Dragon's Dogma II

>don't want to play dnd flavored monster hunter.
So in other words, you don't wan to play Dragon's Dogma? Kek.

>Dragons Dogma was inspired by shadows over mystara
Is this bait? Also why are you comparing a beat em up non-rpg to an action rpg? The two games aren't even comparable in design philosophy.
>shit hunter world with God of War mega bosses
That is the game though. You telling me the reason you play DD is to fight trash mobs of goblins, skeletons, and harpies as you do escort npc's and hope they don't die instantly failing their quests? That sounds agonizing. The only point of playing DD is the boss fights and customization.

Inspiration doesn't equate to intention though. The games have different design philosophies and aren't very similar.

So you're arguing that Dragon's Dogma, which is a 3D action rpg, was originally designed to be a 2D arcade style beat em up?
>Yes it does and
No it doesn't. Lisa was inspired by Fist of the North Star. Does that make Lisa a manga series? Inspiration does not equate to intention.

I have and the games have very different design philosophies.

>Dragons Dogma was inspired by shadows over mystara
Are you sure you aren't conflating Dragon's Dogma with Dragon's Crown?

the combat feels vrery much like an arcade game.

I ended up refunding it so I can't try the cheat mods. In any case idk if that would've been necessary, I just think the game wasn't for me. I don't think the core systems or world appealed to me enough to get over the parts I didn't like

The only thing you could have done, outside of ignore the gear upgrade system (just a new weapon occasionally if whatever you found is too weak) and realize the crafting system is optional (and mostly pointless) was play on hard so the combat actually had stakes instead of being something a turbo controller or auto-clicker could beat on it's own.
A lot of pussies here say to play on normal so they can run into attacks and look at their phone when in the middle of fights and then come here and talk about how its "fun", balanced, and the better way to play the game.

I guess you could have been intelligent enough to simply ignore the notice board quests but it is hard to blame you for not knowing that you could just completely ignore them with no consequences.
A lot of gays will do whatever a game tells them to do then b***h about it as if they didn't have a choice.

thats generally an accepted method of obtaining gear yes, why did you greentext it like buying stronger equipment is an outlandish premise for a game

I do all the kill X missions, but I flat refuse to do the escort missions, and the find the hidden medallion ones. Particularly since not all classes have mobility skills needed to get all of them.

Also, hard is obviously harder at the start, but because you get shitloads of XP and gold, you quickly get overleveled (which is already a problem on normal, if you explore and do everything available to you). Hard was added after the fact and it’s meant to be a new game plus mode, it’s not intended to be played from the start with a new character.

Hard will make it so that enemy attacks matter throughout the game, even during the mid game you will run into things that can 1 or 2 shot you so you at least have to vaguely pay attention to what you're doing.
Better than Normal where it never matters, just wait for anodyne until you HP bar shrinks enough that you have to pop some grass.

Perhaps the last part of Gransys before you fight the Dragon is the exception in hard mode (because you're basically handed some of the best gear and your stats are high too), I don't really remember anything during that final part outside of the dragon itself - but by that time anything in Gransys is boring and BBI is all that could feasibly challenge a player that was actually looking at the screen and learned the most of the enemy animations.

Hard is where the fat gold bags roll down the mountains and corridors with satisfying and kino physics.
I need to know about the gold bag physics for DD2 anons.

there was no implication, i directly stated that his work on other people's ideas has finally been rewarded to the highest degree, regardless of whether he thinks the his previous work was "bullshit". Your entire career in a company is filler bullshit when you have your own ideas, especially if your company makes Street Fighter games

I cant make it any clearer to you how much youre talking shit for literally no reason- which he chose first is irrelevant, you should be agreeing his skills and efforts have granted him the opportunity to continue working on something so important to him not rolling up and mashing out "well um ackshually he chose a different project foist" u belligerent c**t

they are both in the game and part of the world i have no idea what you are talking about kid. you are moronic.

okay, i don't care about your worthless opinion on what "counts" and doesnt. thats a childish perspective when my statement is rooted in fact, not opinion. its an objective statement that elves are in the game. you can find them wandering around the world of dragons dogma 1.

