Dragon's Dogma on PC :-)

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I thoroughly played and enjoyed DDA on the 360, what must be two years ago or so by now. An open-world fantasy game that was a cross between Skyrim (sandbox, adventuring, companions) and Dark Souls (challenging monsters and boss fights and errr....darkness!). I and many others lamented the lack of a PC version and the firm "Not happening" from Capcom.

Fast forward till today and I have the PC version installed and working...and even managed to convert my 360 save so it's the same character and progress. Now I've slammed Capcom as much as the next man...they've made some really shitty business decisions over the years, along with releasing awful PC ports, often of sub-par console games. But bringing DDA to PC was a great move...even if it is a couple of years late.

I haven't spent a great deal of time with it as of yet, just enough to get a feel for the gameplay and remember the controls. First, everything from the Dark Arisen version of the game is there. Everything. Second, it's running at 60FPS...it looks so weird to see it. It's so much smoother and crisper that it almost looks like a different game. The graphics are fine and it has a host of customisable options, including full keyboard/mouse mapping.

But then I was surprised to find some really nice touches. The first and most important, an FoV slider. This single feature can probably be used as the gage between a good port and a bad port (the presence thereof). It is most welcome and frankly, I wasn't holding out a hope that it would be there. Second, there's an option to disable Pawn chatter. Arguably, some "in between" options would have been okay too, but even just a binary on/off is great. No more "Go for the tail!" and other nonsense...it got so bad on the 360, I threw my pawn into the Brine just to make her stop talking.

Slightly disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, the so called "Hard Mode" is the same disaster it was on the 360. It, along with NG+ just weren't thought out well. There is no scaling of any kind, NG+ is precisely the same as the first playthru, except that the player is level 100 with great gear, so everything is too easy. Hard Mode just makes the player use more stamina, which makes combat a chore, and more damage...but badly implemented. It's a flat damage increase to everything which means tough bosses and monsters are barely any more powerful, while the lowliest creatures can now two shot a player with cheap, unavoidable hits. Not to mention Hard Mode gives double experience and discipline points and heaps of gold and rift crystals...all of which make the game easier, not harder. Oh, and Pawns get no penalties in Hard Mode at all, so your main pawn basically just levels at double speed. A shame; I'd even take Oblivion style crazy scaling over the complete lack of it in DDA.

Has anyone else been playing it, or bought it? What are your thoughts on the game or the port of it? Did you enjoy the original? Hopefully, now it's on PC maybe there will be some enterprising modders who can add more content, challenge or whatever

 

[DementedSheep]

I'm enjoying it so far (fighting the griffin through the tower was pretty epic) but I do have some problems with it.

I started on Hard mode and already feel over levelled for everything (which is the opposite of what I wanted) and my pawn is OP. Dose NG+ not scale enemies up? It's not uncommon for NG+ to be easier than NG (DS has this problem as well) but if it's literally the same then that is terrible.

I played DD: Online before this, I'm glad to see the boss battles are much much better than in that. In DD:O you can spend almost an entire fight on a Cyclops face stabbing it in the eye and it can't do shit to you. The only attack that can hurt you if you're in the right place is a roar which has big flashing red symbol to tell you when it's coming. If you're playing a seeker you don't even have touch the ground. You just jump off when it roars and grappling hook back on to it's face immediately. You don't have the stamina drain either so you can stay on indefinitely. It's pathetic. In this they actually pull you off. Although I want to smack whoever thought it would good idea to have a boss that just fucks off in the middle of a fight. No one likes having a dragon they spent the last 15 minutes killing fly off and not come back. At least with the griffins you can set their wings on fire.

You can sit you pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

This is a minor quibble but I'm getting real sick of the words "pray" and "aught". I also would have preferred they put so simple dialogue options in some places. Especially with the duchess that they seem to want you to get with. I have no interest in fucking her, I just don't like missing side quests.

