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marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Kreczor posted:

So the choice is between, pay 30k and they still live there or pay 80k and nothing happens?

Why would anyone choose the latter?

Spoiler for muuuuuuuuch later: if they're still in the home at post-game, the everfall eats their house and kills the parents, leaving the boy a vengeful orphan. Presumably (I haven't tested this myself) if you buy it for yourself, they're gone (and compensated for their hardship) and all that's lost is a house you didn't use!

marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Apr 27, 2013

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Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
I think I'm really screwed on the subject of Giant Saurian Sages. They're never in that room at the Rotwood Depository. I think they only appear on the first playthrough of Bitterblack Isle, and when you can access the boss' second form, then they're gone. Can anyone please give me a Moonshimmer pelt through my pawn? I just need one so I can dupe it at Mountebank.

Gyoru
Jul 13, 2004



Lunethex posted:

I think I'm really screwed on the subject of Giant Saurian Sages. They're never in that room at the Rotwood Depository. I think they only appear on the first playthrough of Bitterblack Isle, and when you can access the boss' second form, then they're gone. Can anyone please give me a Moonshimmer pelt through my pawn? I just need one so I can dupe it at Mountebank.
I can't find any Moonshimmer Pelts either. All of the saurians I've encountered in Rotwood are normal sized saurian sages. Maybe the drop chance is just absurdly low. I have so many Argentine Sacs and Snowy Saurian Skins.

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009

Kreczor posted:

So the choice is between, pay 30k and they still live there or pay 80k and nothing happens?

Why would anyone choose the latter?

Other way around. It's 30k for moving expenses to get them to agree to the unlawful eviction so Fournival can sell the land, or 80k to Fournival to buy their land yourself so they can remain. The latter is really just a shortcut to finish the quest, you don't actually get a house or anything.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

Gyoru posted:

I can't find any Moonshimmer Pelts either. All of the saurians I've encountered in Rotwood are normal sized saurian sages. Maybe the drop chance is just absurdly low. I have so many Argentine Sacs and Snowy Saurian Skins.

The sad, ironic part is I once fought Giant Saurian Sages in that side room and I found 2 pelts. Then an Elder Ogre kept one shot killing me in that tight corridor where he spawns (and where pawns seem to love just running through) and I lost them and they didn't drop the 2nd time through. If only I knew how rare they were.

edit: just scored a new item from Bitterblack Novelty. "Expediting Papers" that shortens the time required to forge items at Mountebank. I'm not sure how short though, but they're part of the "Other" category and seem to be a passive boost. Also got the Elite Lantern.

Lunethex fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 27, 2013

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Kreczor posted:

So the choice is between, pay 30k and they still live there or pay 80k and nothing happens?

Why would anyone choose the latter?

If you pay the 80k you get an item used for upgrading a really good end-game cloak, and you can only get it through this quest.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
How long is all the new content? I'm debating starting a brand new game and actually levelling all the classes this time because I want to try other things and levelling mystic knight with massively out of date weapons is a bit poo poo since the vendors only have the starting stuff. I just get the feeling I might burn out if I try the full game again. Also if I did that do I keep the eternal ferrystone?

Danith
May 20, 2006
I've lurked here for years

Kreczor posted:

Is it possible to change the vocation for my pawn? I don't think I want to keep him as fighter forever.

Gibbed, Quash joined my party yet again and we had great adventure. We had some escort to bring a peddler to some wall across the entire game world, and I chose to leave during the morning so I didn't have to get overwhelmed. Little did I know that this adventure took an entire in-game day to complete and had to kill two cyclops and two chimeras along the way. That along with an entire castle full of Amazon Bandits who kill men on sight made it completely epic and it was all for naught. My escort died 10 feet from the wall and I failed... thank god I had a transport stone!

I also managed to get thrown in jail like four times. Besides wasting 5k or having a skele key on you, is there any other way to get out of jail? - Also, should I be buying gear from vendors at all? I seem to waste all my gold on stuff like that.

Are those the women bandits at a wall at uhh.. somewhere? On my other play through they would just ignore me and if I tried talking to them they would say that the leader wouldn't talk to me because I'm not a women

Nahxela
Oct 11, 2008

Execution

Danith posted:

Are those the women bandits at a wall at uhh.. somewhere? On my other play through they would just ignore me and if I tried talking to them they would say that the leader wouldn't talk to me because I'm not a women
You can dress up as a woman and they'll talk to you~
Things like the maid outfit, dresses, etc that are full armor sets.

