What should I know beforehand?
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Wolves hunt in packs.
All roads lead to Gran Soren, Anon.
Play sorcerer
Pawns that have healing spells are useless after the beginning, if you want your pawn to be a magic user focus on combat magic which I think involves switching vocations. By combat magic I don't mean buffs. Buffs are nice but the AI is batshit stupid so if they decide to give you a buff the battle will be likely over by the time they get done casting. The damage boost buffs provide are only useful for common enemies, they don't provide a significant boost when battling boss/high health enemies. Once again pawn AI is retarded so instead of casting a heavy hitting damage spell they'll waste their time with a useless buff. Dont hire pawns with maelstrom and dont teach your pawn maelstrom.
You forgot, don't teach your pawn the high tier version of spells, unless for Fulmination or the basic ones like ingle. The faster pawns cast spells, the better it is
>Dont hire pawns with maelstrom and dont teach your pawn maelstrom.
You don't like not being able to see or hear anything? Fag.
Globins are weak to fire
Remember these words of mine
>It doesn't get any better
get a pawn with healing, kick the ox, and then stand in front of it so your pawn heals you and the ox
If you want to play without pawns, play as a Strider. It’s the only vocation that has an answer to every situation in the game.
Unironically play on Easy. Harder difficulties don’t make the game harder, just more tedious. Also actions take more stamina so you travel the world slower. Trust me I’m usually a “always play on hard mode” fag and have beaten the game many times on hard mode and it simply isn’t the way you should play this one
Worst advice I've ever seen, OP don't listen to this gay.
You're a gay, but i agree that newbies should not play hard mode, unless they want an unbalanced experience. You're still a gay, though
Listen to this fag. Hard mode is awful unless it's your 2nd playthrought. Hard mode actually makes the game way, waaaaay easier by the midgame.
Is hard mode that bad on a new game? I was kicking myself for not doing it earlier when I saw how much gold got dropped.
It's good because you can buy everything you want, but in exchange you take 4x more damage and enemies are 4x more resistant to knockdown and stagger.
You should know it fucking sucks and is one of the most overhyped games of all time so don't waste your time.
It's mid
theres a option in the settings to make the pawns less talkative
Unironically better than Souls goyslop.
Having shitty unpopular opinions isn't a personality, gay. You're not special and unique/distinguished, just retarded.
We got a golem here boys.
DS1 is a bit better overall. But it is indeed better than all the slop fromsoft made ever since
Just wait for the sequel game is mid af fr
fr fr no cap on god sheesh
1: Look at the wiki's side quests page. There are quest lines that you'll permanently fail by starting/finishing other quests and the game doesn't do a good job warning you about them.
2: If you're hoping to go for a 2H melee build (warrior) don't. It fucking sucks because the balancing in this game is bad.
Do not listen to this retard. Never open the wiki unless you are lost and 100% need to in your adventure games. Explore. Also playing on hard mode is a must your first time around. So fun.
>Never open the wiki unless you are lost and 100% need to in your adventure games. Explore.
This is fantastic advice, and it really shouldn't need to be said.
>Also playing on hard mode is a must your first time around. So fun.
This is terrible advice, please do not do this, the game's balance is fucking terrible on hard (and on normal too, just not as much), enemies are much more difficult to stagger and knockdown so certain vocations become very frustrating to use, enemies drop a lot more gold and give more XP than on normal, so the first 2 hours will be difficult on Hard, but you'll become OP sooner than you would on normal.
I played on hard mode my first time and I loved it. I don't know what you mean by "OP" as the game is very hard in the beginning and gets easier it's still a very fun and far more enjoyable experience than normal. I always enjoy my games difficult so goblins oneshotting me for my first 5 hours was sweet. I didn't pussy out with no mage build either, I took those garden gnomes nose on.
I explained the OP part, you get massively increased gold drops and you gain XP twice as fast in hard mode, so you can more easily buy the good gear and upgrade it and will level up faster, so the game become easy earlier than it would on normal, it's good that you enjoyed at least.
Just play it and understand that you can alter the pawn AI with potions.
Memes aside, what you need to do is carry some port crystals. Place them far and wide - blue moon tower, bandit fortress/spooky woods, up by the great wall/devil fire Grove etc. Makes all the escorts quests a doddle.
Don't do them until you've cleared the main quests in those areas though, if you can avoid it.
>Also, stock up on Stamina potions and mushrooms. Buy a bazillion flasks, and fill them at the magic pool.
>Getting all the knowledge is nigh impossible without a lot of fucking around, so don't sweat it.
>Make sure you take Simone for a walk.
>Always keep a skeleton key handy. They're not too hard to make too.
>Bitter black isle is dangerous as fuck for low levels, but you can rush in and get some good gear if you're a madman.
>The dlc armour you start with is cheating.
>Dress for fashion anyway, when you kill dragon's, sometimes shit gets forged - but only what YOU are wearing so keep that in mind if you want to dragonforge your pawns gear - you'll need to briefly switch to their class.
The minmaxing stat distribution level thing is a complete meme, just use any job you want and so long as you don't completely change role, you'll be fine.
Don't get swallowed by hydras. You die.
I played with a stat editor on my first play through but only used it as pseudo fast travel. Edit jump and speed to a billion and turn off fall damage then set it back to normal when i got to where I was going.
For the love of god pay attention to the romance system
You have to go back to the village after you defeat the hydra
You mean before
Stats are less important than equipment and Warrior is probably for veterans only. Also, you might have trouble getting your pawn summoned nowadays so post a picture of it on here if you see a thread and really want to get them out there.
I am not trying to be mock you, anon, just play it anyway you want.
