So if you combine a greenwarish with dried fruit or whatever, you get a fruit roborant. Combine that with a saurian tail and you get an exquisite roborant which heals like 1200 health and 600 stam. But instead if you combine two aged fish/meats or 2 ripened fruits/harspuds, of the same kind, you’ll get a fine fish/mincemeat/fruit/harspud roborant. Combine that with the saurian tail and you’ll get a miracle roborant, which heals 1500 health and 1000 stamina. It’s much better healing per unit weight.
Save your lizard tails….
You can also create a forgery of the fruit wine and use them to make newt drinks. Some forgeries don't do what the original item does, but the wine can be used to craft and be drank for the vigor buff status as well.
I just watched a video about the unmoored world as I'm about to go into endgame, and found out the pause menu has a time dial. I've been completely guessing at time of day for over 80 hours.
1) Always keep a Harpysnare Smoke Beacon on your person at all times. Using it magically creates a Harpy that slowly flies down to be grabbed, allowing you to reach some otherwise hard to reach loot. I can't count the number of times my pawns killed all the naturally spawning Harpies, leaving me with no way to get across (the woes of being a Warrior main)
2) Found a gate that's barred from the other side and can't find out how to reach it? Try returning to the gate at night time, and there could be some handy skeletons that'll politely open it for you!
A really slept on benefit of the Archer classes is being able to break barricaded gates/doors. They may not be able to jump around like Thief or MS or Mage, but they have a leg up in that regard.
>2) Found a gate that's barred from the other side and can't find out how to reach it? Try returning to the gate at night time, and there could be some handy skeletons that'll politely open it for you!
This especially applies to the shortcut between Sacred Arbor and Melve, through the Ancentral Chamber. Pretty sure, it's the only way to unlock the passage
Man, I tried to hit it with a ballista. Took me 30 minutes to actually hit it and it didn't work.
I eventually bugged myself on every hill and blocked path with the charge from Mystic Spearhand, so it didn't matter for me. But fuck those boulders.
The first one I found I got so excited when I saw the crank because I knew it would be working. Couldn't figure it out. Started to get disappointed. Found a stone, put it in place...!!! Begin the siege!
I’ve tried this a few times but the pawn has refused to actually grab the item I wanted. Is there a command for this or do the pawns need a specific inclination or something?
I had one pawn pick up everything off a big rock. She opened a chest, went through ribble, picked up plants etc. I think she was a forager, but I'm not entirely sure.
Yeah, it’s great damage! You get those maister teachings in the same town around the same time so it’s weird that a lot of folks seem to dismiss blades of the pyre as a troll skill without trying them together
To add to this, if you search the rift stone for level 1 pawns, you'll find several pawns from badass players who have set their pawns quests to pay out either 10k gold or 12 onyx, just for handing them 1 tarring arrow, or simple roberant. I made literally tens of thousands just from summoning them, talking then giving them 1 arrow, and dismissing them.
Also you can search for low level pawns that still have the default wakestone shard 'travel a day and a night' quest, then wait 4 times on the bench (1 full day and night), which will give you 2 wakestone shards. After a few minutes of doing this with different pawns, you'll have several full wakestones.
Similar here. I read the description thinking it meant a temporary increase to stamina, so never used them until I read somewhere that’s it’s a permanent increase.
You can hire an Ox Cart after it has already left town and is just going on its journey. Just talk to driver and it will stop and they will ask for payment like at the signs.
When your pawn (idk about hired) says they know of something nearby like ore or something, you have to talk to them and then they say they marked it on your map. Not always the "GO" command.
There is a ladder over there 😋
You can change in the settings, where "crafted" materials go. Either into your inventory or somehow into your storage. So maybe Craft from storage will be a QoL update. (Only at storage crafting, not in the field)
There is a setting that you can separate gathering and running, so you no longer pick up things weirdly. Was 2 days in before I saw that.
There is a way to send all your stuff to storage from the field though. Load up a pawn with everything you want to store and then dismiss them. It sends it all to storage. Then hire some random wondering pawn to take their place until you get to a rift stone
Also if you just sit in the cart the driver will automatically talk to you for the payment so saves a little time instead of talking to him then sitting down.
Yep they develop crushes on the arisen. Slightly different dialog, blushing, they'll sit beside you sometimes, and my personal favorite, sometimes they'll stare at you smiling and if you look at them they'll look away.
Get Trickster and level them up at least one as soon as possible to get an augment that make seeker tokens and chest with shards emit light and audio cue.
I cant belive how many i has missed that is right under my nose.
That theres a shortcut to battahl east of the giant gate. Its near the stone bridge that has a drake near it.
Took the western route so many times... (I was ignoring the story quests for a while)
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Edit\* added map. Its the first trail going south thats west of the broken bridge.
That's where I accidentally found myself in Battahl earlier this week. Trying to stay as spoiler free as possible (minimum wiki unless I already finished a quest) so it was a shocker.
Thats how I originally found the western path. Saw it on my map after I couldnt go through the gate. Also why I took the landmarks off the map I posted.
And falling off of a cliff to a pool of water if you have a long gap to cross with a skill (long flying stab with Mystic Spearhand for example). Otherwise they just fall to their demise.
Although I must say that companion AI in this game is quite an improvement over the original.
I haven't had a single pawn fall off a narrow path next to a cliff if we were just walking close to the edge or even when fighting.
It was happening far too often in the previous game.
Mage + Sorcerer Warfarer is legit the best build in the game. It has:
* A staff that silences on hit
* Multiple staves with permanent elemental boons applied
* Levitate
* Healing as core skill
* Stamina reg as core skill
* High Palladium for permanent invincibility of the group
* Augural Flare as the only offensive skill you'll ever need against bosses
And you'll still have a skill slot left for more support or offensive.
Honestly, being trapped in Battahl via a certain taxi,>! I saw the sphynx leaving and decided to grab on!<. Died so many times trying to get to a main city there to buy a waystone and get out of there.
Those gondolas or rope carts that you can use to move around battahl and the volcano place can break while you're in them if monsters attack. You'll probably die too or end up on a mountain with no safe way down other than a ferry stone
I play one PC and didn't know that if you are the one spinning the wheel to move it Gondolas, you can spin the thumb stick faster and the cart goes 3 times as fast!
