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So coming from someone who has played the game a lot throughout the years, tge most important thing is to save a lot. See a monster you've never seen before? Save, gotta make a jump you aren't sure about? Save. Check out what you can combine, especially healing items. Check the abilities of the pawns you decide to have by your side. You can change your vocation super easy so don't get too caught up in that. The game is way simpler than it appears at first. PARTY SET UP WILL BE THE KEY TO NOT DYING. Make sure you and your pawns have abilities that complement each other. And always have at least one mage

Only thing ill say from experience from the last dragons dogma is be careful before you finish your character because they may not look the same in different lighting 😂😂

Approach Dragons Dogma like the Witcher not Dark Souls. PREP IS KEY. When taking a mission you are given info on what type of monsters you will be facing. The Bestiary will be your best friend. It will give you weakness and best strategy to use against various beasts. Engaging them blind is also viable as your pawns will learn and begin to adapt to monster types and start offering advice and tips mid combat on fighting monsters they have experience fighting so heed their words. If you hire another player’s Pawn who has been through the area you haven’t been through yet, they will offer you tips on where to go or what giant monster is in the area. Listen to your pawns. And build your own pawn to complement your play style. If you’re a caster, a meaty warrior might make a better pawn. Or a thief for fast moving climbing pawn. Most important. You can always run from fights if they are too tough.

Take oil. Like seriously. 😂 Having a lantern flicker out on you because you ran out of oil in the middle of night or a deep dank dungeon is terrifying.

I can't wait to raw dog a bunch of griffins. Thank you for the challenge 😄

There is fast travel. Just not in the traditional sense. It’s called a Ferrystone. It’s a consumable item that will teleport you and your party to what is called a Portcrystal. Portcrystals are either statically placed in key positions (like outside/inside towns or certain areas), or can be picked up and placed in an area of your choosing. Like I said, a Ferrystone is a consumable? Once it’s used, it’s used. But the first game had an item called the 'Eternal Ferrystone', a Ferrystone that’s eternal.

Your vids have been super helpful as someone coming in new to this franchise. It has helped me prep for what to expect and manage my expectations.

First video I've seen that has specifically talked about the weight of the character during character creation and has a reasonable explanation of what that might mean. Other videos mention it but as a throwaway one sentence comment . This video is great. Thank you. Only 'tips' is i have are to remember to upgrade your Pawns skills and gears as you play and if it's the same as DD1, don't give an amazing weapon to a pawn that isn't yours if you might want it for a Vocation switch you have planned later because it'll gift that weapon, armor or whatever to the owner of the pawn (if it's the same as DD1, of course).

I remember in the first game I fell in love with my base pawns and felt like I was hitting wall after wall, then I finally bit the bullet and got new better pawns and everything was a complete breeze all of a sudden. Went from shooting tiny embers to tornados and lightning storms!

Thanks for a great video. One thing tho, there is fast travel. In fact there's even more options for fast travel than in the first game (you can take an ox cart to a destination and choose to sleep to fast travel, though my understanding is that there is a chance to trigger a random encounter.) The other options are ferrystones, a resource you can aquire and then use to fast travel on a limited basis.

I appreciate this video, man! I'm a newcomer to the series and this video was really helpful.

This was incredibly helpful, thank you! Always appreciate the respect for our time that you have.

You've got a really great voice and speech flow. It's always a pleasure watching your videos. Thank you.

I'm so happy that the cosmetics affect the gameplay. I can't wait to have my tiny little cat thief paired up with an absolute unit of a lion. This is going to make the roleplay streams so much fun.

Nimble main, bulky pawn 😊

I love you Spartacus, always pumping out quality content!!

This video was very helpful. Thank you!

You can fast travel with ferrystones and if the fence guy in this game, you can get multiple stones. Plus all pawns, including the ones you borrow out of the rift, can carry stuff for you

Really appreciate this Video, thanks bruh!

Great video thank you for the head-up

I really enjoy ur Vids on DD2 thankyou for the awsome vids

Healing springs and empty flask helped alot in DD1. Keeps you alive and you could make money off them. I set one waypoint in a healing spring to stay stocked up. Bought the "travel stones" off what i made on selling spring water. Hope the springs are in DD2 as well.