Gyoru
Jul 13, 2004



I added a list of macabre statue locations to the Google doc.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

Gyoru posted:

I added a list of macabre statue locations to the Google doc.

drat man I only found 12 in all, thanks for that. I didn't even think you could get up to 30 like that.

Boar It
Jul 29, 2011

Mesmerizing eyebrows is my specialty

Crimson Harvest posted:

Dragon's Dogma really compresses the poo poo out of screenshots:




I've taken a few of my own screenshots but I can't get them out of my PS3. The game doesn't have any ingame upload feature does it? My PS3 refuses to detect my USB that works fine on my pc.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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Torabi posted:

I've taken a few of my own screenshots but I can't get them out of my PS3. The game doesn't have any ingame upload feature does it? My PS3 refuses to detect my USB that works fine on my pc.

On the xbox 360 I'm pretty sure it both uploads to the pawn community website and gives you the option of posting to your facebook wall when you take a screenshot. It's weird if the PS3 doesn't have either.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
I'm willing to trade any Bitterblack Armor or Weapon Lv.3 for just a Moonshimmer Pelt please. I can farm the boss in 10 minutes (from the shortcut to the treasure room) so it's no problem. Also, if anybody has a Banshee Larynx I will give you my soul. I've killed so many Banshees and I only got 2 Banshee Locks ever.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

Torabi posted:

I've taken a few of my own screenshots but I can't get them out of my PS3. The game doesn't have any ingame upload feature does it? My PS3 refuses to detect my USB that works fine on my pc.
Yeah, as far as I know it's through a USB drive only. The PS3 is just awful in that respect but it looks like stuff like that is being built into the PS4 from the very beginning. It's pretty exciting, to be honest.

Also every time I laugh at how awful the assassins are in that one ongoing mission after you get into the castle. YOU have to run around searching for THEM, or else they'll just give up and walk away once that period in the game ends, and you'll fail the quest.

apocrypha
Mar 1, 2009

Lunethex posted:

I'm willing to trade any Bitterblack Armor or Weapon Lv.3 for just a Moonshimmer Pelt please. I can farm the boss in 10 minutes (from the shortcut to the treasure room) so it's no problem. Also, if anybody has a Banshee Larynx I will give you my soul. I've killed so many Banshees and I only got 2 Banshee Locks ever.

You're in luck, then, I've got both of those. Sent you a friend request on PSN. I'll send you the larynx first. Let me know when you've got it so I can send you the pelt.

Edit: Whoops, you're maxed out on friends.

apocrypha fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Apr 27, 2013

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

apocrypha posted:

You're in luck, then, I've got both of those. Sent you a friend request on PSN. I'll send you the larynx first. Let me know when you've got it so I can send you the pelt.

Edit: Whoops, you're maxed out on friends.

Yeah somehow that happened. Don't worry, I'll remove some. You can send now.

Lunethex fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 27, 2013

Lakbay
Dec 14, 2006

My eye...MY EYE!!!

Amaryllis posted:

Lakbay, if you're reading this, your pawn buffed and saved my team countless times when we ducked into the new content and ran into a cockatrice last night (with me at a totally inappropriate low level), and then its corpse drew a giant wolf and a horde of angry monsters and she pulled us through again. I was really glad we got out of there alive so that I could rate her before sending her home.

Wow, someone actually rented my pawn and it did well :unsmith:

On another note, I ran into the first chained gorecyclops and while I figured I should avoid it, and the pawns kept warning me, one of them attacked it gung ho and I almost got one-shotted, even at level 62 with Everfall gear.

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

Lakbay posted:

Wow, someone actually rented my pawn and it did well :unsmith:

On another note, I ran into the first chained gorecyclops and while I figured I should avoid it, and the pawns kept warning me, one of them attacked it gung ho and I almost got one-shotted, even at level 62 with Everfall gear.

That fight is really points out the shortcomings of the pawn system. I kept having to revive everyone, and I wanted to yell "If you climb these stairs before casting spells, things will work out much better!"

Eddain
May 6, 2007
Is there a consensus on which vendor is the best to give the Gold Idol too? I know all of them get different inventories with different idols, but I'm mostly focusing on physical damage and not much spellcasting or armor. Is there a vendor who gets items that can't be found anywhere else?

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

Well, I've nearly finished getting every vocation to max level. Just Magick Archer left now. Soon I shall be able to set myself on fire at will.

Jumped out of Bitterblack for a while to get back to the postgame and dragonforge a few things. Once you know what you're doing and have a portcrystal network set up, it really doesn't take very long. Picked up a few more Wakestones just in case.

