>>2701717
i played it for 10 minutes and it's just another devil may cry clone,why bother

>2701718
That's a good laugh.
>>>/v/

>>2701717
I played this game so much on the ps3 during college I actually hate it now. Just hearing the OST makes me sick.

>>2701717
Sorcerer

>>2701717
My personal favorite is ranger for pawns.
Hitting shit with the force and precision of laser-guided missiles can be an absolute boon for some encounters.

I mostly play as assassin/strider/ranger (i'm a basic bitch, ik) so i like my pawn not to have any use for arrows so i can use them as a walking ammo crate, so that puts 2 of the 6 vocations available to them out of question. I don't seem to be able to make a warrior pawn work so i tend to ingnore that vocation too. The other 3 work just fine for me, depends what i need done :)

Some bullshit, how do I beat Daimon’s awakened form?

>>2702034
Depends entirely on your vocation.

>>2701792
I find Pawn work best as buffer caster or fighter/tank

>>2702034
eat your periapts

>>2701717
Fighter/Ranger or either of the blue classes

Whirlwind Blade or Intiminate Stab + Downward Stab. Also I want to run sword and shield but I can't trust my pawn with bows

>>2701789
That's how I set up, plus giving them a ton of knockback gear and rusty daggers is top tier.

I wish their climbing AI wasn't a joke so I could shield launch tiny waifus as a warrior with better melee setups.

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>put male rental pawn in a dress so I can speak to the female bandit leader
>all his actual equipment goes away
well, I hope his owner has a good sense of humor

>>2708041
they don't lose their equipment permanently, you're in the clear
they'll just get back their pawn with a bonus frilly dress and be left wondering whether you violated his pretty princess hole or not

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just finished deny salvation, where can I get equipment that's better than what caxton sells?
i feel like I'm falling a little behind the curve

>>2701717
I have a Lore to my RPG MC's so my companion's at least one must be a Archer

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>6 cockatrices killed
>0 beaks dropped

>>2708338
Capcoom can't stop Moonster Hoonting.

Who is your beloved?

Got molested by Fournival.

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>>2708355
>feed Mercedes cloudwine until she gets all ripe and chubby
>give flowers to Quina and chosen ring until they start coming out of her ass
>give magic medals to Madeline till her tits start sagging
>fuck off and do some shit on BB-Isle
>fight dragon
>my beloved is some random knight I revived during deny salvation

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>>2708355
"May the Maker ever be your shield."

>>2708355
The first time I played it, before I even understood the mechanic or anything, I got Selene. Can you imagine? A little girl as the Arisen's beloved haha. I mean, who would want a shy immortal little girl as their wife for eternity?

>>2701717
strider with a strider pawn is fun, I think it learns how to climb on monsters better by seeing you do it.
double sorcerer is great too for chaining spells.

Yes I play Warrior and yes I have problem with flying foes.

>>2701717
Tank-spec Fighter, buff-spec Mage, and almost any sort of Ranger.
Tank-spec Fighter and buff-spec Mage are both tedious to play for an Arisen but the AI handles the roles well when their inclinations are in the right order. Tank Fighter is just a weaker Mystic Knight and you know why buff-spec Mage sucks to play.
Ranger over Strider because the AI can't really take advantage of climbing and all the little tricks of Strider the same way the player can but they're certainly good little aimbots that can kill just about any distant issue while you're worried about the big guys.

Fighter: Mitigator/Utilitarian/Pioneer. Utilitarian makes them spam Shield Drum and Pioneer encourages them to be the first thing the enemy sees. Don't give them Scather as it highly encourages climbing and Fighter is shit while climbing. Don't give them Dragon's Maw because they'll waste all their stamina 5 seconds into a fight.
Mage: Utilitarian/Medicant/Challenger. Keep Medicant secondary or the Mage will mindlessly interrupt buffs or attacks to start casting heals when you've taken scratch damage.
Ranger: Challenger/Nexus/Acquisitor. This gives your Ranger three roles: kill mages and archers, carry other downed pawns to you, and collect loot from those mages and archers they kill quickly before it disappears while you're killing the big boys.

>>2708617
>he doesn't start throwing people around as soon as they blush at you

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>>2708828
>mfw charging stone forest while some cunt flies overhead

>>2708617
That would be based, were he not french.
Nah Julien is still based, the she-goat slayer.

