Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Goblins: "Snoop that foid ass" Deluxe Edition
Get this thread going I gotta leave for a couple of hours. Thanks anons-OP anon
what's dogma
>>750197405dogma' balls LMAO
That 300k fancy Bakbattahl house has a damn nice view
>>750197405A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
what’s the point of farming satanachiahe only drops weapons and it’s a lot easier to perfect roll weapons than armor for some reason. is there really no other way to farm armor than the single devouring rancor on the map?
>>750198042I think the best armors come from the alternate summit bosses
>>750198470the what? you mean devouring rancor?
does dd2 dark arisen have it's own route and credits/ending? where does it put you after you finish it?
>>750198651Yeah I guess. Sorry I don’t remember what’s called what lol. As far as I can tell there’s very little reason not to just go to the one on top of the mountain every time to fight the super boss
>>750198772it puts you back at hub village and no joke, the seneschal tells you to get back to the main story of the base game
>>750198793sadly you have to fight satanachia every time to get it to respawn
>>750198772Yes it has its own story
>>750199145>the seneschalyou mean the brinejanny?
>>750199145oh so it doesn't force you to start over in a ng+?
>>750199145>seneschalPathfinder is not the Seneschal
>That one dungeon that has a fake final treasure room and then a another secret fake final treasure room underground with the lich hiding the third final treasure room under the cyclops actually has a fourth real final treasure room in unmooredkek
>>750199556based
>>750199490It's entirely disconnected from the main story, it's not even affected by the vanilla postgame
>>750199498who/where is the Seneschal in 2 ?
>>750199848Rothais, the guy who gives you the godsbane.
>>750199898Oh right it was lost on me for a moment lol
why is it so much more fucking kino than the base game and almost feel like an entirely different game? Was the secret sauce really KINOshita all along!?!?
>>750200627I mean the reasons aren't exactly a secret; massively reduced down time, adding a point to fighting random stuff, an equipment treadmill, harder enemies. The fundamentals of the game are still utterly broken and there's WAAAAY too much asset reuse in the form of reskins in the DLC though. Even now, DD2 is not a well designed game.
>>750200847>The fundamentals of the game are still utterly brokenMmmm nyo
>>750200959>yuo're are post brings me to 0 HP>spam 6 healing items in 0.000000001 seconds>all good>do this ten trillion times and never use even one of the 15 wakestones I'm carrying>back to spamming one singular weapon skill while kind of ignoring what they enemy's even doingok
>>750200627Because it's more focused, like any dlc for a large game
>>750201095>play like a retard>blame game that you play like a retardMmmmmmmmn nyo[/spoiler ]
>>750200627>Was the secret sauce really KINOshita all along!?!?Correct.
Does anyone have a pawn without Norgan gear?
You know the DLC is good when 2 weeks in most player haven't fully eat and digest it in a good way
>>750199556Which one is that? The only dungeons I returned to in Unmoored were the ones with deep water.
>>750203090Shrouded Warren, center Battahl
>>750203418Is that the one whose entrance is just out in the open? I thought it felt unusually short and empty.
>>750204091Yeah its the one you needed to enter in duo. It has many secret floors actually. You can get 3 chests pre-unmoored and 1 last after the sea floor is gone. You probably missed the flame + dragonsbane ring and the 2 set of armors. One armor set is quite strong for MA, thief and Archer
>>750204091The trolling with heavy trash items was a trick puzzle, you see
>>750199898Wait, really? I just thought he was a random ghost. Him having the godsbane makes a lot more sense now.
Doing the dlc dungeons in the base game, am I meant to wait to do the evil eye dungeon after spending some time in Norgan? Because I keep getting my absolute shit kicked in and I don't want to use an unmaking arrow.I'm even level 80 and I've got weapons from the unmoored world and the other Lost Rite dungeons. I didn't think I sucked that badly, holy shit.
where do people get the demon horn helm from
>>750204684Evil Eye is only supposed to be fought on UW.He'll flee no matter what so I guess you're only option to kill him before then is that arrow.
>>750204815Ah, fair, that's fine. Missed my chance on the first UW round so I'll do it next time.
>>750204731I haven't done it, but it's supposedly from the Unmoored World version of the Seafloor Sepulcher lost rite dungeon.
>>750204587I can vaguely remember the game saying he ascended into heaven or watched the world from the heaven or something like that. It's been a while since I did the main quest.
Is any of the lost rite gear comparable to the Norgan gear? Maybe after being upgraded? I did a few of the rites but the gear all seems to be trash compared to even the level 1 Norgan artifacts.
>Go back to kill the eye>It just drops crystalsokay then
>>750205118I heard you can absorb him with lost rites weapons to boost them but it might be unmoored only
>>750205076the postgame stuff is pretty good, still not nearly as good as the higher level spoils and obviously pales in comparison when the rng skills are included
Should I play this or nioh
>>750205617Completely different games, anon. DD2 is a game where you can have a party you fight and explore with, and Nioh is not that.
>>750197315post attractive pawns
>>750205617Do you prefer a fast combat with loads of combos, or sluggish combat with 6 skills to spam?Do you enjoy third person shooters and turn-based games?
>>750205740neat. i bought dd2+dlc.
>>750205617Both. Nioh 2 is also a masterpiece
>>750205763>this ladyboy faggot is back at it again
>>750206089Enjoy it dude! It's got some weirdness but honestly, it's got charm.
>>750206248Ladyboys are a gross mockery of the female form, I will not stand by this slander
sales number status?
>>750206248You're in a DD2 thread xirit's not cool to be homophobic
>>750205763my handsome arisen
>>750205763I like the fact that you hid the switch buttons interface on the left lolits okay bro we dont just judge other blast bros here
>>750206552we probably won't know until January 2027
-Thou Art Arisen Gondola-Shieeeeeeeeeetttt
norgan is mid.hard mode is garbage.best part of the new stuff are the trials.
So what's the likelihood of a DD3
>>750207329well…personally, I had an absolute blast.
question: in order to get to the last 3 Lost Rites, I gotta reach the Unmoored World, right? so what happens to Norgan then? does it get affected, can I even go there after unmooring?I haven't finished the DLC's story, so no spoilers please
>>750205763I mean, I like my prettyboy. But I'm not into femboys.
Did any of you get filtered by the fallen dragon for your first try?I beat him by just using cloudfall strike
>>750207341bro DD2 was just released its still fresh and a total blast manwe as a whole might not even make it past 2027 by the way things are going. even if we live have you seen whats happening atm with all the jail breaking and reverse engineering of software? bro absolutely fucking insane my guy…reality as we know will most definitely be changing very drastically very soon might even be tomorrow.so relax bro.
Did they really only add ONE greataxe to the game, in a viking themed expansion that took 2.5 years to make? Please tell me that I've just missed the other ones and that capcom aren't actually lazy af
>>750207103That's actually a really cool character designWould prefer without the red glowing shawl though>>750207159>the switchkek I should have thought of that and made an editunfortunately I play PC and I didn't even think about it>>750207476I'm into both but I prefer prettyboysHe looks a bit med, maybe Egyptian? What face are you using anyway?
>>750207714>no shawlbu…but it glows in the dark!
>>750200627>Runs away as soon as you get 2 hits in>Getting caught in the ice breath stunlocks you to deathDid the devs design this fight after that nightrein ice dragon or what
Riv had good taste.
>>750207341We'll know by 2028.
>>750207714Just checked since it's been a while, base head #18. Tweaked quite a bit though. I kinda just got fed up of all the mages I see being women, so made my own lad instead.
>>750207521I didn't get filtered by the one from the main quest, but the fight at the end of the Devouring Rancor made me shit myself in rage.>ragdolled for entire minutes by dragon stomping, lesser demons, zombies, and projectiles>burned through almost all my curatives and wakestones>loss gauge raped my entire party's hp and my pawns all got sent back to the rift>only managed to scrape out a win because I asspulled a ring of reversal near the end of the fight, the only item that could have saved me
Why does molten gauntlet have keys in itThe only doors with locks on them are static objects and don't seem to have anything behind them
You can just cheat the end of the world by living undergroundThe dwarves are too powerful
>>750208532Some enemy arrangements can definitely fuck you over if you don't have a good AoE move and high knockdown damage. Blemmy is running around voring my pawns, lesser demons are throwing hadoukens everywhere, and ghouls and stragglers are gangbanging us from all sides.
>>750207412You see red skies in the horizon, but nothing else about Norgan is affected. You are free to travel back and forth between the maps anytime, and you can even sleep in Norgan with zero consequence. It doesn't count towards the rest limit for the Unmoored World, but by extension, it also does not progress time there, meaning that you can't redo Lost Rites or make forgeries without actually resting in the Unmoored World.
