Dragon Dogma: Dark Arisen - PC
Spring Water Early On:
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Spring water heals 330 HP and what's great with it is the chance to heal
the entire party, not just the character who uses it. So although it is
a x4 item, you will only need one flask to use it. Here's what you need
to get spring water, then. Get a few empty flasks at Aestella's in Gran
Soren, near the fountain at the entrance.
Those are very cheap: just 20 G each.
Now you will have to find a healing spring, a magical spring filled with
water that can heal and provide a vary of buffs. There are just three of
them in the game: northwest of Gran Soren (east of the catacombs);
northwest of the Blighted Manse rear entrance; far west of the eradication
site and north of Conqueror's Sanctuary in Verda Woodlands. At northwest
of Gran Soren you can get to the fastest healing spring. Travel alongside
the road near Gran Soren, go over the bridge and proceed straight. Use
your pawns to grab the water faster, entering the water and pushing the
action button.
Everfall: Easy money and experience:
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Enter The Chamber of Lament offline. Each time you damage the Ur Dragon,
collect the item drops. Defeat the dragon and collect the Wakestones and
weapon, then repeat the process. Equip the Suasion augment for Arisen and
Pawn. Recruit two other pawns with Suasion (sell items for more). Sell
the Wakestones, dropped dragon items, and duplicate rewarded weapons.
BitterBlack Isle: Easy Rift Crystals, forging and experience:
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Open the entrance of the Vault of Defiled Truth inside the Duskmoon Tower.
Each time you run into Barrock, purchase three Rancid Bait Meat. Defeat
all enemies in Duskmoon Tower courtyard and stand next to the entrance of
Vault of Defiled Truth. Use the Rancid Bait Meat. Cursed Dragon should
appear. If not, enter the Vault and exit back into Duskmoon Tower
courtyard, and the dragon will be there. Defeat the dragon, collect
the items, and Rift Crystals. As long as Rancid Bait Meat is there,
enter Vault, exit, and the dragon will re-appear. Drop more Rancid Bait
Meat and repeat the process.
BitterBlack Isle: Level 3 armor (4) and Level 3 weapon (2):
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Save the game before opening each chest to use God's Bane if needed. Enter
Fallen City. At the bottom of the stairs, climb the building to the north
with the chest. Look down to the lower roof with the chest (level 3 W);
cluster of buildings in the center of all buildings southern chest (Level
3 Ar); chest that can be missed west side of building furthest west on map
(Level 3 Ar); treasure room after defeating Daimon first chest left (level
3 W), middle left chest with Moonbeam Gem; other two chests (level 3 Ar).
Bonus Daimon can drop level 3 armor or level 3 weapons.
Unusual Beach: Easy experience after defeating dragon:
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Gorechimera will appear at night on the beach outside of your hometown,
Cassardis. Defeat it for 13,000 experience points, and double that number
with the Veterans Periapt. Enter Cassardis, rest at the inn for five
nights, and repeatthe process.
How to defeat Death within 5 minutes:
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Now here is the Trick to Kill Death, you need to Kill all Enemies in the
Garden of Ignominy then save the game. From here onwards you need to loop
this process in order to kill death.
1.Kill yourself with Godsbane.
2.Go to The main menu and reload your save.
3.Equip your blast arrows, drop a piece of Rancid Bait Meat.
4.Once the Death will spawn you need to use 4x Conqueror's Periapt.
5.Use your Multishot ability and wait for him to Retreat.
6.Now simply walk out of the Garden of Ignominy.
7.Re-enter the Area and repeat the same process.
Easy "The Captain" achievement or trophy:
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Enlist seventy different pawns . You can hire pawns on the road and in the
rift for free if they are spawned by the game.
Beginners Tips:
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#1 There is no limit to the amount of quests you can have in your quest log,
grab every quest you see whether it's from an NPC or Notice Board - You
won't want to miss out on all that glorious experience and troves of items.
#2 None of the quests in the game are permenantly missable due to the game's
constantly repeating new game plus nature. But some quests will fail if
uncompleted when reaching certain points of game, you'll just have to
remember to finish these quests on your next play through.
#3 On that note, Achievement and Trophy progress is persistent and is tallied
in the background, so if you finish or restart your current game, your
progress will be saved and continue into your next playthrough.
