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Shalinor posted:I made the ugliest, fattest possible little dwarf man, and named him GnomeChomsky. He seems to get used a lot. I like to imagine that someone goes into the rift, and a ton of weird little anime girls walk out... and then he sort of sclumps in, in his intentionally mismatched, horrible clothes. That's how I ended up with my giant mage. Four or five tiny women come strolling out, and in walks a gigantic support mage with a big bushy beard and a deep voice. It's amazing because he has obviously been coached to be timid as gently caress by his creator, so the experience is uncannily similar to running around with a protective Hagrid character. vThat sounds great. I wonder if the two-handers clip through the ground with a character that small? What is your GT? I'd love to give GnomeChomsky (best name) a go in my party.v Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 18:37 on May 25, 2012 |
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DrNutt posted:That's how I ended up with my giant mage. Four or five tiny women come strolling out, and in walks a gigantic support mage with a big bushy beard and a deep voice. It's amazing because he has obviously been coached to be timid as gently caress by his creator, so the experience is uncannily similar to running around with a protective Hagrid character. Despite this, he's strangely capable - my mage and rogue will be sitting at half health, and then there's Chomsky, just chilling with max health somehow. Kinda thinking of taking him Warrior, just for the ridiculousness of a tiny fat dude wielding a giant 2-handed sword. Emong posted:Magick Archer is basically the best class. (I am kind of sad that that is a dagger skill when I'm focused on staves, though.) Shalinor fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 25, 2012 |
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May 25, 2012 18:32
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Shalinor posted:For a while, I had him in those leather thong wrap leg things, but I look forward to finding some of the revealing girl outfits for him. Hit up the female thieves den. I got a corset, a short skirt, and thigh-high boots in one treasure run. I did see someone's mage pawn (every mage is a girl with nothing under the open-bottom robe) with silk panties, though. "Customary underwear in the western lands."
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Shalinor posted:Is Staves viable, then? I went Magick Archer from Strider, and I'm almost thinking of going back to daggers again. I end up just using all the cool lock-on shots, because the magic is short range and useless. I did staff/magic bow for a while and switched to daggers since having two long range-focused skill sets seemed redundant. Dagger attacks with the magic archer aren't especially powerful, but the versatility is good to have. My favorite strategy right now is to fill a guy up with explosive arrows and use the daggers' dash skill to run in and blow them all up.
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Ok. I am 100% going out and getting this game this evening. Questions: Should I get it on xbox or ps3? is the userbase about the same on both, or does one of them have more users? What about the frame rate/etc? Finally: is it available for download or do I need to go to gamestop or something? Thanks!
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May 25, 2012 18:41
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I thought 159 would be taller, I swear.  I'm just happy my pawn is in full armor.
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May 25, 2012 18:48
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360 has a better frame rate but with screen tearing (alleviated by switching the console to 720p) PS3 has a less stable frame rate but no tearing PS3 has a mandatory 4.5gb install. 360 install is highly recommended though and clocks in around 6-8 gb. Communities seem quite active on both versions so get the game for whichever controller you prefer.
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What' the average level for game completion? Also how does discipline work? Can I still gain it even if I level cap with exp?
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May 25, 2012 18:51
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You know I haven't really noticed much frame drop on my PS3 version. I get some slow down in the menus if I am in the middle of the city (I assume from the texture fetch for gear preview) but aside from that it's been fine. Nothing anywhere near as bad as Blighttown Dark souls. I do HATE when the servers are flakey though and you are in an area that pumps pawns into the scene. Dialog will hang until it times out or something.
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Shalinor posted:Kinda thinking of taking him Warrior, just for the ridiculousness of a tiny fat dude wielding a giant 2-handed sword. I did this and wouldn't recommend it. Weapons scale to the size of the character so having a tiny character gives them a tiny sword, though its still huge in comparison to them. That means they have a smaller attack range which kind of sucks when the point of the warrior class is having giant weapons. Though I also think warrior pawns are bad in general and are better off switching to fighter or strider so YMMV. That class is a lot more effective when controlled by the player.
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Girlie pawns, girlie pawns everywhere! It's weird man. But when that crazy anime music kicked in a the start screen, I knew I had to make a girl pawn, too. So now everyone can play with Claire from Claymore. 
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OmegaZultan posted:What' the average level for game completion? Also how does discipline work? Can I still gain it even if I level cap with exp? I beat the dragon in the mid 40s. No clue about the post-game stuff. And I'm positive that discipline is not capped by exp, but even if it is level 200 will take so long to hit that there still wouldn't be an effective cap.