Took me too long to realize the gear upgrades differ based on the region your smith works in
Magic bows and staffs upgraded by the elves are disgustingly strong
Leveling Warfarer levels up all unlocked and activated vocations (slowly). Took me about 10 hours to realize I needed to activate warrior for it to start earning xp.
The different smiths give different upgrades. The material requirements change as well.
Edit - typo
Don't miss the Dwarven Smiths. There are two. One in Bakbattahl and one on the volcanic island. Both are locked behind quests.
Dwarven upgrades are by far the best for most things. On armor it gives you knockdown resistance. On weapons it gives you knockdown attack. Once you've reached Bakbattahl the only other upgrade option you should consider is the Elven one for Staves.
The Dwarven one is even better for Magic Archer. The difference is hundreds of points of knock down. If the mob is on the ground you are doing bonus damage to it and it isn't hurting you.
The knockback resistance on the armor keeps you standing through more stuff. That keeps you doing damage.
The extra weight from the Dwarven upgrades doesn't matter if you Dragon Forge it, and Dragon Forging gear is pretty cheap.
Vermundian upgrades are only good in the very early game, before you've found many bugs that increase your carry weight. It's better than nothing, but not what you should be using on the gear you want to take to end game.
Also, if you have a pawn with the Forager specialization it will show you the location of every upgrade material you need for your equipped gear. There is even a search function on the map. You can see what you need for every upgrade style.
Edit: The difference in stats on the Dragon's Breath Magic Bow, Dragon forged.
Elven Upgrades ----> 812 Magic Attack and 266 Knockdown Power.
Dwarven Upgrades -> 777 Magic Attack and 397 Knockdown Power.
The extra 131 knockdown power is worth much more than the extra 35 magic attack. It will put mobs into a vulnerable state so they can't attack you and your *entire party* can deal bonus damage to them.
You also get more attack and magic attack when you level up, so the value of that 35 attack falls as you progress. Diminishing returns and all that. However, you don't seem to increase your knockdown power as you level up. The Dwarven upgrades seem to be one of the few places you can get more of it.
I was testing this for a while and as it turns out, leveling the classes individually is faster than doing it as wayfarer. I don't know if there is a sort of break even point for it tho. I had 3 classes remaining and the speed of unlocking vocation levels was as wayfarer was painfully slow.
To give a perspective, leveling a vocation from 5 to 9 took less time then going from 1 to 4 with my remaining 2 freshly unlocked vocations as wayfrarer.
It took me the entire time from 1 to 9 as wayfarer + much time spent afterwards to go from 6 to 7 on my fighter.
Unfortunately I could find any detail data on dp distribution for wayfarer.
From what I understand, Warfarer grants vocation experience at 10% normal rate for all unlocked vocations. It's not efficient if your goal is to max them all out as quickly as possible, but if you want to play as just two or three classes and gain experience for the rest as a bonus, it's great.
There is a way to sell items from your storage. Always keep at least one quantity of the item you want to sell and in the sell menu, press X/Square in the item you want to sell, it will mark that item and them select that item again, it will take you to a menu where you can choose the quantity you want to sell and it will let you choose quantities that are in the storage. It's not exactly selling directly from the storage because you do need at least one quantity of that item with you to be able to this, but still really neat when you come back from exploring and you want to directly sell what you have.
That you can use the catapults in the Ancient Battlegrounds. I walked up to them the first time there and didn’t get any prompt to use it like there are for the ballista, so went on my way. Many many hours later, walking through, checking the rockslide blocking the mountain path nearby and randomly thought I’d try to grab a rock and drop it near the net and boom, on its way to hit the rockslide. I basically put the controller down and said “f—k me, I’m an idiot…and I need more rocks.” Messed up part is that I already wayfarer jumped to get to that ruined tower way earlier, so clearing the rockslide wasn’t too necessary.
Then I went to the other end of the battleground to use the other catapult to hit the rocks under the cave path so that damn seeker token detection chime would stop going off whenever I passed the area.
Rings stack if you wear 2 of the same type, e.g. have your casters wear 2 x reduced incantation time rings for even quicker spell casting.
You can forge crafting materials to effectively duplicate them (helpful with higher level enhancements if you only have one of an rare item, but need more to complete it).
North of 50 hours. I never really progressed the story beyond unlocking the Capital. I saw people with really powerful gear early on. Never occurred to me to just jump in the fancy cart and just... Let it ride.
Now I want to challenge myself and go speedrun my way to Batthal.
Press Start button, there is a Sun on the circle map which is reflecting current time.
when waiting on the bench, press Y(xbox) rapidly can cancel the Stand up animation and keep fast forward the time
I had no idea you could jump up ladders.
I was like 15-20 hours into the game and pressed a (on Xbox) and I started jump climbing, it was game changing 🤣🤣
For the Riddle of Futility or Riddle of Differentiation, you can use the Sealing Phial on the NPCs and carry them back to the Sphinx if you don’t want to waste a Ferrystone.
I was near the end of my playthrough when I learned I could partially switch to DD1’s Soundtrack through a microtransaction.
It changed the original menu theme to Dark Arisen’s menu theme, the enemy encounter soundtracks from the first game were back, and the original “End of the Struggle” theme with the rock band was back.
It was a shame my sorcerers were too quick to kill before getting to the guitar shredding part of “End of the Struggle”
Hold down right bumper ( on Xbox ) and while holding it select a skill.