#4 Make sure you give your main pawn a Lantern and Pickaxe, even your hired
pawns. Night time won't be as scary and you may find the pawns have collected
items you missed.
#5 Hammers and explosive magick will knock ore out of a mining vein.
Now you're mining with excessive power.
#6 Gather points glow white and may have butterflies surrounding them.
#7 Stockpile everything! Almost all items combine with another item into
something better and not to mention, you'll need them for enhancing equipment.
#8 Enhancing or upgrading equipment can be done earliest from Gran Soren's
Armorer Caxton or Olra on Bitterblack Isle, this is why stockpiling items
is important.
#9 There's a number of powerful DLC armours in your inkeeper storage when you
first start out in Cassardis. You also can pick up an Eternal ferrystone
and NPC costumes upon reaching gran soren for the first time.
#10 Only sell items that you know you can easily gain again. A good weapon may
be useful in future when you change your vocation.
#11 Speaking of Vocations, each Vocation has 9 ranks. Once you've completely
levelled a vocation, it's recommended you move to another vocation and
begin levelling that. At any point you can access an Innkeeper, you are
free to change your Vocation. So don't stress about your choice of Vocation.
#12 Don't ignore Augments on Vocations because you think you won't return to it.
Augments can be used by any class once you've purchased them and some of
the combinations can be incredible.
#13 You may read around the internet about players min maxing or planning their
vocations for specific stat point builds. But, know that you can still wreak
havok at high level no matter what the route you take. It's not a requirement
and you won't be penalised for not taking this approach.
#14 Yes, there are no mounts in this game and Fast Travel is not as simple as
other games. If you come across a Portcrystal you can teleport using a ferry
stone to where ever you place this item it in the overworld. You can place
up to 10 of these around Gransys.
#15 There are a bunch of escort quests in this game and we all know how boring
those can be. You can save yourself some precious time by placing portcrystals
at the destinations of these escort quests.
#16 When you first make your pawn, stay at an Inn, this will upload your pawn to
the online rift and it will be accessable for other players to hire. What's
the benefit of this? Your pawn will gain you Rift Crystals based on the amount
of activity they have in other players games. This currency can be used in a
number of ways, so it's best
----------------------
Spring water heals 330 HP and what's great with it is the chance to heal
the entire party, not just the character who uses it. So although it is
a x4 item, you will only need one flask to use it. Here's what you need
to get spring water, then. Get a few empty flasks at Aestella's in Gran
Soren, near the fountain at the entrance.
Those are very cheap: just 20 G each.
Now you will have to find a healing spring, a magical spring filled with
water that can heal and provide a vary of buffs. There are just three of
them in the game: northwest of Gran Soren (east of the catacombs);
northwest of the Blighted Manse rear entrance; far west of the eradication
site and north of Conqueror's Sanctuary in Verda Woodlands. At northwest
of Gran Soren you can get to the fastest healing spring. Travel alongside
the road near Gran Soren, go over the bridge and proceed straight. Use
your pawns to grab the water faster, entering the water and pushing the
action button.
Everfall: Easy money and experience:
------------------------------------
Enter The Chamber of Lament offline. Each time you damage the Ur Dragon,
collect the item drops. Defeat the dragon and collect the Wakestones and
weapon, then repeat the process. Equip the Suasion augment for Arisen and
Pawn. Recruit two other pawns with Suasion (sell items for more). Sell
the Wakestones, dropped dragon items, and duplicate rewarded weapons.
BitterBlack Isle: Easy Rift Crystals, forging and experience:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Open the entrance of the Vault of Defiled Truth inside the Duskmoon Tower.
Each time you run into Barrock, purchase three Rancid Bait Meat. Defeat
all enemies in Duskmoon Tower courtyard and stand next to the entrance of
Vault of Defiled Truth. Use the Rancid Bait Meat. Cursed Dragon should
appear. If not, enter the Vault and exit back into Duskmoon Tower
courtyard, and the dragon will be there. Defeat the dragon, collect
the items, and Rift Crystals. As long as Rancid Bait Meat is there,
enter Vault, exit, and the dragon will re-appear. Drop more Rancid Bait
Meat and repeat the process.
