That second one yeah, but I get why. I did get a second Port Crystal and there is a way to buy them later in the game. I do find this kind of game design where you have great stuff hidden until the end game kind of frustrating, like give me the Magic Archer half way through so I can enjoy what you made a big deal of pre-launch.

I never found a second port crystal down south, got it from a quest up north.

How you getting on with the dragons now?

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I never found a second port crystal down south, got it from a quest up north.

How you getting on with the dragons now?

I'm getting on fine with them. We've come to an arrangement, I leave them the fuck alone and they don't kill me.

I've levelled loads and increased my Spearhand vocation to max since the last time I saw one though, and got a better feel for the class. The shield and slowdown thing is actually pretty OP now

You gauntlet throwing son of a bitch, it's on. Tonight I hunt a wyrm!

Bought this dogshit today on the grounds of all your insufferable positivity. Let's see how it goes.

I saw a bit of Cohh doing a warrior early on. He was moaning that it was too slow but it looked like the Monster Hunter great sword to me, hits hard but you have to pick your shots. I found that very satisfying to use

It has a lousy frame rate and feels quite janky. Have they said they can do something about that with a patch?

I'm on Xbox and the frame rate seems to be set at 30 max.

I went with an archer, which I think was a mistake on my part. Much prefer whacking things with a sword. Can I change at some point?

Ah, there's no performance mode. Don't know why, it's not a particularly good looking game.

I've had a lot of success with warrior. We could just bully big enemies, including dragons, by chaining knock-downs. Evasive enemies were annoying at first but more than manageable once you get the hang of it. Harpies not so much, get an archer for those. I'd say it's decent, much stronger than fighter at least, but the thief is on another level. Those two master skills feel like cheating.

I do get the impression that the difficulty is set a little low and the lack of any sort of enemy scaling (right?) makes most combat encounters trivial once you've leveled up a bit and figured out your vocation.

Dragonsplague stuff inside:

Talking about messing up my run, I dunno if I've fucked up the Mystic Spearhand guy. He popped up a while ago before a scrap with a dragon, where he joined in. Except instead of killing the thing with his help I snuffed it and after reloading he was nowhere to be seen. Not dead, I'm pretty sure.

So I went through the NPC list and found where he lived and decided to drop by his gaff after checking out the southern city morgue. There was one guy in there I've never seen before, no sign of my man and it cost 5000g just to check. Scandalous. After a long old trek back up north there's no sign of the fucker in his house either.

It was Melve where I first bumped into him, so I'll try there next, but it's odd. The twat gets around, how am I supposed to find him? Is fighting and winning against a dragon part of his quest? I've fought and killed one since and he's not shown up. I'm going to check the morgue in Vernworth to make sure he's not in there too but they apparently get put in the morgue closest to where they died so I'm not expecting much. I might have fucked up the chance to get the final Spearhand ability if I can't find the bugger

@Paul - I had a similar thing with an elf character who was part of a recurring event quest thing, but I'm sure he died while I was fighting a dragon, pretty sure he either got eaten or turned to ash as I couldn't find anything after the battle. I probably should have trekked back to the Elf-town to see if his body was there, but couldn't be arsed.

You can also go back to the last inn you rested at and start from there. NG+ you also keep your experience level, so you'll plough through the early game stuff.

Your inventory is sorted into sections but it's not really clear. Crafting items seem to be scattered throughout, but it goes in order of healing items, consumables like spell books, weapons and armour, upgrade materials. I'm going off memory so this is probably a bit wonky and I'll have missed stuff, but if you have a scroll through you'll see what I mean and start to get a feel for it.

To keep weight limits under control, craft everything you can and sell the excess. If you have a mage with you healing potions aren't really worth carrying around, so I sell those too. Dump the rest into the stash at the inn, their inventories link up and are accessable from shops when enhancing gear so you don't need to carry upgrade materials around.

Target lock is for the weak, it's not needed in Monster Hunter and it's not needed here. What are you playing as by the way? I found the fighter to be gash and switched from it as soon as I'd unlocked the decent passive abilities. It's a great pick for your pawn though as they can attract all the aggro and let you fight one on one most of the time