I don't know if anybody else knew this (I didn't), but the Magick Knight can set up a crazy combo with Ruinous Sigil and Heavy Cannon, or whatever the top level of those is. You set up your sigil(s), stick the cannon(s) on top, and every time some fool trips the sigil, the cannon fires off too. Was standing in that place where there's infintie baddies spawning in the postgame, just putting sigils and three cannons down. Had some crazy-rear end slowdown, and it was hilarious. Lightning and baddies flying all over the place. It was very pretty. :allears:

Anyway, even at Level 100+, Bitterblack Isle is still quite challenging since my Vocation is at level 3 or so and I haven't got many skills yet. I'm kind of tempted to just bust out Assassin and go hog wild every so often. gently caress the Elder, uh, thing that likes women. Forgot his name.

Oh, while I remember, where do you get Moonbeam Gems or whatever they're called? I found one in one of the rest places, are they in set locations or are they random loot?

McDragon fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Apr 27, 2013

Azaael
Jan 15, 2013

Coffee?
Awesome room again here. Reminds me for every bullshit fight there's a few amazing ones.

Room again with the 2 Gorecyclopses and Sirens and I think some other thing, and this time, 2 Eliminators. So I shot down the Sirens easily and plugged the Eliminators with a few arrows as I pondered my next move, how to lure the Eliminators to the hall without one of my pawns whacking a cyclops. Then I remembered enemies fought each other. A few arrows to the thing's helm later and I'm watching the cage match from above. The Cyclops won, though I did weaken the Eliminators a bit. But given that the 'clops still had about 4 of his lifebars after the Garms spawned(which, of course I let in on the cage match as well-he killed one of them, but the other two escaped and I killed them.

Holy poo poo that was good times.

I hate that drat resilient Drake though. Ugh. More like 'made so you get to hack at the thing forever unless you happen to have some element which I think is lightning or ice.' It died, but jesus.

apocrypha
Mar 1, 2009

Eddain posted:

Is there a consensus on which vendor is the best to give the Gold Idol too? I know all of them get different inventories with different idols, but I'm mostly focusing on physical damage and not much spellcasting or armor. Is there a vendor who gets items that can't be found anywhere else?

Yeah, if you want weapons for physically-centered classes, you choose the blacksmith, and if you want magically-centered and female-only items, you choose the lady. Make sure you make a forgery of the idol before you turn it in so you can still have the shop discount.

Hackan Slash posted:

That fight is really points out the shortcomings of the pawn system. I kept having to revive everyone, and I wanted to yell "If you climb these stairs before casting spells, things will work out much better!"
yes. The pawns are very dumb around those things sometimes. Mine usually start climbing up onto it and smashing their helmet until it wakes up and starts wrecking everything.

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

You know, I didn't realise just how much I missed having a bunch of meatheads shouting about aught and getting soaked and chopping off tails until I got back into this today. I love these stupid Pawns.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+. I mean, they're not available up front, but once the quests activate? Regardless I've already gotten anything I could want out of Caxton the first time so our favorite traveling saleswoman gets it this time.

edit: Did Dark Arisen take the ogre out of the Everfall? I've gone there twice trying to farm Ogre Spurs for upgrading and he's not there...

That Fucking Sned
Oct 28, 2010

Torabi posted:

I've taken a few of my own screenshots but I can't get them out of my PS3. The game doesn't have any ingame upload feature does it? My PS3 refuses to detect my USB that works fine on my pc.

The PS3 needs the USB device to be FAT or FAT32 to support it. Most recent SD cards and USB sticks use NTFS to get around the 4GB file size limit.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Lotish posted:

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+. I mean, they're not available up front, but once the quests activate? Regardless I've already gotten anything I could want out of Caxton the first time so our favorite traveling saleswoman gets it this time.

edit: Did Dark Arisen take the ogre out of the Everfall? I've gone there twice trying to farm Ogre Spurs for upgrading and he's not there...

Nope. He was there when I went in(he killed himself while I was running around dodging eye stalks).

Anyone have a list of what stuff Reset/Instant Reset works on? I know it can cancel the lantern on/off animation, and some stun animations.

see you tomorrow
Jun 27, 2009

Lotish posted:

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+. I mean, they're not available up front, but once the quests activate? Regardless I've already gotten anything I could want out of Caxton the first time so our favorite traveling saleswoman gets it this time.

edit: Did Dark Arisen take the ogre out of the Everfall? I've gone there twice trying to farm Ogre Spurs for upgrading and he's not there...

You might try looking for ogres near the abbey in that dead forest.