Archer will do a Reload animation and. Let you lock on with the skill and unleash hell
Works on martyr arrow to to fully drain all your hp to 1 shot dragons
You can what! I knew about knocking their heads off, but it never occurred to me to pick it up after. Can you control when it shoots or is it still controlled by the golem?
you can release the hold button to stand up on top of monsters and just wail on them so even a warrior can get their full charged moves off on top of a cyclops going wild
camp kits arent one time use
talk to everyone multiple times cause I missed some quests but also would have had no idea to engage with those npcs again, so basically talk to everyone over and over
some books are special and needed for a quest 🤷♂️ I used meteor spell after stumbling into the lich's den just exploring
dyes can be used on armor (i was wrong!) and even skin! fashions dogma lives on
making droughts is fine but very quickly youll be drowning in ingredients for Ruebrants(?) much better in weight and some can heal stam with health
weight management:
dump all crafting mats into the inn storage, you never need the materials on you to use them if theyre stored
oils can add up quick, i was holding like 15+ lamp oils for no reason
for the love of god keep a ferrystone on you at all times, i got stuck in the red canyon between Battlahl and Checkpoint town at Night for hours cause of a bad save and no healing
adding some others for visibility
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If you didn't know when a golem over heats and comes to a stop you can push it over and make it's head fall off so it can't shoot it's laser anymore
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You can then grab the head and use the laser to kill it
I always thought quest NPCs would automatically talk to me when I got close to them. Are there potentially a bunch of quests I am missing? It does seem like there aren't a ton of side quests so far. Enough to keep me busy, but I thought a game like this would be loaded with side quests.
well Ive been trying to stay spoiler free but ive seen some people getting some quests in melve that I just missed out
Some npcs definitely walk right up to you but I would have never got the fighter meister skill talking to whats his name since Ive had 0 reason too
it seems going to the Coronation locks out certain early quests, which i guess is my bad for doing all the quests in city at once thinking it was just the first batch lol
A pawn can get you there quicker, they will take you ways the map doesn’t show you. Shall I lead the way, and I was like nope, I have it marked on the map🤦♂️
44 hours in, and whenever I waited at a bench, I would wait unitl they stood up, then sit again, then pressing Y again to wait. I didn't realize you could just press Y right away and pass the time faster.
Once you reach high enough affinity, NPCs will leave you gifts at your house. Basically any NPC can be rizzed up too, so that's a bunch of gifts! I know for a fact I received some Allheals, which is afaik the only way to recover your lost health without camping or sleeping at an Inn/House.
Other than that there isn't much else to it. The two ''romances'' in the game are achieved via quests and the only other thing affinity does is >!change who the dragon is holding before you fight him!<.
There's also a couple achievements based on affinity, but once you know how it works they're quite easy to get!
Edit: You can also get discounts from merchants. It also changes the way you hold the person. If their affinity is at blush levels, you'll hold them like your beautiful princess and they won't struggle out! Makes for easy kidnappings.
Ok, some of mine are embarrassing :p
It took me hours to figure out I wasn't pulling off some of the combos, like the one for the Mystic Spearhand because I needed to rapidly press the basic attack button :p Pretty sure the game does tell you this, I just must have missed it. I was like "Why am I not doing that cool rapid combo I've seen on the trailers?" :D
I've also only just figured out I can see the Arisen and Pawn of whoever hired my Pawn, so snooping on their Arisen and Pawn is now my favourite thing, seeing what builds they're using.
Dried meat never goes off, so now I pretty much exclusively use dried meat for campfire food. Took me a while to figure that out.
Figured out if you have a pawn with forger, you can search on the map and it'll show you exactly where the resources are that you need to upgrade your currently equipped weapon and armour and those for your pawn. Also saves you having to go to a blacksmith to remind yourself what materials you need.
Finally, not really a 'figured out' thing, but the fact I'm still hearing new pawn dialogue after like 100 hours is pretty amazing. I know they repeat themselves A LOT but there's also tons of dialogue I am still hearing that is new to me. Love this game!
Makes levitate upward by holding down the button meaning they can reach ledges they otherwise couldn't by just jumping, also you can cast high frigor and walk up the ice ramp and hold down levitate to get to ridiculously high places
I knew they weren't 1 time use but I've had mine destroyed often enough that I keep an elite camp on every pawn just in case because I've been caught with my pants down a few times and running around on like 20hp for too long trying not to have to teleport out and run all the way back.
I also keep one of my two port crystals on me just to drop if I need to get back somewhere quick.
How do people get attacked while camping, I've never. I always clear out the nearby enemies first is that it? People just go straight for the campfire avoiding any enemies?
You can rob every single chest in the game (in shops, houses etc.). There's absolutely no penalty for it and nobody cares if you do it.
I gathered a lot of money this way :D!
Mine are:
1. Stashed items dont spoil
2. You can multiple select when stashing/selling
3. You can plunder from Important NPCs
4. The Time dial from Menu
5. Trying to kill Main Pawn by throwing her into cliff (instant KO) but she keeps coming back up.. Then I noticed.. She is equipped with The Legion's Staff you get from seeker coins. It gives Auto Revives. Same with for Rift Pawns.. They' became Zombies..
Item upgrade effects varies by region... didn't hit me that that's a thing until yesterday.
Also, from just reading the top comment, the pause menu has a time dial?
Took me a while to realize the exclamation marks on the minimap weren't sidequests like any other game.
They are just indicators of "hey, there is something you can interact with here"
Empowered Vocations/Skills. What took me even longer to figure out is that your empowered stuff resets when going to a new NG+ cycle, so if you don't immediately run to dragon boy and choose your empowered vocation when the game starts you're missing out on stat gains.
You don't die by drowning. You just respawn near where you drowned. Same for npcs. I found this when doing an escort mission (almost 40 hours in). I didn't want to complete it and I threw the npc into the water. She came back :)
I just learned what you just said, thanks.
Took me a while to learn that everything a side pawn is holding (not equipped) gets sent back to your storage when dismissed. Just find nearby rift stones and never worry about encumbrance again.
Since its a capcom game, i expected some mechanics like gathering from previous games i.e monster hunter would carry over. What took me so long to figure out was that camping gears are reusable as long as it doesnt break due to monster raids.
You need to go inside one of the gateway stones or whatever they are called. Interact with the stone while you are in that dimension and there will be an option to set pawn quest.
When a pawn says that they know of a certain point of interest nearby, you don't necessarily have to use the "Go" command to tell them to guide you there. Sometimes the timing is wonky, so you press the button and they don't do anything. Just talk to them and they should have a new dialog option to make them guide you there.
Also, the three kinds of valuable gems (jasper, onyx, tiger eye) give a vastly different amount of gold depending on where you sell them (Vermund, Battahl, Elven Domain).