I'm enjoying your videos on DD2. A couple things I picked up from playing DD1. It was a fairly popular recommendation that your main pawn not be a mage. Mages are easy to pick up, are arguably slightly less gear dependent (than say a fighter) and are really there to be a heal bot. By picking up, say, a fighter pawn you have more of a direct hand in building out a lasting pawn with the latest gear. Also, with a fighter being your front line it needs to be kitted out with the best you have available. Secondly, I don't think the pawns you hired in DD1 (unlike your main pawn) level with you. So, I found myself swapping out the hired pawns every couple levels (because they're cheaper, to free, if they are the same lvl as you).

Tbh a 1st play through the pitfalls are part of the fun

Oh man just picked this game and wow I'm stoked iv never played the first one so this going to be wild

Thanks for a straight up no BS honest review. I’ve not played the first but super excited for this game. What class would you recommend for a first time play through?

I got the 1st game for 5 bucks because of all the hype around the second game. It's a really fun game so far. Looking forward to playing the DD2 this weekend. I feel like getting the first game for 5 bucks is a steal. It's going to be hard to put it down and start the second one haha. I'm glad it's not as frustrating as dark souls which for me kills the fun. There is some elemental and physical vs magic stuff to learn and figure out but the pawns yell hints to help you out. Bring a variety of atk types. If all else fails buy throwblast.

Always enjoy your videos

I was hyped about getting the game and was getting ready to preorder it but after watching your video I am not sure this game is for me so I am just going to wait a few months and see if I still feel like playing it.

As someone with multiple playthroughs of DD1 and Dark Arisen, I preferred my main pawn be the same vocation as my arisen character, and I'd just hire pawns to fill the gaps. The main pawn A.I. learned best from my play style when playing as the same vocations; they'd learn how I approached different enemies and pick up on my habits. I found this made for more effective pawn behavior, which may or may not have affected how often they were hired and positively rated by other players.

I definitely didn’t spend 3 hours making my character and main pawn last night😂 I was very surprised at how customizable it is. I’m seeing other people making Omni-man, Keanu, Aragorn, Legolas, Boromir, Angelina Jolie, Ciri, and so so much more.

One thing to note for the pawn set up section, pawns can’t be tricksters. That’s an arisen only vocation unless things changed.

One thing to think about is how your Vocations and your experience in them effect your stats. If you want to be tankier, take Fighter or Warrior for a while until your defensive stats improve, if you want to prepare to do magic damage, you need some levels in Mage, if you want to deal death from afar, Ranger or Strider are very solid vocations. Also think about what you actually want to do in the game, Dragons Dogma isn't like DS or other such games where you can just reset your progress, your choices matter, and for the vast majority of your game your build, even in the midgame, will be defined by how you've been playing. Just take a brief look at the Vocations and actually think about what you want to do in the game. Is your character a melee focused mage? That's an option, it's Magic Knight, choose it after you level in both the Fighter (later Warrior) and Mage . Want to be a highly versatile character that can both take the fight to ranged and melee enemies? Strider is a good shout but again, you'll want to level some in Fighter AND Ranger before you can best use it. Look at the combinations, look at the Vocations they emerge from and the stat requirements, then think about how you want to approach it. If you want to take a more magic focused playstyle, go mage heavy, if not and you are planning on supporting your team as an MK, go an even split to keep your endurance high for various spells while drawing aggro. It's easier to do a purely focused build, picking one path and sticking to it, but even then, you should look for useful passives in other Vocations, Passive skills can often apply across classes depending on the combination. This also lets you upgrade your damage by maxing out your standard combo skills and also giving you some useful attributes that appy to every vocation. Also actually be prepared for the consequences of these choices. Even with some Fighter experience to boost defensive stats, an Archmage will be squishy, this isn't just due to lower armor and HP, but the fact that positioning is super important and your most powerful skills (which you want to be using because a High Ziodyne or such can obliterate most enemies if they are weak to that element) take a significant amount of time to charge. If you get caught out, you will go down, very quickly, and as such Pawn behaviour is very important to make sure they protect you and draw aggro. Don't be afraid to mix it up, try all the different playstyles available to you to see what clicks, and then learn how to best use that Vocation. A Warrior is very good at single target absolutely bonkers damage with a big wind up, in other words, you are very good at killing big stuff very quickly (Arc of Deliverance in the first game could oneshot some big enemies fully charged even without fully upgrading it), but you also have low mobility and limited options overall (only 3 skills equipped at any time). As such you have to be careful of your targets, a Mage can unleash an AoE of death on those swarming Hobgoblins, you need to focus on that Chimera or ehat have you that's going to be the biggest threat to your team. That's one huge difference between Dragons Dogma and more modern ARPGs, you cannot do everything, even in Dark Souls which encourages focused builds you can simply make a functional hybrid that is good at everything, not so in DD. Your vocation is good at a limited selection of tasks, but it is generally very good at them if you play it properly. You won't be able to cover every base yourself, this isn't Skyrim, you need help, and that help is there. A well constructed team in DD will shrek just about anything that comes close as your Pawns grab hold of the nearest enemy bodypart and proceed to chokeslam them into the Abyss.