Not that anon and not elves of Beastren but there are a number of characters in DD that appear to be meant to be dwarves. The Innkeep and general store lady from Cassardis both seem to fit the bill.

Short and stocky without looking like human midgets.

>hate modern gaming
>playing on a 960

the entire point of PC is to have an unlocked platform wherein upgrades significantly expand performance. youre not paying $300 for one game, youre paying for every game to run incrementally better. Sekiro might run great but its a "last gen" game and these newer titles are only barely within the realm of being considered as such.

strange that RE4R didnt work for you thoughever because RE Engine shenanigans should allow you to get SOME playability out of it even on that rig, but i believe you that that wasnt the case

I talked about it to a good friend of mine, he told me upgrading my 8gb of ram to 16gb should be enough to allow me to run the game in medium at 30fps, without touching the GPU or CPU. What do you think? Buying more ram is far more affordable, could totally do that.
Also I don't usually play AAA games, thats partly why I don't care much about upgrading the meat of things. DD2 is the only promising thing in the horizon.

What about chrono trigger? Somewhat possible ludo narrative wise, too.

Advanced classes are part of the base game i believe, but I’ve only played DD:DA that includes the dlc, so I may be wrong. BBI is just an optional harder endgame area dungeon crawl and new endgame gear.

Advanced vocations double down on the base classes and are more focused/extreme versions. Fighter is a tanky martial type with a shield and good damage, warrior loses shield and gets a giant two handed for very heavy damage and knockdown. Strider is a balanced and agile class hood with daggers and climbing, and a short bow for ranged, while ranger has a longbow and weaker dagger abilities but excels at range. Mage has mix of utility and healing spells with decent damaging magic, while sorceror loses healing and has less utility but specializes in slow-casting but hugely powerful AOE magic damage. Pawns can be any of these classes.

There’s also hybrid classes available only to the player. Mystic knight combines melee and magic, magic archer combines, uh, magic and archery, and assassin combines melee and the striders agility.

Your stats are basically the integral of whatever you leveled up as. If you level up a lot with a high HP class, you’ll have high HP, and so on. The earlier levels are weighted higher, too. 1-10 has the highest growth, 11-100 has medium, and 101-200 (cap) has lower growth. If you do everything but don’t intentionally grind you might finish the main game around level 50-60 or so. You can freely change class at any time after level 10.

Another reason beyond stats you may want to dabble in multiple classes beyond the one you want to actually play as is augments. Beyond learning weapon skills and moves (which are limited to classes that can equip those weapons) you can also learn equippable augments (like perks or feats), up to 6 of them, and once you learn a class’s augment you can equip that augment on any class. So you can mix and match abilities, some of which are extremely useful.

I believe so. You gain XP (to level up) and you gain DP (discipline points) at a reduced rate, as a fraction of XP gain. As you gain DP you gain class levels for your current class (which unlocks higher level abilities for that class) and you spend DP to unlock new skills/augments/classes (iirc you have fighter strider and mage unlocked from the start and it costs 1000 DP to unlock each of the advanced classes, which isn’t a huge amount). But I’m pretty sure all your DP goes in one big pool so you can gain it with one class and then spend it with another.

Personally, it’s not optimal and it’s cheating, but I play on PC and use a mod that gives console-like tools, and so if I’m playing as a warrior (imo most fun class, though probably not the “best”) I only want to level up as a warrior because it’ll bug my ‘tism. So I level 1-10 as fighter and then only ever level up as a warrior from then on. If I want augments from a class I don’t want to play as, I’ll save up the DP, adjust my class level to unlock what I want, and then buy it fair and square before going back to the class I want to play as, without leveling up as whatever else.

The “optimal” way to play and max your stats is probably a convoluted stat split that dabbles in each of the classes that optimize each of the stats, but that seems insane to me. If I want to play as a class, I want to play as that class, not spend hours playing something I don’t want to do in order to make numbers higher. Some people find that fun but I don’t

If you want to max magic attack, level mage 1-10 and sorc 11-200. Boom, done. You’ll be something of a glass cannon but have unparalleled magic offense.