If you hit a big monster in its weak spot with steady shot with archer, the next few loose attacks will auto aim at the weak spot without needing to manually aim
When you drop off a ledge with a barrel, you drop it, but you can catch it again if you time it right and its not too high.
Good for the sphinx's challenge run (if you want to try hard mode)
Levitate allow you to reach higher point and access unreachable part of the map. I saw it on a video called "you are playing DD2 wrong" or something like that and it shows the levitation spell used to traverse the terrain in places I didn't even know we could go and with loot and poi.
Level up my mage vocation right now
That was pretty funny when I saw him in a rift about 50 hours in. All the other pawns had high level gear and he was just there chilling in his prison rags lmfao
A pawn can get you there quicker, they will take you ways the map doesn’t show you. Shall I lead the way, and I was like nope, I have it marked on the map🤦♂️
"All Heal Potions" recover your full health bar, not only the grey bar.
And you can use health items when your health bar is empty if you are fast enough.
i saw a video where someone said when you run out of health you have about 2 seconds to pop a healing item before you actually die. saved me many times.
The quest with Roge the little boy who gets taken by wolves. All the NPC’s make it sound like he’s right outside of the checkpoint town but he’s not. He is waaaay off on the eastern edge of the map from checkpoint town.
That you have to actually tackle the nun in the Saint of the Slums quest to apprehend her. I ran around for days thinking there was evidence I was missing lmao
That I had Network functions turned off is why I wasn't see anyone's Pawns and was only seeing Capcom's Pawns.
But now it's just strippers as far as the eye can see... Not that I'm complaining.
Just saw a video on youtube. You can drop meat in front of wolves and they will stop attacking to eat the meat.
More tips like this tho. Even if it’s useless I love these details.
I'll definitely be using it, sometimes I just want to get from A to B without fighting every creature in the way.
It takes longer to drop the meat than it does to kill the entire pack though
… and they often drop meat when you kill them. It’s the circle of life.
So if you combine a greenwarish with dried fruit or whatever, you get a fruit roborant. Combine that with a saurian tail and you get an exquisite roborant which heals like 1200 health and 600 stam. But instead if you combine two aged fish/meats or 2 ripened fruits/harspuds, of the same kind, you’ll get a fine fish/mincemeat/fruit/harspud roborant. Combine that with the saurian tail and you’ll get a miracle roborant, which heals 1500 health and 1000 stamina. It’s much better healing per unit weight. Save your lizard tails….
If you’re a thief, you’re already drowning in saurian tail
Saurian ladies love his one simple trick.
There is is guy in the "secret lab" that sells lizard tails.
How did I not know this. Thanks!
Lizard tails are also used to make the newt drink for warfarer. Lizard tail + fruit wine = newt drink
You can also create a forgery of the fruit wine and use them to make newt drinks. Some forgeries don't do what the original item does, but the wine can be used to craft and be drank for the vigor buff status as well.
I just watched a video about the unmoored world as I'm about to go into endgame, and found out the pause menu has a time dial. I've been completely guessing at time of day for over 80 hours.
Lol didn't know this, I've been using the posisition of the sun in the sky 🤣
100%d the game at 97hrs, I was not aware of the time dial. That would have helped a lot. lmao
…. Also at almost a 100 and had no idea 😂
Wait it has a time dial are you kidding me
Oh. My. God. I cannot believe i missed that.
I was a solid 10 hours in before I realized it, so you aren’t exactly alone!
i only found that out by deliberately googling if tere was way to tell time otherwise i wouldnt have found out probly my entire playthrough.
I didn't know this either - thanks!
You're the effing goat for this. I just got to the endgame, holy hell that's really useful to know.
1) Always keep a Harpysnare Smoke Beacon on your person at all times. Using it magically creates a Harpy that slowly flies down to be grabbed, allowing you to reach some otherwise hard to reach loot. I can't count the number of times my pawns killed all the naturally spawning Harpies, leaving me with no way to get across (the woes of being a Warrior main) 2) Found a gate that's barred from the other side and can't find out how to reach it? Try returning to the gate at night time, and there could be some handy skeletons that'll politely open it for you!
Magic archer ricochet shot can open those doors for you too, or the mystic spear telekinesis skill if there are enemies
A really slept on benefit of the Archer classes is being able to break barricaded gates/doors. They may not be able to jump around like Thief or MS or Mage, but they have a leg up in that regard.
Side tip as well. If you’re trying to ride a harpy with your party near by use the “wait” command and they will stop attacking them
Not sure if I've got rebellious pawns or not but despite using the wait command my archer pawn can't help himself
Sounds like it's time for a swimming lesson for your pawn
>2) Found a gate that's barred from the other side and can't find out how to reach it? Try returning to the gate at night time, and there could be some handy skeletons that'll politely open it for you! This especially applies to the shortcut between Sacred Arbor and Melve, through the Ancentral Chamber. Pretty sure, it's the only way to unlock the passage
A whole different kind of skeleton key
The Catapults around the Ancient Battlefield unlock shortcuts, and chests. Some need multiple hits to unlock tho
IS THAT HOW TOU CLEAR THE BOULDERS ON THE WAY TO THE BATTLEFIELD?!?
Man, I tried to hit it with a ballista. Took me 30 minutes to actually hit it and it didn't work. I eventually bugged myself on every hill and blocked path with the charge from Mystic Spearhand, so it didn't matter for me. But fuck those boulders.
The first one I found I got so excited when I saw the crank because I knew it would be working. Couldn't figure it out. Started to get disappointed. Found a stone, put it in place...!!! Begin the siege!
Those are trebuchets, the greatest siege engine ever built.
Whaaaat. I was just there. But it was midnight lol
Omg thank you.... I'm 130 hours in and didn't even think about that.
Ancient Battlefield is the best "cave" in the game. Feels like Stormveil Castle.
I was wondering how the heck I was supposed to hit the dragon with them. Then it hit me, not the dragon, they are there for a reason.
When you die, you still have a window of time to use some health items to avoid having to use a wake shard. Its saved my ass so many times.
!!!!!
