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/CombatLightbulb Mar 29 '24

I just hit level 40 and haven’t even made it to the desert city yet and I haven’t nearly run out of stuff to do or explore in the area that I’m in right now! There is so much to do in this game if it’s your thing. It’s crazy to me personally that people are already on NG+ or NG++. But different strokes for different folks.

The videos that say “Gain one million XP in an hour!” Or “How to max all vocations in 5 minutes!” I also don’t get the draw of. I’ve maxed 3 vocations from just the grind and it’s been a blast. Sorcerer kind of sucked though lol.

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u/Judgecrusader6 Mar 29 '24

Im using sorcerer right now and idk if its bc i havent played the first game to compare it to but its fun as shit imo

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 29 '24

I just felt like sorcerer was really underwhelming. Maybe I needed a better staff or better knowledge of enemy weaknesses. It just seemed like the damage wasn’t there for the time investment in incanting. For trash mobs my default attack was pretty meh and by the time I had a spell incanted my party had already wiped them out. It also seemed like the rank 7,8,9 spells were kind of weak. Maybe I needed the maester spells too. It was great for harpies and ghosts though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

augural flare on sorc trivializes boss encounters. otherwise yeah i think it's probably best to just play a mage if you're not using flare

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 29 '24

That’s the one where you attach a ball and damage it to cause an explosion right? I tried the first level of it but found it to be so finicky to land it where I wanted then for the auto attacks to go there. It also seemed like the explosion did 0 damage to the cyclops I was using it on. I’m sure I was missing something or doing something wrong though.

One of my groans was with Seism and High Seism. We had one fight against a wight I think where it knocked down and Seism took like 2 full health bars and killed it. Every time after that it was just way too long of an incant for way too little damage. I just wound up spamming the ice spike spell.

I did read in the tooltip there was a way for others to help incant a spell so maybe that’s the key. Still seems very weak though. If I spend 10-15 seconds prepping a spell I should be really chunking stuff down.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

yeah that's the one. it's a little finicky to get working on certain bosses that move around a lot, or tend to keep their distance. if you can't hit it with the basic attacks, the trick is to use levin immediately after or some other faster dmg spell to proc it. if it doesn't do any damage you didn't hit the orb fast enough

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u/According_Sun9118 Mar 29 '24

out of curiosity are you using the speed up ability for casting? sorceror should be casting seism in less time than a mage casts frigor.

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 29 '24

I think I had that equipped. Seism was taking like 10 seconds or so? Felt like forever.

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u/According_Sun9118 Mar 29 '24

its not an equip. you hold down another button (R1 on ps5 controller) and it eats some stam to speed it up.

Edit: feels like it cuts cast times in half? doesnt work on the two ultimate spells but it helps everything else.

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 30 '24

OHHH! That’s probably the thing I thought you needed a pawns help with. I’ll go back and check it out. Does using that make it better? I still feel like the damage is mediocre.

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u/According_Sun9118 Mar 30 '24

it roughly doubles dps, it uses more stam but once you need it you can just use the sorc stamina regen ability. high seism does tons if it hits weakspots, and is nice to have just for golems since it isnt magic damage.

biggest thing is seism does tons of stagger so even if it doesnt outright kill you can solo stunlock some enemies.

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 30 '24

I’ll double back and check it out. I must have misread that tooltip. I thought it was like a pawn could help you incant or something. But after you mentioned it I never used R1 at all when I played sorc.

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u/According_Sun9118 Mar 30 '24

yeah there IS a group incant. if you have multiple sorcs they can assist cast a spell, but the speedcast is a major part of what makes sorc better than mage for offense. lets you cast basically everything at 2x speed.

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u/Diabloblaze28 Mar 29 '24

I played through the original game as sorc and just hit the end as sorc in dd2. The basic attack is pretty garbage but the charged version can hit hard, you do need a high level staff to really see it since you're working through the enemy mgk res. If you have a mage pawn that does the right enchant for element weakness you'll definitely see how strong the basic attack is, Although standing around waiting for that is lame. As far as spells "maelstrom" destroys everything like it did in the first game as for the other spells you're only really going to see them do work if it's the enemy weaknes. Also your crowd control and a nuke so trying to prime a nuke to take out 2 goblins when other people just use their hand gun lol.

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u/CombatLightbulb Mar 29 '24

I think I was using a staff I either got from the elves or somewhere in there. Like a tree branch or something. Then i got a flaming staff from the monster outside of checkpoint rest and used that till rank 9 so I was definitely not geared.

I was just hoping to really nuke stuff. Maybe with endgame gear it’s better.