over the other games I played.
>>147332898
got it during the sale last week and having a blast so far.
The weirdest thing to me is the death system, though. Why do you time travel to an earlier point in time when you die? Especially since a big point of the game is that how your pawn learns from your actions.
They could've made it so that you get punished for failing, but your pawn learns from it. The way it is now, the game doesn't punish you at all.
Game Over screens are a relic of arcade times, and any game using them is actively crippling itself.
New to the game, lvl 30 now, did 15 levels as strider and 15 as fighter to get beefy and to get some augments. Is it viable if I switch to sorcerer now or are my spells going to hit like wet paper?
I heard it helps to get some magic defenses for the endgame.
>>147333306
A system à la Dark Souls where you respawn and people comments on you dying would've been real fun.
Plus it woulda made the Arisen real badasses instead of just making them superhumans.
>>147333417
the comparison that always comes to my mind is Shadow of Mordor, just because it also does some witty NPC AI shenanigans. I played that game for hours just raising and killing ork chiefs.
Just imagine all the pawn dialogue about how he's sorry you got eaten by some monster.
The game does the whole persistent world thing decently, so it just feels really weird how they decided to add a simple fail state instead of a mechanic that made sense.Why is it so infuriating to see a good game stop right before reaching the next level of quality?
>>147331123
honestly just use reshade and sweetfx, it's a thousand times less ugly
>>147333697
Don't talk to me about Shadow of Mordor. I hit the max level before even doing 75% of the game simply because tracking and hunting orcs bosses was that fun.
>Just imagine all the pawn dialogue about how he's sorry you got eaten by some monster.
And the NPCs surprised to see you trying again.
>"But Arisen, you got killed last time! Do you want to die again?"
The main beef I have with Dragon's Dogma is that it does a fine job of explaining the whole ecosystem, but it also makes Gran Soren small as fuck and doesn't really explain if there's a bigger world at large or not.
The map is just so damn small, and yet you often have to walk a long time to find anything. They should've added horses or something.
>>147333739
Best preset to use? Thanks for telling me about this. Sounds cool.
>>147331312
bumping this.
Weird, I'm pretty sure I saw a mod like this months ago when I didn't need it but now there's nothing similar anywhere.
Does that shit even exists ?
>>147334291
Not using any myself but there are a ton of them. I just have the debanding effect turned on right now, that alone make a huge difference.
>>147330738
yeah that kind of nonsense just ruins the fun of the game
you just feel empty once you hit that 200 anyway - and the grind to get there isn't worth it
>>147336059
Getting to level 200 is fucking balls. Being level 200 is anus.
>>147336059
>>147336609
On console, I had 3 level 200s that I played regularly, and a couple more that I didn't really touch. I couldn't even remember what it was like to not be 200.
>Can farm 1mil RC for myself, or anybody else, in ~10 minutes by farming Death
>Can kill Daimon about a dozen times in an hour
>Enough abyssinal sets for every character I have
>Can do Lv.3 Gear runs in ~5 minutes, each run gets 1 or 2 gear on average
>Even have low level alts set up in full Lv.3 armor so I can farm Savior Ring by making new accounts and bumrushing to the quest, then gifting it to main pawns
Playing PC where I couldn't rely on my main accounts to powerlevel and farm gear/RC for me was refreshing.
Started a sorcerer playthrough and decided I may as well do some of the quests I'd normally never bother with, like going to Witchwood. Specifically, because I was curious who Selene is and why everyone and their grandma seems to have a boner for her. I lost all my fucking pawns to bandits, had to run through about 20 bandits and 5000 wolves, nearly died 7 times and had to fight everything in Witchwood solo as a fucking rank 2 sorcerer. Only kept going out of sheer desire to find Selene, plowed through the fucking miasma and finally reached the hut. And what am I greeted by? An autistic child.
I am judging all of you so fucking hard right now.
>>147338895
>died
>as a mage
You have no excuses.
>>147338895
I only fap to elves.
>>147339252
I said nearly died. My pawns, though, had to be left behind, because it seems the average bandit can instantly oneshot me (and is hard to dodge in the dark) and takes about 25 lightning bolts to the face to kill.