DD2 pet peeves you hope kinoshit fixes>When you open a chest and your character takes the item automaticallyOpening the chest and taking the item should be 2 actions
>>750209537>nnnyyoooo i do not consent!!1that's what you sound like
>>750209048i just run my arisen as a thief tank and stand in the carnage with formless feint and aggro augments
>>750209638You never played the dungeon that has 20 warrior maces in every chest
>>750209747Those are there for a reason
>>750209638that's what you sound like actually
>>750197315I'm having a blast.Am I a fag for wanting the ability to decorate my house?
>>750204587>some random ghostRothias is a seneschal who descended from the heavens to live as an immortal king god, he founded vermund and ruled for thousands and thousands of years. Till at some he realized that his power meant nothing behold the watcher and the true reality. Rothias felt he himself was just a pawn playing a game for the amusement of the watcher. So he spent every single moment on looking for a way to usurper the watcher and destroy the pathnigger. Rothias went mad, he wreaked havoc and chaos in the world he was the leader of, killed millions and lived in constant fighting with other arisens who the pathfinder, taken the role of seneschal since rothias rebellion, sent to defeat him. eventually pathfag managed to sink the old capital of Vermund with Rothias trapped in the castle. gotta say dough all this is revealed in game almost exactly as I explained word by word.do you faggots pay attention at all man?
Is it recommended to clear the Vermund map before moving on? I'm level 40 and haven't been to Battal yet.
Be careful anons, there are some sick Arisen out there.
>>750208329>Add an actually attractive NPC (she's bad af)>She's a pawn so you can't romance herSo much for this dlc being "kino"
My pawn hasn't mentioned any ladders since i got the expansion, but the one i hired won't shut the fuck up about how he's marked the resources on my map
>>750210164Rothias tired of fighting and just tired of it all began to think that an arisen coming to take the godsbane from him and become the new seneschal and end his existence as a good thing.this the overall arching theme of this game. Rothias, the dragon and the pathfinder are all sick and tired of the cycle and they just want it all to end lmao. the dark arisen expansion also reflects this 100% since the true dark arisen is the seneschal from the first game who created his own reality and just like rothias, started seething at the fact that he still was not the one true creator.what a ridiculously based game man.
>>750207521Yes, I got molested by the ghoul breath. Unfortunately my pawns also ran straight into it.
Warriors what skills should I use? Feels like stuff is moving too quick in the dlc for the charge attacks to hit properly.
>>750210143There's a proof-of-concept video for it, but it's a heavy WIP.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSgDyC1ah1g
Did the performance actually improve? For those who had low FPS in the big town, is it better now?
damn I wish the whole dlc was like the Interminable Corridor lost rite trial
>>750211112Yeah by quite a bitI used to get 40fps even out in the open world now it's smoother hovering at like 80-90 without memegenPerformance doesn't even change much in town but they absolutely will the shit out of NPCs so they pop in like crazy.There's definitely some stuttering but I haven't tinkered enough with the settings to really say it's the games fault
>>750211112They did it at least partially by drastically reducing the draw distance in towns such that there's massive pop in but it does work
>>750210692Phaseus actually becoming a begrudging ally for his desire to break the cycle is pretty good. He absolutely has every reason to despise you at the start.
>>750210692I don't recall the Pathfinder wanting it to end. He wants to uphold the cycle to preserve order, but he seems slightly amused by the fact that 2's Arisen could have a will strong enough to overthrow the cycle entirely. He wants to keep things going as they are, but doesn't seem to be entirely against the idea of you having your way.
>>750209410good to know. thanks for the answer!
Some of ya'll need Bathfinder
Man I wish the story and game didn't take a nosedive in Battahl. Its such a cool region.
>>750207827Every single enemy in the game jumps away from you, has a long ass grab attack, or both. Some even teleport. Capcom LOVES teleporting enemies.
does ng+ unlock anything
>>750210986the parrysteel cleave is ok for moving forward but it's still kinda slow and shit on anything with hyperarmorheavenward charges very fast and is the safe pick if you're not sure the target will move. it also has good knockdownindomitable lash does more damage but it's slow as shit to chargeearly in the dlc, you should get a weapon with the upgraded parry and lean on that. once you progress far enough to get level 3 relics, you can try a weapon with either mighty chain or swift strike 1. swift strike will make your charging much faster, but mighty chain allows you to just spam your light attack swings very quickly for high damage. i preferred mighty chain myself since it let me dps while also keeping the parry open. start your light combos with a running light attack if you can, the running attack comes out faster than a neutral light attacklevel 4 chest armor can roll wicked knight which further reduces charge time but it's quite hard to get. honestly at that point i was still relying on the parry and mighty chain a lot
Shitsuno was a fucking hack and shame on all of you for supporting this dei wokeslop
Shitsuno was a fucking god and praise on all of you for supporting this wonderful masterpiece
>>750206216Nioh 2 is so fucking good. I know they're different games, but since I found out they added loot autism to this game I feel I found another good game in dd2da.>>750206259This game is so pretty, I started on hard.
>>750211797get renodx
this game is a artalso if 'Lunatia' is an anon's pawn; i'm a little bit in love with her.
>>750211712You can buy some new things at the dragonforged on NG+
im terrible at this game, i botched the ending and only barely beat one wimpy dragon but i still want to play it over
>>750211712Dragonforged unlocks some class and skill buffs you can buy, and a few extra items.
>>750212062>>750211976are they worth it?
nooomy wifeyou turned her against me
>>750212087very, they will change your life.
I dont wanna bork sphinx quest Should i save some DLC item to dupe
>>750211719Thanks, I'll need to see about getting the charge buffs since I like charge attacks. What pawn vocations do you run with? I was considering having my main pawn be a fighter.
Do I get another 3 evil eye keys when I go to ng+ or does my key carry over to ng+? I'm in unmoored and cannot rest anymore, I have my last of 3 keys still left. I can't copy it at the forgery guy because next rest ends the game.
>>750212212anon be real with me
>>750212087If you're done with every Lost Rite in base game and UW, and haven't started Norgan, then you can go to NG+ for Dforged buffs and the side benefit of the Sphinx being able to clone an item.Otherwise you can easily just ignore them.It also depends on your playstyle. Being able to have a half stamina on your skill of choice is a big deal if you're a Mystic Spearhand. For other classes, not so much.
>>750212293so its generally prefered to play maingame completelythen go do dlc?but some dlc dungeons are locked behind maingame progression?
>>750209537I'd much rather have dropping an item take the extra action because I'm going to want whatever shit's in the chest almost every single time if I'm bothering to open it.
>>750212238i ran with mage as my main pawn and 2 archers. i didn't want the pawns getting aggro since i had a parry, but you could try it. you could run 3 archers if you don't mind menuing and managing inventory since consumables are absurdly easy to get in the dlc, including panaceas, both hp and stamina roborants and 2 potions that restore loss gauge, the pawns will take care of themselves if you give them roborants (not panaceas, they hate using it for some reason). i mostly spent my comically humongous gold stash on stamina restoratives so i could keep spamming indomitable lash or arc of might on downed enemies
>>750205617Nioh2 and this are one of my favourite games of this decade
>>750212364There's plenty of ways to go about it, but basically you need Empowered Godsbane Blade before you can do the Lost Rites DLC dungeonsYou can go into Unmoored World on your first playthrough, do all the UW-exclusive Lost Rites, hit NG+Alternatively you can just say fuck NG+, hit Norgan after doing Lost Rites then trigger UW whenever you feel like.
>>750212810Nioh 2 was released in the previous decade though unc sama
>>750212945but missing out on the ng+ buffs right
YOU STUPID FUCKING DRAGON
>>750213049>>>/lgbt/
>>750212649I tend to like to run with different vocations for each member. I kind of wish Mage didn't feel like it is mandatory. I typically like two back line and two front line.
>>750212221There's nothing really important you'd really want to dupe, aside maybe getting an extra copy of some quest item just as a souvenir. Nearly everything else good can be duped by Ibrahim.The only thing I can think of is the reward the Satanachia refight gives you only once, but I dunno if the Sphinx can dupe it. And even if you do, you get two of them to do... what? You and your pawn can both have the item then I guess.
>>750213101The point is if you plan to hit NG+, there's no reason to start the DLC content as progress there resets on NG+ same as the base game.So either finish everything in base (specifically UW Lost Rites content as that's the most annoying to get back to if you miss anything) and do Norgan in NG+, or just pretend NG+ doesn't exist and start DLC on your current save whenever you want.