Valuable info. I remember in DD1 it took me a while to figure out why my 10ft tall testosterone fueled mountain of a character moved so slow and recovered stamina at a slugs pace. Goodness, this games gonna be a blast.

in Dark Arisen, I always offloaded any loot, if anything I never looted much, you will be running back to your storage otherwise. Typically, I would avoid looting unless it was a gear upgrade or healing herbs, food usually goes off very fast so I usually only grabbed that if I needed to heal after a fight.

My main advice is change pawns often and to get certain skills you need for a particular fight. The game is super easy if you just do this one thing

This was a video I needed because I’ve been looking for a sick solo player game and DD2 caught my attention but I was looking at it like a Skyrim style but I haven’t made the purchase yet still on the fence lol

i played dd1 and it was such a good game. gonna wait a bit for more patches on this one, but it all sounds so good :)

Two days Sparty!! Lettttts Gooooooo!

Aside from the performance issues I'm having an absolute blast with this game. It's everything I wanted the first game to be, and I'm sure Itsuno-san is happy to finally make his vision a reality. And I like how the game doesn't hold your hand. You have a lot of freedom to explore the world right off the bat and discover hidden caves and what not. It's a very immersive experience and it's hard to put the controller down.

There is fast travel, but it's very limited and you can only fast travel to discovered Port Stones I believe they're called, which doing so costs a Fairy Crystal which are quite expensive.

I missed out on the first one. I plan on playing the Thief. Duel daggers seems fun. Then switch to the hybrid Spearhand. Kinda like both of them. Mage as my pawn. Maybe 2 hired mages as well.

I really liked my female “elf” strider pawn in DD1, but I’m really leaning towards a big bulky warrior to compliment my main as fighter

So what’s the middle ground build size and weight ? And such a clear and honest video , thank you

Create a dench pawn so he/she can carry everything ..and loot everything..and keep it..I mean everything as you never know when you might need the most random item..save after you anything weird or think you can jump off ledge, save..like spam save..and have a mix of pawns..like healing mage, archer etc..you’ll be fine

This is why I love Dragon's Dogma, it's all about managing your inventory and your pawns. If you're a mage you don't want to run around with 3 other mages. If you want to take down a boss who's not affected by physical attacks and all you have is rangers and fighters you're going to be in trouble. Do you like to lead the fight or do you like to step back and orchestrate the battle from far as a sorcerer or a trickster. This game allows you to play however you want but it comes at a cost with a steep learning curve, but don't be afraid, once you get it, this game is a gem! And the story is worth your full attention.

If u make build vids i will be looking forward to watching those. Im looking for a Balanced DPS build with both Magic & Physical

As a veteran dogma player I would say that changing vocation will determine your stats. You may think I don't need magic damage on my warrior until you run into a monster immune to physical damage so in dark arisen the stronger job had bad Stat scaling and reverse.

I can't wait to play with the spear spinning dude

Height and weight will affect a lot of different things. The taller your character, the faster they run, and the longer their reach with weapons. However, increased weight also slows them down, but increases carry weight and stagger resistance. It also increased your max stamina pool, but decreases your stamina regeneration rate.

Great vid!

In my experience of DD1 the most important character design choices are the vocation and inclination of your main pawn. You can adjust your playstyle when changing vocations for your main character, you can change the other pawns to build the party you want, but your main pawn doesn't change so easy. The best pawn imo is a big healer. No need for healing potions, lots of carryweight, they can support any party setup and a big slow healer entering combat last is an advantage.

I must beat this game, all the classes in bg3 were so cool i had to keep restarting to try another class, got to the end of act 3 on pretty much every class but never beat the game, now im burnt out lol.

Dragons dogma is a piece of art. As with any piece of arm it’s value is the in the viewer. I made the first game a big part of my life in a time when I needed it. The new game is an extension and I am biased. If the Y just improved the mechanics and animations in any way while keeping with the formula, given they stated it will be bigger and better, I would fall in love with it!