>>147339378
Elves are for bullying.
Level 155 warrior with a warrior pawn. I've been a warrior since level 25. BBI is fucking raping my amazonian ass.
Is there even hope?
>>147338895
> Not wanting a sorceress loli who can make you beer from plants when you're back home from slaying gigantic monsters
What are you ? A faggot ?
>>147340159
>BBI is fucking raping my amazonian ass
This is my fetish.
>>147340309
I like women with a personality. And a nice ass. Preferably ones that don't get me arrested.
>>147340309
She isn't very loli. Edmun's wife is more of a loli.
>>147340421
You can do so much things with a nice ass.
>>147320868
Assassin's got a lot of cool attacks, as well as a couple counter moves that work sort of like Assassin's Creed combat. The problem is that other than cling+slash and the counters, the other skills don't have the same kind of utility and/or power as the major skills of other yellow vocations (or the MK). I love the class for the variety, though. Switching from daggers to sword to bow to shield skills is pretty fun.
>new game
>just killed the cyclops at the encampment
>go back to cassardis to finish up the pre-gran soren quests
>buy a bunch of equipment for early game fashion
>take on escort quests to make some money back
>take auster's to bloodwater beach
>level 7
>hmmm, guess i'll get to ten first so i can min-max my build
>go to BBI to switch vocations
>sorcerer
>no archistaff
>sprint past the first area to get to barroch and buy the common archistaff
>don't kill a thing, but finish several BBI questboard missions by doing so
>loot the second area top to bottom
>have 80000 monies
>still have to walk to bloodwater beach
>have to walk back since i don't have any ferrystones yet
I did NOT think this through.
So if I want to switch between Assassin and Mystic Knight. How much strength and magical attack should I aim to make it viable ?
Just bought the game. Would you recommend playing on a controller? It's a capcom game and the menu is rather funky so far. Whats the gameplay like on keyboard?
>>147343504
Also I've not looked into the game at all, whats the funniest class for bashing some monsters? If theres a character with a grab ill pick that shit instantly
>>147343504
>>147343624
fuck keyboard, this game works best on controller.they all have grab, and you can throw them too. And you can climb on large monsters.
>>147343504
Both Keyboard and controller and Gamepad work fine, it's a matter of preference. I like keyboard with the AHK script in the OP more.
>>147343504
Both works fine. I guess most of us are playing in with a controller because we're coming from the PS3 version.
I would advise the controller tough
>>147343624
Every class is fun. Depends on what do you like to be. Fast, strong, magic, with magic powers or not...
It's up to you.
Every class can grab and climb monsters. But if you want to climb monster and hit them and the speed of light. Then go for the strider or ranger class.
Assassin is pretty good too since you can also use swords.
>>147310705
From Cassardis it's not as bad. Still bad though. Can you open the shortcut through the mine?
>>147343182
As long as you don't do a pure fighter/assassin or mage/sorcerer build, you'll be fine (and you'll still be fine in those builds if you're focusing on physical or magical skills, respectively). The game doesn't really punish you for playing whatever you want to play.
That said, I'd prioritize magic a little more than physical attack if you want to main MK.
>>147344571
Forgot to include prioritize physical slightly over magical if you want to main assassin.
Wait, is vocation rank not bound to level?
But stat increase is, right?
So I can't just pump my vocation to 10 and get a more rounded stat set? How do the vocation ranks even work, the wiki page on vocations is garbage.
>>147344775
Whenever you kill an enemy, you get Discipline points, which, besides allowing you to buy skills, raise your Vocation Rank.
Raising your Vocation Rank means access to new skills and new Augments. You can check the wiki for Discipline points needed for ranking up a Vocation, and a list of Augments to plan your build.
>>147344775
Vocation levels up as you collect discipline points, which are a separate pool from exp.You gain discipline points based on your xp gains, though--a certain percentage, which depends on how much xp you gain per kill/quest. You get a higher percentage at lower xp gains.
You spend discipline points to unlock vocations (the first time you switch to that vocation only) as well as skills and augments; this does NOT affect leveling up in your vocation.