>>750213214lmao same happened to me
>>750213305it really isn't. like i said, consumables are plentiful in the dlc, mage is purely just for lazy people who don't want to open a menu to eat healing items when they get hit. you could run archer and thief. sorc isn't too bad but it's kind of coinflippy whether they will do anything or pop meteoron while you're mid-kill for the last straggler. honestly if you're doing it for your main pawn, fighter is fine too since you can just adjust their aggro augments to whatever you prefer
>>750213214Keep gathering materials
>>750213489I do really enjoy the weapon boons from mage. Unsure if they are actually any good though.
>>750210692I genuinely don’t get the story of 2 and if it even ties into the story of 1. Does it even continue from the ending of 1? 1 ends where you kill yourself and your pawn takes your body and I assume you break the cycle since the world still exists but now there is no seneschal. I don’t get what happens with 2? Why is the world of 1 underwater? Did the world end after 1? Also now with DA2 did the events of 1 even happen?
>>750212250Apparently you get 3 every run. And you're limited to 4 uses per run (so a single duped key can be used) before the chests start giving you junk or something.
>>750213214>>750213473whats funny is that I knew this was coming so spend some time giving my true beloved gifts before meeting the dragon, didnt work.
>>750210692>the true dark arisen is the seneschal from the first game who created his own realityThis is schizophrenia
>>750213586they are good. it's a 17% boost to your damage on neutral targets, about a 4 - 10% boost on resisted targets and around a 23%+ boost on weak targets. they're kind of irrelevant in the endgame because the final boss drops a lot of elemental weapons which of course can't be buffed by mage, but for progressing through the dlc, they're fine
>>750213214Wonder how many got the granny after all those appraisals.
>>750198470There's final bosses there beyond the dragon?
>>750213625what causes hal to gain affinity? is it literally just buying anything from him?
>>750211445>Wants to keep things as they are>Explicitly goes out of his way to create the conditions for you to be set off of your path, and makes sure you get the godsbane before you're supposed to, for no reason
>>750200627It actually focuses on the parts of Dragon's Dogma that people like, which is fighting giant fucking monstersI genuinely have no idea what Itsuno was on besides impotent seethe directed at Capcom cause the main game genuinely feels like a physical manifestation of a psychotic episode.
>>750213214kek, happened to me too
Holy can't be rolled on level 5 relics, right? Maybe I'm just being unlucky, but I've never seen it.
OP here. Proud of you guys
Alright, I'm finally blasted out on the DLC. Finished up a few ascended Satan kills, rounded out my gear, beat all of the obelisk maesters. Done and done. Time for my wife and I to retire (again).
>>750202683i want moreVortexes are a nice little bonus at the end but the weather mechanic being entirely gone past satanachia is pretty lame
>>750211220Took me over 3 hours to go through that slog on hard mode. Though tbf I should've gotten some norgan gear before doing that one.
>>750213214The nanosecond i saw that NPCs get that retarded fucking max affinity horny glow after you do their quests i K N E W that you would get Fournival'd at the dragon.Delete that fucking mechanic already, it was only good in DD1 where it at least had a couple of memorable-ish characters that you could care about instead of the literal sock puppets wasting your time that 2 has.
>>750213879Yeah, lv4s only.
>>750213665bro pathfinder literally spells it out for you who satanchal is.a seneschal who chose to break from the cycle and create his own world, in this world he created he sought no fulfillment and his will became to take on the Creation Will itself. like sediment pilling up on the bottom of the lake, satan wills grew powerful enough to take on the creator will, or least powerful enough to make the pathfinder have to intervene. the amor satanschal drops all allude to the seneschal of the first game. thats how I view it at least man.
>>750211112DLC has rock solid performance, never had a single dipBasegame is better but still chugs in some areas but unlike the abysmal release state it's actually playable
>>750213779think so. or interacting with him too many times…maybe its both. I cant say for sure.
>>750209410is there any reason to keep redoing Lost Rites? I did the one with the Evil Eye twice because he escaped the first time, but that's about itspeaking of which, that place had chests underwater that I never figured how to get. is there a way to get them?
I'm 98% sure the dlc wasn't even supposed to be called Dark Arisen and that was a decision made by corporate to nostalgiabait
>>750214257unmoored world drains all the water in the world.
Is it worth getting the empowered godsbane and doing Lost Rites before Norgan?
>>750209048Wish the vortexes had a couple of extra enemies cause the breakneck pace they have right now is amazing.
>>750214378I'm pretty sure they're all intended to be done before Norgan cause high level relics rape them and Norgan itself laughs and shits in the face of your basegame items no matter how good they are, so doing Lost Rites after starting the DLC gives you entirely worthless items.
>>750214378Yes. They're the most fun if you do them before Norgan. One of the Rites I did before Norgan was super fucking hard, even with a full party, and I burned through a fuckton of curatives and had to rest a couple times. Keeps you on your toesCame back after Norgan, just me and my pawn, and we got through the whole thing with no rests and barely a dent in our heals.
>>750214378i did all 9 pre-moored.its completely redundant -- gear from scrap pile in first 5 mins of norgan outclasses.
>>750213625unlike the first game, the beloved isn't picked based on the last max-affinity NPC you interacted with, instead it just stays the one you maxed first (I think)to change the character the dragon picks, you have to go to that one NPC and lower their affinity even just a little bit (throw them around or whatever) so the choice will change to another onethis mod really helps you if you're particular about your beloved. it lists all the characters you have maxed and tells you the one the dragon's gonna pickhttps://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/349
>>750213802The dragon is genuinely tired and hopes you will not uphold the pathfinder cycle, which is what his dialogue alludes to. The pathfinder helps you because the mortals are fucking things up for the arisen. I don't think the pathfinder intended for you to get your hands on the godsbane because rothais tells you he murdered every arisen that the pathfinder sent to him. Also he isn't very happy about the state of affairs after you defy his cycle
>>750214308ahh, I didn't think of that. I think there was another Lost Rite with water areas, I wonder if there'll be extra stuff there too. I'll be sure to run through them all another time after unmooring
>>750205763He's a butterface
>>750214759Yea theres more dungeons in unmoored world that were under the water too.
>>750214670>mods>soiling Itsuno san’s visionnah I’ll pass bro
>>750214378Do the Vermund/Battahl Lost Rites before Norgan, then do the Unmoored World Lost Rites after beating the final boss of the DLC. If you do the UW Rites after you finish farming the post-game they will feel too easy. They're balanced around Level 4 gear, not super maxed out Level 5 gear.
>>750199281no you don'tyou just need to pass a day and they all get rerolledit doesn't always spawn though
>>750213591A) 1 didn't happenB) 1 happened and some other Arisen took over as Seneschal after you GodsbanedC) 1 happened but 2 is a different world from 1D) 1 kinda sorta happened but was also retconned so that Rothais was the Arisen from 1.Pick your favourite or add an option
>>750214754>after the pure kino that is Grigori we decided to make a dragon that is boring and shitty on purpose!I'm glad they fired his ass.
>>750213591Maybe different worlds are built on top of one another like Bloodborne nightmares?I don't know nigga you can tell not even the people making this game cared about the ""lore""
>>750214875Should've just put the lost rites in Norgan cause this schizophrenic back and forth progression is so fucking retarded and counter intuitive
>>750214257Besides the water level thing the other anon mentioned, you can redo Lost Rites to fight Evil Eye again. There's a pawn badge for it, but this also lets you reroll the stats and skills on a special weapon you can pick at the end of one of the Unmoored World's Lost Rites. I think the weapon's a bit stronger than Norgan's level 4 relics, and you can also still enhance and dragonforge it, really juicing it up.
>>750214754I dunno man, nta but at the ending the pathfinder and the dragon become one and the pathfinder seems pleased he is freed of his cargo. btw thats something I dont see anyone ever mention, why does the dragon have the pathfinders voice at the end? well I think because they are essentially one in the same, both beings are a manifestation of the creators will and their sole purpose is to uphold the cycle.
>>750214974>Let me motivate you to keep going while vagueposting about the true nature of this worldvs.>Hey I know our battlefield is right behind us but can you please climb onto me so I can conveniently fly over the brine while Im being very vague about telling you to defy this dragon vs arisen cycle
Every single new thing DD2 added to the cycle makes the story worse
>>750215119imo, norgan should only be available in ng+pacing is all fucked.shame because the trials are best content in dd2
>>750214141What was spelled out is that satanachia is a coalesced amalgamation of willsAnd the armor looks nothing like anything from DD1, aside from the description being so vague that it could apply to basically any arisen that turned away from the cycle, including ones like rothais
>>750213365>There's nothing really important you'd really want to dupeFully upgraded vim ring says otherwise.
>>750214141Even the fucking music spells it out for you, it's Savan.
