Guess you guys didn't find out about crafting? Vendors in town won't have much gear available, pretty much everything is crafted. It's underground in the main temple room(with the huge portcrystal). Enchanting is also super important to do real damage to enemies as they often have high physical damage resistances.
Ive tried this out over the past few days. To be completely honest the mmo aspects kinda ruin this game for me. Feels insanely grindy even more grindy than mmos today, it suffers from mmo enemy hp bloat, the combat is good but it feels like its missing something the other dragons dogmas had. Gearing feels really bad, i cant even find a proper set of pants to wear. Im lvl 7 and the only quests i am capable of doing are EXTREMELY boring. You can hire a level 50+ pawn for absurdly cheap but then you just watch the pawn kill everything for you. I tried tackling a story quest and i literally cannot kill a chimera that i need to progress the story. Even the op as hell pawn doesnt maintain its aggro efficiently or do that much damage to it despite being literally 40+ levels higher than the fucking thing and then the chimera ends up 1 shotting me since its an indoor fight and i cant survive long enough to tickle it to death (this is what Imean by the mmo hp bloat). I cant find a better weapon for the class i play (high sceptor) even at vendors in the city you start in. Everything costs tons of gold. Im really trying to like this and I mean REALLY trying. If you got any advice for me id love to hear it but rn this is FAR from peak dogma to me
Tbh the game seems very much balanced around specifically a party of players, so I'd advise to go in with the expectation that you're gonna play with other people in order to actually be effective. To this end, there's a DDO discord you can use to find people to play with, coming from fighting games this is common practice and typically pretty effective.
@ThiefofCrystals I dont really like the idea of having to ask ppl on discord if they are available to play, just doesnt jive with me. I really want to like this game and get my dragons dogma itch satiated. Do you really think other players are truly necessary? Are you planning on making guides for this game? I could really use the help like massively. I can't reiterate just how much I want to like this game, if I can figure out a way to actually take down monsters like it's dd1 then I think I could love this game despite it's mmo-ness
@@notimportant8643 I mean at the end of the day we need to understand this was and is an MMO, it's totally fine to not enjoy those elements and I completely understand if you don't, but expecting it to function as a seamless solo experience when it isn't designed to be one is like forcing a square peg into a round hole. We gotta either work past it if we enjoy the core gameplay, or just leave it be. I'm on the fence about guides, maybe I could at least make a gameplay primer, but something we recently discovered is it's at least vital to have a healer pawn on hand because healers are the only ones who seem capable of revealing an enemy's weak points during rage ect. (the big spheres that pop up on their body) which is what you need to target to do real damage. Maybe that's the ingredient you've been missing but I'll be real level 7 is not far in this game and I've been needing to accept just running past monsters that are too big for me to handle to make progress. But to stress, levelling a vocation alone and levelling one with friends were two entirely different experiences and the latter happened a lot faster. Also quick tip, other gear stores exist in different locations (like Estelle's Outfitters - I think that was the name - in Tel village.)
@ThiefofCrystals that's fair, I've bounced off every mmo I've tried but I absolutely love dragons dogma and since there's nothing else on the market that really competes with dd I figured I'd try it out. Didn't know about the enemy weakness and the bubbles that's really helpful info. I got a priest pawn but she doesn't seem to reveal weak points at least not from what I noticed but it's possible I've just been oblivious to it. I'll try going back into it with an open mind, it just might not be my thing. I just want more dragons dogma in my life, playing these games have legitimately ruined every other fantasy rpg for me(even elden ring) and it really bums me out that we're unlikely to get more of it. Series has all the potential in the world I just hope capcom wakes up and sees that
@@notimportant8643 Similarly, I just learned that tanks provide vital damage via their enchantments, so having a well-rounded party seems best. Also, apparently crafting is the way to go for most things in this game, made easier by the blessing granted by the server. I don't think we're actually unlikely to get more tbh - Capcom considers it a key IP and the director of both Dark Arisen and DDO, Kento Kinoshita, is still in the company. DD3 may still be a reality one day.
Glad to see you finally play DDON! There are so many different boss types and races, it's truly what we wished to see for DD1/DD2. Hope you keep playing
I tell you what instead of the expensive waste of garbage dragons dogma 2 was they could have just made a dragons dogma online 2 made the graphics like dd2 and thats it really dd online just looks amazing anyway, i dont know about cooking in dd2 but if they just made some more recipes then omg let me have this game. DD2 couldnt have been what the developer was intending to develop when i see how good online is.