Different vocations require more or less earned discipline points to level up than others.
If this is not a face saying "You're about to get raped", I am not sure what is.
>>147343783
I can't aim with a controller for shit, so I've been playing with kb&m. Only problem is the horrible fucking menu interface. That and "bow mode".
>>147346438
>I can't aim with a controller for shit
psh, I have a secret for you:nobody can.
>>147343504
personally I feel like there's a lot more you can do with M+KB much easier, but controller has always just been more intuitive/more comfortable for some people, especially for this game
if you are going to play M+KB I suggest that you figure out what your primary/secondary skill bindings are going to be very early on and commit to them. bow mode too, if you're going to use one
>>147346438
The interface and menus became much more usable when I started using WASD instead of arrows keys and E instead of enter
Only took 50 hours to realize
Just picked this up, what's a good main character / main pawn vocation combination?
>>147350510
Assassin/Sorcerer.
>>147346406
WORRY
just starting this game
why the fuck do they give you these shit tier weapons and have you fight two big monsters with them
and then when you go back to the village and do the well quest you can't even scratch the fucking lizard dudes even if you try to go for tail damage
>>147351793
>and then when you go back to the village and do the well quest you can't even scratch the fucking lizard dudes even if you try to go for tail damage
What level are you?
You might wanna postpone that quest until you are at least level 10 and you can buy better weapons at the capital.
Have you been to the capital yet?
>>147350510
Anything other than mage for your main character. Mage is okay for a pawn as that's the only vocation that can heal, so especially in the beginning (when you don't have an excess of healing items), having a mage on hand is quite useful.
That said, you can switch between vocations pretty easily and there's no real penalty for doing so, so feel free to experiment. Having multiple sorcerers can allow you to pull off world-ending spells faster; having a pioneer tanky pawn can help take the heat off your ranged/casty character, but pawns don't make great aggro-collectors, so keep that in mind. If you want a pawn to do as much dps as possible, strider is one of the better options. But those are all just suggestions.
>>147351793
Enemies don't scale and this game doesn't really hand hold. If you can't kill something then most likely you're not supposed to be there.
>>147352032
>if you can't kill something, sprint past it
>>147352032
>>147351981
I mean I figured I'm too low level for it
but I'm stubborn as shit. as I'm typing this I've managed to kill 2 so far. think there's 3 or 4 left
How do i make sorc/mage actually fun to play?
>Stand around charging shit
>Repeat
>>147352218
oh god I killed them all and backtracked and 3 more spawned
is this hell?
do enemies instantly respawn in dungeons?
>>147352686
No, they don't re-spawn, I think those are all just part of that quest.
It is a Saurian nest after all.
Nice work btw, I ran away the first time and came back with better gear.
>>147352840
I wish I could take credit for it but all I really did was stab their assholes a couple of times and revive my followers a bunch
>>147352367
Is not like that's the only thing you can do.
>>147352367
>>147353168
>>147352218
You should absolutely buy better weapons as soon as you have the chance, and though money is tight in the early game, there are some ways to get some better ones.
The easiest way to make a little money in the very beginning of the game is escort quests. If you talk to the villagers in cassardis enough, their affection will grow to the point where escort missions will pop up on the quest board there; several people in cassardis want to go to Warrior's Rest, which is pretty much right next to the encampment, meaning relatively quick, easy money.
Don't take on escort quests anywhere else at this point in the game unless you really want to go on a grand, difficult adventure, though.
The quickest way to make money in a new game, though this is substantially more dangerous, is on Bitterblack Island. If you go to the Cassardis docks at night (I think you have to have gotten your main pawn first), you'll find a woman who can take you to an area that's meant as post-game content. If you accept all the quests at the quest board here, run past the first area and into the second, you'll find a safe area with a merchant. Interact with him and loot that area, and with a little luck you should get a few dozen thousand gold, more than enough to get you decently equipped for the beginning of the game. (Warning: going to Bitterblack Island before you're ready will make it difficult to hear a little of the lore connected to the BBI campaign.)
