Dragon's Dogma - Dark Arisen

[Tyrath]

Does Warrior and Fighter strength augment stack? I'm not really super excited about having to level both of those vocations because I really like bow gameplay in this game. I'm dreading going out fighting things without long range attacks >.>

Also something I read suggests getting Magic attack augments too if I'm gonna use elemental daggers on Assassin. Is that needed?

Basically I know some of the augments I need but I'm having trouble figuring out which 6 to stick with >_<

Clout
Vehemence
Proficiency
Leg Strength
Arm Strength
Sinew
Morbidity
Precision

Idk WHAT DO lol

[Souj]

the augments stack, but the Fighter's augment is only 10% while Warrior is 20%
I personally didn't use the 10% one.

[Tyrath]

Okay, I think I'm gonna skip fighter and focus on leveling Warrior and Ranger on my main for now. Thanks for the suggestions.

[SteveMc]

Vocations are super easy to level if you're not post game, I did all 9 vocations to rank 9 in about 12 hours game time, just go to the camp site near the shadow fort, rest until day time and head towards the shadow fort area where the drake spawns and beat the shit out of every goblin in that area, then head south towards the healing spring and loop around the rocks there making your way back up to the rest camp again and rest for two days.
Ten to fifteen minutes work earns you about 7-8k DCP.
I'm sure there are other spots and maybe better spots but this is where I did it and it worked great for me. Also just doing other vocations gets you 30-45k DCP if you spend nothing on them and you have them all unlocked incase you want to change your mind about the vocation you want to play.
I started there at level 40ish and came out level 60ish so it only messes with you level up stat gains a tiny bit (if you avoid the drake).

[Tyrath]

I'm not really into that kinda grinding anymore, nor do I have the time for it lol. Because you say "only 12 hours" and I think thats a week if not 2 week's worth of Dragon's Dogma playtime for me, I feel old

I'd rather plan out the route I want to take beforehand and stick to that. Thanks for the idea though!

[SteveMc]

It's just what worked for me so I thought I'd share.
I just wanted everything done incase I changed my mind on what I wanted to play, which it did, I started out wanting to be an assassin and fell in love with magick archer, but now if I wanted, I could just go play assassin.

[Tyrath]

Well I'm sure I can always just jump vocations if I want to anyway. I'll just be a tad weaker at first but the first few vocation ranks come really quickly.

[Tyrath]

Just cleared out the Ancient Quarry. Farming some beast steaks so I can stack my pawn in Griffith Armor and myself in Guts' armor (as much of it as Ranger can equip anyway) :D


Edit: Got some of it done today before I have to stop for the weekend. Started Guts' armor on myself. But pawn full geared in Griffith armor with Guts' sword since shes Warrior atm. Considering I'm only level 29 if my pawn doesn't get hired after this, she never will.

[Charismatic]

We postin' our dudes?

[Kiarax]

Not Guts/10

[Edelweiss]

From 5/17-5/23 online Ur is nerfed: it takes tremendous damage and has the original "soft" grace period is back (hearts are readily destroyed).

[SteveMc]

Can you only kill it once during this weekend? Still dead after an hour.

[Charismatic]

Not Guts/10

I'm wearing his cape, surely that counts!

[Charismatic]

OH MY GOD!
I feel like such an idiot for not discovering chain-casting high sorceries until just now.

Pawn is casting High Bolide... after she has charged up the first bar I can just run up and start casting and then just release once or twice depending on timing an get a Bolide cast then release a High Bolide right after.
Its actually better that the pawn DOESN'T have increased casting speed for this.

Wow.

[Souj]

yeah, it's good. but even considering that, I still can't get into magic casters in this game.

[Charismatic]

I just did 3 Bolides and then a High Bolide a bit ago. Its not just good, its insanely good.

[Darkdreamer]

I've been playing for awhile and I'd really like to find a way to level faster.

I can't play very often so I'd like to be able to take on everything that I come across and my level 35 something isn't cutting it much. I did recently find out about reducing my party members to get the xp penalty off.

[Plow]

just picked this up, does it get less skyrim-y?

loving the fact that I've been in like 4 fights and 3 of them were bosses, not so much loving that I've played an hour or 2 and spent like 5 minutes in combat

[Souj]

you are either extremely exaggerating or playing the game horribly wrong if that has truly been your experience.
unless you've never even left the first town yet and instead have just been doing all the quests. In which case, stopping the sidequest grind will solve your problem.

[Plow]

dragon fight at the start, then the tiger thingy, i guess there was some trash in between there I think
dragon fight at the town, all the cutscenes around that etc
homeboy said I should buy some gear so I did that, saved traveler guy from goblins on the way to the encampment
pawn lessons, minotaurythingy, more pawn lessons

I don't think I'm off by much, maybe spent longer figuring out which shit to sell/buy than I should have but meh.

Anyway I started it back up and got the hydra fight, then headed out of town and found a side path with some bandits, the last one of which was apparently a badass and killed me, so yeah, looking promising. I had my hopes up for a bit more dark souls-ey than it is though.