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The scene with her getting strangled by the duke was stupid.
*Face like you heard some shocking gossip*
"Oh no! he's killing her!"
*the sound of the duke screaming "I'm sorry" and choking noises*
"I should probably do something..."
*choking noises continues while the duke screams "LENORE"*
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"Oh I know!" *Walks up to him and uses disapproving stare!*
Then Aelinore dicks you over and when you break out of jail no one gives a shit that any of this even happened

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I'm enjoying it so far (fighting the griffin through the tower was pretty epic) but I do have some problems with it.

I started on Hard mode and already feel over levelled for everything (which is the opposite of what I wanted) and my pawn is OP. Dose NG+ not scale enemies up? It's not uncommon for NG+ to be easier than NG (DS has this problem as well) but if it's literally the same then that is terrible.

The Hard Mode just wasn't well thought out IMO, even from it's earliest console iteration. The damage increase significantly affects the weakest enemies like wolves and bats, while barely affecting the largest monsters or bosses. Bats usually appear out of nowhere and get 2-3 light hits in before the player can do anything...now these 2-3 hits can kill a new player. Giving Double XP/DP and all the gold and RC was silly. The point of Hard Mode is to play the same game but with greater challenge and giving double XP makes the game *easier*, not harder. The increased stamina drain prolongs fights, sure, but it doesn't make them harder, just longer. There are no extra enemies, extra attacks, the AI isn't smarter and they die just the same. And the stamina drain/incoming damage increases don't affect pawns, only the PC, so your main Pawn in HM gets double XP and DP with no penalties at all.

Another stupid change in HM is that staggering is less effective against enemies. This is also a stupid change since the warrior/fighter classes depend on stagger frequently as part of their play style. The change doesn't affect me in any way, since I'm not a fighter, but it does hamstring players that are. It's like the hamfisted difficulty levels in Mass Effect 2. After Veteran, they gave armour to enemies that didn't have it on Vet or lower. So for most classes, it means having to do more damage first. But it cripples Adepts and Vanguards f.ex who use biotics since they don't work against targets with armour. Badly thought out, silly implementation.

As for NG+, certainly on the console there were no changes between it and NG. The player keeps all their skills, gear, gold/RC, DPs, augments, etc and only quest progress is reset back to the start. The post-dragon stuff and BBI is still challenging, but the main story and areas are the same. You begin the game again in cassardis, but this time when you walk out the village doors you're 80-100 levels higher than the first time with all the augments. Now I don't have an issue with this, that is the whole point of NG+. But the enemies are the same, they aren't any harder than they were, which trivialises almost everything. I'll admit it was fun to stomp those bandits near the camp where you first meet your Pawn, but apart from that, I really wish they could present a challenge. I want to play my character with his toys, gears and spells, but I don't want God Mode.

You can sit you pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

I didn't know the speech rate could be changed at the chair, or at least can't remember it. But with an option to disable it outright, it fixes the problem just as neatly.

I expect it won't solve the problem of people having Pawns with Guardian or Nexus inclinations. o.o For the love of all that's Holy, please people, don't have those inclinations, ever.

I did think it very clever that our main Pawn would learn from watching other player's summoned pawns. Taking them to a certain place, performing a particular move on a specific enemy, very cleverly done. There's so much nuance in the game which makes each character somewhat unique and I think Capcom did that part right, particularly considering an open-world RPG is so far removed from their normal games.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I've seen some footage/reviews of it. Looks...pretty scruffy/dated. Graphics are ugly, animations are bad, lip-syncing in particularly is hilariously budget. Doesn't seem like there's any storytelling or interesting world building to speak of. The combat is considered strong, but doesn't that make it sort of a naff Dark Souls? Like, Dark Souls without all the atmospherics and mise-en-scene? So, like, without all the good bits?

I'm confused. I guess I don't really understand who this game is for.

 

[DementedSheep]

You can sit your pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

I didn't know the speech rate could be changed at the chair, or at least can't remember it. But with an option to disable it outright, it fixes the problem just as neatly.

Problem with disabling it in the options is I don't want pawns to never talk, I quite like the fact that they talk and will sometime tell me about weakness I don't know that they learn't from someone who rented them. I just don't want them to be talking constantly.
I think it was in the console version but the phrasing for the option to change it is a bit awkward. They say "I try to speak or remain silent as the situation demands. Would you have me continue in this way, Master?" Saying no lowers the speech rate a notch.