Reynard, the merchant you find being assaulted on the road on your way out of cassardis for the first time, can also enhance your equipment, and he hangs out at the encampment until you do the hydra head quest. If you have the materials and extra money for it, you can enhance your weapons for more attack power.
>>147353593
That actually looks fun. Maybe I'll try something else than assassin.
>>147353650
it is too late for me anon
i am too busy throwing these fucking lizards into walls and laughing
holy shit the grappling in this game
>>147348319
Shiiit, thanks, anon. You've likely improved my experience tenfold.
>>147354051
Wait until you can throw them off cliffs.
Have you tried throwing them into each other? That actually does some significant damage.
>>147354051
Pretty good, heh?
>>147354683
Throwing anything can be pretty significant. If it weren't so limited I would build a character around this. I've played multiple D&D characters built around improvised throwing. Shit is FUN.
>>147354975
Isn't D&D extremely fun with unarmed build?
>>147355059
Monks can be really OP, if that's the kind of fun you're after. And in 4E, there's a subclass of fighter called a brawler, which can be built into a fucking powerhouse. What made it really fun was that my DM being good at describing it.
Making a run through fresh Bitterblack Isle - whose pawns are coming with? Post pawn's name, level and vocation!Around level 100, if you don't mind - I'm unfortunately not made of rift crystals.
>>147355881
Pick girls only. No boys allowed.
This place looks more alive than usual. Is it because of the steam sale?
>>147356294
ArisenLinkis male, though. Are you saying he needs a harem?
>>147356650
Of course.
>>147346438
>>147348319
>Only problem is the horrible fucking menu interface.
It's shit with the mouse regardless, clicks are weird, unresponsive and often when you try to click something it selects something else. There's also things that I think are issues even with a controller, like the second or so delay before you can interact with some menus which is tedious and annoying and the way that not all of your skills show up on the right when you're learning skills until you click the category.
>>147356820
That's the kind of thinking I can get behind!
so... after my Saurian nest well adventure I talked to an NPC on a bridge and she was like hey i'm a ghost
now I'm on Bitterblack Isle. Still with the starter rusted weapons and only like level 8. Is this bad?
>>147353753
Assassin is the least fun class imo, apart from gale harness and that one sword skill where you place an explosive charge and detonate it with a fuse that has high knockdown. Even then the latter isn't very useful in my experience. Assassin gameplay boils down to using gale harness thousand kisses or dire gouge while clinging to your foe (m1 spam) or counters like masterful kill (which make the combat feel like assassin's creed's, a franchise known mainly for nearly everything but its combat because the combat is trash). In the case of clinging to things, strider and magick archer get more fun variations on that imo.
Not the most worthless class though, that's mage. Mages are just shitty sorcerers with anodyne for if you somehow can't stay very light while carrying enough curatives.And Grapnel, an overlooked and underrated skill but still not enough to elevate the class above any other imo.
>>147357757
Playing assassin. Literally never used daggers.
Fear me cutlass, lads! YARR!
>>147357673
Very bad. You should come back after completing the main story, BBI is endgame content.
>>147357757
Grapnel is my shit. I learned early in my first play through how great it is.
>>147357673
Roll for anal circumference. NOW.
>>147355881
I thought I needed RC earlier but now I don't cus I finally got the level 3 I wanted.Also earlier I was 111 but now I'm nearing 150.Good luck though, reminds me I need to send the pawns I was doing Daimon runs with back.
>>147357673
Depends. You're in for a fun time if you're careful and methodical and like a challenge. BBI is doable as soon as you can access it, I went there at level 10 this run and if you get stuck I might or might not be headed to the beach tomorrow for freedom day but if not I'll probably be around to offer advice.
On the other hand, you'll get super strong weapons and armour and shitloads of levels, so it will totally trivialise the main game since you'll be overleveled and overgeared. However, I feel the main game, which I did first in my first run, is pretty easy regardless. Many people also become frustrated with BBI's difficulty even at high levels so if you're not gud it can be bad.
