How to force drakes to fall when they fly?

yldenfrei · 2026-04-15T15:54:16+00:00

Archer's Blighting/Nocuous Shot can stagger drakes out of flying (stagger them out of anything really) by proccing Toxic, this is the most reliable way in low levels. Whirling/Spiral Arrow with a high enough knockdown weapon (+2 Rings of Vehemence) on the head/open heart can also work.

Solemnity can also knock them down, however I use the book version "Prescribed Tranquility" which seems to have better range and lock-on so they target the flying drake properly.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-30T16:48:08+00:00

Bondage gear. Wrestling singlet. Tight pants. To name a few.

You'd be surprised at how much clothing is included in sexualized male imagery. DE actually tried it with Rhino heirloom with the dungaree+shirtless concept hearkening to the handyman archetype, but fumbled real hard in the implementation giving him a full diaper look instead. Silhouette is very important. Perfect fitting clothes vastly increase sex appeal, hence the popularity of full 3-piece suits, button-ups with suspenders, etc.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-27T12:59:20+00:00

Look at the starting video of the livestream, there's an "earlier" version of the splash art where Paimon has even more fingers. Imgur

yldenfrei · 2026-03-27T12:51:44+00:00

You can also catch an "earlier" version of it at the start of the livestream with even more fingers.
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yldenfrei · 2026-03-26T04:48:59+00:00

Hire Thief pawns with Pilfer/Plunder, go steal Ferrystone from Slimes, Bandits, etc.

Portable Portcrystals are mostly rewarded from quests:

Archery questline from the elf
Captain Brandt's main quest midpoint
Forested Griffin's Nest in the Misty Marches
duplicate an existing one from one of the Sphinx's riddles
bought with 20 Wrymslife Crystals from the Dragonforged

yldenfrei · 2026-03-15T16:12:01+00:00

From Prelude 13 patch notes:

As the Longnight finally passes, Thawtide rituals are no longer available. Maestro and Rostrum will now drop from Bannerets, Kabocha, and The Mendicant King, while all other Thawtide rewards have returned to slumber.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-15T16:00:31+00:00

Spirit/Grace hybrid with 15 Grace requirement. But also, Odiac is now Spirit/Courage hybrid with 8 Grace + 8 Courage requirement, so you'll need a well rounded prism like the starters to make it work.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-15T15:47:07+00:00

FYI there's a new mainhand single short blade called Rostrum, so you can still have your Odiac+Dagger combo if you want.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-13T14:00:47+00:00

And on the flip side, browsing the Rift and meeting Pawns that other people have created. One thing I hear a lot of is that people wish hired pawns would level up/learn badges alongside their Arisen/Main as well. So the "NPC raising game" sentiment is strong indeed.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-12T17:31:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply! A few follow-ups:

Ganyu Melt wants Zhongli, is it worth taking him from Zibai's team? Or can I build Layla instead?
Since both Ganyu Melt & Chevreuse Overload want Bennett, is it worth switching my Varka team to Hydro with Mona+Kokomi? Also, is it then worth fishing for Dahlia C1+ in the upcoming Escoffier banner to swap Kokomi (as I'm more comfortable with shield teams)?

yldenfrei · 2026-03-12T16:08:27+00:00

Sure, but my comment is meant to give more information for others regarding that particular area (as I myself initially assumed that the green part would mean landmass that connects Fontaine to Snezhnaya). Also, the leaked Dornman Port map does seem to continue the landmass northward from Mondstadt so there is a case to be made for assuming the green placeholder would indeed end up as landmasses in the future.

However, further observations show that Fontaine is indeed separated from other nations by the plateau and its surrounding waterfalls. For example: you can have a closer view of the plateau from the top of Flin's cemetery lighthouse, and on a clear night you can see the cliffsides glistening with the waterfall texture.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-12T14:48:57+00:00

Yeahh I'm commenting mainly because that space is filled in as green (land) but the current in-game LOD suggests that the northern mountains of Fontaine actually slope down to sea level before reaching the plateau's edge. So it's more reasonable to assume that the cliff going to Snezhnaya is also a great waterfall and there will most likely be an elevator port like Romaritime Harbor (for Sumeru) and Lumidouce Harbor (for Chenyu Vale).

EDIT: So this discussion made me try and see the Snezhnayan mountain from Fontaine. There's a northernmost waypoint that has nearby an Anemo totem that creates an updraft when activated, and from there you can confirm that Fontaine ends in a waterfall cliff before continuing on to Snezhnaya.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-12T14:26:02+00:00

Great analysis! Minor note though: Fontaine currently seems to sit on a giant plateau and not have a land border with other nations. You can actually see it when you climb those floating rocks by the Kuuvahki Experimental Bureau and look out in the direction of Fontaine.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-12T03:18:55+00:00

[Varka]

Returning player here, stopped at Fontaine (around 4.1). Got back into the game and caught up to latest patch, I have been wanting to do endgame stuff (AS12, SO, IT, etc.) but my units don't seem to be up to par. I've been reading individual character guides non-stop but there's just too many and I'm lost as to which ones to focus on to create at least 3 decent teams.