I would say normal. Hard was added after the fact as a NG+ feature. Enemies are much stronger and will one shot you early on, and give much more XP and gold. Some people enjoy this challenge and it forces you to play very tactically in the early game to avoid getting one shot, which some people think is fun. However, the high XP and gold rewards mean you’ll quickly get overleveled for the content, kinda defeating the purpose. Hard also greatly increases the enemies resistance to knockdown (and some classes rely on knockdown) and also I think it changes stamina costs/regen, so it somewhat forces particular play styles, which some people might enjoy but I dislike.

Already on normal, if you explore everywhere and do everything, you will end up somewhat overleveled by the mid game. Just keep in mind there’s a large difficulty spike after the end of the main quest once you get into the “postgame” epilogue content and the DLC area. I’d save hard for NG+

>Right, so I could play mage until 10, save dp, buy fighter perks and go directly sorc 11-200?
You could play mage until 10 and go directly into sorc, but if you want fighter perks, you’ll either need to play fighter until you reach the class level for what you want, or if you’re playing on PC, you can use a mod to edit class levels without grinding in those classes.

I suppose a pain in the ass workaround would to pay careful attention to your character level and your class levels, and always make sure when you get close to increasing your character level, you switch back to your main class and level up as that class, and then switch back to the class you want to grind on, until you get close to leveling up your character level, and so on. This should work but it would be annoying to do and also easy to frick up.

On PC I would keep a folder of backup saves, also. Otherwise you only have one save.

Arch staves are for sorcs.

Sorcs and Mages share some spells, but I do not believe they share the same weapons.

Could be wrong though.
Also BBi is very likely the best part of the game if you're the person that's new to the series.

I guess there are two sides to DD fans:
People that just play to mash buttons and see
cool shit happen.
The attention to detail in the world and the pawn system are both pretty wonderful on their own.
And
People that enjoy the combat and try to get some kind of challenge out of it, or at least have the battles where it matters if you're looking at the screen. The cool shit is a nice bonus though.

The first type will play on normal and can drunkenly stumble though the game without having to pay much attention to anything.

The 2nd type will do Hard and probably love to death the ridiculous situations that you can find yourself in, especially early.
Like the other guy said, outside of some of the tougher enemies mid-game portion you won't get 1 or 2 shot much on Hard.
Late game in Gransys will be a joke just like in Normal if you farm and/or wear the best gear (don't farm any gear until BBI, waste of time. Just buy stuff.)

Then BBI brings back the engagement because enemies are more aggressive, hit harder, and have new animations so you have to start paying attention again.

If you are willing to Mod the game, I'd say the best experience is Hard mode with the Normal mode EXP curve (or even lower exp gain).
The only issue is the Stagger resist enemies have is moronic in Hard More DLC areas (but that shouldn't be much of an issue unless you're a Warrior).
Non-DLC enemies can be staggered just fine even on Hard Mode.

A mage or sorc casting an elemental enchant onto a physical weapon doesn’t have this issue as you gain the better pure damage of the weapon plus the enchant will add a factor of the casters magic stat on top. Fire is useful early game, I like holy as a solid all rounder, ice is supposed to be good for late game BBI, and lightning is rarely useful for a couple bosses.

I’ve never played sorc, just bought spells for a pawn, so other anons can give you better advice, but I’ve heard the combo of casting a holy enchant on yourself and then using the focused bolt attack skill is a very good main weapon for quick attacks when you don’t want to cast a ten second long nuke.

Oh and I said "Important trick" but it's not the end of the world or anything if you upgrade all of your pawn's spells, it's simply more optimal for a good number of spells to remain a level 1.

Later in the game you get a way to get Grand spells (level 3 spells), I'd say most grand spells are useless for pawns because they take too long to actually cast them.

Eh, I forget the exact way that works. I want to say yes though.

