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Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: March 22, 2024
ESRB: Mature / PEGI 18
MSRP: $69,99
Available Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC
Genre: Action Role Playing Game
Game Info
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is the sequel to Dragon’s Dogma, releasing 12 years after the first game. It’s an open world role playing game. The game has many realism features, such as food items perishing in your inventory over time, no free fast travel (can only pay for Oxcarts from town to town or use Ferrystones which are one-use only), health doesn’t fully recover until you sleep, NPCs can die, there are weight carry limits for your inventory, the inventory weight affects your speed, NPCs are at different locations at each daytime, passage of time affects side quests, stamina drains while running. While most objectives have waypoint markers, some do not and require you to figure out locations and solutions yourself. That’s where the quest walkthroughs here will come in handy. It’s best to always do side quests as soon as you accept them to avoid anything becoming unobtainable. You should do side quests anyway to get money and to level up. The game is split into 3 main regions: Vermund, Battahl, Agamen Volcanic Island. The middle part of the map that looks like blue waves is the ocean which isn’t explorable. Only the black fogged part of the map is the actual play area, although some of it is out of bounds and not actually explorable. A story-focused playthrough following this walkthrough will take around 20-30 hours, up to 40-50 hours if doing side quests. There is New Game+ so you can finish up anything you have left on the second playthrough. The game only has 1 Autosave and no Manual Saves. The last point to do side content is during Main Quest 14: A New Godsway.
Walkthrough
- Gaoled Awakening
- Tale’s Beginning
- In Dragon’s Wake
- Seat of the Sovran
- Monster Culling
- Disa’s Plot
- The Caged Magistrate
- The Stolen Throne
- An Unsettling Encounter
- Feast of Deception
- Nation of the Lambent Flame
- Flickering Shadows
- Convergence
- A New Godsway
- The Guardian Gigantus
- Legacy
Side Quests
- The Provisioner’s Plight
- Ordeals of a New Recruit
- Claw Them Into Shape
- Beren’s Final Lesson
- Spellbound
- Medicament Predicament
- Brothers Brave and Timid
- Oxcart Courier
- Nesting Troubles
- Vocation Frustration
- A Place to Call Home
- The Heel of History
- A Case of Sculptor’s Block
- Scaly Invaders
- The Gift of Giving
- House of the Blue Sunbright
- The Nameless Village
- The Arisen’s Shadow
- Gift of the Bow
- A Trial of Archery
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Saint of the Slums
- Dulled Steel, Cold Forge
- A Magisterial Amenity
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- A Veil of Gossamer Clouds
- The Sorcerer’s Appraisal
- Hunt for the Jadeite Orb
- Prey for the Pack
- Readvent of Calamity
- Trouble on the Cape
- Home is Where the Hearth Is
- Tolled to Rest
- A Game of Wits
- Masked Correspondence
- Mercy among Thieves
- Welcome to Battahl
- Shadowed Prayers
- The Phantom Oxcart
- Tensions on the Highroad
- A Noble Exchange
- Short-Sighted Ambition
- The Ornate Box
- A Poisonous Proposal
- Off the Pilfered Path
- ‘Twixt a Rock and a Hard Place
- A Beggar’s Tale
- Steeled Resolve, Blazing Forge
- Put a Spring in Thy Step
- The Sotted Sage
- A Candle in the Storm
- Crossing in Shadow
- The Ailing Arborheart
- Out of the Forest, Into the Forge
- Clash and Conclusion
- Dreams Apart
- When Wills Collide
- A Scholarly Pursuit
- Halls of the First Dawn
- The Regentkin’s Resolve
- Wandering Roots
- Civil Unrest
- The Importance of Aiding Ernesto
- Shepherd of the Pawns
Collectibles
Sphinx Riddles
Vocations (Character Classes)
Hidden Locations
- A Place with Plenty of Tomes Location
- False Sovran at Masquerade Location
- Greatsword & Archistaff Location
- Grimoire Locations
- Medusa Lair & How to Get Preserved Medusa Head
- Unmoored World
Dragons
How To’s & FAQ
- Game Length
- How to Change Vocation (Character Class)
- Best Starting Vocation Character Class
- Tips & Tricks
PowerPyx says
Trophy Guide is in progress. I’m aiming to have it done next 7-10 days.
