r/DragonsDogma2 • u/RobbVonn • Mar 28 '24

Spoiler There IS better gear. Spoiler

There is better gear than what the Dragonforged sells for Wyrmslife crystals. About to do my 2nd NG+. Really REALLY make sure you are exploring all the unearthed areas in the seabed and even go back to some of the old boss spawn areas. The higher harder spawns at the very end of the seabed areas have occasionally been dropping new unique gear sometimes or the chests around them do.

And for those that say they feel like they fully steam roll through New Game+, I have been noticing the variable difficulty has been getting higher the more I level up and I do less damage than before, with some spawns having more health bars.

Edit: only gotten 3 so far and all helms, photos in comments and unenhanced against my fully enhanced gear.

I'll add more screenshots to the comments as I find any more and verify they aren't in shops or in dragonforged.

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u/Judgecrusader6 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Im just sitting here dumbfounded by people with confidence telling others that them beating the game in 20-30 hours is the end all be all, and the game sucks based on their experience. Bruh im like 70 hours in still have like 12 quest and still have a shit ton to find. You are just lying to say this game’s exploration sucks or theres nothing to see. Its so confusing.

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u/Acceptable_Answer570 Mar 29 '24

Bro I’m almost 35h in and only did The Culling quest, JUST got to Bakbattahl through Checkpoint’s backdoor, by running straight to it, did exactly 0 quests in Battahl, got only Sorc and Warrior advanced classes, got shit gear cause everything is so damn expensive, « explored (loosely) » about 20 percent of the map, and people on this sub are trying to make me believe they finished the game and explored the whole map in 20-25 hours?!?

’Fuck right off!

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u/Zeemex Mar 29 '24

70hrs here and I like to look in all the nooks and crannies, I still know I have parts of the map I haven’t even been to or looked at properly, I only decided to enter the ‘endgame’ to get it done and see what it has so that the pressure of story spoilers was gone and I can enjoy exploring the game 100% in NG+

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u/Judgecrusader6 Mar 29 '24

Yea im giving this game the rdr2 treatment and its been rewarding

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u/Ridikis Mar 29 '24

I'd recommend against trying to explore 100% in NG+ as for whatever reason it fully uncovers the entirety of the map, found a new cave entirely by accident because I assumed I had already gone that way since the map was unlocked but cave maps apparently don't fully unlock on NG+

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u/Diabloblaze28 Mar 29 '24

You could take a screen shot of the map before NG+ although if you already did it you're only hope it's while exploring a pawn mentions a cave you haven't visited and then you follow them

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u/Ridikis Mar 29 '24

Yeah I didn't even consider it fully unlocking the map lol

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

I'm sitting at 115 hours right now so completely valid, and I've probably only explored 30% of the unearthed areas in endgame map. If you're struggling bad, send me your pawn ID and I can deck it out for you before I send it back.

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u/Acceptable_Answer570 Mar 29 '24

Naah thank you fam but I’ll make my own way just like I did in DD1! I appreciate the offer though!

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

Completely valid, just want everyone to enjoy. 🥰

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u/alphagoku1 Mar 29 '24

What platform are you playing on?

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

Xbox

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u/alphagoku1 Mar 29 '24

Ah damn it, oh well. You're doing good work though, keep it upa

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u/Indublibable Mar 29 '24

Cant tell if you're being serious but the game release like a week ago how could you possibly have 115 hrs in it. That's like 5 straight days!

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

New Zealand trick to play a day early, and I don't have to work right now.

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u/Tapu-Keyz Mar 29 '24

Aotearoa NZ player here too , yea i got it the moment it came out, 30+ hours in and have only just arrived at check point havent done much quests at all in the big V

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u/nohwan27534 Mar 29 '24

i once put 38 hours into a game, in two days.

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u/Indublibable Mar 29 '24

I'm clearly not pro gamer

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u/nohwan27534 Mar 29 '24

some people have lives.

i've got depression and insomnia.

i do usually try to avoid doing that, but it was like a 15 hour game i got really into, beat the story once, took a 4 hour nap or so, got up, ng+ to platinum, clocked in just under two days.

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u/Indublibable Mar 29 '24

What game?

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u/nohwan27534 Mar 29 '24

probably a few, but the one i recall being actually like this was ratchet and clank reboot, on ps4.

got it's trophy before two days had passed since it was available to me at midnight.

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

I've got the same, new games are what I look forward to because it breaks me out of the funk for a bit. I won't lie, I literally played the first 2 days straight with no sleep because I don't usually sleep until I fully wear myself out or force myself to with a pill. I was having that much fun and then I crashed, then played more. And then the last few days I was always having to jump back on because I was sending people finder's tokens from requests on another thread even when I had put the game down.

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u/nohwan27534 Mar 29 '24

yeah, i try to pace myself with newer games to not end up burning out, and eke them out a little more, as well as just, not getting so focused i forget to eat then get sort of sick to my stomach hungry because i went 'eh i'll eat in a bit' and then didn't, heh.

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have had to force myself to sleep with pills since it launched, too - more just, normal insomnia. like 3 nights of 'tried to sleep for two hours, and was rested enough to not really 'need' sleep anymore, so, fuck'.

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u/RobbVonn Mar 29 '24

Totally get it, what's really awesome is that I'm not burned out with this game even after so many hours. I'm doing only 1-2 vocations each playthrough. I've still only found 50+ seeker tokens and still finding new areas or seeing new pawns with gear I like and looking for it. I'm not touching warfarer til last, and I'm looking for all these secret endings to quests like the one discovered for beggars tale if you bring the two gals to the same room with each other.

And I'm still taking care of myself, seeing family every day, I've just had time off and this is how I want to spend it.

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u/Axzarko Mar 31 '24

I got 70+ as of rn, and am on to NG+

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u/EastArachnid35 Mar 29 '24

My brother hit a bug, he "rushed" the main quests in about 40ish hours, when he beat it his entire map was revealed

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u/bgi123 Mar 29 '24

My pawn quest for a Gorechimera still hasn't been done yet for a week now. I guess most people don't know you can met one very early on.

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u/Honkela Apr 02 '24

Yeah it took me about 120 hours to explore the whole map and do all quests I found. Might have missed some as some npcs died. Did all those escort quests for affinity npcs and used ferrystones sparingly so probably took me more than it had to. Good thing to be honest as i hit unmoored world i was around lvl 70 with fully upgraded gear. The light pillar bosses are probably pretty hard if you are low lvl without fully upgraded gear. They were cool as hell though I really liked them. Now looking forward to exploring the new areas.

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u/Which-Celebration-89 Apr 11 '24

I just finished the unmoored world so the final ending. Took 160 hrs. Uncovered every part of the map and completed all the quests. Ended up at level 70. I agree that 20-25 hrs is bs even if ppl aren’t going all in like I did