 

[LetalisK]

You can sit your pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

I didn't know the speech rate could be changed at the chair, or at least can't remember it. But with an option to disable it outright, it fixes the problem just as neatly.

Problem with disabling it in the options is I don't want pawns to never talk, I quite like the fact that they talk and will sometime tell me about weakness I don't know that they learn't from someone who rented them. I just don't want them to be talking constantly.
I think it was in the console version but the phrasing for the option to change it is a bit awkward. They say "I try to speak or remain silent as the situation demands. Would you have me continue in this way, Master?" Saying no lowers the speech rate a notch.

Wait, your pawns actually get rented? Mine never gets rented and she is a bomb ass healer.

 

[1-800-STFU]

I'm enjoying it but less so the more I progress. I'm level 35 and found the black matter hammer while wandering around randomly and now I'm just tremendously overpowered and wrecking everything. Even that drake by the shadowfort wasn't a big challenge. Arc of Deliverance is the shit though.

Early game was really challenging but now that seems to be tapering off.

I also got 400k RC just from people hiring my sorc pawn already.

 

[sanquin]

The one single problem I have with the PC version is that the UI is clunky as all hell. They clearly barely put any thought into that. Backspace to save options? Having to press enter for certain things while a mouse click or E button press would have been far better? No mouse scrolls? And the list goes on... Luckily I have a controller for my PC, and keep it plugged in while I play. So I can switch to it instantly when I'm busy with the inventory or shops or some such. So I am quite enjoying the better frame rate, the sharper and higher resolution graphics, and the mouse control for my magick archer.

 

[DementedSheep]

You can sit your pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

I didn't know the speech rate could be changed at the chair, or at least can't remember it. But with an option to disable it outright, it fixes the problem just as neatly.

Problem with disabling it in the options is I don't want pawns to never talk, I quite like the fact that they talk and will sometime tell me about weakness I don't know that they learn't from someone who rented them. I just don't want them to be talking constantly.
I think it was in the console version but the phrasing for the option to change it is a bit awkward. They say "I try to speak or remain silent as the situation demands. Would you have me continue in this way, Master?" Saying no lowers the speech rate a notch.

Wait, your pawns actually get rented? Mine never gets rented and she is a bomb ass healer.

When did you last play? Pawn renting was broken initially so your pawn could have got rented and it just didn't tell you. Are you in offline mode, have pawns set to private/friends only or are not using the inn very much? If your pawn is a healer it should be getting rented a fair bit even with guardian or nexus (the least desirable inclinations). You should certainly be getting rented more than mine who is a strider as they are much less in demand.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

You can sit your pawn in the knowledge chair and lower it's speech rate. My pawns don't seem to be too chatty so I don't know if everyone is doing this or your support pawns take on your main pawns speech rate.
Well...unless I'm fighting goblins or wolves. DID YOU KNOW WOLVES FIGHT IN PACKS?!

I didn't know the speech rate could be changed at the chair, or at least can't remember it. But with an option to disable it outright, it fixes the problem just as neatly.

Problem with disabling it in the options is I don't want pawns to never talk, I quite like the fact that they talk and will sometime tell me about weakness I don't know that they learn't from someone who rented them. I just don't want them to be talking constantly.
I think it was in the console version but the phrasing for the option to change it is a bit awkward. They say "I try to speak or remain silent as the situation demands. Would you have me continue in this way, Master?" Saying no lowers the speech rate a notch.

Wait, your pawns actually get rented? Mine never gets rented and she is a bomb ass healer.

My pawn got rented all the time. There are three main things to consider...the role they play, the "inclinations" they have and the level. You've obviously chosen a role for her, so you should consider her inclinations. Contrary to in game description, Medicant is actually a really poor primary inclination. It will make a healer pawn do nothing but that. They will prioritise healing the smallest sliver of HP over doing anything else. Also, if she has Guardian or Nexus *anywhere*, that would be an issue. If I, or many others, saw those inclinations at all, it doesn't matter how good the pawn's gear or skills are, won't touch them.

