101 Dragon's Dogma 2 Tips And Tricks For Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced Players

[@Kaganath]

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[@harrywaltersR18]

When you cook while camping, the cutscene of a REAL steak being cooked is brilliant hahaha

[@THELONESAMURAI.X]

Oh yeah it's so good

[@ThickmoidYeast]

Especially that the steak is different depending on what you cook lol

[@DNYLNY]

Best cooking animation ever

[@bwestacado9643]

I love that 😂

[@LegBreakMMA]

When that first happened, I was like holy shit that looks real, stunning graphics, after a couple times I started to realize it is real 😅

[@davidlincoln851]

Fun tip on number 62 is that you don't need the key. You can throw the guard right through the door busting the doors open

[@paulnolan4971]

lol I LOVE this game

[@Avalon1951]

A tip I got was if your in the capital city go to the main rift stone and search for level 2 pawns that have the travel with and the reward is a wakestone shard, hire two of these, then sit and doze for that amount of time and rince and repeat till you get a full wakestone, do this over and over again till you have 5 or 6 wakestones and viola! you never die:)

[@woulduknowmore]

i'm 333 hours into this game and tip 46 blew my mind. i knew you could click into each icon on the map, but had no idea about the extra menu. really great list overall, and really great presentation.

[@Kaganath]

Blew my mind as well, would've been helpful before I max upgraded my gear lol but it should help when I eventually go for a Sorc playthrough.

[@woulduknowmore]

@@Kaganath lmao right

[@Rhyan-uh4tx]

If you go warfarer and use a sleep arrow from magic archer and then switch to any slicing weapon, you can put medusa to sleep and very very easily cut off her head. But it decays super quick so put it in your stash to use later. Don't save the head for end game though, the game force decays them.

[@Kaganath]

Magic archer's the one class I still haven't fully explored in this game, which is weird since it was my second most played class in DD1.

[@Pizza_Dude1337]

You can also walk to bakbatthal from Checkpoint Rest Town If you run down the River below the Town you also find a good bow this way

[@DNYLNY]

This video doubled my enjoyment of the game. I was not entirely engaging with the systems. Thank you.

[@tbone5757]

You mentioned meat aging and noted about them rotting, but you didn't mention that combining rotten items will make lantern oil. So they aren't necessarily a bad thing to have.

[@triplethreatgaming8583]

They also didn’t mention that you can combine aged meat to make dried meat and exquisite dried meat

[@donihancock2763]

Yea this guy doesn’t know anything about this game but basic stuff. All this stuff he listed was basic af. Would have made more sense to put stuff that the game doesn’t tell you the game tells you all of this stuff in the how to menu

[@xyzzyx4142]

Really nice collection of tips. Thx man

[@Kaganath]

Thanks, I hope some of these helped!

[@Yggdrasill8]

Very excellent advices, I am 153 hours in and didnt know a few of these

[@Kaganath]

I'm quite surprised about some of the things I found here too, and I recently found a new tip after uploading this video. Apparently you can throw a bunny on a charging minotaur or garm and they'll get knocked out. Pretty cool!

[@Dukestboy96]

As a new player, literally 3 days in all this information became very daunting lol..im sure ill miss half of it when naturally playing through the game especially with no additional save files to come back to. Regardless im loving my time with it so far, first game in a long time thats made me miss it and eager to play after work and adult duties

[@shoody7819]

Excellent list! I'm about to play the game for the first time so these tips are super helpful.

[@Tenshi117AM]

All the best tips in the best order possible

[@mephistoxarses8585]

Wrong. Tip one. Remember where you find your first Seeker token and leave a "map marker!" lol

[@Tenshi117AM]

@@mephistoxarses8585 oh oh oh you’re right that should be number 1

[@goldgamer6796]

Just yesterday I fought gigantus and fell off him near the top, I thought I was dead for sure, but as it turns out I landed right into the arms of one of my pawns, I was baffled by how small the chance of that lining up perfectly must've been

[@Kaganath]

I had one of those too! Got caught by my main pawn after being flung in the air by a Griffin. These little features really make the game feel special, I wish more games did something similar.