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Count Bleck posted:So is it even possible to beat the Dragon in Devilfire Grove at level 24 or should I just avoid it for now? It probably lies within the realm of possibility but I wouldn't attempt it. It was a pretty tough fight for a character in their late 30s.
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DrNutt posted:That's how I ended up with my giant mage. Four or five tiny women come strolling out, and in walks a gigantic support mage with a big bushy beard and a deep voice. It's amazing because he has obviously been coached to be timid as gently caress by his creator, so the experience is uncannily similar to running around with a protective Hagrid character. I'm sad I haven't seen any of the silly pawns other folks in the thread have. Also kinda sad I didn't just go bugfuck and make the ugliest hunchback motherfucker ever. Pawn seems to be getting a decent amount of use, though, considering I didn't make him Clothesless Anime Girl. Actually picked the smuggest sounding voice out of the lot. Looks ridiculous coming from a tiny wizard. What kind of party makeup are you guys using? My main's a Strider, pawn's a Mage, I've been rolling Strider/Fighter for backup. Trying Strider/Mage this time to see how two mages on a team roll. With two Striders, poo poo's getting knocked into the air and set on fire constantly. I kind of want to roll with a 4-Strider party at some point just to see how silly it gets. Anyone actually tried a party of four base classes yet?
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Malachite posted:I did this and wouldn't recommend it. Weapons scale to the size of the character so having a tiny character gives them a tiny sword, though its still huge in comparison to them. That means they have a smaller attack range which kind of sucks when the point of the warrior class is having giant weapons. Related question - I'm assuming you really couldn't just skip to Gran Soren to take on a hybrid/advanced vocation from the get-go, right? Simply because the entry-level equipment for them tends to cost way, way more than you've got until later anyways? (unless it's an advanced vocation that uses regular base-class gear, like the Assassin, I guess)
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ChibiSoma posted:What kind of party makeup are you guys using? My main's a Strider, pawn's a Mage, I've been rolling Strider/Fighter for backup. Trying Strider/Mage this time to see how two mages on a team roll. With two Striders, poo poo's getting knocked into the air and set on fire constantly. I kind of want to roll with a 4-Strider party at some point just to see how silly it gets. Main is a Mage, soon to be Sorcerer. Pawn is a Warrior. I always end making freakish looking characters in these games when I mess with the character creator so I just went the unoriginal route of using the default Warrior model and naming him Guts.
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Is there any way to cancel a quest and restart it later? I took the Mercedes escort quest to Shadow fort or something and i'm just way too level to get through that area with the fort/chimera
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Shalinor posted:Is Staves viable, then? I went Magick Archer from Strider, and I'm almost thinking of going back to daggers again. I end up just using all the cool lock-on shots, because the magic is short range and useless. Works well enough for me. I just lightening whip the poo poo out of anything that gets too close.
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Shalinor posted:Laaaame. 1500 discipline points wasted, I guess. Still, at least I hadn't yet blown all the gold on the ridiculously expensive 2H sword. You would have to do a few quests to get enough for a weapon, but money in Dragon's Dogma is easy come, easy go. I rushed to Gran Soren and spent almost all of my money on a 2hander for my pawn, but earned it all back within an hour. Also warrior gets some pretty good passive traits that can be used by other classes(like strength+20%) so its not a total waste to try it out.
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Emong posted:Works well enough for me. I just lightening whip the poo poo out of anything that gets too close. In any case, I suppose nothing's stopping me from trying both. I wish there was a respect option somewhere, but as of yet, I haven't felt gimped because of spending a few points on a skill line that went nowhere.
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At first my Magick Archer was pretty underwhelming since I had went from a Strider/Ranger(mostly this)/Assassin(very little). But after getting 5 ranks and a few levels with it, I'm having a blast. I've been going pretty much range-only the whole time with Staves/Bow and it's great. Once you get the higher level versions of spells and more bow attacks, you slaughter everything before it gets close. I like the spells because they're really strong and extremely useful for giant enemies (Ogres/Cyclops/etc). I use the poo poo out of Seeker/Hunter Bolt though.
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Mokinokaro posted:360 has a better frame rate but with screen tearing (alleviated by switching the console to 720p) Maybe my eyes are just overly sensitive to it, but lowering the resolution on my 360 didn't get rid of the screen tearing for me. I may download the PS3 demo to see if the frame rate is that much worse as the screen tearing is really getting annoying.