The best inclinations for a healer pawn would be Utilitarian primary, medicant secondary and anything tertiary (the inclinations get pushed down when a new one gets priority. So, add maybe Acquisitor, Medicant and Utilitarian and I'll bloody hire her. Mine is a great tank with some BBI armour and gear with good inclinations...I intentionally went offline after updating her at around lvl 100 ish so it wouldn't update her to her (now) higher level. I think the higher the level, the less likely they are to be hired since there're fewer players to hire them.

Conversely, I've read many posts by players who are upset that the hired pawns they liked stopped getting updated. I know I used one or two regularly when able and remember one of them falling behind. I usually hire a healer and a DPS of some sort, either sorcerer or ranger usually.

 

[Zhukov]

I've seen some footage/reviews of it. Looks...pretty scruffy/dated. Graphics are ugly, animations are bad, lip-syncing in particularly is hilariously budget. Doesn't seem like there's any storytelling or interesting world building to speak of. The combat is considered strong, but doesn't that make it sort of a naff Dark Souls? Like, Dark Souls without all the atmospherics and mise-en-scene? So, like, without all the good bits?

I'm confused. I guess I don't really understand who this game is for.

Pretty much.

It does one thing well. Fights with both multiple giant type enemies and a bunch of human-sized one can be pretty amazing.

You can climb up a cyclops (and it's free movement climbing, Shadow of the Colossus style, not some QTE bullshit) to stab him in the eye. You can get one of your NPC buddies to hurl you into the air so you can tackle an airborne gryphon, set his wings on fire with a burning sword and drag him to the ground. Oh, and you can punt goblins off cliffs.

Basically everything else is terrible. All the stuff you mentioned along with a terrible interface and a nasty case of inventory bloat.

 

[LetalisK]

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My mage pawn is a Utilitarian/Medicant/Idunno(I think Scather. Started as Mitigator but switched). Would be nice if we could see the third one. The spells on her are High Anodyne, High Halidom, Fire Affinity, Grand Ingle, High Levin, High Blearing. Plus a bunch of nice augments from mage, strider, and sorcerer professions. Maybe the problem is Ingle and Levin? Switch to Comestion and Brontide? All I know is she whoops on shit and I don't die. I am level 45, but I have yet to see her get rented. Everything is on, anyone can rent her, maybe it's something wrong with the game on my end. I do know I probably don't rest at Inns as much as I should. Also, her equipment is outdated, but that's because 1) I gave up on renting her 2) we're crushing the content we're currently in so I didn't feel like I needed to. We probably outlevel what we're currently doing.

I just rested at an inn. See if you can find a level 45 Mage named Leila belonging to a ranger named Letalisk. This is on the PC.

Aside: Going ranger(or assassin)/ranger/ranger/mage has been stupid fun. Things just die whether they are at range or manage to get up close, especially big monsters. A cyclops might as well be a goblin.

 

[DementedSheep]

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My mage pawn is a Utilitarian/Medicant/Idunno(I think Scather. Started as Mitigator but switched). Would be nice if we could see the third one. The spells on her are High Anodyne, High Halidom, Fire Affinity, Grand Ingle, High Levin, High Blearing. Plus a bunch of nice augments from mage, strider, and sorcerer professions. Maybe the problem is Ingle and Levin? Switch to Comestion and Brontide? All I know is she whoops on shit and I don't die. I am level 45, but I have yet to see her get rented. Everything is on, anyone can rent her, maybe it's something wrong with the game on my end. I do know I probably don't rest at Inns as much as I should. Also, her equipment is outdated, but that's because 1) I gave up on renting her 2) we're crushing the content we're currently in so I didn't feel like I needed to. We probably outlevel what we're currently doing.

I just rested at an inn. See if you can find a level 45 Mage named Leila belonging to a ranger named Letalisk. This is on the PC.

