Dark Arisen Guide

[Monica Okane]

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Since quite a few people will be trying out Dragon's Dogma for the first time with the recent PC port of Dark Arisen I thought it might be a good idea to share some beginner's tips with everyone as it can be a bit rough starting out, so here's my tips for starting out with Dragon's Dogma!

In Dragon's Dogma, there's a lot of items to pick up, a lot of it seems like junk too, but you'd be surprised at some of the uses these items can have, it may not be immediately useful but you might be able to rely on it later.

PC users in particular should check the contents of their Item storage, there's lots of free stuff in there that used to be DLC in the console version, however some of it can give you a little too much of an advantage when starting out, if you want the true 'Dragon's Dogma experience' you may wish to ignore some of these free goodies, definitely get the 'Eternal Ferrystone' though!

Every item in the game has a description that tells you something useful about it, though that may not be immediately obvious, you see every item actually has 2 pages of description & you only see the first page by default, to see the second page you must press X (on an Xbox 360 controller) to see the second page of an item description, the second page will directly tell you if it restores health or stamina, if it's combinable, if it cures a Status Ailment (known as 'Debilitations' in Dragon's Dogma) & even if the item decays over time (with the descriptor 'Time Sensitive').

If you run into enemies who can nearly one shot you & are barely taking any damage from you & your Pawns attacks, you may wish to leave that section of the map until later when you've levelled up a bit & acquired better gear.

Upon starting Dragon's Dogma, you'll be asked to pick which class you want to start with, Fighter, Strider & Mage, pay attention to their weapon loadout & pick whatever sounds most fun to play to you, but be warned you'll be stuck with this class until you reach the big city called Gran Soren.

Upon reaching Gran Soren, the man at the Inn called Asalam can change your class (called Vocation in Dragon's Dogma) for you, once you've paid the necessary amount of discipline points to unlock a Vocation, you can switch to that Vocation for free whenever you want, you only spend points the first time.

Every Vocation in the game have these things called Augments. These are basically passive buffs, some of them are extremely useful & the super neat thing about them is that once you've unlocked them, Augments can be used with any Vocation! For this reason it is advised to spend at least some time with all the Vocations in the game, for both you & your pawn.

This is the guy with the beard & moustache who goes "They're Masterworks all! You can't go wrong!" when you talk to him, select the 'Enhance' dialgoue option & you'll be taken to the upgrade menu, initial upgrades only cost money, but level 2 & 3 upgrades will require materials in addition to yet more money. In the end it's up to you to check the stats & see whether it's better to buy completely new weapons & armour or upgrade existing ones. The right-most tab in the upgrade menu will let you upgrade weapons & armour sitting in your Item Storage.

One annoying problem with Dragon's Dogma is that it does little to organise Quests in your quest log, Notice Board Quests look different, but Main Story Quests & Side Quests look exactly the same in the quest log, if you end up automatically failing a quest like this & the game saves, you may not be able to go back & do that quest without either starting the game over from scratch or waiting until New Game Plus to try again.

For example, if you stop fighting to pick up items in the middle of an ongoing battle for any reason, your pawn will pick up on this & start picking up items when they should be engaging the enemy, also abusing the 'Come!' (Down D-Pad) & 'Help!' (Left/Right D-Pad) commands can give your pawn the 'Guardian' inclination over time.

The 'Guardian' inclination sounds good on paper, your Pawn prioritizes protecting you above all else, in practice though, the Pawn will stick to you like glue & only attack the enemy when they get very close or attack you outright, it's unfortunate that it's very easy to accidentally give your pawn this inclination.

Scather - Rushes into battle & immediately engages the strongest enemy in a groupChallenger - Prioritizes the elimination of ranged & magic enemies firstMitigator - Focuses on killing the weakest enemies in groups firstGuardian - The Pawn prioritizes the Arisen's safety above all else, sticking to them like glue & barely attacking (some suggest that if both you & the pawn are melee classes then this inclination can work well)

Medicant - Pawn focuses on restoring health & curing debilitations (status ailments) for itself & the party, good if you want a dedicated healerUtilitarian - Encourages a pawn to use it's support abilities more oftenAcquisitor - Pawns will focus on gathering loot, even breaking off mid-battle to do soPioneer - Pawns will walk further ahead of you, potentially engaging in fights earlier than you may want to

There are lots of guides online about pawn inclination should you wish to know more, but for now I'll just say this, more experienced Dragon's Dogma players will tend to avoid hiring pawns with Guardian & Nexus inclinations.

However DO worry about equipping weapons & armour on hired pawns, you can do this but the game treats it as a gift to that pawn's creator so you'll lose that equipment when you dismiss them. For this reason people tend to seek out pawns that already have decent equipment.

Enemy compositions can change at nighttime & be a bit tougher but in general the biggest enemy at night is the realistically low visibility, make sure to always bring a Lantern & some flasks of oil to refill it should you be exploring at night or in dark areas.

You might see a blue marker on your minimap, if you go to the marked destination at nighttime (the pier in the starting town of Cassardis) you'll meet a lady called Olra, talking to her gives you the option to go to Bitterblack Isle, this an endgame dungeon with incredibly difficult enemies & the best gear waiting within, if you go there right at the start there is a 400% chance you will get rekt. Further on in Bitterblack Isle the story developments assume you've beaten the main game already so there's potential spoilers in that sense as well.

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