>start new fresh game since the game launched>getting fomo as hellsomeone relieve my anxiety "you're gonna miss out on so much shit" thoughts please
>>750214141you are such an attention seeking pederast with your ugly character in these threads
>>750215197It's hard to say. My headcanon is that this was all a test to see if this world can produce wills great enough to stand on their own feet, without the cycle. For me, this was semi-confirmed after they added the new cutscene with the DLC. A big problem is that a lot of important dialogue is simply mistranslated into english, someone did a comparison years back and it is very bad
>>750214754>I don't think the pathfinder intended for you to get your hands on the godsbaneHe sends you to rothais, and literally mind controls that one guy into giving you the empowered blade to ensure that you're the one who can use it>rothais tells you he murdered every arisen that the pathfinder sent to himAnd he also tells you that that's what those blue shards areThe entire godsway plot and you having amnesia in the first place only happened because pathfinder kept feeding arisen to rothais until that happenedEvery single part of the story is by his design
>>750213938Same, imagine if some vortex will have whiteout or something. Maybe someone will make a mod of it in the future.
>>750215335>And the armor looks nothing like anything from DD1google savan's armor then
>>750215263Grigori literally crashing the retarded generic evil fantasy cult plot into the dirt and telling you that there's much more important things you should be worrying about than some bootleg Palpatine will always be infinitely more striking, memorable and meaningful than the reddit pseud philosophy shit DD2 tries that ultimately amounts to "daddy Capcom doesn't give me infinity budget and time so i'm gonna try to take this franchise down with me in a murder suicide before i get fired and said franchise becomes infinitely better under another director."
how the fuck are you supposed to keep pawns alive in norgan without spearhead shield bubbles
>>750215335> amalgamation yea he is that too for his will gather followers, the arisens you see scattered over nilfeim floor are such followers, but the pathfinder specifically says he was one who broke from the cycle just to realize he was still the one no all powerful so he got pissed at the creators will. the fact that satanschal is goat headed is so fucking ba-ba-baaased!
Any graphics enhancement mods for DD1
I love this game bros, I'm so happy that there's still soul left in some games
>>750215497seethe nigger
>>750215265I like that literally satan is a thing now and that the moon is basically a portal where his world is looking down on you, but I hate the pathfinder shit. I much prefered the seneschal>hey, Im basically god here to just make sure you kill the dragon, go kill the dragon like youre suppose to. If you dont kill the dragon stupid shit happens.vs>hey Im the previous arisen, I became god and Im going to tell you whats up as someone that was like you. If you kill the dragon you show you have the will to maintain this world, when you lose the will someone will replace youThe pathfinder is lame as a concept compared to what it was
>>750215751kill yourself you fat inceloid trash, get a trip so I can filter you
>>750215738you need to stop using that anti soul filter though bro just imo nah im saying
>>750215787seeethenigger lmaooool
>>750215643>The entire godsway plot and you having amnesia in the first place only happened because pathfinder kept feeding arisen to rothais until that happened>Every single part of the story is by his designNigga what? The godsway and amnesia are a byproduct of this seneschal vs pathfinder conflict. The pathfinder did not intend for any of this shit to happen which is why he actively steps in
>>750215738>puts dlss5 slop filter over it>soulyou're a funny guy anon
>>750215779The pathfinder is a failsafe because the previous seneschal chimped the fuck out. So now the cycle is just arisen vs dragon. But yeah the original cycle was way better
>subhuman schizo is shitting up the thread again
>>750197315How much slutty female armor does Norgan have?so far I haven't seen anything while playing except for *maybe* that sphinx themed armor you can buy with the collectable coins.
All this lore dicussion made me think about how stupid it is that phaeseus basically waved around a toy and summoned some manlet dragon and somehow this was supposed to break the cycle? Whats the lore behind the aids dragon anyway?
>>750205617Both.
Is there a mod yet that lets you create your own party of pawns?
>nooo you are talking about the game instead of seething at it profusely and uncontrollably like my xisters and I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseethe fag, I’ll continue to have an absolute blast and there is nothing you can do about it but cry and moan and and scream and piss youre panties lmaaaoo.
>>750216198Yea
>>750215949The purpose of a system is what it doesPathfinder never mentions anything about rothais to you, let alone tries to get you to kill himHe only has you go there so you can get the godsbane, and then ensures that you restore it to full effectiveness and have it available before you're meant to in the cycleHe doesn't even say a single thing about this, it's just treated as if it was another natural step towards killing the dragonEither he's lying, or massive amounts of critical plot information was cut
>>750215787you can already filter him iykyk
>>750216291between you two I think that arguing this matters none, for I see that just like in real life where pre destination ends and free will begins is inconceivable to us. maybe the pathfinder was threading the fate and every move the arisen took, maybe not. impossible to say.
>>750215671the archers i use to farm relics just have the immortal combo (benevolence + reversal)
Does the game itself or even Capcom say what order you should be doing the dlc? Its just weird to me that Blackston hands me both together but then I'm expected to ignore one almost completely for the other.
>>750215649Should've had it activate when a Fimbl spawns
>>750216179He's retarded and thought that was the actual dragon
Reminder that if you’re looking for an Anorak with Molten Spirit for powder barrage spamming, you can only get it from the chests frozen in ice in the area where gagana spawns.
>>750216785English
>>750216291>it's just treated as if it was another natural step towards killing the dragonYou don't need the godsbane to kill the dragon>massive amounts of critical plot information was cutLikely this mixed with a good case of mistranslation. I refuse to believe the finale is just a walking cutscene with exposition dumpI checked the reddit thread for the mistranslation again, and what I noticed is a piece of dialogue in the throne room scene with the pathfinder>Yet you still struggle to break free of Dogma>You're not the only one!In my head this would imply that the pathfinder was nudging you towards breaking the cycle because hes tired of it as well, even though it goes against his role. This would explain why he doesn't rip the godsbane out of your hand the second you get it. This would make sense with the newly added cutscene>This world shall soon fall, but when you make your choice, I shall watch>For in the end, you may be the one to prevail over the world's will>>750216574This games plot is about free will though. No arisen is forced to fell the dragon or become seneschal. Theres a lot of bum arisen. It's their actions and will that take them there
>>750215486I pre-boughtered the DLC and started anew too and ow im late in the base game still completing the Battahl Lost rites. Take your time bro. FOMO is dumb shit
>>750217085i guess so!
>>750216785play the game man if its too hard do something else
>>750215486You're not, the game isn't going anywhere
>>750216574There was literally(literally) no other possible reason for him to directly interfere with actual mind control powers to get you the bladeThe only uses it had outside of killing yourself were a door and some elevators that were entirely not required to see the dragonEven facing phaesus wasn't necessary for anything, he was never gonna be able to control the dragon and none of that could have even theoretically hurt the cycle so that entire plot thread was just for fun>>750217053>You don't need the godsbane to kill the dragonYes obviously
>>750216905But what was the next step of his master plan?
>need gnarled teeth>spend like an hour trying to find one of those dumb fuckers>when I do it jumps into a bottomless pit
Who is your npc wife?
>>750217373Doesnt the forger say he can recover stuff you lost?
>>750217367He's a fig guy
What does affinity even do?
>>750217412The elf princess that got fucked by the ogre
>>750217448After you start the last quest that leads to the dragon fight the npc with the highest value becomes the beloved the dragon takes as a hostageSo if you play the DLC before its gonna be the norgan smithing guy
>>750216956>>750217113This is my first post I'm just wondering if I missed something. The game made it seem like Lost Rites would be tough no matter what order you did them.
>>750217575And why would i want him
>>750217448Its an archaic system for companionship. It SUPPOSE to be for the final quest where the dragon takes your "most liked NPC" but instead its basically whoever you just interacted with the most. So now its going to be the inn keeper or the blacksmith in Norgan. They shouldnt do this system again, it was scuffed in DD1 and they lifted it straight into DD2.
>>750217418That's only for important quest items if you happened to sell or drop them. He's not gonna sell basic monster materials you didn't loot.
>>750217632Oh you don't get to choose
>>750217684>>750217720Oh so there's no benefit in gifting shit to certain npcs?
>>750217827You get given gifts from them
>>750217827It helps with vendors since it lowers their prices but beyond that it's entirely up to preferenceDD1 had a couple of unique beloved with special lines, don't know about DD2 cause it's an abomination.
>>750217887Just random items?>>750217889That's neat i guess
>>750217268When you realize nothing from battahl on is of any relevance to the plot talos becomes even funnier>heres our colossus set piece we worked very hard on>We japanese love gundams!>Btw talos has no plot relevance and he chases phaseus for some reason and you protect phaeseus even though you are trying to stop him but in case you dont and side with the giant hes just gonna walk into lava and die at the end>But then you will miss the cool kaiju fight in UWObviously itsuno just went off the deep end at this point and just implemented anything he found even remotely interesting
>>750213613Sorry for late thanks, but thanks!
