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S-Alpha posted:So, out of curiosity before I pick this up, how feasible is it to solo the game? I feel like being a gigantic git, and running through it with a solo Fighter/Warrior. Is it possible, or am I better off abandoning the idea before I get in too deep? Some status effects would probably mean instant gameover on a solo play, like enemies spamming sleep or petrification. Or archers stunlocking you with arrows.
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Will meeting the Duke at the end of the Wyrm Hunt line cancel out the bandit quests?
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May 28, 2012 15:39
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Having a blast with this game, I've gotta say. Running a magic knight at the moment (staff-based) and I've just hit a point where I could not be happier with his abilities. He's got all the best parts of a mage, plus group buffs and shield abilities. I just wish his drat shield didn't clip through everything. I've taken many of your pawns out for spins and I hope you've done the same with mine (GT: OK Octopus). I was actually able to run through about three solid hours of gameplay yesterday with just goon pawns and it was a blast. NG+ question: do you use your original character/pawn or do you rebuild them from the ground up (character creator et al)? Yancy_Street fucked around with this message at 16:03 on May 28, 2012 |
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May 28, 2012 15:56
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Just started last night. My pawn is Satan. He is a strider that resembles jack sparrow. Please use him or at least laugh at him. Gt is Zombie Boat
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May 28, 2012 16:02
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OK Octopus posted:Having a blast with this game, I've gotta say. Running a magic knight at the moment (staff-based) and I've just hit a point where I could not be happier with his abilities. He's got all the best parts of a mage, plus group buffs and shield abilities. I just wish his drat shield didn't clip through everything. It's optional. Your character and pawns default appearance is the same but when you start you can edit them like you could the first time round.
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May 28, 2012 16:11
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I killed a rabbit and it dropped a carrot 
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May 28, 2012 16:13
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Eddain posted:Some status effects would probably mean instant gameover on a solo play, like enemies spamming sleep or petrification. That said, the assassin class does give you some tools and special abilities to make the attempt. Some incidental things: I haven't seen anyone say this, but you sequence break the poo poo out of the Water God's Altar with some well placed jumps. It's not even that hard. It's a lot of fun getting behind locked doors, too. Oh, and wearing women's clothing does not help men talk to the bandit queen Ophis. Maybe it was my moustache that gave me away... Least I got an achievement. Speaking of achievements, I got one this morning for finding Soul Flayer Canyon. And I accidentally put my lantern into storage and didn't notice until night fell. That was an interesting trip.
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May 28, 2012 16:16
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Lotish posted:Oh, and wearing women's clothing does not help men talk to the bandit queen Ophis. Maybe it was my moustache that gave me away... Least I got an achievement. Really? It worked for me. And my character has a 5 o'clock shadow. I used the Set of Woman's Garb I bought from the Black Cat. Just be sure to not take it off when nearby, though.
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May 28, 2012 16:20
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Can anyone give me the locations of some wyverns? I know there's one by the Shadow Fort but that's all I've stumbled across. I want to dragon forge all my equipment but there's nary a dragon to be found! Another question: what are some good skills for a Strider pawn to use that they won't be horrible with? I made my warrior pawn a Strider just to try it out and she's pretty great. Because she still has all the warrior-like augments on (30% more strength) she just melts everything. Coupled with the jump damage improvement she just wrecks small and big enemies alike. It's pretty fantastic.
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May 28, 2012 16:21
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PunkBoy posted:Will meeting the Duke at the end of the Wyrm Hunt line cancel out the bandit quests? If it's the Tome quest, yes. I don't think it'll cancel the Find the Traitor/Kill the Women Bandits quest, though. Man, gifting pawns you really like with lamps and a couple of flasks of oil is a brilliant idea, seeing how no pawn I've journeyed with has carried one.
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May 28, 2012 16:23
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PunkBoy posted:Really? It worked for me. And my character has a 5 o'clock shadow. I used the Set of Woman's Garb I bought from the Black Cat. Just be sure to not take it off when nearby, though. Yep, I wore the exact same outfit and she still attacked me. Just to be clear, did you have all female pawns? Maybe that's the trick?
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May 28, 2012 16:25
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Does anyone know what torpor is? And/or anything about poison? I've got an assassin with skills that do extra torpor/poison proc, but I have no idea what torpor even is. Also, if you equip oil/water flasks under the tools, that's like if you had them in your hands, right? So much stuff in this gaaaame..
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May 28, 2012 16:26
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Calaveron posted:If it's the Tome quest, yes. I don't think it'll cancel the Find the Traitor/Kill the Women Bandits quest, though. Good news. Pawn lanterns don't require oil! blowingupcasinos posted:Does anyone know what torpor is? And/or anything about poison? I've got an assassin with skills that do extra torpor/poison proc, but I have no idea what torpor even is. Torpor is the greatest skill in this game forever. It's a slow, aka the giant killer. Any big enemies that gets torpor'd becomes useless and gets destroyed.