Aside: Going ranger(or assassin)/ranger/ranger/mage has been stupid fun. Things just die whether they are at range or manage to get up close, especially big monsters. A cyclops might as well be a goblin.

Found you. I rented her and sent her back with a wakestone shard so you can see if you get it. I can't see anything hugely wrong with her. I personally don't like Blearing as spell because for the most part I find it's more effective to just kill enemies and pawns tend to get interrupted or not postilion themselves right for it to be effective. I usually don't hire pawns with Alinores dress because I'm sick of seeing it everywhere but I don't know if that's common. I would assume not but maybe a lot of people are playing fashion dogma.
If you need RC I can travel with her for a while, she's underleved for me but everfall isn't that hard so far since I'm very overleveled thanks to HM *grumble*. Off topic: I hate being overleveled, I played TW3 before this and had the same issue!

It is possible that because your pawn has been rented but the people renting her haven't released her yet.

Edit: You can tell what the 3rd inclination is at the knowledge chair because they ask you if want to switch the 2nd and 3rd around.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

I've seen some footage/reviews of it. Looks...pretty scruffy/dated. Graphics are ugly, animations are bad, lip-syncing in particularly is hilariously budget. Doesn't seem like there's any storytelling or interesting world building to speak of. The combat is considered strong, but doesn't that make it sort of a naff Dark Souls? Like, Dark Souls without all the atmospherics and mise-en-scene? So, like, without all the good bits?

I'm confused. I guess I don't really understand who this game is for.

It would have been massively disappointing if I was expecting something like Dark Souls and got Dragons Dogma instead. Comparisons to Dark Souls are way off. Apart from superficial fantasy tropes, it has as much shared DNA with DS as Star Wars Rogue Squadron has to X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. They are completely different beasts..

Zhukov pretty much summed it up. It's dated, archaic in design and sounds like we stepped back 2 decades in terms of voice acting. I'm pretty much just mashing my way through plot points without even reading them... and I definitely don't want to listen to them. Writing is from a similar era too, though back then we still had much better.

Yet it has a goofy charm to it and the fights can be very entertaining... sometimes they can even get intense, like when your fighting some big bad near a cliff where they can punt you off if your not paying attention.

6/10 (on a reasonable scale, where 6 and below isn't just varieties of shit). It's basically Fantasy Game: Marmite edition.

 

[LetalisK]

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My mage pawn is a Utilitarian/Medicant/Idunno(I think Scather. Started as Mitigator but switched). Would be nice if we could see the third one. The spells on her are High Anodyne, High Halidom, Fire Affinity, Grand Ingle, High Levin, High Blearing. Plus a bunch of nice augments from mage, strider, and sorcerer professions. Maybe the problem is Ingle and Levin? Switch to Comestion and Brontide? All I know is she whoops on shit and I don't die. I am level 45, but I have yet to see her get rented. Everything is on, anyone can rent her, maybe it's something wrong with the game on my end. I do know I probably don't rest at Inns as much as I should. Also, her equipment is outdated, but that's because 1) I gave up on renting her 2) we're crushing the content we're currently in so I didn't feel like I needed to. We probably outlevel what we're currently doing.

I just rested at an inn. See if you can find a level 45 Mage named Leila belonging to a ranger named Letalisk. This is on the PC.

Aside: Going ranger(or assassin)/ranger/ranger/mage has been stupid fun. Things just die whether they are at range or manage to get up close, especially big monsters. A cyclops might as well be a goblin.

Found you. I rented her and sent her back with a wakestone shard so you can see if you get it. I can't see anything hugely wrong with her. I personally don't like Blearing as spell because for the most part I find it's more effective to just kill enemies and pawns tend to get interrupted or not postilion themselves right for it to be effective. I usually don't hire pawns with Alinores dress because I'm sick of seeing it everywhere but I don't know if that's common. I would assume not but maybe a lot of people are playing fashion dogma.
If you need RC I can travel with her for a while, she's underleved for me but everfall isn't that hard so far since I'm very overleveled thanks to HM *grumble*. Off topic: I hate being overleveled, I played TW3 before this and had the same issue!