>>750217827Generally no, there are a few quests here and there that are locked behind affinity (like Wilhelmina and her final quest) but everything about the your "beloved" amounts to nothing more than a 5 second appearance when you confront the Dragon, it means literally nothing.If you get multiple high-affinity NPCs in an area together, they will get jelly and start bitch slapping each other which is funny
Ravening lunge is better than steel cleave, I hate having to give it up for the optimal damageThey should've just given lunge crowd control and a better way to hit bosses instead
>>750218026I will always adore how the battahl cat princess who's literally on the cover of the fucking game is an entirely worthless secondary NPC with only one quest related to her who has as much relevance to the overall game as like, the hollow merchant in the Dark Souls 1 sewers.
>>750210164Thanks for the scoop, Kent. Say, where's Lois?
>>750218161She actually has a few quests, I recall:1. Identifying & apprehending her would-be assassin while she does her flame ritual2. Leading another would-be assassin to an abandoned room outside the main city while she pretends to be asleep3. Her showing up at your Vermund house at night and then you helping her sneak into the brothel undetectedBut yeah those are all side quests and are totally divorced from the main story, you can beat the game and never see any of that.
For the first time, after playing through the base game 3 times already, I found both Lanzo and Hugo in the unmoored world. I didn't do their quests after the one where Lanzo escapes and Hugo goes to jail, I wonder how Hugo got out. Never seen them anywhere outside their quests before. Lanzo was hanging out at his bandit base and Hugo was squatting the abandoned two-story house north of Vernworth. Feels amazing finding new stuff.
>>750218353>Her showing up at your vermund house at night and then you helping her sneak into the brothel undetected
>>750218423100% realhttps://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Crossing_in_Shadow
>>750218060>like Wilhelmina and her final questuhh what
>>750217629some are easier some are toughertrials are accessible without buying the dlc
>the vermud brothel>the supposed daily night mask ballsdo they even work
>>750218026What's actually funny is that the big ominous cutscene showing it wake up when you receive the blade from rothais, as if that alone was important enough to trigger the defense mechanismAnd then hours/days/weeks later it goes walking after a random guy for no reason, when nothing happening at that tower would make sense for it to want to fight
>>750218353>1. Identifying & apprehending her would-be assassin while she does her flame ritualI fucking hate this mission>Make wrong choice and assassin -acks themselves>Everyone mourning over their inability to get answers out of them now>Game completely ignores the fact that the arisen has wakestones and reviving her from death would be a trivial matter
>>750218573They are nobles, of course they don't work
>>750218663anon i meant the mechanics............
>>750218573Nobility never "works" they just steal money.
>>750218632Probably works as resurrection in DnD and the soul can refuse to come back
>>750218727smartass
All of the stories and events implied in item descriptions in the dungeons and norgan are more interesting than anything that happens in either story, it's really depressing
>>750218527After you beat the Phantom Oxcart quest, take the membership card she gave you and visit her in the brothel, give her enough gifts and eventually her dialog will change and she'll talk about how "one man changed her life forever", sleep for a day and then come back, it'll start her final quest. Reward is a pretty good ring which is useful for the immortality build when combined with Norgan gear.
>>750218026>>750218587Everything regarding Talos warrants Itsuno's execution
>>750218710Yes you can fuck prostitutes
>>750218780what thefuck>>750218787...
>>750218754What stories? i read a couple of item descriptions and they seemed really dry and with not much to fantasize about
>>750218497I played this game very thoroughly on release and didn't know this. Theres no way Itsuno is a real human being
>>750215263>basegame dragon is some forgettable defeatist faggot nobody likes with a shit fight>dlc dragon is Godzilla
>>750218815You actually get temporary buffs from fucking the prostitutes, and the buffs are also different depending on whether you hook up with a human or beastren
>>750216079The slut armor is in the lost rites Norgan is a good Christian nation
>>750218842It's just fromsoftware style vagueposting but it works because the main story is so devoid of anything interesting
>>750218924thats sick lol and the mask balls?
>>750218890I found this only because of the corrupt Chimera quest they added
>>750219005Two quests require you to infiltrate the mask balls (you can do both at the same time so you only have to attend the ball once thankfully.) You can talk to people there while you're incognito but can't really participate otherwise
>>750218956I thought it was decent-ish until that robed faggot from the basegame shows up and starts vomiting exposition on you, genuinely felt like having the DM waltz in during the campaign and explain the plot cause he thinks you aren't paying attention.
>>750197315So does CAPCOM like fake hire your pawn so you don't feel bad or something? My pawn keeps getting "hired," having quests completed and getting a smattering of up votes and gifts. However almost every time I try and check out who did the hiring, the profile is grayed out. My "pawns your main pawn knows" section in the riftstone only has like 3 people, despite getting hired dozens of times. It's weird. Or is there a setting that's doing that?
>>750219124so its just for the mainquest and theres nothing else?
Does this games still have the ending thing where the person with the highest Affinity gets captured?
>>750219149Pretty sure they do, i got my low level shitter pawn hired on a new save file and i can't access the profiles of the people who supposedly hired her
>>750219153Main quest and the one side quest to get the dude's glasses, yeah that's it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMrJYPmaEQAny nigga here can confirm if this is true/unfixed?
>>750218539>trials are accessible without buying the dlcoh wtf I had no idea
>>750219145Yeah I kinda hate that they doubled-down on that, it was fucking stupid how he started showing up more often in the base game after you reach Battahl just to be like "btw go here for your next quest". I always figured that was a late addition to try and tie the game together because they were running out of time & budget to actually integrate any of the Battahl empress quests with the investigations into Phaesus. So dumb that we had to endure more of his yapping in Norgan.
>>750219149Yeah those are fake pity hires. Sometimes they'll complete your pawn quests too so it's useful for the annoying ones like killing Sphinx 5 times. Or if you request items sometimes they'll get fulfilled, that's why you sometimes see people with really cheese ball quests like requesting Golden Trove Beetles, because the pity hires can actually grant those.
>>750207521>Cloudfall StrikeThis thing absolutely does so much damage. It's what was needed in the base game. Seriously try taking down a Brine-corrupted Gorechimera as a Fighter otherwise. It fires off spells too fast, the damage is too high and you could never dare to dream to knock it off it's feet let alone stun it. Giving it pause gave like a 2-second grace window before the abuse begins again.But slapping that loser on the way up and down keeps him in a perpetual state of "what was that?!" and his health just melts. Like everything else. Cloudward Slash completely kills things dead.
>>750218587>uhhhh yeah talos is like controlled by the brine or something>uhh yeah hes like trying to stop phaeseus from fucking shit up for the cycle>uhh no the pathfinder cant just mind control phaeseus to not do that because... he just cant ok???>hes sitting down there with rothais who already fucked shit up for the cycle? uhhh yeah i guess talos didnt do anything about that lol
>>750213214Never gets old
>>750219545Fucking hate that skill, so OP and entirely sidesteps the climbing system cause you can just snipe the head with it
Why does the dogma exist, if a world can apparently subsist without it with no problems? The cycle existing to prevent the Brine from consuming existence would make sense, but you can just wipe away the Brine if you stab yourself in the chest enough times.
>>750210458Yeah I basically looked at the entire DLC as>wife goes the distance to save her husband (not You).It was alright for lore building but it did absolutely nothing to actually make fans of the character in the lasting way she would need (fan-art, rule34). She's so mission-based that by the time the Arisen has an extended conversation with her she's thanking you and then cutting the chatter because she's focused on one thing: her arisen. Good thing the fights and gear and gameplay loop more than makes up for it. Unlocking Eir's hair and armor would've been neat too.
>>750219664Cause the cosmology only worked in 1 and 2 complicates things needlessly for literally no benefit
>Drag my fat ass the the Coral Snake hideout to do the Lost Rite Dungeon>STORY LOCKED LOLfuuuuuuck dude i don't wanna do the discount Wyrm Hunt quests again!
>>750219251Pretty sure it's true, only 1 save slot can reliably get all of the flames for the obelisks
Who's the best girl in this game?
>>750219718You can get there by climbing
>>750219765My pawn
>>750219537Solved two mysteries in one post. I never understood why the golden trove quests were so common until now.
>>750219695>Nothing to actually make fans of the character in the lasting way she would needI wanted to get on that but it's genuinely impossible to rip this character from the game files. I tried and wanted to rope myself
>>750219718Supposedly you can levitate there via the exit ledge at the north side, so be a caster or warfarer. Haven't tried it myself.
I'm in red shithole world. Should I just beeline to the ending by killing whatever's in the sea shrine or should I go try to do the other bosses first? This "return to day 1 on death" bullshit is really pissing me off.