If you cant reach a ledge to get to something. Throw your pawn up there
I’ve tried this a few times but the pawn has refused to actually grab the item I wanted. Is there a command for this or do the pawns need a specific inclination or something?
they will only open chests, they don't pick stuff off the ground like seeker's tokens
I had one pawn pick up everything off a big rock. She opened a chest, went through ribble, picked up plants etc. I think she was a forager, but I'm not entirely sure.
Same been let down by this 9 times out of 10
Or if you have a shield pawn, press ”go” and they’ll help you jump up there.
That if i used formless feint before blades of the pyre I wouldn’t take damage
Wait does that actually work? I was thinking those rings that prevent on fire might
Yeah, it’s great damage! You get those maister teachings in the same town around the same time so it’s weird that a lot of folks seem to dismiss blades of the pyre as a troll skill without trying them together
Formless feint then blades of pyre is the cheese. Rocky rolly pollies get sent flying 😂
For the pawn quests that require items, you have to talk to the pawn to give it to them. You can’t just put it in their inventory.
Thank you for solving this. It has been driving me crazy for far too long.
To add to this, if you search the rift stone for level 1 pawns, you'll find several pawns from badass players who have set their pawns quests to pay out either 10k gold or 12 onyx, just for handing them 1 tarring arrow, or simple roberant. I made literally tens of thousands just from summoning them, talking then giving them 1 arrow, and dismissing them. Also you can search for low level pawns that still have the default wakestone shard 'travel a day and a night' quest, then wait 4 times on the bench (1 full day and night), which will give you 2 wakestone shards. After a few minutes of doing this with different pawns, you'll have several full wakestones.
Golden Bugs after 30 hours. Always thought they were some crafting ingredients and ignored them
Uffff 💀
Similar here. I read the description thinking it meant a temporary increase to stamina, so never used them until I read somewhere that’s it’s a permanent increase.
The "temporary" part had me selling them all until I read this comment thread😭😭😭
You can sell apples for ten times the normal price in Battahl
Don't forget to let them ripen before you sell them. You get significantly more. Also figs and quinces sell for 10x as much in Vermund.
The mage skill Levin has a follow up attack option to keep doing lightning strikes.
You can hire an Ox Cart after it has already left town and is just going on its journey. Just talk to driver and it will stop and they will ask for payment like at the signs. When your pawn (idk about hired) says they know of something nearby like ore or something, you have to talk to them and then they say they marked it on your map. Not always the "GO" command. There is a ladder over there 😋 You can change in the settings, where "crafted" materials go. Either into your inventory or somehow into your storage. So maybe Craft from storage will be a QoL update. (Only at storage crafting, not in the field) There is a setting that you can separate gathering and running, so you no longer pick up things weirdly. Was 2 days in before I saw that.
The "into storage" change only affects when you are crafting AT STORAGE. Not field crafting.
There is a way to send all your stuff to storage from the field though. Load up a pawn with everything you want to store and then dismiss them. It sends it all to storage. Then hire some random wondering pawn to take their place until you get to a rift stone
No clue about the pawn and map marking NONE! I was always screaming at the tv WHERE?!😂
Same here! Whenever a pawn sees something worth picking up, I always just want to shout, then pick the damn thing up!
Also if you just sit in the cart the driver will automatically talk to you for the payment so saves a little time instead of talking to him then sitting down.
After 67 hours, I just discovered that pawns have an affinity system…
Wait what?
Yep they develop crushes on the arisen. Slightly different dialog, blushing, they'll sit beside you sometimes, and my personal favorite, sometimes they'll stare at you smiling and if you look at them they'll look away.
how do you build affinity with your main pawn? I can't give gifts so I try to celebrate after fights and small talk with them when I can.
Barber shop, high fives, small talk, spa day (hot spring)
Get Trickster and level them up at least one as soon as possible to get an augment that make seeker tokens and chest with shards emit light and audio cue. I cant belive how many i has missed that is right under my nose.
That theres a shortcut to battahl east of the giant gate. Its near the stone bridge that has a drake near it. Took the western route so many times... (I was ignoring the story quests for a while) https://preview.redd.it/6leh7bwxaesc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfa71bbe592b55b0748744744829f5ff206a6753 Edit\* added map. Its the first trail going south thats west of the broken bridge.
That's where I accidentally found myself in Battahl earlier this week. Trying to stay as spoiler free as possible (minimum wiki unless I already finished a quest) so it was a shocker.
Thats how I originally found the western path. Saw it on my map after I couldnt go through the gate. Also why I took the landmarks off the map I posted.
Telling pawns to "wait," will prevent them from attacking
And falling off of a cliff to a pool of water if you have a long gap to cross with a skill (long flying stab with Mystic Spearhand for example). Otherwise they just fall to their demise. Although I must say that companion AI in this game is quite an improvement over the original. I haven't had a single pawn fall off a narrow path next to a cliff if we were just walking close to the edge or even when fighting. It was happening far too often in the previous game.
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Keep an archistaff on hand to quickly regen Stam as well
You can use levitate with archistaff too btw
You can heal yourself with the mage staff
Mage + Sorcerer Warfarer is legit the best build in the game. It has: * A staff that silences on hit * Multiple staves with permanent elemental boons applied * Levitate * Healing as core skill * Stamina reg as core skill * High Palladium for permanent invincibility of the group * Augural Flare as the only offensive skill you'll ever need against bosses And you'll still have a skill slot left for more support or offensive.
I don't need to start/finish certain story missions to get access to Battahl and beyond.
Honestly, being trapped in Battahl via a certain taxi,>! I saw the sphynx leaving and decided to grab on!<. Died so many times trying to get to a main city there to buy a waystone and get out of there.
Did you remember to place a portcrystal there first
You can jump and grab harpies to fly around, had no clue
Those gondolas or rope carts that you can use to move around battahl and the volcano place can break while you're in them if monsters attack. You'll probably die too or end up on a mountain with no safe way down other than a ferry stone
I play one PC and didn't know that if you are the one spinning the wheel to move it Gondolas, you can spin the thumb stick faster and the cart goes 3 times as fast!