Interesting detail here, Dark Arisen specifically and more importantly DDO were actually made under a different director (Kento Kinoshita, who is still present in the company, and I expect would be brought back on for future Dragon's Dogma projects) whereas Itsuno directed specifically vanilla Dragon's Dogma and DD2. So maybe DDO and DD2 are indicative of a difference in design philosophies. Chatted with a friend about this, and they suggested that, with Itsuno also being the primary director for modern DMC, maybe it was his goal to distance Dogma's overall pace from that, to create something just as enjoyable but a bit more methodical. I believe he succeeded with the original Dragon's Dogma, but DD2 took too many steps in this direction to the point of feeling like a downgrade to some degree. (That said, I maintain this wouldn't sting nearly as bad if the story had been remotely decent.)
Man i miss this game. Played a lot back when it was still available.. Maxed out Warrior and GOD FUCKING DAMN WARRIOR FELT GOOD IN THIS GAME that pseudo parry rage mechanic (that i don't remember the name now tbh) was so fucking cool
Seeing this nakes me so.much more dissapointed in Dragons dogma 2. If good graphics is the price to pay for actually decent enemy and class variety they can give it n64 graphics for all i fuckin care
Dragon's Dogma 2 and the Witcher Netflix series are my two biggest disappointments in recent years. I care about those two series a lot but then they got butchered :c
Do not hire high level pawns. If you want to stay having fun, do not do it. Biggest mistake i made in the game. Now its just Dragons Dogma "watch my pawns power level me" online.
Not true, if a pawn is more than 20 levels higher, you only get 50% of the XP. 40 levels and its 30%. So it doesn't matter that much, plus 20 levels more when you are level 60 is not much more, the pawn AI sucks and will still get bodied.
@@hagura6777 im gonna push back a little here, damage is highly based on level in comparison to the monster, all you have to to to at level 20 is hire 2 level 80 sorcerer pawns and they can carry through BBI and you will be leveling so fast its nuts. So even if your getting only 25k to 45k a kill, its still nearly a level per kill. all the way till 50, then its 1 level per 3-4 kills. lol
@@zackarywest8096 Damn, I didn’t even know BBI was that efficient for leveling. I just grinded that wight near the ToP bridge during the triple xp week did the main story and got to around level 65.
@@hagura6777 lol dude i did the same thing. That white was awesome. Then at the very very end i found BBI and well... 300k a kill with full exp. it was insane.. haha
Could you imagine if they took DD:DA and gave it the Demon Souls BluePoint treatment? Changed nothing and ran it through UE5. Maybe polish a few things but I think it would be the next Elden Ring. Take the gaming world by storm or maybe I’m delusional. Maybe both.
Wait, how do I find this? Edit: apparently you have to be in PC? I’m in ps5 and been considering getting a PC. No longer considering. Now I’m actively looking for one to purchase. DD is Elden Ring before Elden Ring even Dark Souled
I can already see Thief spending hours upon hours in DDON. Capcom not bringing this and Monster Hunter online to the West was one of their worst mistakes. Too bad they had to nuke their online division due to mismanagement.
Pretty sad how in many aspects Online is better than 2. The only thing that number 2 does better than Dark Arisen and Online is the character creation and graphics.
I'd argue even the graphics in DD2 is worse. But that's my personal opinion. I like the art style for ON and DA, realism but still kind of low quality: Kind of like a dream. 2's good, there's a lot of things to like. It's not a bad game, even with the performance, but I definitely prefer DA and ON.
@@seven7383 Actually based take imo lmao, I get you, ON and DA might be a little crunchy these days but they still possess strong dashes of colour throughout that apply so much personality that DD2 seems to entirely lack.
@@ThiefofCrystals Dungeon layout... Enemy placement in general, Shop stock and it's currency/prices, loot, drops, rewards. Literally anything you can think of can be customized by merely changing values in the source code/gamefiles. I have my own set of files entirely for my own use(Post Game/NG+) Where I start at max level and every enemy is max as well. It takes a lot of time to learn how the game auto balances each and every entity and item in the game. But after having only played shortly on that public server it was very obvious to me that the neither cared nor figured out how that balancing works. You would honestly have a better time with the default source code files provided on the Github. But I get it a server full of people can be tempting. Just personally I don't think that server is a good first experience.