Ooooh oh, i was so excited to play this game. But i have nerver played the first one, i have never played the Souls series (because i don't like difficult games)... My all-time favorite game is Witcher 3 and i thought DD2 would be similar.... Well, only two days left.... Hope it still will be good

I recommend you look up what "raw dogging" means before using it again. "Raw dogging some gryphons" creates a certain mental image...

THIS is the kind of heads up everyone needs for this game. I fell into the trap with Dark Arisen. Tried it, and I thought I hated it and didn't touch it again for 2 years. Tried it again with more patience and better understanding of what kind of game it actually was, and I fell in love.

I was thinking of going Fighter, with a Mage Pawn to put buffs and healing on my weapons, maybe acquire an Archer as well.

The one thing that I messed up in DD1, is I changed my vocation from fighter to warrior, but I did not have enough gold to buy a 2hander. Idk if I could respec back for free but I was out of gold at this point. I had to use the pawns to grind nearby areas for basic items until I could afford a 22k gold 2 hander. And that sucked! So idk if dd2 will eliminate this but definitely PLAN out your class changes 3-4 steps in advance 😊

The no fast travel thing is the only thing holding me back from getting this. It doesn’t seem like there will be dungeons, so I’m a bit worried about it turning into a slog with a lot of walking and battling random enemies outside during my long walk

One thing to keep in mind, the height/weight stat effects really only matter for min/maxing as the values become almost trivial late game You forgot to mention starting class type (icon background colour) sets what your base stats are and current one determines stat increase when you level. fighter (red) will start you with more physical strength (and thus more melee dmg) and physical defense; mage (blue) will start you with higher magic strength (more magic damage) and magic defense. Yellow starts in the middle-ish as does green I assume. So, if that's important to you, plan accordingly. Each time you level, your stats will increase to fit the class type you're currently using. Also, you can use augments from any vocation which really encourages you to increase rank in multiple vocations so you have more augments to choose from to build your perfect character.

Only tip I have for new players is don’t use any spell books you pick up. Some are super rare and using them will lock you out of certain quests. Also don’t sell any gear, store it since some gear you pick up is useful for quests and that same gear can be super expensive if you have to buy it

By the way there is a fast travel system dragons dogma lol you get port crystals you can place and use consmable stones to teleport to them

you can edit your character (OR your pawn) in town, i believe including most appearance changes, the description of the item in the deluxe edition (also available in game) says "gives ONE use to change either your character OR your pawn.... you can not edit race or body type" so i would think that means you could adjust height and weight?? (by body type, i believe that's if you look more masculine or feminine)

I am planning on playing with an archer too. I was wondering what the optimal weight and height balance for an archer should be. I'd think something like Legolas? Lol skinny, light, but not too short at the moment.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was about to make a chubby like Choji (naruto character) as a thief coz I really like him

I regretted buying it on PS5 and not using your code once I heard you have a mini Aussie. More dog content 🐕

I think people need to spend a bit more time than 2 hours to figure out if they like it. The first time I played the first one I almost benched it after the first couple hours cause it was an unusual gameplay. But if you dedicate some time to get into the groove with it, it REALLY gets addictive. It’s nice sometimes to get an unusual style of game just to have a different experience. Too many games are samey.

I don’t think I’ll have much trouble adapting to no fast travel DD2 I played the first game for a long time before I realized fast travel was a thing the only thing I will say is that it’s going to be a big pain in the ass picking and choosing what I should keep and discard as I’m a treasure hoarder and I collect things I don’t need just to have.

Reminds me of Forspoken with such Intense Abilities dropping the Frames. Makes it feel Impactful 😂

With campsites added, theres probably a storage box at camp. So you might not be carrying as much as you think

I played right through DD1 back in the day without knowing about a lot of these things like what stamina affects and still enjoyed the hell out of it. I'm not sure warnings are really warranted.

TY.

My plan was making my arisen Geralt as fighter and then into mystic spearhand. My pawn was going to be Ciri as an archer and then turn her into a magic archer. Since you were talking about weight, should I increase it for my arisen? Or should I stay in the medium range be more nimble to use my abilities as mystic spearhand. I was thinking of doing that and hiring another pawn like a fighter to carry all the weight. Is this a good idea?