[@bwestacado9643]

Dude that's awesome! I watched an ogre drop kick my pawn. He was down in a canyon and flew up the canyon to nail him 😂. I laughed so hard before impaling him in the head with my duospear

[@Dsrgreyy]

Yeah I fell off a Griffon last night on its way to the nest. I thought I was toast but my pawn caught me and I sat there with my jaw dropped for two minutes

[@MexMX]

If you're struggling to find the Towering Earth grimoar, or Waldhar (caged magistrate) didn't give it to you for any reason (in my playthrough he didn't give it to me for almost 'til the endgame for some reason), you can Plunge it as a Thief from an NPC called Elsa in Battahl. If you google her location there will be a reddit post with a map marking 3 palces she wanders at. I've seen forums that other people are struggling with it too, so it might help someone out.

[@MexMX]

Also Newt Liqueur tip; Ibrahim can forge a genuine copy of it.

[@bwestacado9643]

You can also buy everything you miss from the trader in Checkpoint Rest Town who makes forgeries. He has all the grimoires I sold readily available for purchase

[@NoxPeregrinus]

My first playthrough took me about 200 hours, cus i did a LOT of exploring and grinding for materials

[@mephistoxarses8585]

Just hit level 70 after about 230 hours. Still not ready to initiate the final Godsway quest as i'm having too much fun. Also found out from youtubers that there are at least 5 or 6 quests that i didnt even know existed!. lol....guess it's going to be a long while before i even hit the Unmoored world. GOTY for me!

[@MexMX]

@@mephistoxarses8585 From personal experience, if you want to play NG+ then you're quite ready yet. It's not a bad thing to leave 1 or 2 things to explore in the new playthrough. If you don't want to NG+, then I say you're playing the game right. I just started NG+ at 180h.

[@bwestacado9643]

I love exploring in this game. I accidentally came across the Sphinx and now have portable crystals to put where I want. I just need to remember where my 1st seeker token was 😂

[@dancarr6613]

Yep me too... God knows where it is!!​@@bwestacado9643

[@joseenriquesanchezreche6393]

That was a huge Lot of info. Thank so much. Right into Favourites. Will check this often.

[@NPDStudio]

Im 50hrs in and loving it waaaay more than i thought i would. I have some gripes but its the perfect RPG im looking for. Love not heing handheld, yet constantly having options to progress in any way available. ❤

[@bwestacado9643]

Exactly! I'm seeing people cry about no fast travel lmao. Just run to your destination. It's not hard and fighting is fun. I love that aspect of these games

[@AxxmorbidfloristxxC]

If u really want a good self made quest at the beginning of the game, go after the wayfarer and and magick archer vocations. Took me 3 nights of playing doing this early level but it was worth it. Plus it allows you to smash through the open world with the items and equipment you will acquire along the way making the beginning of the game a lot easier on you, especially getting stuck outside at night. Just make sure you bring some wakestones to revive a certain midget you have to escort near the end of your journey.

[@oriamlaverde788]

I accidentally discovered tip 52 and I gotta say it’s saved my life so many times 😂

[@effectionion9220]

3:50 sleep and than eat, you get the buffs for longer time

[@Kaganath]

Nice! Do we have any info on how long these buffs actually lasts? Haven't tested it myself.

[@vectorsmith6057]

​@@KaganathI've heard 1 day. Also haven't tested

[@carolinemccall2608]

When you create your character, pick a vocation that you don't want to start with. After sleeping at the Borderwatch Outpost (after hiring 2 pawns at the riftstone) change your vocation to the one you want to play and presto! free armor.

[@DarthVader-sz8up]

Lots of tips I didn't know, thanks

[@ChippychrisAus]

Fantastic video mate! Subbed! Thank you!!!

[@ScandociouslyHG]

You can put medusa to sleep and then kill her. Magick Archer has a sleep arrow.

[@Kaganath]

Magick Archer and Trickter are the two vocations I've yet to really try. I'm definitely going to be doing a playthrough with them at some point though as Magick Archer carried me hard in Bitterblack Isle in DD1!

[@ScandociouslyHG]

@Kaganath Yeah, and with Trickster, you can make monsters fight each other. It gets messy, though. Well Met Arisen.