>>750219765Eir by far
>>750197315test
>>750209537>you get negative pawn affection for lifting your pawnI do this everytime they sync up to a treasure chest I have every intention of opening. It's like having a birthday gift for you. It kills the surprise. Move out of my way!Also I'd re-program Griffins. They fly off way too much and it feels like it's harder to set their wings on fire. Back in DD1 you hop on the back and slap their wings and bit and it's a done deal. As a Fighter it's a little trickier. Sometimes Gutting Skewer will count, other times it won't.
>>750218842Like all the stuff about insane cults or traveling warrior kings, and all the far more eventful wars against the resurging evil, demons peaceably walking the earth giving out esoteric knowledge and making shit to drive people to darkness, all the foreign goddesses, the arisen that was the sole survivor of an entire immolated country and wanted to find a way to end the cycle because of it, the king that took over the entire world alexander the great style, the false arisen that just walked around with a cloak with dragon heads on it hoping that would convince peopleEven the ones smaller in scope are more charming than most of the side quests that are actually in the game
>still no glam/transmog systemfucking hell this is dumb especially for a game with pawnseveryone looks the fucking same at certain levels
>>750219871Nothing you do here matters for the ending so technically you could just rest until everything blows up and a blue beam turns up in the sea shrineHowever the UW bosses are alright so if this is your first playthrough you should just do them if you are strong enough
>>750219932well? did it work?
>>750219718I dropped a port crystal on the overhead path above it.
>>750219973>>still no glam/transmog systemWdym its IN the game you retard.
>>750219973There literally is one
>>750220027Only for DLC gear and you unlock it towards the end of it. That's kinda late for transmog
>>750220074It works with everything
>>750219871If you care about getting unique equipment, look up a guide because there are a handful of chests scattered around in previously unavailable underwater areas with unique equipment.If you care about pawn badges then some monsters are only reliably farmable in red shithole world. Namely lesser dragons, wargs, and goreminotaurs.Farming drakes is also easier here so you can stock up on wyrmslife crystals to buy upgrades from the dragonforged guy.Some of the DLC lost rite dungeons are either partially or fully inaccessible unless you're in red shithole world.That's it, pretty much your exhaustive list of reasons why you'd want to hang around.
>>750219973retard
>>750219883>no brown tomboy fighter gf or queen you can cuck the king with>instead we have boring village head and whore.Why did they do it?
>>750219765Ulrika, Wilhelmina and Eir
>>750220027>>750220043>DLC-exclusivelol fuck off
>>750220112The DLC is the only part worth playing
>>750220112It is not
>>750212196But it's cool. This way you can get 2 Sphinx kills on a single playthrough as opposed to just the one and then re-running the campaign. Easier to max your badges.
>>750220027>>750220043only for dlci wanna wear the armor set that has no stats for the mission to sneak into the palaceit looks sick
>>750219883I'm so glad I could help her reunite with her bf...Its so nice to get updates on their honeymoon...god I'm lonely...
>>750220181No then use the modhttps://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/420And the warfarer versuinhttps://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/833
>>750220146prove itshow you high level arisen and pawn wearing the prisoner gear over your actual high level gear
>>750220237>modsfuck off
>>750219664The world will literally cease to exist without strong wills to sustain itEnding the cycle is dooming the world, but also maybe proving that you don't need the cycle of sacrifices to keep willing the world to keep goingIn the first game it was basically a metaphor for our nature as animals that need to reproduce and die to survive as a species, and this game is sort of a less elegant gurren lagann kind of thing
>>750220209Your pawn literally says "i would do everything Eir has done for you if i was in her situation" if you somehow mental illness your way into viewing the DLC story as NTR you are unsalvageable as a human being
>>750220243Nigga you first wrote "no transmog" then moved the goal post when proven wrong. Nobody own you shit
>>750220268Then kys
To correct the record: transmog is only accessible IN the DLC, but you can use it to transmog any armor in the game, DLC or not.
>>750220350how am I moving the goalpost? it's literally fashioning your current gear with other gear - which is not possible in this game and it sucks because as I said at certain levels - everyone looks the same>>750220405NO Udon't pass shit off with MODS WILL FIX ITthat's low effort faggotry and doesn't address real issues from the devs
>>750220459oh shit ok I didn't know thatI only just recently got the DLCso can my pawn run around in panties but have high level leggings?
>>750220517Correct
>i missed one (1) missable questAGAIN. FUCK. allright DLC time now. also, fuck cats
Transmog exists. It is DLC exclusive. It is unlocked at the end of the DLC. You can only transmog DLC gear but you can change it to look like any other gear, DLC or not. Capes cannot transmog.Feel free to email me for any further questions or clarifications.
>>750220530nice - gonna get to ng+ for dlc nowi stopped playing in early 2025 but now performance is better and every vocation gets 6 skill slots so im so in
>>750220619fuck capesonly 1-2 look good and don't clip and the stats are gay anyway
>go into rift>nothing but sluts and memelordswhy are there no hot male pawnsi'm not gay but i just want a good lookin fella for my female alt arisen
>>750220102They thought that's what players would want>yennefer looking femme fatale>girl next doorThey kinda missed the part where the characters are also fleshed out
>i'm not gay>but
can you hire your 2nd save slot pawn?
>>750220619Nice. Weird that they excluded capes, but they barely do anything anyway.>>750220707Just filter by masculine first. I see plenty of "hot guy" pawns. I like the ugly bastards, myself.
>>750213101Just use the mod that gives you NG+ buffs in NG if it bothers you
>>750220707i'm making a viggo fighter soon
>>750220306Its just a joke, nigga.
>>750220707Sluts and memelords are the lowest effort pawns you can make so it's no wonder they're the most numerousThough i really gotta hand it to the memelords in this case, unlike the usual dark souls/elder ring character creator shit that all looks the same i have seen some truly godless abominations in the rift, the kind where you can tell that it must've taken a ton of effort to create something so inhumanly vile.
>have to get to end of dlc in a game nobody is playing anymore for transmog/glam>most pawns still only have 4 skills
>>750219631The Fighters absolutely needed something because they got seriously gimped. Slashing up and then down shouldn't FEEL as significant as it does though. It's like the game literally went "I'm Sorry" and then the damage then grant you is insane. I spam it against the Lesser Demons. Their horns shatter and it's all downhill from there for them. I spam it on the big enemies. That mouth can only take like 5 slahses before it's spitting out whoever is in there. The not-UR Dragon? His arms and head MELT under the weight of the Cloudburst Slash. I think my 5* sword is like 1800~STR so not much is even trying to resist it.
>>750220897
>looking for a new pawn>ask the rift receptionist if their pawns are white haired waifus or kratos>she doesn't understand>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is white haired waifu and what is kratos>she laughs and says "they're good pawns sir">hire a pawn>it's white haired waifu
I'll keep coming back to this game over the years just to have a comfy adventure in Vermund. Rewards are lacking, and the caves are too short, but over all this is the only open world I've ever played that had decent level design. Elden Ring is a fucking joke by comparison except for legacy dungeons.Also I just enjoy this type of fantasy much more these days desu. More Mediterranean or celtic, less grimdark.
>>750220946>they got seriously gimpedreally? I'm destroying shit just as hard as I did in DD without that skill though..
>better waifu than the ones itsuno madeIs there one thing KINOshitter doesn't do better?
>>750219883Eir went the distance to save her husband. I appreciate the sentiment and how dead-locked she was on her mission. I liked how our pawn is like "Yeah she's about that life and I would do the same thing for you, Arisen." made it a little neat. But she could afford to and thus had no flex. It's literally like going on a quest with another man's wife. No hope of getting in there and no potential windows to exploit.
>>750220459you can only transmog relic gear, but they can take the appearance of anything including base game stuff
>>750221098yea, he made a fast travel spam open world because he doesn't understand all the facets of a great adventure, same as modern day Miyazaki
>The mechanics of how the demons work is a crude mockery of the cycle, right down to luring in new arisen with an evil fucked up dragon made out of a failed challengerkino beyond belief
>>750213214I had to drop the whole of this fucking settlement off cliffs so the dragon would stop kidnapping them
>>750221098To be fair shitsuno didin't even try, i'm pretty sure the DD2 characters are bad on purpose
>>750221208I've yet to hear a counter argument to>Just don't use it
>>750221208>Shitsuno niggers genuinely think there is an adventure to be had in a shitty open world completely devoid of danger where nothing can kill you and exploring is worthless cause the gear you find in caves is dogshit
>>750221030No I mean that skill specifically. Cloudburst feels SO weak in vanilla. And the fact that fat harpies in Norgan (I forget their name) don't go down with the 2-hit combo I couldn't imagine slapping at them with a single slash. That move absolutely sucked.>>750221098We need more medium-to-long and long-length hair. Virtually everyone chooses the long DLC hair or the blunt bangs variant because they're stylish and feminine looking. They should do more of that.