Spell sync is one thing because it implies you are also a sorc, so it Is often beneficial for them to hang around you.

But the general benefit of lower levels spells is it helps counteract when you arent a sorc and they still will stop what they are doing to get a bit closer if you move too far away, bad inclinations and the player not being a tard spamming "come here" aside.

Accept it, our purpose is only to train AIs to rant about Black folk, morons, homosexuals, hebrew tricks, jannoids and trannoids (free Tay Tay).

when i learned this i had so much fun with magick archer and mystic knight. it’s really autistic, but using those usually useless perma-enchanted weapons for their magick scaling rather than their damage type opened up a lot of fun builds for me. One good example is sunflare, its a decent move on its own but you can become a nuke spamming crackhead if you equip enchanted daggers and get a nice buff from a sorc. sometimes as magick archer its even worth it to hit a magick rebalancer, sometimes instead of taking advantage of the downed state ill just setup 3 magick rebalancers so that i can knock them down again when they try to get up.

Dragon’s Dogma is peak kino

New video, goes a little over Pawns.

I'm legitimately disappointed by this. I felt like it gave them a lot of character and I never tired from hearing their lines.

I hope it's just a case of them having more lines now that they cycle through instead of them talking less.

I'm legitimately disappointed by this. I felt like it gave them a lot of character and I never tired from hearing their lines.

I hope it's just a case of them having more lines now that they cycle through instead of them talking less.

>We've done whatever we can to keep Pawns from repeating the same lines multiple times
wtf, refunded

theres no way they avoid repeating lines, they might have like 50 instead of 20 lines now though.

you people cannot be reasoned with and your soul is unsalvageable. what could satisfy you? infinite procedurally generated dialogue? tongueing a bear's butthole?

I was simply stating the facts and you people took it the wrong way. with that in mind, get uncomfortably close to this; frick your ignorant ass. the repetition in the lines is just another example of dragons dogma pulling liquid goddamnit gold out of the putrid dragonfire that is our world. would you rather they say 3 lines and then never speak again? then shut your butthole and stop shitting all over my dragonforged goat videogame

that is the most moronic 64 words i have ever read.

Plants of all kinds grow at the trees' feet, like so many verdant children.

>Best delivered by your Deedlit pawn after an otherwise silently dark trek to the witch's hut.

have a nice day! quickly!

I only played hard also but me as MA or MK took on anything with my 2 ranger 1 mage setup. One shots didn't kill me since you know, big shield, or that MA preventative buff that's op. Been too long to remember all the detail but everything became too easy was the real problem except death and daimon 2 slowed down a bit.

The healing spells weren't for me but the other pawns so I could just run around without thinking about them at all.
I ran the other types of setups too, pretty partial to assassin solos at night but I never really liked sorc pawns unless I also sorc'd for sync casts. MA is the S+ tier class though unless we're talking about uberboss kill times maybe. Just too good in all regular situations.

Warriors are cool, but every time I played one I'd rather be le bandit king assassin with a shield I found since they shared the most fun shield moves and well, assassin is assassin. Without using a shield, I went back to the unga jumping style, which is ok but didn't grab me as much.

I wish pawn ai wasn't so bad about delivering climbing damage because I'd launch my gobbo pawns at enemies all day with the shield catapult move otherwise lol.

Whichever character you like. Though I will advise you this: Dragon's Dogma isn't the type of game where you will stay as one class for the entire game. There are passive skills that can be transferred from class to class that you can only earn by leveling up the profession. While you might 'main' a certain class over the others, do spend time playing as other classes so you can get good passive skills to transfer to your main class.

>i just use it to start engagements from far away i guess. tbh its not that important which skill you use as long as you use arc of deliverance, and a lot of people like exodus for its iframes.
The level 1/2 lunge was very underwhelming but I got a band to upgrade it to lvl 3 and now I love it.

>Congrats anon. You've won an entire battleship! It is made of iron.
Tis a mountain of metal!
Take aim for its glowing amulets!
Burst strikes will best shatter the discs.
Only physical blows will destroy the amulets.