Rascyc
Jan 23, 2008

Dissatisfied Puppy
I swear they've made griffins way more common now in the main game.

Lotish posted:

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+. I mean, they're not available up front, but once the quests activate? Regardless I've already gotten anything I could want out of Caxton the first time so our favorite traveling saleswoman gets it this time.

edit: Did Dark Arisen take the ogre out of the Everfall? I've gone there twice trying to farm Ogre Spurs for upgrading and he's not there...
He was there when I fought him. Fell down after swinging his hand once. Lots of ogres in the first time through mines though, and usually at least one or two in the catacombs as well.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Azaael posted:

I hate that drat resilient Drake though. Ugh. More like 'made so you get to hack at the thing forever unless you happen to have some element which I think is lightning or ice.' It died, but jesus.

Just wait until your 2nd clear of BBI after you beat the final boss. Drakes, wyverns and wyrms must have insane defense and/or hp because I can barely scratch them even using the proper element and hitting their weak spot. Then again, maybe this is because I am a MK instead of an Assassin.

apocrypha
Mar 1, 2009

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Just wait until your 2nd clear of BBI after you beat the final boss. Drakes, wyverns and wyrms must have insane defense and/or hp because I can barely scratch them even using the proper element. Then again, maybe this is because I am a MK instead of an Assassin.

No, those things have disgusting amounts of HP and defense. Dire gouge as an Assassin with an enchantment on still takes forever to kill them with, especially when they decide they want to spend all day shaking around. My character is more geared to MK, though. Maybe not having 800 strength is why.

Lotish posted:

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+.

As far as I've noticed, the new inventory from the idol is available as soon as you get to Gran Soren, so giving the idol to the person you didn't give it to the first time will always be better.

Boar It
Jul 29, 2011

Mesmerizing eyebrows is my specialty

That loving Sned posted:

The PS3 needs the USB device to be FAT or FAT32 to support it. Most recent SD cards and USB sticks use NTFS to get around the 4GB file size limit.

I only have a 16gb USB. I'd rather not turn it into the FAT format. Welp.

Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
So in my first playthrough I don't think I ever killed the dragon in Devilfire Grove or whatever. I'm definitely doing it this time. What do you guys think I should do to prepare? I'm like level 35, on a jaunt as a sorcerer because I did poo poo for damage as Magic Archer.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Lotish posted:

One thing I don't remember is if the effects of giving the idols carry over to NG+. I mean, they're not available up front, but once the quests activate? Regardless I've already gotten anything I could want out of Caxton the first time so our favorite traveling saleswoman gets it this time.

The effects of the idols do carry over, so at the end of NG+ you should be able to have both Caxton and Madeline with their best inventories.

The other thing that carries over is people's affection levels, which makes random people falling in love with you even easier the second time around.

Ugh, I have to remember that even though I've played this game a whole shitload, it doesn't make me invincible. I thought I could get one more spell off, but that last cyclops with a sliver of health decided that he'd had enough of my poo poo and flattened me:fuckoff:. Hooray, time to restart the clearing of the Shadowfort from the beginning.

Rascyc
Jan 23, 2008

Dissatisfied Puppy
Man why would you ever want to turn in the blessed flower quest. Double experience forever?

[e]Oh it rotted :(

Emong
May 31, 2011

perpair to be annihilated


Rascyc posted:

Man why would you ever want to turn in the blessed flower quest. Double experience forever?

[e]Oh it rotted :(

Could you preserve it like other items that rot?

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
The Elite Lantern is loving awesome. It really helps out in the deeper levels of Bitterblack. If anybody wants a dupe of it, let me know, it's SOO useful.

Smarmy Coworker
May 10, 2008

by XyloJW
The Black Cat guy apparently sells infinite ferrystones right from the start. Do I need more than one or do they have infinite uses? please help i am terrible

Also I fought the drake when I was level 25 and knocked it down 2 health orbs before being completely destroyed :( I wanna be buff

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

I am so tired... I am so tired all the time...
Oh man, how I missed being a Warrior. Being able to mine things by hitting veins with a giant fuckoff hammer is just too good.

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Nahxela
Oct 11, 2008

Execution

ARACHNOTRON posted:

The Black Cat guy apparently sells infinite ferrystones right from the start. Do I need more than one or do they have infinite uses? please help i am terrible

Also I fought the drake when I was level 25 and knocked it down 2 health orbs before being completely destroyed :( I wanna be buff
They're consumable, unless you got the vanilla Dragon's Dogma save file bonus. You can pick them up from various chests, too.

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