>>750221342You used the eternal ferrystone? You didn't beat the game.
>>750221197you already have a wife and you can only have one wife, so i don't understand this complaint
>>750221247Beyond edgelord chuuni shit the satan motif is fitting cause the goat is a literal satan, IE an actual enemy to the divine order of the world
>>750221391It's because hair is unisex so a lot of hair that doesn't cover atleast some parts of the forehead simply doesn't work on a female character. As a consequence they have an unrealistic hairline for a female which makes them look worse
Posting pawn.
>>750215486What exactly are you going to miss out on
>>750221391oh i see my bad
>>750221491I don't mind it but I think it's a bit too on the nose because atleast in DD1 the seneschal was essentially just some fucking guy instead of looking like a divine being. Daimon fit better into all the designs related to the cycle
>>750221595she looks so done with shota dick
>>750221595>chest slider 100>dlc hair everyone uses>instant 150+ likes on Fashions Dogma
>>750221681LMAO
>>750221391You're supposed to climb onto the harpies and stab them in the face
>>750220843holy fuck how
>>750221661The cycle in 1 was objectively better and the pathfinder was an absolutely horrendous decision but we're stuck with that now, that said the demons and satan are still a neat addition.
>>750221595I wonder, can you put two dark red circle tattoos on her boobs to make it look like aerola is peeping out with this armor
>>750221612i dont know thats the thing
>>7502217321000 hours in mspaint
>>750221708It'd be cool if they actually operated as like mobility scooter. They're practically designed for it. They look perfectly ridable and would be funny if you could mount one and "fly" before it inevitably tires or you stab it to death.
>>750221752>>750221681
>>750221661Satanachia, Barbatos, and the lesser demons are all monsters you're tasked with fighting and aren't exactly individual people with their own character, and in that sense are fitting to be based on western folklore just like the dragons and sphinxes and such
>>750221865>barbatosSo whys the big bad barbatos called will.i.am barbatos
>>750221595here's one i found in the rift the other day
>>750221754DD1 is exposition about the natural cycleDD2 is taking that cycle and breaking it in a twisting wayAnd guess what, you can like two things for different reasons at the same time. DD2's plot gets better upon replay and some analysis but does leave a poor first impression
>>750221957He's the guy from Futurama who fucks Hermes' wife
Cool game just straight up crashes
>>750219631You sound like a faggot, it's good because DD2 gutted the fuck out of DD1's original sword skills like antler toss and dire gouge, all fighter can do in 2 is the shield counter and cloudfall strike
>>750221974Instantly more recognizable than all the dime a dozen sluts, gonna hire her.
post loving couples
>>750221974Digstuings
oh my, I didnt know there was another
>>750221974>285fuck me I'm like 70I have a long ways to go
>>750221986>take the cycle and break it>literally NOTHING interesting comes from it and it actively diminishes the superior game that came before it.Burn Itsuno at the stake
>>750221986Unironically DD1 is better because of presentation. DD2 could work if it all didn't end on a wet fart.
just did the ulrika questlineso much to do
>>750222110>they made her smaller so you can suck on her titties
>>750222110I know the DLC budget was like, 14 yen but they could've at least given her a different face
>>750222139the dlc shits out an endless amount of exp. hope you're not in hard mode because you'll be like level 500 by the time you finish
>update mods>game now locks up after a couple minutesJuuuuuuust great......
>6 quests in log>hand in Godsbane to the evil faggot>kill giant retard>rest at inn>endgame>can't load inn saveFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>>750222208its fine
>>750222169> a beggars taleDoes it always end with The wife killing the husband?
>>750222080how do you make good looking characters?
>>750222169>Go to harve>clear out saurians>Go there again>clear out saurians>Go to harve again to find ulrika>clear out saurians>Go to harve to get to the shrine>sauriansI see the vision itsuno san
>>750222145>>literally NOTHING interesting comes from it and it actively diminishes the superior game that came before it. Did you even play the game you retard. You break the world free of the brine and get humanity to explore the world again.
>>750222240the story is so insanely short it's almost insulting
>>750222214It really doesn't matter, after like lvl 180 you literally get nothing from levelling up, no stats or anything.Makes you wonder why it wasn't capped earlier but Itsuno is a stupid fucking retard so ehh, maybe it's part of his meme vision.
>>750221974I see lots of edgy ones like this. Ultimately I'd rather have someone I'd actually like to look at and have by my side over edgy demonic freaks.
>>750221957It's a verb, an older form of the word 'will' used specifically to denote a wantIt's the willan barbatos because it personally wants to take a will for itself
>>750222278BE GOOD LOOKINGSPEND OVER AN HOURYOU CAN DO IT YOU FAG
>>750222208I love kinoshita but how the fuck did he get away with this shit>Heres this all knowing being that we need to drive the plot forward
>>750222267No? Just take the garb to the noblewoman instead of the cat.
>>750222310>get a shitty endgame sequence with a retarded gimmick that adds nothing to the game and a bunch of reskins followed by a shitty cutscene where you see some fat old retard sail on a boatHOLY BLASTIVISION
>>750222278Take sliders from r/fashionsdogma and then use creative liberty or from YouTube. Lots of good looking pawns and arisens with helpful people giving sliders.
>>750222375Oh...
>>750221754The Brine and Great Will were always going to be expanded on in a sequel the fact a lot of you guys came out of 1 thinking the Cycle was some meaningful important thing is hilarious. Cycles are inherently meaningless, it was a pointless world playing out the same script ad infinitum
>>750222356He wanted to use the giant tits again because they were proud of that and people liked itA true creatividad would have had you delve into a forgotten ruin or cult location to seek knowledge from an old stray demon
>>750222395KekUW concept is kino overload but the itsunovision went blurry because he blew all the budget on a big ass greek gundam and steak beforehand
>>750222395I'm not reading your low IQ buzzword post. Its not because YOU don't like it that there's nothing of substance in it.
>>750222481>The Brine and Great Will were always going to be expanded on in a sequelMaybe they could've expanded upon them in an actually interesting way instead of "they/them with a cloak gets mad, btw there's no final boss."
>>750222515And 800 scripted oxcart paths that no one is going to use
should I play Crimson Desert after this?
>>750222525>literally no rebuttalShitsuno shill stragglers are so funny, you subhumans literally outlived your usefulness after he got fired and the series became better without him.
>>750222632Its worth trying to see all the techs, its really impressive. But its too long for its good and the combat gameplay get tiresome before you're halfway through the game. On discount or play Nioh 1/2
get out of my swamp (forest)
>>750222615(You)
>>750222481That was the beauty of it though? >After all the struggle persisting and questioning the true nature of this world>After overcoming all of this with the extent of your great will your reward is>to become the eternal janny, this is non negotiable
>>750222267uhhhh >>750222290'tis filled with saurians master
>>750222481in the first game it's really just a system where the world itself decides if it's worthy of continuing, hardly pointless really when you think about it because if even ONE nigga stands up and shows strong will life goes on, it's way less arbitrary and cruel than some worlds you see in other fantasy. DD2 added dumb shit like the Greater Will ripped right from Elden Ring and some asshole middle-manager showing up to make sure it's running properly and then the fucking Brine is suddenly some cosmic entity instead of just a means of making sure the player can't swim. And I don't like black people.
>>750222515>"The real dragon's dogma 2 starts here? HOLY FUCKING KINOOOO-">"Oh wait no nevermind there's literally nothing left to the game"I'd say he got off easy only getting fired but knowing just where he ended up i'd say he's exactly in the sort of hell he deserves.
Why are dogshit unfun quests always mandated in big games? Is there an employee that is specifically hired to maintain a shit quota? There must ALWAYS be a turret section, there must ALWAYS be a stealth section. The game is not fucking built for this retarded shit. I'm fucking tilted.
>>750222837based
WHERE IS HE
>>750222701Look cupcake, your argument is to be like 90% of modern retards and being a reductionist without meaning. "Its JUST THIS", "Its JUST THAT" cause I say so mmmm OK!?The world is tired of your kind and irony in general. Keep your worthlessness to yourself
>>750222941Genuinely why do so many people have trouble with this quest? Are you sticking your fingers up your ass instead of shooting the faggot in the face?
>>750222975>psychotic breakdown masked as a wannabe witty reddit postMindbroken and utterly raped, you are not human.