I'd actually recommend for your first run you do the main game first so you experience it as it is intended, but if you back up your save to start a new run (not NG+ but an entirely new level 1 character) or start over try out going to Bitterblack early because it's a tonne of fun.
This weeb has a couple of runs up that sort of explain the run and showcase some strategies he came up with to deal with his custom challenge (though he breaks his own rule about online a bit for rift crystals; I also played online for rift crystals in my recent run but didn't do any save scumming so I can confirm that isn't really a necessity).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDcDNwfwQCA
>>147357673
run
>>147340421
May I suggest an Inez?
>>147338895
Spare your judgment for after the witch hunt.Merely pretending to be autistic!
>>147353593
What is that class? Just sorcerer?
>>147356482
yes.
At least that'S the reason why I got the game.
>>147356482
>liftstone forgeries
funniest shit in the whole game
but yeah probably, I played on pc release on a pirated install but finally bought it the other day so I've been back and it seems a lot of people are just starting out so they probably got it from the sale too
>>147358652
>I'm nearing 150
Post pawn, I'm looking for pawns around my level.
>>147359505
Yes.
I'm a lvl48 assassin and do fuckall damage to the gazer at BBI. I guess I need to come back later. It took me like 10 mins to kill 2 of his health bars.
>>147355718
>monks
>op
Not in MY 3e, thank you.
>>147356482
Yea I finally picked it up and I don't know how people are walking around in good looking outfits. My arisen looks like he dresses by stabbing hobos in alleyways and stealing their clothes. My main pawn is a fighter wearing tattered wisps of cotten that might have been a robe once. One of my hired pawns is named Hornet and looks like a loli stripper with a surprisingly festive hat. I'm around level 16 in stage 2, is this normal?
>>147360440
>looks like a loli stripper with a surprisingly festive hat
100% normal.
>>147360001
I actually am 150 it seems, pawn is still 147 though. She's stacked for attack and carry capacity, mitigator and challenger with I think utilitarian as a third currently.
>>147360135
>check some youtube vids and people on lvl 20 can clear it as long as you spam throwblasts.
>each explosion downs almost an entire healthbar
top balancing
>>147312949
reset from last checkpoint
>>147361010
You're given 18 throwblasts before the fight for that exact purpose, they're in the refuge at the top of the gutter of misery or whatever it's called. Wouldn't call it a balance issue when the tool is there for you to use.
Also throwables scale linearly off of strength and assassins get the highest strength growth of any class.
>>147360738
Not offense but I'd ravage her backdoor.
>>147360738
Hired her. Your pawn has an outfit really similar to the one I was using with my Arisen and I noticed you didn't have chest armor, so I gave her the one I was using, Weak Guard.
Also here's my pawn info, in case you're also looking for pawns around that level.
>>147360659
I'm serious, someone really took the time to convey the underage stripper look. I don't mind necessarily because she's a heal and buff mage but I try to hurry through Gran Soren nonetheless.
>>147363128
>I noticed you didn't have chest armor
For fashion mainly. I like how the plain dragonleather looks.
I'll give her a hire after I send these guys on their way.
>>147363502
Yeah, I like it too.
Weak Guard looks pretty good with Assembled and Dragonleather vests, pic related.
im going in fresh to this game after buying it in the sale so i'm avoiding guides.
but this is bothering me.
i haven't done shit with my cousin besides the withchwood sidequest, why is she pink?
Anyone else want to post rape faces?
>>147365590
It means you have max affinity.
It's for marriage and plot purpose.
>>147365723
On second thought, he doesn't look all that rapey, here's a better one.
>>147365590
She's had a crush on you since you were both like 6 or something.
>>147365590
Since I imagine you are trying to avoid spoilers I will be as vague as possible: interacting with characters and doing quests that help them raises their affinity towards you. Right now, Quina has high affinity because you saved her from wolves and shit.
A character having high affinity will also affect something else down the road.
>>147365590
She wants the d.
What is a good class I can switch to after leveling as a sorc for like 100 levels?
>>147367174
Literally anything.
