Dragon's Dogma : Dark Arisen.

[RoboticMonk3y]

3 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said:

I heard you have to be a way higher level, but are the fights good at least?

 

if you like being one hit by literally death swinging a giant scythe that arcs across entire arenas?

[one-armed dwarf]

Sounds easy peazy

 

Me, I am a pro gamer no-scope 420 kind of guy I'm sure I can handle this ??

 

[RoboticMonk3y]

Just now, one-armed dwarf said:

Sounds easy peazy

 

Me, I am a pro gamer no-scope 420 kind of guy I'm sure I can handle this ??

 

the nice thing is that whatever health you chip off stays off, but spread out over many attempts (and many deaths) I never managed  to see him off.

I seem to recall there being some good loot on bitterblack, but I spent my time hiding or running away ?

[one-armed dwarf]

If it's an optional superboss then I'm not too worried

 

I need new enemies to fight. The thing that kills me about Dragons Dogma is how its world design and traversal options force you to spend most of your time fighting wolves and bandits and less time fighting the actual great enemies.

 

I've heard BBI fixes this just a little bit.

[RoboticMonk3y]

I used stones to cut about the game, I don't recall where I picked them up

 

 

EDIT:

just peeped at the wiki you need to get yourself some portcrystals (or befriend someone who can give you some)

[one-armed dwarf]

I wandered into an area I was clearly unprepared for and received a miserable bollocking. Got as far as the black chimera before throwing in the towel.

 

I am level 48 but I think the real problem is gear

 

I have my archer vocation at the second last level and got a "plain longbow" and levelled it to 3 stars. I generally don't buy weapons in this game, I just upgrade what I find but I think I need the power now. Even tho it's "plain" this is the best one for sale right now. Although he does say they're masterworks all and you can't go wrong ?

 

My sorceress pawn Iris reached the highest vocation level and got the augment that allows quicker invocation of spells, so I'm betting she becomes more deadly as a result. The sorcerer is a particularly tough vocation to purchase skills for as they're so expensive.

 

So I guess I'm going to fuck around the map a bit finding monsters and trying to afford that gear. My next vocation will be assassin I think cause I've done all the other melee ones (fighter, warrior, strider and archer)

 

Archer I think is my least favourite vocation so far. It's like a slower but more powerful strider. But strider had a big emphasis on sprinting at and jumping on enemies from great heights doing higher damage the more air they have. It's like 50-50 with daggers and arrows with them. The archer is not at all about that. It's much more rubbish at daggers nuch better at arrows. These differences are interesting but I think I won't be touching archer again really.

[Sly Reflex]

I'll be streaming this tonight at about 9 for a few hours. You're welcome to come and tender advice or take the piss out the times I fuck up. Or count how many times I save the game.

 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

I'm wondering what people's favourite vocations are? I've really liked the strider and fighter. Fighter for the shield parry move. Strider for mobility.

 

Warrior I did not put a lot of time into cause of the three skill limit. That vocation basically feels like the Guts from Berserk vocation.

 

What is Assassin like?

 

I'm goin to go for an even spread on this rather than min-max and use as many vocations as possible I think. Then if I ever play again I'll just use the ones I like.

[Nag]

1 hour ago, one-armed dwarf said:

What is Assassin like?

 

It's a hybrid class, you can equip Daggers or Sword as main weapons and a Short Bow or Shield as secondary... It's skills are mainly focused on rolling alone at night.

 

@one-armed dwarf... It sounds like you've been neglecting a few side quests? You sound suspiciously under-levelled for where you are. Spend your gold on new shit, there's no point keeping it.

 

If you two have magic using pawns I hope you forged the Wyrmking's ring and kept the real one for yourselves?

[one-armed dwarf]

I've done most of the sidequests I've found except for that one where they asked me to escort a little girl who walks really slow, I legged it and did other stuff

 

There's one I have which is kill 50 rabbits ?

 

I am going to Soulflayer cavern to check that out. I remember getting an achievement for going in but left it at the time so I figure there's interesting shit to see

 

I spend all my gold all the time. I find when it comes to damage I'm very dependant on getting an element buff from mages/sorcerors. I wish magic users could equip more than 6 skills.

 

Forging wyrmking ring? Uh ??

[Nag]

Spoiler

Keeping the real Wyrmking's ring on you speeds up magic casting so it's a good idea, once you get it back for the Duke, to take it to the Black Cat Shop, get it forged, keep the real one on you or your pawn and give the Duke the fake one... 

 

[Sly Reflex]

How do I fake shit?

[Nag]

The Black Cat, it's near where Madeline sets up her shop. @Sly Reflex

 

It also sells some overpriced weapons and stuff.

[one-armed dwarf]

I dunno about Assassin.

 

If I go for something like swords and bows I feel like I'm missing defense options like dodge roll. If I go sword and shield it just feels like fighter

 

Maybe it gets better later when ass-exclusive skills unlock.

 

I found some dumb side quests which are help out the duchess (fuk that) or break this guy out of prison. I'm just going to kill some monsters instead I think.

 

Can't deal with the quest design here tbh.

 

Hard to keep up with gear requirements tho with a class like assassin, which can use so much stuff.

 

[Nag]

2 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said:

help out the duchess (fuk that) 

 

If that's the quest I'm thinking of it leads to an area that's locked, that mission is the only way to enter (and get the achievement/trophy)

[one-armed dwarf]

Aw man

 

I need to take a dogma break for a bit I think. I'm sort of hitting a progress wall with it. Under-levelled and have spent a long time with a class I wasn't super keen on (ranger) and starting a new one which is tough until you actually learn the cool new skills

 

[RoboticMonk3y]

Oh forgeries!

Hahaha

I only used it once. 

I copied a book... And it led to some unfortunate consequences for someone that wasn't me

[Nag]

??... @RoboticMonk3y

[one-armed dwarf]

Was watching Sly's stream, got to log off as the meds are making me sleepy but here's a few thoughts I have about the strider class.

 

The dodge roll skill makes it way easier to escape danger from the big enemies with really obvious tells, like Cyclops. It just negates a lot of attacks. Other vocations carry this ability as well but I think you only have it with daggers.

 

But the best thing about strider imo is that sprint ability. It depends on your preferred playstyle but for me I love the mobility it offers. Sprinting off an elevated position down onto bandits or beasts and doing helm splitters (HS damage increases the more air you have)

 

Some people don't like sprint tho and find it useless however so YMMV

 

Oh yeah, also buy helm splitter.

 

All that said I've not really dived deep into the bow and arrow moves in this game. I tend to use only two bow moves. The one that has a really long wind up (mighty bend? Dire shot?) or the ones that shoot a horizontal line of arrows, like five or seven at a time.

[Sly Reflex]

Thank you to both to @one-armed dwarf and @RoboticMonk3y for coming and keeping me company. They witnessed me kick the fuck out of stuff and also get the fuck kicked out of me a few times. That bloody coocoocahcho. Fighting that out in the wild's going to be interesting.