In the meantime, I’ll expand the wiki as I go. A good chunk is already done.
For any tricky trophies I’ll upload videos to my YouTube in the meanwhile.
Trophy info so far:
– Technically all trophies are missable, except for a few story trophies. If you finish the ending and start NG+ then it’ll start a new playthrough and you have to go through everything again. Good thing is that your equipment & level carry over.
– If you keep a PS+ backup save during Main Quest 14: A New Godsway, you can still clean up most stuff from there. The game only has 1 autosave and lots of missables, so back up to PS+ Cloud regularly. If you make a mistake you can redownload the Cloud Save. Be sure to turn off autosync so it doesn’t overwrite your PS+ save. Doing this plat without PS+ backup saves would be insane due to how easy many things are to miss.
– Most highly missable are the Sphinx Riddles. If you give a wrong answer you cannot retry the riddle and are locked out of it for this playthrough.
– Remember where you find your first Seeker Token, you must return to that spot for a Sphinx Riddle. IF you don’t note it down, it’d be annoying to find the location again (keep a map screenshot of the exact spot).
– It might be best to do one playthrough for fun, do as much side content as possible to learn the game structure. Then clean up everything in New Game+. By that time I should also have the trophy guide done. Many of the obscure trophies are tied to side quest rewards.
– You can rush NG+ pretty fast in under 10 hours as you’ll already know where to go.
– I estimate 4.5/10 difficulty & 60-100 hours to Platinum so far (final rating might change). The combat itself isn’t difficult, it’s just that some trophies are convoluted, you only have 1 Autosave and things can go wrong easily.
Recommended guides to get you started:
– Walkthrough
– Tips & Tricks
– Best Starting Class
– Full World Map
Vix says
Thanks, looking forward to the guide.
This is the kind of game that is better experienced blindly anyways, so first playthough blind and ng+ guided for cleanup seems good to me.
GL on the guide!
PowerPyx says
Trophy Guide now available:
» Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trophy Guide & Roadmap
Bunkerbudy says
No guide with time and difficulty etc?
PowerPyx says
I’m aiming to have the Trophy Guide done in 7-10 days. Takes a while to piece together a perfect Roadmap for this.
Bunkerbudy says
No problem, its a packed time together with Rise of the Ronin.
I was just wondering about the difficulty to plat the game.
PowerPyx says
The game itself isn’t too difficult. Just play as mage, spam Palladium and Levin. Can farm enemies to overlevel and hire overleveled pawns from other players.
The main difficulty comes from some of the side requirements for quests and sphinx riddles. If you make one mistake it can lock you out of a trophy for that playthrough and you only got 1 autosave. E.g. there’s one riddle for which you must carry a vase over a long distance of the map without breaking it, if you let the vase fall or an enemy destroys it you’d need another full playthrough, unless you have a PS+ backup save you can redownload. So it’s not difficult in the sense of actual combat difficulty, just “cumbersome” to complete some of the trophy requirements correctly. So far I’d say 4.5/10 for plat difficulty but I have a bunch of stuff left to figure out.
Bunkerbudy says
Thx for the info looking forward to the guide, going to play RotR first!
JL says
@Powerpyx holy crap that sounds tedious…im currently finishing up dd1 dark arisen and the amount of inconvenience the game throws at you for the sake of ‘immersion’ like running out of stamina out of combat is aggravating.
that sphinx riddle making you traverse a long distance while carrying (im presuming) a heavy vase that slows you down, and having to do another playthrough if you dont do it right is not even fun.
how are you liking the game as a whole? im really hesitant to buy this game because i just know its not for me but the combat is so fun and easily the best part of dd1 that keeps me playing.