>>2708640
HOLY BASED

>>2708041

The pawn dosent lose equipment when they return, its still there, the system just "vanishes" the itens for the people who hied the pawn to prevent stuff like item duplication and exploits.

>>2708747
>pawns learning
Stop this meme, it's not a thing. Pawn actions and efficacy are based on inclination, equipped skills, and vocation.

>>2702034
>set yourself on fire
>stab his legs

>>2702034
If you just want to farm him and not beat him legit? Get blade arrows and Conqueror’s Periapts, eat 4 periapts and keep spamming tenfold/fourfold arrow special moves until he croaks.

>>2710907
pawns do in fact learn. I had to retrain my Sorcerer pawn after they relearned Scather and Guardian while I was playing Strider.

>>2711511
I think he means the "monkey see monkey do" stuff pawns *supposedly* do (like allegedly casting certain spells more often on certain enemies even if it's not their weakness if they see the player doing it), not that they can naturally shift inclinations according to your actions

The romance with the duchess is so badly handled.

>>2702034
hit him until he dies.
oh, do you men how to beat him without dying of boredom? just eat a bunch of periapts.
I love daimons first form but awakened daimon is just cancer without using cheese.

>>2713094
that's what happens when 2/3rds of the game get cut, all the important story beats ripped out and then the director has to leave to babysit someone that's currently strangling his baby

>>2710907
Your behavior can also affect their behavior if inclinations and augments don't interfere with it. Why do you think you see mage pawns climbing constantly?

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Just started playing this game for the first time a few days ago. The combat is pretty fun but I find it challenging against anything that isn't a goblin. Bandits do a lot of damage and I have to keep reviving my party members mid-combat against them. I'm not surprised that Rook and my other pawn (I forgot her name, just some skank I picked up) would die a lot since they're a low level but my main pawn still gets downed frequently despite me giving him the best gear I can get. I'm playing as a fighter and my main pawn is a mage.

Is there some trick to combat I'm missing or are bandits just strong as hell? I just escorted Quina out of the witchwood for a reference to how far I am in the game. I don't usually play JRPGs and ARPGs, I'm more of a CRPG guy, so I'm assuming there's some basic knowledge about these games I don't have and it's filtering me.

>>2714652
Bandits are a huge casual filter at that stage of the game, it happens to all of us

>>2714652
Mage are exceptional squishy in this game and pawns often don't know how to run away from enemies. Listen to your pawn advice, those bandit kinda over leveled at the start, plus they rely on overwhelm you with number so try to isolate and kill them one by one. Blocking is good way to make them easier to kill since they need time to recover after failed strike

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>climb onto Griffin's head
>spam light attack repeatedly until it dies

Huh, that was easy.

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>>2714652
What the fuck, I had no idea this song was in the original game. I've only been playing Dark Arisen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNbabKjKpA
Just hearing this makes me want to play the game even if it filters me. Why isn't it in the new version?
Anyways I've made it a bit further into the game, now I'm getting fucked by that big monster in the spiral stone thing beneath the Pawn Guild. Does the game want certain quests to be completed in a certain order or do I just have to grind to get stronger? I have no idea when I'm strong enough to take on a new enemy or not.

>>2715713
You suppose to avoid the big ogre and the thing is pretty dumb that it usually jump of the cliff. Once you reach the bottom, you will face a bunch of tentacles, listen to your pawn and get the fuck out of there.

>>2715713
>now I'm getting fucked by that big monster in the spiral stone thing beneath the Pawn Guild
Ogres are fucking hell when starting out with their high defenses. If you have a mage/sorc in your party with Comestion, it has a high enough base damage to punch through and do some decent damage regardless of level.
>I have no idea when I'm strong enough to take on a new enemy or not.
Just have to decide that for yourself.
With how often the pawns spew out that "There's no shame in fleeing" line unprovoked, I assume they expected that it would be a decision made somewhat often.

>>2708355
Feste

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>>2708355
I hated her son to the point where I had to fuk his mom once to properly express it.

>>2713893
when I first saw fulmination I thought it was going to be electric immolation
what a disappointment

>>2715713
>Why isn't it in the new version?
capcom didn't want to pay for the rights to it since it's straight up a random song from a j-rock band

>>2715713
>I'm getting fucked by that big monster in the spiral stone thing beneath the Pawn Guild
that's the part of the game where you're supposed to learn that you might not be able to fight every enemy you come across
i mean, the pawns start begging for you to flee at that point and the quest indicator points to the exit

>>2716292
I think he meant the ogre

>>2708617
You are either bullshiting or misremembering. When you gift the ring to someone that persone gets locked in as your beloved no mater what.