It is possible that because your pawn has been rented but the people renting her haven't released her yet.

Edit: You can tell what the 3rd inclination is at the knowledge chair because they ask you if want to switch the 2nd and 3rd around.

Yep, it worked. Thanks for the shard! What should I replace Blearing with? Spellscreen? Also, I used Alinore's dress because it was free and the best gear at the time. Personally, I think it looks hideous.

Edit: Btw, her third it Mitigator. Also, Alinore's dress is still the best armor for her at this point in the game.

 

[DementedSheep]

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My mage pawn is a Utilitarian/Medicant/Idunno(I think Scather. Started as Mitigator but switched). Would be nice if we could see the third one. The spells on her are High Anodyne, High Halidom, Fire Affinity, Grand Ingle, High Levin, High Blearing. Plus a bunch of nice augments from mage, strider, and sorcerer professions. Maybe the problem is Ingle and Levin? Switch to Comestion and Brontide? All I know is she whoops on shit and I don't die. I am level 45, but I have yet to see her get rented. Everything is on, anyone can rent her, maybe it's something wrong with the game on my end. I do know I probably don't rest at Inns as much as I should. Also, her equipment is outdated, but that's because 1) I gave up on renting her 2) we're crushing the content we're currently in so I didn't feel like I needed to. We probably outlevel what we're currently doing.

I just rested at an inn. See if you can find a level 45 Mage named Leila belonging to a ranger named Letalisk. This is on the PC.

Aside: Going ranger(or assassin)/ranger/ranger/mage has been stupid fun. Things just die whether they are at range or manage to get up close, especially big monsters. A cyclops might as well be a goblin.

Found you. I rented her and sent her back with a wakestone shard so you can see if you get it. I can't see anything hugely wrong with her. I personally don't like Blearing as spell because for the most part I find it's more effective to just kill enemies and pawns tend to get interrupted or not postilion themselves right for it to be effective. I usually don't hire pawns with Alinores dress because I'm sick of seeing it everywhere but I don't know if that's common. I would assume not but maybe a lot of people are playing fashion dogma.
If you need RC I can travel with her for a while, she's underleved for me but everfall isn't that hard so far since I'm very overleveled thanks to HM *grumble*. Off topic: I hate being overleveled, I played TW3 before this and had the same issue!

It is possible that because your pawn has been rented but the people renting her haven't released her yet.

Edit: You can tell what the 3rd inclination is at the knowledge chair because they ask you if want to switch the 2nd and 3rd around.

Yep, it worked. Thanks for the shard! What should I replace Blearing with? Spellscreen? Also, I used Alinore's dress because it was free and the best gear at the time. Personally, I think it looks hideous.

Edit: Btw, her third it Mitigator. Also, Alinore's dress is still the best armor for her at this point in the game.

Had I done more Everfall at the time I wouldn't have been such a cheapskate and would have given you a whole wakestone. The enemies here are wakestone pinatas. I have 80 of damn things now.

Hmmm I'm probably not the best person to ask since I usually have my pawn set to strider and don't play a mage so you would know their skills better than me, I just remember Blearing annoying me. Because I don't play one I'm not too picky if I decide to hire one outside of the essential spells like the weapon buffs (flame pre game or holy and ice post game is usually the best), debilitations removal and heal. I don't remember what other spells you had now. From what I've seen pawns I hire doing Ingle is basically the staple damage spell and is great for harpies, Frigor I don't see the pawns actually cast very often unless it's the drake I'm killing but maybe I've just had bad luck, Levin is just unfair vs a cyclops since it stun locks them and when I had a pawn with Grapnel it was surprising effective as a shut-down on bosses but I don't see it on pawns much. I don't think I've used a pawn with Spellscreen for any decent length of time so can't really comment on that one though it fits more with a dedicated healer and I've seen other say they like it. Just experiment and put want you like. You could also check out the high rated mage pawns and have look at what they use.

Yeah, that ugly dress is going to be the best armour for much of the game because it's a DLC armour.

