At 11/21/14 03:31 PM, FlashNinjitsu wrote:
Finally got around to playing Dragons Dogma and Dark souls after throwing them in my closet for a few years working up the balls/ time to play them while I went through the other games I had.
Dragon's Dogma can be tough, but in a good way. Just be careful not to wander to certain areas before your party can handle it and pick your battles at the right times. I remember trying to get through this certain mountain valley crawling with bandits and my pawns and I got raped because I was still too weak to travel that far in that direction. Gotta have a good choice of pawns, too. I was playing as a fighter with a strider as my main pawn. With that combo, I found what best suited me was to always hire a mage and a sorceror. Great party imo. Mages are important to have around to heal you and I really like the assists a sorceror gives with those big wide area attacks. I would normally use a few rift crystals to hire pawns a bit higher level than me and eventually replace them when I caught up and repeat, but keeping my amount of rc in mind and not going overboard. A little grinding helps prepare your guy for tougher stuff. I kinda planned when to grind and when to spend rc. Would be a waste to use rc to get pawns ahead of you and then just go grinding and catch up. I'd use that rc for when I'm pushing through quests. Last I left off, I was grinding in this swamp area full of those orange lizard people. Been a long time since I played. Never did get around to fighting the big bad dragon, which was for what I was grinding in preparation. Bad habit of forgetting games when I get new ones. I got through a lot of the game, though and it's absolutely fantastic, high up there on the scale of action RPGs.
Just a heads up, though about potential love interests, odds are it's whichever merchant you traded with the most that's gonna be your damsel in distress you rescue from the dragon. So, if you want to avoid an awkward cutscene where your character is lovingly embracing the blacksmith who goes "they're masterworks all, you can't go wrong" look up a guide or something on that subject. There's info on how to tell npcs disposition and how to raise it and lower it without violence. I can't be bothered to explain more, but they'll tell you about the sheath/unsheath trick for lowering it. Probably easier to do that as you go as opposed to trying to find everyone you've talked to in the world near the end.