>>2716929
false, it just maxes out their affection
if you max someone else afterwards you could get them instead due to belived priority and affinity decay

>>2717329
>if you max someone else afterwards you could get them instead due to belived priority and affinity decay
I've already tested this and thats not true. The ring locks in the beloved.

>>2717329
It doesn't make sense since the dragon drop the Arisen Bond if you gave it to your beloved.

>>2717415
It doesn't.
What was your test even?

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>>2718175

>>2701789
Why not ranged Strider? Is it so hard to restrict them to use only (or at least mostly) bows instead of daggers?

>>2718386
Strider has way worse bow skills than Ranger.
Strider shines with the dagger.

>>2718427
I haven't considered anything else as I thought the Striders' OP reputation stems from both. Are you saying I should pick a Ranger as my Main Pawn / 4th member to my party (MK Arisen/Rook/Tank-Block Fighter) instead?
Alternatively, Ranger + Dagger-only Strider instead of the Fighter? I'm not that comfortable with this as my Arisen would be the only (quasi-)tank in the line-up, but I see a chance that the increased DPS might make up for it.

>>2718435
>I thought the Striders' OP reputation stems from both
Nah, that's mostly attributed to Skull Splitter's retarded damage output.
You only really need a Fighter/Stam. Hammer Warrior drawing aggro if you have a bunch of casters. MK, Ranger, and Strider don't particularly benefit from enemies targeting someone else.
In fact, it would be somewhat detrimental to MK to have shit attacking other people, since you want to be parrying attacks constantly with it.

>>2718169
Gave the ring to Quina then went to max out Aelinore's affinity by gifting her a ton of the flowers she likes and completing her final quest.
In the end still got Quina.

>>2718657
>gave ring to Mercedes
>did Aeliwhore's quest
>bought a mag cloak off Fourni before I pushed for NG+
>get Frescobaldi
Maybe you threw the slut around too much while escorting her out of the manse or something.

>>2718427
>Strider has way worse bow skills than Ranger.
>fracture dart
>downpour volley
lmoa

>>2716287
B'z is ridiculously popular and the song was pretty much made for Dragon's Dogma (although remade from a single released back in 1998).

But yes, licensing fees are a bitch.

>>2718674
Eh, Fracture hits hard, but it can be a bitch to use indoors, and pawns can't even tell if they're fucking up their shots.
Downpour's not bad, just solid.
Tenfold can be fired off way more rapidly, and its "piercing" when something dies and the remaining arrows pass through, helps with multiple targets.
Deathly Arrow (especially Reaper's) is way better at punching through high defense, and Strider doesn't have anything that can nuke like Gamble.

>>2718703
>although remade from a single released back in 1998
Which one?

>>2718731
It's a honorary "RPG". A game to spite Fromshitters.

>>2718629
Thanks for the input! Honestly, "only" MK Arisen and Rook are given but I'm kinda sold on the Tank/Blocker Fighter too. (Maybe a sturdy Warrior could replace it? I dunno.) Which leaves me one slot for a ranged, physical DPS class.
I'm looking for synergy and versatility (I want to complete the game w/ this team), plus I wouldn't mind if the AI could perform decently on it's own. One last question: what pawn (class/role) would you recommend for the party above?

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I mean I like souls games. As much as I like 2d igavanias.


But I hope they pour some love in DD2 and actually finish its mechanics now, from quests to romance to side shit, just to have an action alternative to TES games, its not even safe that we will have a decent TES6 so DD2 could become a nice stable franchise. Even if less mod intensive, but I dont trust bethesda with modding anymore.


I mean RE engine can you even imagine the bikini armor mods for it? It will be great.

>>2701718
Don't be rude.

Why do hired pawns suck so much? Am I not using them properly? Having to get new ones every several level ups is annoying as well.

>>2719786
That's just the way it is imho. For online pawns it's the lack of knowledge and effort from most owners, for offline ones the semi-random nature of the system that generates them. Finding proper pawns take time and dedication.

>>2719786
Be more picky when hiring.