Took me too long to realize the gear upgrades differ based on the region your smith works in Magic bows and staffs upgraded by the elves are disgustingly strong
You can raise the visor for certain helmets.
Leveling Warfarer levels up all unlocked and activated vocations (slowly). Took me about 10 hours to realize I needed to activate warrior for it to start earning xp. The different smiths give different upgrades. The material requirements change as well. Edit - typo
Don't miss the Dwarven Smiths. There are two. One in Bakbattahl and one on the volcanic island. Both are locked behind quests. Dwarven upgrades are by far the best for most things. On armor it gives you knockdown resistance. On weapons it gives you knockdown attack. Once you've reached Bakbattahl the only other upgrade option you should consider is the Elven one for Staves. The Dwarven one is even better for Magic Archer. The difference is hundreds of points of knock down. If the mob is on the ground you are doing bonus damage to it and it isn't hurting you. The knockback resistance on the armor keeps you standing through more stuff. That keeps you doing damage. The extra weight from the Dwarven upgrades doesn't matter if you Dragon Forge it, and Dragon Forging gear is pretty cheap. Vermundian upgrades are only good in the very early game, before you've found many bugs that increase your carry weight. It's better than nothing, but not what you should be using on the gear you want to take to end game. Also, if you have a pawn with the Forager specialization it will show you the location of every upgrade material you need for your equipped gear. There is even a search function on the map. You can see what you need for every upgrade style. Edit: The difference in stats on the Dragon's Breath Magic Bow, Dragon forged. Elven Upgrades ----> 812 Magic Attack and 266 Knockdown Power. Dwarven Upgrades -> 777 Magic Attack and 397 Knockdown Power. The extra 131 knockdown power is worth much more than the extra 35 magic attack. It will put mobs into a vulnerable state so they can't attack you and your *entire party* can deal bonus damage to them. You also get more attack and magic attack when you level up, so the value of that 35 attack falls as you progress. Diminishing returns and all that. However, you don't seem to increase your knockdown power as you level up. The Dwarven upgrades seem to be one of the few places you can get more of it.
I was testing this for a while and as it turns out, leveling the classes individually is faster than doing it as wayfarer. I don't know if there is a sort of break even point for it tho. I had 3 classes remaining and the speed of unlocking vocation levels was as wayfarer was painfully slow. To give a perspective, leveling a vocation from 5 to 9 took less time then going from 1 to 4 with my remaining 2 freshly unlocked vocations as wayfrarer. It took me the entire time from 1 to 9 as wayfarer + much time spent afterwards to go from 6 to 7 on my fighter. Unfortunately I could find any detail data on dp distribution for wayfarer.
From what I understand, Warfarer grants vocation experience at 10% normal rate for all unlocked vocations. It's not efficient if your goal is to max them all out as quickly as possible, but if you want to play as just two or three classes and gain experience for the rest as a bonus, it's great.
But it saves you from grinding a vocation you do not enjoy playing as.
Define activate- have the weapon equipped or just have unlocked it and bought it for dcp?
Unlocked with dcp
There is a way to sell items from your storage. Always keep at least one quantity of the item you want to sell and in the sell menu, press X/Square in the item you want to sell, it will mark that item and them select that item again, it will take you to a menu where you can choose the quantity you want to sell and it will let you choose quantities that are in the storage. It's not exactly selling directly from the storage because you do need at least one quantity of that item with you to be able to this, but still really neat when you come back from exploring and you want to directly sell what you have.
You can also catch your pawn by holding the grab button underneath them as they fall
Thank you for this, I tried testing myself by repeatedly hitting it and I also tried googling to no avail.
I thought I could only use a ferrystone infront of a portcrystal for about 50hrs 🙃
Rip
That you can use the catapults in the Ancient Battlegrounds. I walked up to them the first time there and didn’t get any prompt to use it like there are for the ballista, so went on my way. Many many hours later, walking through, checking the rockslide blocking the mountain path nearby and randomly thought I’d try to grab a rock and drop it near the net and boom, on its way to hit the rockslide. I basically put the controller down and said “f—k me, I’m an idiot…and I need more rocks.” Messed up part is that I already wayfarer jumped to get to that ruined tower way earlier, so clearing the rockslide wasn’t too necessary. Then I went to the other end of the battleground to use the other catapult to hit the rocks under the cave path so that damn seeker token detection chime would stop going off whenever I passed the area.
The Castle In Vernworth while doing quests there...there'll be hidden rooms you have to break open.
Not me but my friend, when I told him to aim his throws he was 50 hours in without realizing you can hold R1 to manually aim the throw
Rings stack if you wear 2 of the same type, e.g. have your casters wear 2 x reduced incantation time rings for even quicker spell casting. You can forge crafting materials to effectively duplicate them (helpful with higher level enhancements if you only have one of an rare item, but need more to complete it).
North of 50 hours. I never really progressed the story beyond unlocking the Capital. I saw people with really powerful gear early on. Never occurred to me to just jump in the fancy cart and just... Let it ride. Now I want to challenge myself and go speedrun my way to Batthal.
Press Start button, there is a Sun on the circle map which is reflecting current time. when waiting on the bench, press Y(xbox) rapidly can cancel the Stand up animation and keep fast forward the time
I had no idea you could jump up ladders. I was like 15-20 hours into the game and pressed a (on Xbox) and I started jump climbing, it was game changing 🤣🤣
And don't forget you can fast slide down a ladder using B/Circle
That you could give presents simply speaking to someone... I was waiting to some dialogue option to appear
For the Riddle of Futility or Riddle of Differentiation, you can use the Sealing Phial on the NPCs and carry them back to the Sphinx if you don’t want to waste a Ferrystone.
I was near the end of my playthrough when I learned I could partially switch to DD1’s Soundtrack through a microtransaction. It changed the original menu theme to Dark Arisen’s menu theme, the enemy encounter soundtracks from the first game were back, and the original “End of the Struggle” theme with the rock band was back. It was a shame my sorcerers were too quick to kill before getting to the guitar shredding part of “End of the Struggle”
I bought the deluxe edition just for the soundtrack. The soundtrack is almost always what gets me to upgrade.
How to use magic archer the right way lol.