>>750223013nta but that quest is kinda random, sometimes the dragon does jack shit, sometimes he pops every single ballista you get on in 2 casts. you only see the complaints because the people for whom the dragon doesn't do anything never post about their experience
I just noticed that the shoulders become much wider as you hit the last 10cm in the shortest height of the character creator.They really really really did not want to be accused of pedophilia by the westoid wokeslop mafia
>>750223013Not the same guy but after the dragon summons a whiteout how the fuck are you meant to see it anymore? I figured you go based off the light of the spells but I genuinely couldnt see shit
>>750222975Says the pedohpile unironically trying to defend the final boss being a cutscene.You are literal fodder pretending to be human, you only exist to be a slave.
>>750223013The pawns do nothing with the ballistas other than draw icicles to them ensuring they get destroyed when they're not standing around gawking at the dragon. The entire encounter boils down to baiting out the gay ice orbs and then getting one shot in, repeat until retarded fight is over.
>>750223145he didn't even do a whiteout for me lol
>>750223106I've had him use that ice spike barrage spell on the ballista, hit every single shot and still have the ballista tank it.
>>750223078Talk about having no rebuttal now. Stay virgin
cat
>>750222915The seneschal was always a servant of something greater that they couldn't comprehend, that was kind of the point>the fucking Brine is suddenly some cosmic entity instead of just a means of making sure the player can't swimlol, lmao dude
>>750223239>>750223204I play on Casual btw
>>750223239yeah each one can tank 2 barrages. but sometimes the dragon doesn't even bother hitting you with the barrages for some reason. and apparently some people just get a whiteout because fuck them i suppose
don't fall in love with your pawns bros
>>750223180>Says the pedohpile unironically trying to defend the final boss being a cutscene.Are you sure you're not talking about 2
>>750223180You sound angry anon. Did someone touched you ?
>>750223331It was on hard, not everyone is a sissy faggot like you.
>>750223315such a fucking ugly raceeven worse than hrothgars in ffxiv somehow
>>750223380dumb esl
>>750223380stfu esl faggot
>>750223315I wish their voices where different
>>750223403Worst part is that they look gross in skimpy outfits, they should just make their bodies shiny like in coomer furry art
>>750221595
>>750223403How dare you not like the literal furries, don't you know they were part of Itsuno's retarded meme vision?!And no, cutting off useless features that add nothing is NOT a vital part of game development, they should've been in 1 too because of a single piece of concept art!
Poasting 'risen.
>>750223430>>750223437Looks like I fished two demoralized meaningless atheist virgins. Life has meaning if you give it some contrary to (You)sGG EZI'll let you have the final replies so you feel good about yourselves today.
>Tons of materials needed for shit from the dlc monsters>Only a chance that they'll spawn, and some are way rarer than others>Once you kill them, only a chance that they'll even drop one(1) of the material instead of just a bunch of literal fucking garbage diablo loot that is probably already useless to the player the very first time they fight that monster, let alone the tenthI can't wait for the hype to die down so people can finally accept that kinoshita is a hack who doesn't know what he's doing too
Are there timed quests in the dlc
>>750223403>>750223509They're terrible from a coomer perspective and they're even worse from a worldbuilding one, they add absolutely nothing to the game besides "what if...black people.....were cats....." and despite being arabian themed they all have the same retarded english renaissance fair accent vermundians have.
>>750223602>nooo muh crafterino slop>*leaves a bad review*You are not human
Is there a point to bringing the dog along during Ruin Night?
>>750221595she got hired and got a magick stone from a golem?and other incredible valuable stuffreally need to get better gear for her...
>Come out of norgan>Start the talos quest>Have ring of reversal on>Instantly die walking down because apparently you are in constant combat during talos>Use the only wakestone I have with me>Oh no biggie as soon as I get there I can just instantly murder this thing>Get there>Destroy all the mandatory weak points instantly>turns out this dogshit boss is scripted to walk towards the encampment regardless how fast you can kill it>Only right before the camp it actually dies>Burn through all curatives, die before this happens>last save 1 hour ago>mfw
>>750223645>"what if...black people.....were cats....."Amerimutts really see niggers in everything huh
>>750223602Fuck you even need monster materials for in the DLC? the items the blacksmith gives you are shit compared to relics.
>>750211112I have some weird fucking shader compilation issue where the shader compilation fails and instead compiles while I play so the game stutters like crazy thanks to that. Now that I've played for 90+ hours of the main game and dlc, the game is pretty much solid 60fps finally.
>>750223602Unless you are crafting the capes theres genuinely no reason to engage with this system and even then you have those materials tenfold just playing the story
>>750223848>we wuz vermundianskek thats true actually
Hire my pawn, she's good
>>750223848Doesn't that make them native american instead of nogs
>>750224027To make craftniggers like you seethe
>>750223403>>750223509>>750223645Idk I think they're cute. I hear you on them looking weird in skimpy outfits but whatever, she's more daughter than wife anyway so idc
>>750223957>not Ice Affinitydropped
lotta seethy gaymos ITT
>>750222961I like that he's A-posing, like they just quickly dropped him into the render without posing him
>>750223981It makes them a generic minority that you're supposed to feel bad for, these types of stories don't really make any distinction since they try to bruteforce real world narratives in fantasy worlds that don't properly accomodate them.
>>750223848Oh look it’s the retarded schizo form yesterday too, STILL whining about blacks lmao it’s been two days man and you haven’t moved on?
>>750224089You are literally the one defending craftslop
:3
>>750223957Drop levin for halidom and farm a staff with elemental pact and Deific bolt, then I'll consider it.
>>750224264I like how he got outshitposted last thread and left lmao
>>750224264No clue what you're talking about so i'm going to take this as an admission that you're mentally ill.
>>750224145Yup, the troons showed up again lol
>>750224303I don't interact with it at all, it clearly makes craftniggers seethe though which is good
>>750223731where’s your ring of benevolence
>>750223909Aren't you SHOCKED that the kingdom that constantly hates nyaggers was actually funded by them?!I wasn't cause they keep alluding to it the second you get to Vernworth
>>750224358Sure sweetheart, we’ll continue pretending for your sake, wouldn’t want to cause another tranny to immolate now would we?
So if you find ulrika then tell her dad shes safe THEN do the ulrika quest to make her the village leaderDo you just fuck everything up
>>750224442>schizoid episode over shit he imaginedAlright nigger, won't make your dogshit furries any less of a useless addition to the game made to appeal to leftists.
BRONTIDE FUCKING SUCKS WHAT THE FUCK MAN
>>750224545>>750224545New bread saarisens
>>750224473I don't think so
>>750223627yeah. there’s one where you have to accompany ilda while she faffs about and you have to finish the entire quest before sunrise. i almost failed it because i got ganked by a giant and a bunch of beorcans and was on a meme build
OP here. Gonna bake a new thread
>>750224560Yeah that's why it wasn't brought back until kinoshita was making a dlc and realized he ran out of ideas
>>750224539I love DD2 because it mindbroke so many sissy troons, now it’s MUH FURRIES lmao
>>750224560does it really? was it good in 1 i never used it there either
>>750202683Bro i just beat the big bad demon and there is still more fights and unmoored I haven't even done yet. This DLC is fucking AMAZING
>>750204815No you can go back a second time and kill him. Im not in unmoored and I already killed him enough to get the badge on my pawn.
>>750224778>>750224778>>750224778Wasn't sure if max post was 500 or 600. Anyway here it is
>DLC is well received>resort to falseflagging generalsReally dood
>>750219982im not banned anymore. yep
>>750225043mods! ban this nigga right now
>>750224926I seriously am not able to properly grasp the reason behind Capcom games causing obsessive brain damage to this extent. It's actually curious.
>>750220460Bro shut the fuck up.Literally only troons and women give a shit about transmog, you will never actually be a woman.Get a fucking job the expansion is 30 bucks holy shit I've never seen anyone be more pathetic on this site. Imagine throwing a fucking tantrum like the 6 year olds you molest because you can't play dress up in an action rpg.
What the fuck am I supposed to look for in a hired pawn?For example a sorc pawn, I think you need to be make sure they don't have meteoron, maelstrom, augural flare, or decanter because they will ONLY use those spells, even when they're full health or the other spells are inappropriate at that time. Warrior pawns just get animation locked and killed instantly, fighters don't really seem to do much better. Thief pawns will use the rope which is cool but you never ever see them use skull splitter or doing anything crazy when climbing (even though I very clearly recall strider pawns in 1 fucking DOMINATING bosses).They just all are at a point where they feel useless and c
Move discussion here>>750224778
>>750226419nigger we've established the dlc has it nowthe vanilla game was so bad because armor was severely lacking and everyone looked identical
>>750226443thief pawns slaughter enemies, archer pawns slaughter enemies, warrior pawns slaughter enemies