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>>2701717
top three pawns imo:
1- strider with brain splitter and hailstorm volley
2- ranger with only Tenfold Flurry
3- fighter with only dragon's maw

Sorcerer would be GOAT if there was a reliable way to make your pawn spam focused bolts.

>>2701718
You're a fucking idiot, it's nothing like DMC.

>>2702034
If you're using a ranger or magick archer, stagger him by shooting him in the chest-face with six or nine fold arrows as MA or your ten fold as ranger after eating demon (MA) or conqueror (ranger) periapts. Use magic rebalancer as MA as well. Dodge roll the big magic arm sweeps and the ground targeted spells. Make sure to run directly away and yell "come" when he does the vortex, when your pawns are no longer being drawn in, shoot him while he's channeling and recovering from the vortex. Use liquid vim liberally in the fight.

>>2708249
Who did you give the golden idol to?

>>2708355
I have both the witch and the duchess in my house.

>>2720658
madeleine since I didn't even know about different idols at the time and just handed him a bronze one
I'm also at BBI now, lol

>>2715713
That was the title song in the original release.

>>2718731
Dragon's Dogma and DMC are completely different, stop posting.

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>>2718731
>if it doesn't have turn based combat it's not an RPG

>>2720566
>Sorcerer would be GOAT if
But does it crack top3 if there's another Sorc in the party and thus Spell Syncing? What if the second Sorc is the Arisen?

>>2721386
I love spell syncing while playing as a sorcerer, because it's one step away from having direct control over a pawn.
As long as their inclinations make them prioritize it anyway.

>>2702034
>sorcerer, mage, MK
Holy focused bolt+periapts
>strider, ranger, assassin
Fivefold/tenfold +periapts
Use the time he moves to cast his vortex to climb him and use hundred kisses on his face

>fighter
Get 2 bloody knuckles and spam shield slam (whatever the skill name is)

>warrior
Choose another class

>magick archer
Stack magick rebalancer 4 times and use normal attacks on him, easiest vocation to beat Daimon. MA>>all

>>2701789
Works best when you level up main pawn to 40 in warrior. Maximum atk boost. My double FF, chocolate skinned six foot goddess hits like a a double stacked ICBM.

>>2718751
I would imagine both fanbases have a large overlap.
I like both, anyway.

>>2701717
S tier:
>Strider with rusted bow which could almost be considered an exploit for how good it is
>Fighter with only dragon's maw
A tier:
>Mage. Boring but it's useful as a buff monkey and healing some chip damage for free.
>Sorcerer that matches your PC sorcerer. It's just there as a charger.
B tier:
>Everything else except otherwise listed. You'll never get them to do your DPS strategy consistently like getting a ranger to consistently spam tenfold flurry on a weak point.
C tier:
>Sorcerer when you're not a sorcerer. You have to purposely gimp its skills to get the casts out in time.
D tier:
>Sorcerer with its "upgraded" magic, because it takes too long
>Warrior. Can't spam jumping attacks like you can and gets outclassed in every way by a fighter pawn.
F tier:
>Sorcerer with those grand magic rings. Just trash em holy shit.
People ignore the fighter pawns but their AI is busted and they perfect guard 99% of attacks so they're knockdown machines that are also invincible to physical damage due to the defense formula favoring core stats. They're only pawns that can solo 13 eliminators at once.

>>2719786
Look at their skills first to determine if the player is using them correctly or not. So, like for example, if it's a fighter with shield drum, it's fucking garbage and you can skip it.

>>2701717
What's the best height & weight for each Vocations? Is there any good reason to go below Med/Med? Besides making lolis ofc.

I'm aware of the theoretical side (Stamina and Carry Weight tables, Goblin holes etc.), I'm talking about strictly practical, in-game use here.

>>2718657
I gave my ring to Mercedes and got Aelinore (after being told the ring locks it in as well) just 4 days ago, so it's a common misconception I guess. A single attempt doesn't constitute a 'test' anon.

How would you fix warrior? Giving them 6 skill slot like mages or giving them some kind of limited range attack to deal with flyers?

is there any point to getting the ur-dragon weapons?

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I have an absolutely obscene ammount of wyvern tears
they just don't stop dropping

>>2724100
they look cool and they are the highest tier weapon you can gift away

>>2724078
>some kind of limited range attack to deal with flyers
This shit really caught me off-guard. I couldn't believe fighters can't do a damn thing against flyers. I thought I was missing something obvious.