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Don't you hate it when you think you've saved quite recently and when you mistime a counter attack and a bandit skewers you and you die then your save point is much farther than what you thought. Man, I was tearing poo poo up with underleveled goon pawns. Assassin/Ranger is the way to go.
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So Right now I am level 25ish, mostly as Mage/Sorcerer. Switched to Magic Archer, and am loving it. I am thinking about changing to Warrior, Fighter and Ranger just for a few levels to unlock their Augments (+100hp for ranger level 2 skill, +50 Defense from Warrior, +100hp from Fighter, etc). I can equip them on a Magic Archer, correct? Has anyone done this? Also, I love this game. PSN is HighOnFiber. I have a giant female half orc looking Fighter pawn named Faggette, if anyone wants to give her a shot.
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Dirt posted:I am thinking about changing to Warrior, Fighter and Ranger just for a few levels to unlock their Augments (+100hp for ranger level 2 skill, +50 Defense from Warrior, +100hp from Fighter, etc). I can equip them on a Magic Archer, correct? Has anyone done this? ChibiSoma posted:What kind of party makeup are you guys using? My main's a Strider, pawn's a Mage, I've been rolling Strider/Fighter for backup. Trying Strider/Mage this time to see how two mages on a team roll. With two Striders, poo poo's getting knocked into the air and set on fire constantly. I kind of want to roll with a 4-Strider party at some point just to see how silly it gets. I've had mixed luck with ranger pawns. Some barely do anything while others are monsters. Just favorite them if you find good ones. I wish the AI settings were more transparent. It would be nice if you could see the bar chart from pawn creation in the Rift. grrarg fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 25, 2012 |
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grrarg posted:I've had mixed luck with ranger pawns. Some barely do anything while others are monsters. Just favorite them if you find good ones. I wish the AI settings were more transparent. It would be nice if you could see the bar chart from pawn creation in the Rift. Levitation skill: if I give my fighter dude the "can take a fall" skill, and I levitate down a cliff to explore, will he survive then? Or will there be a meaty thump a few seconds later, and then I'm alone without fighter support?
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Archery in this game is weird. First starting out something about the system made me feel like it was really awkward, and yet, when I actually use it in combat, it works incredibly well, and easily. Girafro posted:Oh yeah, you'll get summoned for sure. Revenant Threshold fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 25, 2012 |
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For Ranger Pawns, I find they perform better if they don't have daggers. It forces them to only use their bow skills; and that's a good thing.
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Am I the only one who leaves comments for pawns I use? I really want to know how mine is doing. His ratings are fairly high (except for appearance, he would definitely fit in the "alternative standards of beauty" category) but I wanna know more specifically.
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So... Portcrystals... I set it down just outside Bluemoon tower and then walked back to Gran Soren as I had forgot to bring my ferrystones. Fun walk... Now I'm on another quest and need to go there again, so thankful i left my port--- Why does it send me to Gran Soren!? Isn't there supposed to be an option or something? Anyone know what is being missed here...?
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Arousing Suspicions quest spoilers and also Berserk spoilers I guess Wow that was a spot on Berserk homage. My character is Griffith so it was even better. Seems like that quest should just end with a game over or something instead of everyone forgetting it ever happened.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Wow, meteor shower works indoors and underground. So does Maelstrom (tornado) which is hilarious when your sorcerer casts it and then you can't see anything for the full duration so you just have to jump around blindly and hope to not get hit. Luckily whatever was attacking you is most likely really dead.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Am I the only one who leaves comments for pawns I use? I really want to know how mine is doing. His ratings are fairly high (except for appearance, he would definitely fit in the "alternative standards of beauty" category) but I wanna know more specifically.
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Schubalts posted:Hit up the female thieves den. I got a corset, a short skirt, and thigh-high boots in one treasure run. I did see someone's mage pawn (every mage is a girl with nothing under the open-bottom robe) with silk panties, though. My mage is a black man. Also the only black pawn I have ever seen. 
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I was considering trading in some games at gamestop to pick this up today - does anyone know if there's a current list of trade in values?
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Slore Tactician posted:I was considering trading in some games at gamestop to pick this up today - does anyone know if there's a current list of trade in values? http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/cagomatic.php?do=tradein That's the best you'll find. Although you might also want to look at any trade in deals listed on the Gamestop website. I know they've got an extra trade in value for consoles going on right now, not sure what else.
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Nothing like getting your pawn back with 0 RC, no items, and 2 star ratings for everything. Gee, thanks 
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Man, getting my people together for a group picture is like herding cats. My main character Queenie is center left, my main pawn Macrus is center right, and I barely know those other guys.
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