Tyler says
Despite there being no roadmap, I don’t want to wait a week to start playing so is there anything majorly missable to keep an eye on or could it be easily be cleaned up in a second playthrough
PowerPyx says
Given how the game is structured (a lot can go wrong), it’d be easiest to do a playthrough for fun first to learn the game structure. Then clean up all trophies in NG+.
Doing everything in the 1st playthrough can be overwhelming. You can rush the story in NG+ pretty fast in under 10h when you already know where to go. Do as much side content as possible on the 1st run, a lot of the obscure trophies are tied to side quest rewards.
Tyler says
Ah sounds good, looking forward to this one. Thanks.
Cipher says
Is there a true final boss in the unmoored world ? besides the red beam bosses
PhantomFear94 says
This is a shame; intend playing on Xbox. Whilst you can do cloud saving, it’s a riskier strategy (your last “hard quit” makes a cloud save, so deleting your online save with the game app still open would revert to the state of your game the last time you quit it in case of error). I’ve used this method in several games, including Elden Ring for its 3 endings but you have to be really careful when doing it.
How did you find the game from an enjoyment perspective, PowerPyx?
Finito says
A possibly handy thing to add to the wiki are any portcrystals you can earn and how to get them. That can really speed up playthroughs I imagine.
PowerPyx says
Yep true, I’m keeping a look out for them. They are very rare.
PowerPyx says
Now available: » Dragon’s Dogma 2 All Portcrystal Locations
Anonymous says
Trophies being so easily missable is really annoying because there are no manual save slots in the game and Sony doesn’t allow us to copy PS5 game saves to a USB (even though we can with PS4 game saves). So the only reasonable way to back up PS5 game saves is to subscribe to PS Plus… Technically, you can go to Settings, then System, and back up all game saves to a USB, but it takes multiple minutes and restoring game saves would wipe the PS5 of all other data.
Nikki_boagreis says
I’m just glad that they will have a trophy guide available, I was trying to get an actual guidebook like I have for the first game but haven’t managed to find a copy yet. Thanks for all the dedication put into having a trophy roadmap available.
dark-freefire says
how is the tendency of the dificulty on the platinum?
Bunkerbudy says
Is it true that you have to get the “true” ending to be able to play NG+?
Also when doing NG+ can you indeed not start completely from 0?
Cruella79 says
Side quest: A begggars tale in Vernworth square which seems to identify The Arisen Shadow as well.
On it now. 🙂
TheTermdrarok says
Any idea how the sphinx riddle with this finders token work on new game plus? Do i still need to remember my 1st seekers token from my 1st playtrough or does count the 1st one from the 2nd playtrough?
PowerPyx says
It counts the first Token you found on the current playthrough. In NG+ it resets to the first token you find in your NG+ run. So if you don’t remember just do it in NG+ and screenshot the location.
J says
Just wanted to way I appreciate your time and effort! Half my plats I couldn’t have gotten without your help. God bless you my brother.
mscouto says
Have you already figured out the I Talos trophy?
tintin says
are all the vocation Maisters carried over to new game plus??
Sicho says
“Remember where you find your first Seeker Token, you must return to that spot for a Sphinx Riddle. IF you don’t note it down, it’d be annoying to find the location again (keep a map screenshot of the exact spot).”
luckily, my first token was at the top of the tower in the first big city, surrounded by three chests, so it’s easy to remember :D
Tom says
If you kill gigantus early,doesn’t it prevent you getting about 70 wyrmslife crystals reward for evacuating 2 settlements that otherwise would be endangered?
PowerPyx says
No, you can still evacuate them. I did it like that myself and was able to do everything in same playthrough (killed Gigantus with Unmaking Arrow + evacuated all people).
The steps are outlined in the Trophy Guide / Endings Guide / Legacy quest walkthrough. I did it exactly as written there and got all endings and the related trophies in one playthrough.
Armor says
I’m in Ng+ and my sealing phial disappeared. That’s understandable but I had 2 of them. Did Anyone else have 2? I cannot remember where I got my first one. My second was during Sphinx. I know I got the first in a cave but where?
Armor says
My mistake. The phials are in my storage. I didn’t lose them. I still am unsure where I got my first one though.