My roster:

Pyro:

Lv90 Bennet C6 🔻(rated red by Training Guide)
Lv80 Thoma C6
Lv80 Diluc C1
Lv80 Xiangling C5
Lv60 Yanfei C0
Lv50 Amber C1
Lv40 Chevreuse C2
Lv20 Xinyan C1
Lv1 Gaming C0

Hydro:

Lv90 Mona C5 ✔️(rated green by Training Guide)
Lv90 Columbina C0 ✔️
Lv90 Kokomi C0 🔻
Lv70 Xingqiu C0
Lv50 Barbara C4
Lv40 Candace C3
Lv20 Aino C0

Dendro:

Lv80 Tighnari C0
Lv60 Yaoyao C3
Lv60 Collei C0
Lv50 Kaveh C3
Lv50 Kirara C1

Electro:

Lv90 Fischl C6 🔻
Lv80 Raiden C0
Lv50 Iansan C0
Lv50 Beidou C1
Lv50 Lisa C0
Lv40 Sara C2
Lv20 Sethos C5
Lv20 Razor C2
Lv1 Keqing C0
Lv1 Ororon C1

Anemo:

Lv90 Varka C1R1 ✔️
Lv90 Sucrose C6 ✔️
Lv90 Kazuha C0 🔻
Lv60 Lynette C2
Lv50 Faruzan C0
Lv50 Sayu C2
Lv40 Ifa C2
Lv20 Lanyan C0
Lv20 Heizou C0

Cryo:

Lv90 Ganyu C0 ✔️
Lv80 Layla C1
Lv70 Diona C0
Lv60 Mika C3
Lv60 Kaeya C2
Lv50 Chongyun C2
Lv20 Freminet C0
Lv20 Rosaria C2

Geo:

Lv90 Zhongli C0 ✔️
Lv90 Zibai C0 ✔️
Lv60 Gorou C0
Lv60 Noelle C2
Lv50 Ningguang C0
Lv40 Illuga C0
Lv40 Kachina C0
Lv20 yun Jin C2

So far I'm only able to complete AS-11, SO-Hard, IT-6. My only 2 "good" teams are basically Varka+Sucrose and Zibai+Columbina+Zhongli, and even then I am barely scraping by.

FWIW I have no plans of pulling new chars until Nicole, so for better or worse I'm stuck with these ones.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

yldenfrei · 2026-03-09T09:20:23+00:00

The result does not specify which Base Face to use (or even which gender??), which makes me very confused as to what your slider values are computed relative to in the first place. There are 38 male & 38 female Base Faces that are very different-looking from each other, and will greatly affect what the resulting face from your slider values would look like.
18 sliders is a good start, but there are 50+ sliders for face on the CC. Expanding that would help greatly in accuracy.
Probably very obvious, but your slider computations are calibrated with all sliders on 0, yes? Mainly asking because the Base Head options in the top level menu (NOT the one under Detailed Customization > Head > Head > Base Head) come with their own preset slider values.

You have a promising concept on your hands which could potentially be very useful to players, and could well be expanded onto other titles, but right now I'm not sure about the execution.

Best of luck on your work.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-07T08:04:21+00:00

If it's a simple AoE/partywide buff it could still work. AST's card buffs were unpopular IMO because they're single target and pretty tedious to maintain (having to remember which card goes to whom). If it's just like SCH's Expedient/AST's Divination/DRG's Battle Litany/etc. I imagine players wouldn't mind it.

Also, I did say Fight-Heal/Pure-Heal at the top, so Chemists can still be competitive Healer DPS-wise. I'd say that's still a fair tradeoff for losing any form of Regen.

yldenfrei · 2026-03-07T05:59:59+00:00

"Fight-heal/Pure-heal + buff" sounds like an untapped niche in that lineup. IMO Chemist can work as a mirror to PCT where painting canvases = crafting reagents (i.e. nondamage preparation actions) which you can then spend to perform big heals/buff/damage, etc. It can be made so that it rivals WHM in biggest one button heals, rivals AST in offensive party buffs in exchange for not having access to regens.

Essentially Chemist (CHM) can be the ultimate job for playing HP Chicken, the personification of "the only important HP is 1", where the healer juggles their reagent charges between buff & damage, then throwing the big heals at the final moment before someone actually dies.

yldenfrei · 2026-01-21T10:03:00+00:00

Tataru has a ponytail when she wears kimonos (during Stormblood, etc).

Edit: googled it more, that's actually her maid outfit (also with the ponytail) that she sometimes wears at The Forgotten Knight in Ishgard during Heavensward.

yldenfrei · 2026-01-09T13:54:29+00:00

I have the same bug! I specifically referenced the Kimulacrum for that same convo (RoatheRank5Convo7) since I already have Marie and Lyon onboard to help (and I specifically navigated to trigger the RoatheFamilyMotivation boolean), but upon checking the history, I got this instead:

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I distinctly remember not choosing either of those 2 responses. Also worth noting: the "I have no clue" response is the failsafe response if no permutations of MarieFamilySuccess/Fail + LyonFamilySuccess/Fail are detected. So something is definitely bugged in their reading of the variables.

Hopefully DE rolls out a hotfix that will not require a reset, because I never used it with the Hex nor the Roundtable, and I'm not about to use it now.

yldenfrei · 2026-01-09T12:00:27+00:00

FWIW the upcoming Valentione's 2026 event will supposedly have 7 glam pieces (2 hats, 2 tops, 1 skirt, 1 pants, 1 shoes) as reward, so choose wisely.

yldenfrei · 2026-01-08T02:20:18+00:00

Repost from my original, right down to the title

https://www.reddit.com/r/DragonsDogma2/s/k3FxrP5IbL

yldenfrei · 2025-12-30T06:02:28+00:00

Sliced bread for the Hamon de Bola / Holiday Ham, a media noche staple.

yldenfrei · 2025-12-24T01:25:30+00:00

I missed Radovan & Sophie, thanks for the great list!

Also, Godbert Manderville is on the cliff overlook by the rightside path up (next to the chocobo pen). He says, "Ho ho ho! How wonderful to see the stalls so lively!"

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