How?!
Hold down right bumper ( on Xbox ) and while holding it select a skill. Archer will do a Reload animation and. Let you lock on with the skill and unleash hell Works on martyr arrow to to fully drain all your hp to 1 shot dragons
Was about 50hrs in when I realized I can push large foes over when they’re off balance by running up to them, grabbing them and pushing.
You can make cyclops bridges doing this as well 😉
You can put rocks on empty catapults to unlock secret areas in open world
You can knock the head off a Gollum and use it to cannon other enemies/the golems body. It’s pretty cool!
You can what! I knew about knocking their heads off, but it never occurred to me to pick it up after. Can you control when it shoots or is it still controlled by the golem?
You can bash it off the golem and it still occasionally shoot lasers. You can push it around and aim the eye
you can release the hold button to stand up on top of monsters and just wail on them so even a warrior can get their full charged moves off on top of a cyclops going wild camp kits arent one time use talk to everyone multiple times cause I missed some quests but also would have had no idea to engage with those npcs again, so basically talk to everyone over and over some books are special and needed for a quest 🤷♂️ I used meteor spell after stumbling into the lich's den just exploring dyes can be used on armor (i was wrong!) and even skin! fashions dogma lives on making droughts is fine but very quickly youll be drowning in ingredients for Ruebrants(?) much better in weight and some can heal stam with health weight management: dump all crafting mats into the inn storage, you never need the materials on you to use them if theyre stored oils can add up quick, i was holding like 15+ lamp oils for no reason for the love of god keep a ferrystone on you at all times, i got stuck in the red canyon between Battlahl and Checkpoint town at Night for hours cause of a bad save and no healing adding some others for visibility Ok\_Active9904 If you didn't know when a golem over heats and comes to a stop you can push it over and make it's head fall off so it can't shoot it's laser anymore FarrellBeast You can then grab the head and use the laser to kill it
If you didn't know when a golem over heats and comes to a stop you can push it over and make it's head fall off so it can't shoot it's laser anymore
Wait, how can you use it on armor. I thought that was not possible. Thought it was only eyes, tats, hair and skin
You can’t use it on armor.
You’re telling me camping kits aren’t one time uses
I always thought quest NPCs would automatically talk to me when I got close to them. Are there potentially a bunch of quests I am missing? It does seem like there aren't a ton of side quests so far. Enough to keep me busy, but I thought a game like this would be loaded with side quests.
well Ive been trying to stay spoiler free but ive seen some people getting some quests in melve that I just missed out Some npcs definitely walk right up to you but I would have never got the fighter meister skill talking to whats his name since Ive had 0 reason too it seems going to the Coronation locks out certain early quests, which i guess is my bad for doing all the quests in city at once thinking it was just the first batch lol
Saving this post. 80 hours in and so many things I didn't know until now.
A pawn can get you there quicker, they will take you ways the map doesn’t show you. Shall I lead the way, and I was like nope, I have it marked on the map🤦♂️
44 hours in, and whenever I waited at a bench, I would wait unitl they stood up, then sit again, then pressing Y again to wait. I didn't realize you could just press Y right away and pass the time faster.
I didn't notice the Gift prompt during conversations with NPCs until about 70hrs in. Can you guess the last few achievements I needed for a 100%?
I only noticed it probably 30+ hours, but I don't understand the purpose of it. I guess there's a whole affinity system that I don't understand?
Once you reach high enough affinity, NPCs will leave you gifts at your house. Basically any NPC can be rizzed up too, so that's a bunch of gifts! I know for a fact I received some Allheals, which is afaik the only way to recover your lost health without camping or sleeping at an Inn/House. Other than that there isn't much else to it. The two ''romances'' in the game are achieved via quests and the only other thing affinity does is >!change who the dragon is holding before you fight him!<. There's also a couple achievements based on affinity, but once you know how it works they're quite easy to get! Edit: You can also get discounts from merchants. It also changes the way you hold the person. If their affinity is at blush levels, you'll hold them like your beautiful princess and they won't struggle out! Makes for easy kidnappings.
Camping kits r reusable
Ok, some of mine are embarrassing :p It took me hours to figure out I wasn't pulling off some of the combos, like the one for the Mystic Spearhand because I needed to rapidly press the basic attack button :p Pretty sure the game does tell you this, I just must have missed it. I was like "Why am I not doing that cool rapid combo I've seen on the trailers?" :D I've also only just figured out I can see the Arisen and Pawn of whoever hired my Pawn, so snooping on their Arisen and Pawn is now my favourite thing, seeing what builds they're using. Dried meat never goes off, so now I pretty much exclusively use dried meat for campfire food. Took me a while to figure that out. Figured out if you have a pawn with forger, you can search on the map and it'll show you exactly where the resources are that you need to upgrade your currently equipped weapon and armour and those for your pawn. Also saves you having to go to a blacksmith to remind yourself what materials you need. Finally, not really a 'figured out' thing, but the fact I'm still hearing new pawn dialogue after like 100 hours is pretty amazing. I know they repeat themselves A LOT but there's also tons of dialogue I am still hearing that is new to me. Love this game!
Makes levitate upward by holding down the button meaning they can reach ledges they otherwise couldn't by just jumping, also you can cast high frigor and walk up the ice ramp and hold down levitate to get to ridiculously high places
You can present your main pawn at the sphinx without having to bring an npc
Camp kits stay and are not consumable. Over hearing holding 4 thinking they were used each camp. Sigh
I knew they weren't 1 time use but I've had mine destroyed often enough that I keep an elite camp on every pawn just in case because I've been caught with my pants down a few times and running around on like 20hp for too long trying not to have to teleport out and run all the way back. I also keep one of my two port crystals on me just to drop if I need to get back somewhere quick.
How do people get attacked while camping, I've never. I always clear out the nearby enemies first is that it? People just go straight for the campfire avoiding any enemies?
Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me but I swear that the AoE healing spell damages zombies.
It does. Some mage pawns will mention it.
You can rob every single chest in the game (in shops, houses etc.). There's absolutely no penalty for it and nobody cares if you do it. I gathered a lot of money this way :D!