[@mephistoxarses8585]

Nice tip. Thanks.

[@tbone5757]

You can also make newt liquor

[@triplethreatgaming8583]

This is what I did. I got one from the magick archer hut and then crafted 2

[@hootponca77397]

Is there a way to find my original seeker token? Or am I screwed? 😂😅 Great video man 👍

[@adamcarr2062]

Good video mate, nice one.

[@Avatar_of_me]

Many thanks awesome tipps

[@SomebodysNephew]

This game is amazing. They did a good job improving on the first without removing that essence from the game.

[@quantumkaos94]

I'm still trying to find main quest after the monster culling hahaha been doing side quest

[@Kaganath]

Just check in with Brant in the tavern at nighttime and he should be able to point you in the right direction!

[@quantumkaos94]

@Kaganath thanks man I really appreciate your reply 🤙

[@serwalkerofthekeynes8761]

It took a while but i finally got this game at half price. So far I'm loving it, every encounter seems to throw me off as one second I'm slaying and the next I'm having a my bowels yanked through my pee hole 😂

[@lockstepgaming5433]

#33 there are 3 stationary portcrystals not 2, one outside the main entrance to Bakbattahl

[@АндрейТуровский-к5и]

I was in Moonlight Tower but the cutscene didn't trigger. Didn't do any main quest after meeting King beneath the lake and taking his sword. Maybe that is the case.

[@christfashionwear9841]

Thank u so much for everything

[@kylegrantz2331]

I learned so much!!

[@benevolence8804]

you said one of the only 2 stationary port crystals at 11:00 but there is at least one more in bakbattahl

[@georgesumnall8008]

when the game first released in march there were only 2 stationary port crystals, the one in bakbattahl was added in September, this video predates that update so at the time he uploaded the video the port crystal in bakbattahl didn't exist but good eye in noticing it ;)

[@icekirito]

Raising affinity with NPC is good but it's kind of annoying when NPC requesting for escort few times in a row when you are busy with other things..

[@educationiskey3331]

😅😅😅😅ikr

[@lockstepgaming5433]

#70 FINALLY a guide on where to get newt liquer that isnt "do this weird mechanic and buy 3 for 5k each"

[@joshuadragonblood3300]

Bro balbatthal also has a stationary port crystal right next to the main entrance to the city

[@paulnolan4971]

GDI I thought that beacon was for fighting so I gifted it I think. Well I only been playing a few hours. Custy. Gonna sub :)

[@i20coyote85]

I fucking have been just carrying those damn beetles and havent consumed any of them i didnt understan that and now i feel dumb

[@BerzingueYT]

eternal ferrystone came with dark arisen, not the base game. so don't expect it to appear just now. also, devs made travelling much better in dd2, not mentioning oxcarts that can lead you to pretty much wherever you want

[@DankMoonBlade]

I dont find ferry stones expensive, but get annoyed resting for three days to buy another, i always have 5 minimum, in case i need to teleport around.

[@DankMoonBlade]

I was thinking of just starting a new playthrough, glad to know it has a true ng+, instead of just a restart, I was absolutely livid in starfield for that and just quit playing it.

[@DankMoonBlade]

The wolf one being at the end is absolutely hilarious lol things dragged me everywhere.

[@Kaganath]

I don't think I ever waited for ferrystones, just kinda bought them every time I'm a village or a town. At the end game though, ferrystone drops very frequently so you won't need to worry about them in the next playthrough.

[@mmurphy3608]

Number 62 is one of those bizarre ones that like no one would figure out on their own. Well, not no one as someone obviously did. lol. But most people would never figure it out on their own. There are a lot things like this in this game. I hate using a guide or looking stuff up but I’ve had to multiple times to figure things out because they are so bizarre and cryptic.

[@melsofthestars]

My hint would be to go at night

[@Kaganath]

Apparently that guard goes away but I've played the game multiple times and she was always there. Maybe @melsofthestars is right and that's the easier method, it was fun trying it out this way though!