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May 28, 2012 16:30
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Calaveron posted:Man, gifting pawns you really like with lamps and a couple of flasks of oil is a brilliant idea, seeing how no pawn I've journeyed with has carried one. Only equipment travels with pawns, not items. I'm imagining someone out there screaming after resting at an in "I ALREADY HAVE 20 loving LAMPS! WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SENDING THEM?!" 
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May 28, 2012 16:31
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If you kill the lion before the other heads on the chimera they just kinda writhe around until you put them out of their misery.
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May 28, 2012 16:31
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You can do that? One of the chimeras I killed recently died before I finished killing the goat head. I thought the lion, being the body, was always the last one to die and took the rest with him.
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May 28, 2012 16:33
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Holy drat, is Exequy one of the best spells or what. Fighting the Drake, one of my strider pawns knocks it out of the air, so it lands on it's side, when my Sorcerer pawn casts it, and knocks off 3 life bars in one hit. 
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May 28, 2012 16:40
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On The Conspirators quest where do I actually find the guy. He says to meet him in the castle courtyard at night, but if I do the sleep until evening thing at the inn the head there there's no one there. There.Jimbot posted:Can anyone give me the locations of some wyverns? I know there's one by the Shadow Fort but that's all I've stumbled across. I want to dragon forge all my equipment but there's nary a dragon to be found! The thing you're thinking of is a Drake, the only time I've seen a wyvern is after You kill the dragon and everything goes to hell. I found it on my way back to Gran Soren from Cassardis Drakes can potentially dragonforge your gear though. Lotish posted:You can do that? One of the chimeras I killed recently died before I finished killing the goat head. I thought the lion, being the body, was always the last one to die and took the rest with him. The goat will still cast and the snake will still breath poison but the body just sort of runs around like a lion with it's head cut off and doesn't attack.
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May 28, 2012 16:42
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Travelling at night by myself as an assassin...this is something I never thought i'd do considering how tough the game can be but now i'm the most dangerous thing here.
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May 28, 2012 16:45
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I have been loking forward to this game for ages, I just have to encourage the Fiance that the money is best spent on a game instead of our upcoming nuptuals. Also, Part 1 of a review on Forbes is up if anyone is interested. It doesn't really show anything new, but I like the fact that the reviewer has given his impressions from about 10 hours of play and will put up more once he has played a bit further.
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May 28, 2012 16:47
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Calaveron posted:If it's the Tome quest, yes. I don't think it'll cancel the Find the Traitor/Kill the Women Bandits quest, though. Ah, yeah. I had a full female party. One little detail I really like is how the pawns are characterized. While the chatter can get tiring after a while, it's always a bit unnerving to hear pawns show a bit of personality in one sentence then going to "Beep boop, I live to serve, Master" in the next. It a jarring reminder they're not quite human. My main just commented that she dreams of exploring beyond the horizon one day while walking past the coast. I thought that was pretty  .
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May 28, 2012 16:53
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The Moon Monster posted:On The Conspirators quest where do I actually find the guy. He says to meet him in the castle courtyard at night, but if I do the sleep until evening thing at the inn the head there there's no one there. There. You have to wait until the middle of the night, after the night patrol starts. He has to walk through the castle, and over to the meeting place.
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May 28, 2012 16:57
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I'm pretty close to the end of my first play-through and I have to say this is my favorite game so far of 2012. If they make the quests and story more interesting like in skyrim or new vegas and give you dialog choices in the next one it would be one of my favorite WRPGs ever.
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May 28, 2012 16:59
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I just had a fight with some flying skeleton who summoned tornadoes and more skeletons that lasted an entire night. It was great watching him fall to pieces as the sun came up. Really liking the game so far. The pawn system is neato and a cool way of having a cooperative "multiplayer". I think I've spent more on upgrading my pawn's equipment than I have my own because I want him to go out and do cool things and help people 
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May 28, 2012 17:02
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At a low level, GnomeChomsky got hired out pretty often, but lately he doesn't seem to get hired at all. Kinda wondering if low level hires are just more likely? (he is awesome, lately - finally got his AI dialed in right) Unrelated, but is there some trick to teaching pawns to throw people? It looks like they learn other tendencies based on what you do, so does that hold for pawns as well? Would throwing bandits off cliffs teach your pawn to be a crazy bandit throwing bastard? There is no "throw people" potion at the rift shop.
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A BLACK PRESIDENT posted:Holy drat, is Exequy one of the best spells or what. Is there some trick to Exequy and pawns? I tried to give my pawn Exequy, and they NEVER use it. I gave up and replaced it after several hours of them never using it ever.
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May 28, 2012 17:11
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Lotish posted:That said, the assassin class does give you some tools and special abilities to make the attempt. For the bandits I believe you have to be using all female pawns as well. I used the "Set of Lady's Garb" I got from the black cat and I was able to talk to the leader and even got a quest from her.