The guy that requests tomes will kick you out of his house if he catches you.
Mine are: 1. Stashed items dont spoil 2. You can multiple select when stashing/selling 3. You can plunder from Important NPCs 4. The Time dial from Menu 5. Trying to kill Main Pawn by throwing her into cliff (instant KO) but she keeps coming back up.. Then I noticed.. She is equipped with The Legion's Staff you get from seeker coins. It gives Auto Revives. Same with for Rift Pawns.. They' became Zombies..
Pressing the same button you use to talk to someone "once" will make your character wave at them and then they'll do a little gesture too.
discard meat on floor as a decoy to lure wolfs away from attacking me.
I was about 50 hours in as well when I discovered that LB + left on d-pad opens the items menu. I actually paused like... WHAT THE HELL! lol
That you have to use the beetles to get the carry weight increase effect.
That there was an L1+ dpad-right button for turning your torch on and off.
The fuck dude lol...
Item upgrade effects varies by region... didn't hit me that that's a thing until yesterday. Also, from just reading the top comment, the pause menu has a time dial?
Yea, it's the outer band with a sun and darklines, it rotates anti clock wise so the sun rises from the east
Took me a while to realize the exclamation marks on the minimap weren't sidequests like any other game. They are just indicators of "hey, there is something you can interact with here"
I only recently found out you can make perfect forgeries of eternal wakestones.
Uhh… mine was yours and realizing it right now.
If I did not play MHW for hundred of hours I would make same "mistake" with gathering nodes.
Never played Dragons Dogma and knew nothing about it. Took me at least 20 hours to fully realize you can hire more than one pawn at a time.
Empowered Vocations/Skills. What took me even longer to figure out is that your empowered stuff resets when going to a new NG+ cycle, so if you don't immediately run to dragon boy and choose your empowered vocation when the game starts you're missing out on stat gains.
You don't die by drowning. You just respawn near where you drowned. Same for npcs. I found this when doing an escort mission (almost 40 hours in). I didn't want to complete it and I threw the npc into the water. She came back :)
You can use ferrystones on escort missions btw
🤯 well, I learned that just now, more than 50 hours in. Thanks!
Took me a while to realize that too lol They will also camp with you, should you need to rest until morning or replenish your health.
There’s an oxcart for melve. Thought both sent you to checkpoint town. It was terrible the amount of times I walked from Venn to Melve and vice versa.
I just learned what you just said, thanks. Took me a while to learn that everything a side pawn is holding (not equipped) gets sent back to your storage when dismissed. Just find nearby rift stones and never worry about encumbrance again.
Tents are not single use
I didnt notice it either, i just though my pawn kept looting one every trip lol
Since its a capcom game, i expected some mechanics like gathering from previous games i.e monster hunter would carry over. What took me so long to figure out was that camping gears are reusable as long as it doesnt break due to monster raids.
Sliding down ladders (sprint+down). Drove me mad that Pawns just did it and I could not.
How do I set a quest for my own Pawn? A quest for another player? I cannot figure this out!
You need to go inside one of the gateway stones or whatever they are called. Interact with the stone while you are in that dimension and there will be an option to set pawn quest.
In NG+, since you retain the godsbane, you can open the spellseal door early.
When a pawn says that they know of a certain point of interest nearby, you don't necessarily have to use the "Go" command to tell them to guide you there. Sometimes the timing is wonky, so you press the button and they don't do anything. Just talk to them and they should have a new dialog option to make them guide you there. Also, the three kinds of valuable gems (jasper, onyx, tiger eye) give a vastly different amount of gold depending on where you sell them (Vermund, Battahl, Elven Domain).
If you hit a big monster in its weak spot with steady shot with archer, the next few loose attacks will auto aim at the weak spot without needing to manually aim
lol this came naturally, playing monster hunter games :)
When you drop off a ledge with a barrel, you drop it, but you can catch it again if you time it right and its not too high. Good for the sphinx's challenge run (if you want to try hard mode)
Concerning the gather button, I did it as a reflex as a monster hunter player since it's been a thing for a few games
Same with the benches where you can pass time Just sit there and mash the doze off button and your character won't stand up
Levitate allow you to reach higher point and access unreachable part of the map. I saw it on a video called "you are playing DD2 wrong" or something like that and it shows the levitation spell used to traverse the terrain in places I didn't even know we could go and with loot and poi. Level up my mage vocation right now
You can also use the harpysnare smoke beacon for this. Place one, wait for harpy, grab on and fly wherever your heart desires.
the fact no one mentions what happened to rook after he is consumed by the brine.
He’s just chilling in the rift. You can find him at the bottom of the list of previously hired pawns.
That was pretty funny when I saw him in a rift about 50 hours in. All the other pawns had high level gear and he was just there chilling in his prison rags lmfao
A pawn can get you there quicker, they will take you ways the map doesn’t show you. Shall I lead the way, and I was like nope, I have it marked on the map🤦♂️
Enhancements God dangit
I never realised camping sets can be re used until my friend told me lol
Is there anyway to stop the orange dot showing over new items picked up? My OCD has me going through menus to get rid of all the dots.
"All Heal Potions" recover your full health bar, not only the grey bar. And you can use health items when your health bar is empty if you are fast enough.
i saw a video where someone said when you run out of health you have about 2 seconds to pop a healing item before you actually die. saved me many times.
The quest with Roge the little boy who gets taken by wolves. All the NPC’s make it sound like he’s right outside of the checkpoint town but he’s not. He is waaaay off on the eastern edge of the map from checkpoint town.
That you have to actually tackle the nun in the Saint of the Slums quest to apprehend her. I ran around for days thinking there was evidence I was missing lmao
That you can drop down portcrystals of your own for fast-travel, and that I had been lugging around two such crystals for the past 20-ish hours.
Weapons have that elemental percentage on them and I still don’t know what that means
That I had Network functions turned off is why I wasn't see anyone's Pawns and was only seeing Capcom's Pawns. But now it's just strippers as far as the eye can see... Not that I'm complaining.
To know what am NPC likes as gifts, go to History
When one of your pawns says "might there be aught over there?", it indicates that there's a seeker's token nearby.