[@MrShellmarx1981]

I killed the spy from bakbattahl in my first play through so missed the reward if I had carried him to the soldier station by the front gate or to Brant . Also giving low value deliveries to quest in front of the hospital church at the slums probably made me miss out on logistician scroll. Giving less than all the tomes to the sorcerer girl will make you miss out on the celestial peon master skill as I did not receive it I think. And I really believe the jadeite orb quest is a big scam by all 3 parties to resell and forge the damn thing.

[@sirencloud8037]

22:51 RIP to all those wake stones that returned to the brine

[@Railmesenz]

I hate wolves. A random wolf has come and grabbed me during 3 different dragon fights

[@ichicadhaninja528]

Appreciate you 🔥🔥

[@wiltedfantasies]

Safe to say my main pawn is a lot stronger than me because I usually mainly play support type magick archer or Mage 😌😌

[@Kaganath]

My pawn Adaliah has been carrying me since DD1 lol. Sorcerer's are strong af

[@luminousparadox7529]

A tip if you played dragon's dogma 1, you'll have a decent grasp on how the game works. Try meele only. Personally I find mages and sorcerers and sometimes archers to be op in pawn hands. So get a pawn with the potion skills and it gives a different kind of management to the game. Mainly I just use fighters but I add the odd thief, warrior or archer from time to time. I'm usually a warrior or warfarer warrior fighter hybrid.

[@charlesconnelly1279]

You can duplicate all heal potions at the forgery guy cost a lot but you can get them easily

[@vectorsmith6057]

18:25 pretty sure enemies do scale but maybe only after respawn. I was running around with the exp boosting bow/ring for a while and the enemies seem to have out scaled me drastically.

[@lockstepgaming5433]

#87 when getting magick archer i did NOT get her maister skill?!

[@Cearball]

Is you cast the mage healing green bubble & undead enter it damages them

[@LordOfLineage]

All this time… I never knew different locations had different smithing upgrades. I always wondered why they were different colors sometimes. I feel so stupid!!

[@Kaganath]

It was super easy to miss!

[@averycheesypotato]

I made my pawn unique, picked out a fitting moniker, but assumed that would be the pawn’s name 😓 Now I have a great pawn who is only named “MainPawn” and I can’t change it! So mad at myself lol

[@Kaganath]

My girlfriend started out with a female pawn but decided midway to turn her pawn into a dude and make him look like me IRL. Now, she has a male pawn, who looks like me, named Meredith. We feel your pain.

[@averycheesypotato]

@@Kaganath lol poor Meredith! I wish the game allowed for name changes

[@UNDEADLEO25]

How can get more portcrystals

[@sabertooth8198]

Yo that Guts though! 😂

[@RUBY_REDWULF]

I removed the lantern from my character because I don’t like how it clips through the armor.

[@ragingplatypus911]

Blasphemy!!!

[@Kaganath]

Playing fighter right now and every shield clips through my cloak, super annoying but it is what it is.

[@jsut6017]

use auto hide lantern mod, it'll hide the lantern when its not lit

[@MightyMelvo]

@@Kaganath Fun fact: Expeditioners Cloak is the only cloak in the game that has physics that consider the shield on your back. Great video btw!

[@Sippe1]

I gave jadeite for the Sphinx and then I got two of them. Two people wants that jadeite so I got two rewards (y)

[@triplethreatgaming8583]

Way easier to just make a forgery(which is what I did)

[@hootponca77397]

Is there a way to find my original seeker token? Or am I screwed? 😂😅

[@Kaganath]

The location resets to whichever one you find first on a new playthrough. They don't respawn though!

[@hootponca77397]

@@Kaganath😶.........fuuuuu!!!!

[@Spe4k]

Do you have any video tutorial on how to make that pawn in 0:50 (left side) it's literally eye catching

[@talionstorm]

It would be dope if there was a beast tamer class

[@Kaganath]

Something similar to a Tamer from Black Desert would actually fit quite well in this world

[@ayystayyfann4972]

Exploring is fun but chest to offer is ridiculously bad.

[@jack-ky7rq]

they hid that portcystal in harve😭

[@AnotherGamingDude]

How do you make a pawn to guide you to a seeker token?