You will lose some side quests, you will not have an optional build, the endgame will be when you gonna answer if you want to grind for loot because tou are having fun playing.
The game ia viable with anything. You can change your classes anytime and can learn all the abilities.
Now, if you are a completionist, then you will want to follow a guide of missables.
All the more esoteric shit like pawns potions, status gains by class when leveling up, chance of spawn ultimate weapons and armor on the DA expansion...you can ignore if you want. If you want to dig deeper, then you can when you are more familiarized with the game.
And oh yeah, pay attention to the romance system.
And of course, wolfs hunts in packs, Arisen.
Oh wow, auto correct really decimates posts.
Abilities/passives carry over from other classes if you've unlocked them. It's worth it to experiment and play as other classes if they have something in common with the class you want to main.
glhf
I got to the everfall dungeon and got hard walled. I just didn't do damage any more
Yeah, that happens. You are supposed to dragonforge the grigori weapons or bully the ur-dragon and then pray for loot rng. The Dark Arisen DLC has much better post-game content, you still pray for loot but the dungeon doesn't suck ass.
Magicka Archer is insanely OP and takes fat shits on everything EXCEPT the medallion Golems. Not sure if I’d recommend it to a beginner— physical damage builds are a better option for DD:DA beginners.
>10 levels fighter, rest of the levels assassin
>spend a bit of time getting the clout and vehemence augments
>win the game
Physical is just best all around.
You can have sex with the e-boita slaves you create.
You were fooled by Ganker the game is shit and I will explain why:
>No indication of where roads lead
>No hint to what enemies are weak to
>No hint of when enemies are alone or in groups
>No warning to avoid status effects
>No clue to which items are masterworks
I don't know how people defend this game.
You forgot
>No indication of who you share the roads with
Fucking shit game.
Enemies will be left exposed after a grand strike
i hated having to open my inventory all the time.
They're masterworks all, can't go wrong
There is a general once in a blue moon on /vg/.
Try every vocation. Don't bother min-maxing.
Play Warrior
Good gif
Do you got the griffin one shot webm?
every slightly bigger enemy is actually bosses but final boss
>which is super lame
Fuck what anyone says.
Play hard mode.
yeah you’ll get bitch slapped, but it skips the grind & you’ll be swimming in money.
Just save frequently & remember fast travel is for gays & chud speed runners.
Have the intro from the first game on standby.
Humans are stupid.
Make a goblin.
Exploit the ability to create item forgeries.
Especially:
- The king ring you get on a main mission. Keep it while using a forgery to finish the quest. The ring increases the cast rate of spells.
- The golden idol. You can give it to 2 NPCs in the game or keep it to get discounts on shops. Keep the forgery, give only the original to the NPCs. The idol is easy to miss tho, so you probably want to use a guide.
Anyone got the gif of julian hammering mercedes and mercedes hiding behind her shield?
That you should just ignore everything about "needing to learn special weaknesses of enemies" and just continue using warriors instead of bringing sorcerers or rogues or even healers. All you need to play this game is swords and shields and big weapons. The game is nice enough to supply you with weapons that will kill ghosts. Just move through those parts quickly if you don't have a weapon that does.
The game will throw too high of level of enemies at you if you go the wrong way too early. This is a design flaw in the game that I have seen people complaining about Elden Ring for not doing. Don't listen to them, they wouldn't know what it is like to be young kid excited for an actual good game.
As for Pawns, unfortunately they decided to give them all unique AI that nobody knows what they do. You'll have to read a guide to see which one attacks the strongest enemy it sees and nothing else. Everything else is pointless.
Assassin is the most fun class.
Best way to play is warrior with all of your pawns as warriors
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Yes. I've been in moments where being attacked by the chimera or the dragons and goblins and random shit is all over me while we wailing on the big enemy dragon, which is indiscriminate in its killing, killing everyone, and your pawns can't revive each other even if you take healers/special "support" ai that prioritizes picking each other up, all they do is drop the dead pawns at your feet.
Best bet is to kill the boss and let the boss kill everything and melee attacks will clean up anything in our way.
You can kick the ox
Go in blind dumbass. You will miss sidequests but it's fine the game is short and you're meant to replay it in ng+
I heard this is basically Berserk: The Game
is it true?
Probably, it prioritises big powerup attacks with big weapons that are actually worth it and can do enormous amounts of damage. It was like a breath of fresh air after Elden Ring because in ER you have to wear like 100 hats to get the big damages. In this game it just lets you have it.
It's more dnd than berserk but there are definitely berserk elements. The original even had berserk armor that you can mod back in.
No
it's not that good. too many shits are behind time tables, you can fuck up a lot of side quests because of that.
LISTEN TO ME ANON
>the base game continent has tons of missable quests, and honestly the base game isn't amazing. play through it once, and then play through it again using a "The Hero" achievement guide (which means you will do every quest)
>Bitterblack Isle, on the other hand, is one of the best dungeons ever put in an RPG. Do Bitterblack Isle immediately after killing the dragon on your 2nd playthrough (which should be hardmode). You will love it if you love dungeon crawling
Don't stick your dick in nobility.
>ywn ruthlessly fuck a fresh young virgin princess
why did he do it
He thought he could get her to roleplay as Guts.
He was sad about not having that guts bussy
The game does a terrible job conveying it but all roads lead to Gran Soren.
Be honest. How many of you have cheated rune crystals?
reminder that you haven't truly experienced dragon's dogma if you haven't done a solo sorcerer playthrough without holy focused bolt
>alternate exp table mod
>resonant enb
>solo
This is the definitive way to experience the game.