BitterBlack Isle: Level 3 armor (4) and Level 3 weapon (2):
-----------------------------------------------------------
Save the game before opening each chest to use God's Bane if needed. Enter
Fallen City. At the bottom of the stairs, climb the building to the north
with the chest. Look down to the lower roof with the chest (level 3 W);
cluster of buildings in the center of all buildings southern chest (Level
3 Ar); chest that can be missed west side of building furthest west on map
(Level 3 Ar); treasure room after defeating Daimon first chest left (level
3 W), middle left chest with Moonbeam Gem; other two chests (level 3 Ar).
Bonus Daimon can drop level 3 armor or level 3 weapons.
Unusual Beach: Easy experience after defeating dragon:
------------------------------------------------------
Gorechimera will appear at night on the beach outside of your hometown,
Cassardis. Defeat it for 13,000 experience points, and double that number
with the Veterans Periapt. Enter Cassardis, rest at the inn for five
nights, and repeatthe process.
How to defeat Death within 5 minutes:
-------------------------------------
Now here is the Trick to Kill Death, you need to Kill all Enemies in the
Garden of Ignominy then save the game. From here onwards you need to loop
this process in order to kill death.
1.Kill yourself with Godsbane.
2.Go to The main menu and reload your save.
3.Equip your blast arrows, drop a piece of Rancid Bait Meat.
4.Once the Death will spawn you need to use 4x Conqueror's Periapt.
5.Use your Multishot ability and wait for him to Retreat.
6.Now simply walk out of the Garden of Ignominy.
7.Re-enter the Area and repeat the same process.
Easy "The Captain" achievement or trophy:
-----------------------------------------
Enlist seventy different pawns . You can hire pawns on the road and in the
rift for free if they are spawned by the game.
Beginners Tips:
---------------
#1 There is no limit to the amount of quests you can have in your quest log,
grab every quest you see whether it's from an NPC or Notice Board - You
won't want to miss out on all that glorious experience and troves of items.
#2 None of the quests in the game are permenantly missable due to the game's
constantly repeating new game plus nature. But some quests will fail if
uncompleted when reaching certain points of game, you'll just have to
remember to finish these quests on your next play through.
#3 On that note, Achievement and Trophy progress is persistent and is tallied
in the background, so if you finish or restart your current game, your
progress will be saved and continue into your next playthrough.
#4 Make sure you give your main pawn a Lantern and Pickaxe, even your hired
pawns. Night time won't be as scary and you may find the pawns have collected
items you missed.
#5 Hammers and explosive magick will knock ore out of a mining vein.
Now you're mining with excessive power.
#6 Gather points glow white and may have butterflies surrounding them.
#7 Stockpile everything! Almost all items combine with another item into
something better and not to mention, you'll need them for enhancing equipment.
#8 Enhancing or upgrading equipment can be done earliest from Gran Soren's
Armorer Caxton or Olra on Bitterblack Isle, this is why stockpiling items
is important.
#9 There's a number of powerful DLC armours in your inkeeper storage when you
first start out in Cassardis. You also can pick up an Eternal ferrystone
and NPC costumes upon reaching gran soren for the first time.
#10 Only sell items that you know you can easily gain again. A good weapon may
be useful in future when you change your vocation.
#11 Speaking of Vocations, each Vocation has 9 ranks. Once you've completely
levelled a vocation, it's recommended you move to another vocation and
begin levelling that. At any point you can access an Innkeeper, you are
free to change your Vocation. So don't stress about your choice of Vocation.
#12 Don't ignore Augments on Vocations because you think you won't return to it.
Augments can be used by any class once you've purchased them and some of
the combinations can be incredible.
#13 You may read around the internet about players min maxing or planning their
vocations for specific stat point builds. But, know that you can still wreak
havok at high level no matter what the route you take. It's not a requirement
and you won't be penalised for not taking this approach.
#14 Yes, there are no mounts in this game and Fast Travel is not as simple as
other games. If you come across a Portcrystal you can teleport using a ferry
stone to where ever you place this item it in the overworld. You can place
up to 10 of these around Gransys.
#15 There are a bunch of escort quests in this game and we all know how boring
those can be. You can save yourself some precious time by placing portcrystals
at the destinations of these escort quests.
#16 When you first make your pawn, stay at an Inn, this will upload your pawn to
the online rift and it will be accessable for other players to hire. What's
the benefit of this? Your pawn will gain you Rift Crystals based on the amount
of activity they have in other players games. This currency can be used in a
number of ways, so it's best