[@triplethreatgaming8583]

Usually they will mention something along the lines of “what is that, the light catches it” or something similar and it will appear on your mini map as an exclamation point

[@AnotherGamingDude]

@@triplethreatgaming8583 I saw some videos were the tokens literally appear on the mini map like quest markers. I guess it's a mod.

[@floofy352]

Wolves hunt in packs!

[@dielog2211]

number 85 is way too funny for me...there is no other characters other than granpda dwarves and GREGOR??? so you're saying i have high affinity with these old guys...

[@Just_Some_Clown]

26:14 don’t grab THE chest, grab HER chest.

[@Kaganath]

You have no idea how tempted I was to say this

[@luisz222]

It’s kind of annoying how if you play this game completely blind without research you won’t get anything out of it. I mean romances, gear, vocations etc are features that are very easily missed even if you explore all the time if you don’t know about certain features. Vocations are probably the hardest to miss if you just explore both maps thoroughly but side quests are things you have to actively seek out as there’s no direction anywhere which requires you to aimlessly wander around for hours so you have to know beforehand that you should avoid main quests like the plague since there’s so few of them and they lock you out of most content without warning.

[@marcduchamp5512]

Where can I find Mildred after she moved?

[@Kaganath]

She's nowhere to be found as far as I know. She will return after the week, but after that she's permanently gone.

[@ivanspies3876]

Im Grauwolf and Eo mi pawn . 😍🤩 Im happy to see her on KZbin 🤩😍

[@Kaganath]

7:28 That's so cool!!

[@ivanspies3876]

@@Kaganath 👍🏽

[@jimmyjams5038]

You are probably the only person that thinks the dragonforge effect looks cool. I hate it and it seems like most people do lol

[@paulnolan4971]

41 - I LOVE THIS FKING GAME 🤣

[@OneArmedShinobi7388]

There is one more permanent port crystal in batahl

[@Kaganath]

Thank god they added that in an update!

[@mmurphy3608]

As a completist I really hate missable quests or quests that are on a timer. I’m not sure I get the point of it really.

[@leonhardt6105]

For sure, my OCD goes into overdrive! But it gives the game another layer of replayability. Games like this, I tend to do my first run blind, then read/watch guides, just to see different paths, and things I completely missed.

[@roadjcat]

Aren't you given a lantern by default? Or did I just black out when receiving mine? 😂 I know pawns you hire come with them

[@ryanbrown8139]

I've played this game for 193hr and have 0% completion progress. I am level 47 though

[@tbone5757]

Not killing Gigantus makes 2 new end bosses available to fight.

[@michaelrichard7211]

On my most recent playthrough I opted to not Medusa head him and he actually killed said 2 bosses for me, voiding a few hundred extra wyrmslife crystals that you'd normally get from fighting them.

[@SoloC33]

Oml I’ve been selling all the beetles because they give no hp💀

[@Kaganath]

Nooo

[@adamdrexler]

No character creation is kinda a big letdown for me. Coming from BDO where character creation was nuts, I was really excited for a game with more single player focus. Seems like this games is more in the vein of a Devil May Cry/Ninja Gaiden/Witcher vibe

[@Kaganath]

There is character creation in this game though? Not to mention I think DD2's character creation is the best one in all the games I've played, including BDO.

[@adamdrexler]

@@Kaganath 🤣🤣🤣 the video I tried to comment on was crimson Desert. I guess auto play went to the next vid before I could finish typing

[@Kaganath]

lmao youtube do be like that sometimes

[@rianlaney8691]

number 1 dont sell the greatsword

[@octobercameron786]

To anyone experiencing this, I sold it but the smith in the checkpoint village had one for sale.

[@tjxshippuden467]

Bro, the replay value of this game is nuts

[@Kaganath]

I've beaten this game so many times at this point and played other games since it was released but I'm still getting the itch to replay because of that sweet combat system. If this gets a DLC I'm going all in again on DD2.

[@jasonbourne7848]

So eternal wakestone isnt even eternal

[@sachabarboteu]

Im sorry what ? Permanently ?

[@gvue4396]

Most of these are not tips and tricks lol

[@GMan-bn3tb]

Do you not know what a tip is?

[@DankMoonBlade]

... They are exactly tips and tricks lol, what did you expect glitches and exploits?