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May 28, 2012 17:14
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Do the blacksmith and the other shop stock new idol gear in the post-game? My guy is pretty much set with the upgraded Dragon's weapons, but I hope I'm not missing out on a good staff for my pawn.
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May 28, 2012 17:16
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Does anyone know how the hell I get Madeleine to open her shop in Gran Soren? I escorted her there and gave her the money. I've met the Duke and done the Griffin quest. Any help?
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May 28, 2012 17:28
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Shalinor posted:At a low level, GnomeChomsky got hired out pretty often, but lately he doesn't seem to get hired at all. Kinda wondering if low level hires are just more likely? Yeah, I noticed this too. I think a lot of it has to do with everyone constantly upgrading their pawns at lower levels to narrow the level gap between them and their hired pawns. Later in the game though, I've personally been rolling with the same couple of guys from level 25-30, mostly because I haven't had cause to switch them out. So there's definitely a decline in number of hires your pawn may get, but I've noticed the one's he does get are for more substantive.
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Shalinor posted:At a low level, GnomeChomsky got hired out pretty often, but lately he doesn't seem to get hired at all. Kinda wondering if low level hires are just more likely? This is happening with my healbot pawn as well. Ever since she hit 20 she's being hired less and less despite getting better skills and AI.
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May 28, 2012 17:35
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Aries posted:Does anyone know how the hell I get Madeleine to open her shop in Gran Soren? Just go to her store and she should be there. It's that building you could enter in the slums right next to the Black Cat. It should already be open regardless.
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May 28, 2012 17:39
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Did I miss out on all the fun stuff of the post game? Somebody mentioned meeting a wyvern in the post-game overworld earlier but after beating the dragon I ferrystoned straight to Gran Soren and then fell into the Everfall. Did I miss out on equipment and quests up top? Can I ferrystone out again? Will I be able to go back up top after I beat the Everfall?
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Shalinor posted:At a low level, GnomeChomsky got hired out pretty often, but lately he doesn't seem to get hired at all. Kinda wondering if low level hires are just more likely? I can't speak for everyone, but I just hit level 29 and I'm already kind of locked in to which pawns I like to hire. There are two or three pawns that are being leveled more or less as fast as I am, and have gear, skills, and attitudes that work well with my play style. It's probably a combination of people like me rehiring their favorites, and there just not being as many people at higher levels. I love the game so far, but I expect a large number of people are getting burnt out after 10 or 15 hours. At 29 my pawn's still getting hired regularly though. I'm going to chalk that up to his striking resemblance to Hulk Hogan.
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For people who've done the shadowfort I need help. I opened the gate but both balistas at the far side were active, killed the healer repeatedly because instead of following me downstairs insisted on trying to loving heal me so kept getting smashed. I failed to rout the goblins as a result. How will this impact the quest since I'll likely restart and how do I deal with those balistas? They smashed the one facing them before I could get a decent shot off I wish there was an easier way to return to your last save in the game than dropping out entirely
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MacGyvers_Mullet posted:It's probably a combination of people like me rehiring their favorites, and there just not being as many people at higher levels. I love the game so far, but I expect a large number of people are getting burnt out after 10 or 15 hours. If there are people getting burnt out after 10 hours they should feel pretty stupid. That far into the game you've only seen a fraction of the enemies and an even smaller proportion of the skills and gear. The whole point of DD is fighting cool monsters with cool skills while dressed up in
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Lotish posted:Yep, I wore the exact same outfit and she still attacked me. Mokinokaro posted:This is happening with my healbot pawn as well. Ever since she hit 20 she's being hired less and less despite getting better skills and AI. The upgraded heal takes an eternity to cast and your healers will lag behind all the time. The cast time increase on sorcerer helps a bit with this. It's too bad you can't downgrade the heal.
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Tufty posted:Did I miss out on all the fun stuff of the post game? Somebody mentioned meeting a wyvern in the post-game overworld earlier but after beating the dragon I ferrystoned straight to Gran Soren and then fell into the Everfall. Did I miss out on equipment and quests up top? Can I ferrystone out again? Will I be able to go back up top after I beat the Everfall? You missed nothing. No worries. Jump down further and then just keep falling until you hit sky. Then aim for the top right ledge and you should be able to grab on there and walk right into the pawn guild
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So regarding the dragon, WAS I supposed to let the person get sacrificed? The dragon is kind of kicking my rear end like nothing I have fought in the game before. I mean, story-wise I'm sure that's the way it's supposed to be but still...
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Policenaut posted:Just go to her store and she should be there. It's that building you could enter in the slums right next to the Black Cat. It should already be open regardless. Nope, still an empty house. I need to trigger some 'chasing shadows' quest, but I've no idea how.
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