>>147355881
PC
Hobo Hero
Sorc lvl 100
I just played around with his inclinations so feel free to leave some scathing comments and gift him trash, I just want him to get out and explore the world
>>147365723
>>147367174
Magick Archer if you want to activate easy mode and just basically watch shit melt away every time you do something.
>Get around 3 hires a day lately.
>Got really nice 5/5/5 with "Is adorable beyond word." and 5/5/5 "was our finest warrior".
>Then got 3/3/3 with no comment and no gift.
>for like 2 days straights now.
>it made my pawn rating tanks.
>go in the rift to see the pawn my main pawn knew.
>all the 3/3/3 are pink princesses.
Those people disgust me.
>>147367836
How can i change my main pawns stats? I want to re balance them and change their build but keep the stats within reason so they can still go online
>>147367836
>pawn comes back with 3 star ratings all around
>also get an item so I know my own pawn didn't die
>look for the pawn of the person who gave me 3 star ratings
>anime hair color
>heterochromia
>slut clothing
>>147365590
She's not your actual cousin, that's just what everyone in cassardis calls each otherbecause the village is so small that they're probably all related anyway.
When can I buy the potion that resets my pawns inclinations? The guy doesn't sell it yet for me.
>>147370401
What guy?
As far as I know, only the merchant in The Encampment sells it, the one right next to the Riftstone, and I don't remember it being a timed thing but I'm not really 100% sure about that either.
>>147321948
>caring about a character voiced by vic mongolian
i cant
>>147372208
Literally who?
>>147332657
I hate playing mage. When I do NG+ I'm going to force myself to though. Maybe start with it, so I can get out of there ASAP.
>>147334098
>doesn't really explain if there's a bigger world at large or not.
Julien and she-goat are from other kingdoms. I assume they're across the water, which makes me wonder about the brine.
>>147339794
>is hard to dodge in the dark
Go during daytime, dumbass.
>>147372783
Don't forget about the mainland where Quina's going through
>>147372783
Maybe they have flying means of transport in the world of Dragon's Dogma.
Likedomesticated Griffins
>>147340560
>tfw you rescue her and somehow have time to fuck before escaping
>>147343624
Use Strider and learn the thing that lets you grab/climb better
>>147373260
I'm pretty sure they only cuddled each other and somehow Aelinore left her pantsu in the bed
>>147372783
Boats are clearly okay despite the brine. The people of cassardis would bemoan not being able to go out in boats to fish if they couldn't, and several of the villagers were put on the water during the dragon attack, and it's strongly implied the brine showed up immediately after the attack--presumably sooner than far-ranging boats could have returned.
And yeah, I imagine the countries that Mercedes and snek-boi come from are on the mainland where the church headquarters are, though that sort of implies Gransys is an island of some kind. Maybe britain-ish?
>>147373409
Aelinore left her pantsu because she was fucking one of the guards before you showed up.or maybe a goblin
>>147373409
>turns out she forced her pantsu into Arisen's mouth and furiously pegged him/her
>forced to leave when said pantsu fell out and Arisen woke the whole building up with his/her screams
Aelinore is dangerous, guys, be careful.
>>147373564
>Maybe britain-ish?
I think Gransys is not-Britain and Hearthstone is not-France.
I forget the name of the place where Julien comes from but I guess that is not-Austria.
>>147373715
>implying that wouldn't make aelinore best girl
>>147373017
I did forget, and I'm bitter she fucked off before I had the Bond to give her. Oh well, I'll save whatever rando the game picks.
>>147373564
Hmm... good point. I want the Brine to be some cthulu mother fucker, but it's more like a bunch of pirahna. Maybe only idling in the water counts for real world, as opposed to DONT GO DEEP ARISEN.
>>147373868
>implying i'm implying she'd be anything but best girl if that was correctWHICH IT ISTHE SIGNS ARE ALL THERE
>>147373409
>that cliche as fuck way they fall on the bed together
Look, I don't want it to be true, but I don't see any other way that happened.When I replay, I'm letting her ass die.
got room for one more, anyone need a hire?
Fashion time ?
>>147376876
Octavia is level 35 strider, if you want.
>Reynardis my beloved
>finally get to sleep in my own bed whenI get my heart back
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