Would hace been great for the game to have told me about the charactet size and weight before building the damn character

2 pawns for battle. 1 loot mule that I dismiss overencumbered on the road for the random traveling pawns. Rinse, repeat

i am still unsure about the character weight system.. there is some conflicting info out there.. i've heard (for DD2 specifically) that a bigger heavier character actually has MORE stamina, but recovers it much slower.. and i've seen someone at least claim they did multiple tests running from i believe the starting town to gran soren (in DD1) and showed the difference between the lightest character, to the heaviest, and total time was very very close. lighter characters are harder to hit with physical attacks (in theory) but if they do get hit easier to knock down... also (in theory) having longer arms gives slightly better range with physical attacks. lighter characters can be carried away up high and dropped by harpies.. (though that happened with my big character, wasn't a big enough fall to die, and only happened once) so the end result basically was a tall pretty heavy, not the heaviest, character was better.. yet i've noticed most of the pawns people made in DD1 were very small. my character rarely actually runs out of stamina, magic archer or mystic knight are easy to manage.. mage not as easy, a few high ingle casts and i'd need a rest.

I wonder what the ideal body proportions and weight for an archer will be. Normally you might assume a light nimble type like Legolas, but in real life it actually takes quite a bit of strength to draw a bow back, especially a war bow. Also since arm length affects your reach in DD2 I wonder will it affect drawing the bow?

How are you such a great and perfect youtuber?

Cant wait for when i finally get to play and can pull in my little brother's by then overleveled healer pawn to carry me through the game. Pocket healer ftw.

The pawn system has been improved (a)pawn..😉

Archer gang! Do you plan on maxing out base archer or jumping to magik when available?

0:51 Lighter characters don't run faster, do they? Running and walking speed depended on limb length in DD1 IIRC, which is a function of height unless your character is ultra-deformed or something. Sprinting speed depended on encumbrance, so small character bogged down by lots of gear will also sprint slower than a heavy character that can manage his gear's weight. Bigger/heavier characters also have higher stamina pools, although the difference was 20 per each weight class, which is a much lower increase percentage-wise than the drop in stamina regen for being on the heavier side.

I played pure sorc. For me the larger tthe pool of stam was more impprtant than regwn. U need the pool to cast super spells

Can you create three pawns already and play with them all from the start? Or do you just have a main pawn and find the rest ingame?

So what is the best option how big of a difference is between the big heavy guy vs smaller do they move slower in combat and or carry much more items?

U seem like u know ab DD ...so, i have a question : It was told that u can change ur vocation INGAME by visitig this or that guy .... but u will have to level this new vocation from 0 again. Ok cool. ... but what if i went from archer to fighter ....i dont like fighter ,...i go back to archer .... does the game save my archer progress, or do i have to level the vocation i was , for example, level 10 ....from 0 again, too ?

You forgot about the lack of hand holding, which I enjoy

Size does affect your hitboxes that enemies have on you. I wonder do they still have it to where short characters can fit in goblin tunnels and certain pathways

Do we have any inclination as to what the range is for stamina/weight variance can be from max to min? Are we talking 20% of maximum adjustment or are we talking 200%?

I actually didn't remember how long I played Dragons Dogma one so I went and checked .... I guess I kinda liked it with 19 hours. Maybe I finish that one first and wait for the price to drop.

Idk why everybody says prep is important.. I finished the first game twice once with one pawn and the second time alone and The only "prep" I did was just buying some herbs when I was alone and nothing with pawns other than upgrading my weapon. Maybe this one will be a bit more demanding as you can t heal lost gauge health and pawn revival is not instant but still

Getting it on gamepass 2moro, i definitely was going to raw dog my playthrough😂 die and delete, Thanks bro 🙏🏾 i hope i enjoy it after this video

Dogma noob here. I actually wandered into this basement/cave an was getting destroyed by skeletons because I didn't realize one was controlling the others an kept resurrecting himself haha died once an realized what was going on after using a wakestone 😅 was a good experience to actually have to use my brain an find the solution to win

Well, all that micro pretty much settled it for me, not a game I'm gonna get. Thanks for the info.

What effect does the musculature have on the gameplay? I built a slightly shorter character who was kinda buff

Its hard to decide whether its worth the buy for me, considering the price. But if the combats fun ill definitely buy it

And here i am, excited to play with only my main pawn just like in the first game. Curious about how hard it will be..

i think i have decided how to start. after playing DD1.. i dont wanna play a Mellee Dwarf again. instead see if i can do the Legolas/Gimli combo for DD2 :)