>>2701717
Sorcerer for sync casting shenanigans if you're also playing a Sorcerer yourself. If you're playing anything but a Sorcerer, just have a Mage for support and otherwise Strider.

>>2724911
Fighter technically have that sword swing upward that can deal with flyers if they got close enough, also useful to try to poke at the monster above you. Warrior have no such thing.

>>2724977
Right, though that's highly situational and has pre-requirements out of your control. More than nothing, but just barely. Why couldn't we have gotten something like a Pilum?

>Warrior have no such thing.
Warriors in nutshell, huh? It seems they always get the short end of the stick in DD. I never played one due to their bad rep, but I'm still looking for a Pawn build who's only aim is to maximise the class' potential.

>>2725493
The game is balance around the fact that one class can't do everything and that you need other classes to balance out. The problem is that the A.I not the brightest and can't aim for shit to try to take down flying foes. The worst enemeies probably the Iron Golem which made melee classes useless while mages can't do shit

>>2725750
magick/great cannon has a physical component, allowing it to damage metal golem medals
:)

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>>2725750
>The game is balance around the fact that one class can't do everything

>>2724100
Some of them are good, like Heaven's Keys.

Mods for unfucking warrior?

>>2726570
You have 4 skills, stop whining.

The worst thing about warrior is that you are incredible slow and clunky looking.

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what warrior should've been
anti-action fags be damned

>>2726646
Yeah, take all the weight out of warrior weapons.

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BBI is fun until you kill daimon for the first time

>>2719786
Pay attention to their Inclinations, anon.
If you take a pawn who has, for example, Guardian/Scather (Protecc you / Go after strongest enemy), they'll constantly be running back and forth, unable to make up their mind.

Also as another anon said, pay attention to their skill loadout.

>>2710907
Your main pawn's Inclinations will drift based on your commands, your behavior and hired pawns' actions.

Damn frustrating when you get your pawn perfectly trained, and then they pick up bad habits which you have to get rid of by spending RC on elixirs...

>>2724078
Give them a grappling hook

I just want a pawn who can tank AND not a fighter for the sake of variety. Simple as.

I'm thinking of getting back into DD, I want to main Mystic Knight but I can't decide whether to have a strider pawn using meme splitter or a sorcerer pawn with fulmination.

>>2727706
in my experience sorcerer pawns are better as long as you bring min 2 of them with ya

>>2727103
just level it up to 200 as fighter for the physical defense then make it a warrior with dual ogre bones or some shit :^)

>>2728881
Eh, I'm not against vocation-dipping but this is some Scooby Doo shit. Appreciate the effort regardless. Is there absolutely no way to turn a pure Warrior into a decent tank? Or at worst a 50-50% Warrior/Fighter hybrid?

>>2728934
warriors are actually halfway decent tanks due to their innate stagger resistance when attacking
just give it fast attacks aka forget the arcs give him ogre bones and heavy armor
or give him baleful nails, eliminator gear and an iraklis with indomitable lunge for max memes

>>2729042
Thanks for the concrete tips! It's weird how Warrior doesn't have a "best" build (like Fighter with only Dragon's Maw) by now. I guess it's not just about the builds themselves but how effectively the AI can use them.

>>2701717
I hope they tone down the item spam bullshit in 2.

>>2730505
This.
Being able to tank any kind of damage, short of a one-shot, by shitting all over the flow of a fight is one of the weakest aspects of the combat.

>>2701717
I don't know about you guys, but I like carrying my pawn everywhere I go. I rp that they're disabled.

Any mods i should get?

>>2732015
Some QoL mod like longer enhance time(so you don't have to recast buff spell that often) help, especially for classes like Mystic Knight

>>2732015
into free title screen, obviously
the one from reddit since nexus has shit audio quality

>>2730505
they probably will since that was one of thevmain complaints about the first game

Are you able to go full Ghadaffi mode and bang your army of hot lady bodyguard pawns?

>>2736679
there's one guy that we know of that wanted to bang his pawn
things didn't turn out great for him

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Is there any cape that beats beastly mantle at being peak /fa/?

>>2738288
Sovereign mantle

>>2738288
Scholar's Cape
>dapper as fuck
>gold trimmings
>doesn't cover your entire back