 

[LetalisK]

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My mage pawn is a Utilitarian/Medicant/Idunno(I think Scather. Started as Mitigator but switched). Would be nice if we could see the third one. The spells on her are High Anodyne, High Halidom, Fire Affinity, Grand Ingle, High Levin, High Blearing. Plus a bunch of nice augments from mage, strider, and sorcerer professions. Maybe the problem is Ingle and Levin? Switch to Comestion and Brontide? All I know is she whoops on shit and I don't die. I am level 45, but I have yet to see her get rented. Everything is on, anyone can rent her, maybe it's something wrong with the game on my end. I do know I probably don't rest at Inns as much as I should. Also, her equipment is outdated, but that's because 1) I gave up on renting her 2) we're crushing the content we're currently in so I didn't feel like I needed to. We probably outlevel what we're currently doing.

I just rested at an inn. See if you can find a level 45 Mage named Leila belonging to a ranger named Letalisk. This is on the PC.

Aside: Going ranger(or assassin)/ranger/ranger/mage has been stupid fun. Things just die whether they are at range or manage to get up close, especially big monsters. A cyclops might as well be a goblin.

Found you. I rented her and sent her back with a wakestone shard so you can see if you get it. I can't see anything hugely wrong with her. I personally don't like Blearing as spell because for the most part I find it's more effective to just kill enemies and pawns tend to get interrupted or not postilion themselves right for it to be effective. I usually don't hire pawns with Alinores dress because I'm sick of seeing it everywhere but I don't know if that's common. I would assume not but maybe a lot of people are playing fashion dogma.
If you need RC I can travel with her for a while, she's underleved for me but everfall isn't that hard so far since I'm very overleveled thanks to HM *grumble*. Off topic: I hate being overleveled, I played TW3 before this and had the same issue!

It is possible that because your pawn has been rented but the people renting her haven't released her yet.

Edit: You can tell what the 3rd inclination is at the knowledge chair because they ask you if want to switch the 2nd and 3rd around.

Yep, it worked. Thanks for the shard! What should I replace Blearing with? Spellscreen? Also, I used Alinore's dress because it was free and the best gear at the time. Personally, I think it looks hideous.

Edit: Btw, her third it Mitigator. Also, Alinore's dress is still the best armor for her at this point in the game.

Had I done more Everfall at the time I wouldn't have been such a cheapskate and would have given you a whole wakestone. The enemies here are wakestone pinatas. I have 80 of damn things now.

Hmmm I'm probably not the best person to ask since I usually have my pawn set to strider and don't play a mage so you would know their skills better than me, I just remember Blearing annoying me. Because I don't play one I'm not too picky if I decide to hire one outside of the essential spells like the weapon buffs (flame pre game or holy and ice post game is usually the best), debilitations removal and heal. I don't remember what other spells you had now. From what I've seen pawns I hire doing Ingle is basically the staple damage spell and is great for harpies, Frigor I don't see the pawns actually cast very often unless it's the drake I'm killing but maybe I've just had bad luck, Levin is just unfair vs a cyclops since it stun locks them and when I had a pawn with Grapnel it was surprising effective as a shut-down on bosses but I don't see it on pawns much. I don't think I've used a pawn with Spellscreen for any decent length of time so can't really comment on that one though it fits more with a dedicated healer and I've seen other say they like it. Just experiment and put want you like. You could also check out the high rated mage pawns and have look at what they use.

Yeah, that ugly dress is going to be the best armour for much of the game because it's a DLC armour.

You don't see frigor being cast much because the only thing weak to ice without being weak to fire too is some saurians, who already have a massive physical weakness, and drakes. So it's kind of a garbage spell to bring along. What I've learned is basically fire for everything, lightning for armored bosses. Everything that doesn't fall into that rule are either rare enough to not matter or you can pre-plan your spells accordingly(i.e. drakes).

I'm going to try grapnel though. I haven't actually seen my pawn cast blearing a whole lot now that I think of it.

 

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It's kinda weird. I don't really get this feeling often, but it's nice seeing Dragon's Dogma being talked about, especially in a positive way. It's great seeing the pawn system still up, and running.