If you use abyssal anguish, full moon strike and great cannon together, you can shred any bosses health in SECONDS. I used it on some cyclops and they fall down so damn fast. It's especially effective against golems since you need to hit specific spots. The orbs auto aim to the one that's glowing the most 😂
@@ThiefofCrystals I expect a certain level 1 hardest difficulty mode no hit base weapon victory on your next game, to redeem yourself! Honestly though, I cannot fathom how mind-numbing it must have been. Respect for putting yourself through mental torture strong enough that I'd prefer clamping my balls in a vice over that.
@@NightmareOni Yeah not gonna lie I'd never 1HP anything ever again, fists-only was actually unironically fun but this was flat-out torturous at various points
Is this regarding ads? I only ever let YT handle that for me so I've never actually dealt with it before, is it too much? If so I'd like to resolve that if I can
I'm actually not sure if this correlates, or if they'll simply behave as you do once you swap their vocation. I think the latter is true, but I'm not certain, so take it with a grain of salt!
I am really really upset they destroyed magic users, 4 skill slots really capcom, mages and sorcerers spells have been nerfed from the first game maelstrom and meteor like they are so watered down when I used them it made me rage so I had to stop playing, theres so many other things that are wrong and I agree with everything you said. I really really love the original but it makes me have a headache thinking I spent 60 pounds thinking it was going to be good, serves me right for pre ordering lmao.
if Dragon's Dogma just consisted of Gransys and condensed everything into that region would've made the game better for me. The new areas add nothing. The story is disappointing but so was the story in the first game. Other than that they mostly improved on the core game. It's just a shame the new areas felt pointless. As to your opinion on the game making things inconvenient i disagree, i never felt inconvenienced, i felt like i was in an adventure one which had consequences. The game though, was a disappointment on reflection but it was never broken. I really enjoyed my two playthroughs. If you dig enough and nit pick any game and it's flaws you can make any game seem shit.
I've reached 100 hours in the game. I've finished the game WITH the endgame. The game is good, but not enough. I really like the gameplay, how the class works and the new mechanics in combat. However, once you reach level 50, every fight is a walk in the park. Dragons become jokes. The game needs a hardmode like the first game, it needs a challenge like Bitterblack Ilse. It's ironic how a game where you encounter monsters every 10 meters feels so empty. I have hopes for the game. But with Itsuno leaving Capcom, the future is unknown. I like the game. But not as much as the first one.
I feel like there’s two super combos for fighter : - shield pummel + Dire gouge for knockdown and follow up stabby over kill - Flawless guard + full moon slash for whirly dirly spinny fighter dervish stagger strike thing
that's really interesting. I understand your second point about it being a worse dragon's dogma 1. But in your first point, I guess for me, I was expecting emergent gameplay. I was expecting to have to travel everywhere, and then save my ferrystones for more important missions and time sensitive travel. I love camping, i love exploring with the environments being so fun. I love interacting with beasts in such fun ways. I felt like I was in a simulated world. also dragon's plauge was NOT hard to pick up on, at least for me. I just observed my companion and listened to him. I can't really describe it but DD2 really grasped me in a way DD1 just never did. I couldn't even get through DD1 for years and years, and I think it was bc of the world just wasn't fun to explore, I didn't enjoy looking at it. I got through it once and that was right before DD2 came out, bc I was specifically excited for DD2. I kinda just rushed through DD1 and it didn't really interest me too much. I knew that pretty much exploration reward was useless, but I kept exploring, I knew every line of pawns by the end of my initial playthrough of DD2, but I played it like 3 more times after that. I for sure think DD2 has flaws, but for me it's just. one of my favorite games of all time now and again, it really reached me in a way that DD1 did not.
Ive tried getting into Dragon Age so many times, but the second i hit combat it just kills it for me, kinda like BG3. Im interested in the story and characters, but the gameplay puts me off so bad 😅
Funnily enough I was actually the same way to start with, I wasn't a huge fan of how Origins played initially. I understand if you just can't, but I do recommend bearing with it (for both it and BG3 - and even other games like Divinity: Original Sin 2) purely for how rich the story and setting of these games are. Like me, you may even come around to enjoying the combat over time!
@@ThiefofCrystals ive tried DOS2, got to Act 2, got to act 3 in BG3, and I find that the combat is the only thing that makes me want to quit. Like if I see more than 5 enemies in an encounter I just know this is gonna take forever and is not worth it. Turn based combat being mostly menus feels like trying to do taxes for fun
