Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
59 Achievements
1,000
101-123h
200
Reached LV 200.
10
2.14%
How to unlock the 200 achievement in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen - Definitive Guide
Completing all the other achievements in Dragon's Dogma will likely only bring you to Level 80-90, so you're going to have a hell of a grind to finish this out. However, with the right setup, it's not so bad. First and foremost, make sure you are grinding on Hard difficulty for +100% experience. Also, if possible, grind by yourself, since you get +25% for each pawn you get rid of (throw your main pawn off a bridge and simply release the other two). Finally, always try to have Weal active for another +100% whenever possible, especially when killing a boss. There are numerous ways to get this buff, with the Blessed Flower lasting the longest and being the most profitable. Otherwise pop one of the charms you can buy.
The commonly accepted practice for leveling is farming Daimon in Bitterblack Isle for the remainder of your experience. However, I'll say I could personally never get this to work. Even when I hit Level 130 through other means, I was still doing no damage to his True form. There are multiple tips and strategy sections on his wiki page here, including videos of extremely fast kills though if you want to give this a try. Once you have killed him for the second time to unlock "True Conqueror" the shortcuts remain unlocked, so you can start at the beginning of the third section (after the Dark Bishop fight), then just run past all the enemies straight to Daimon to kill him again.
You could also use The Black Abbey to farm easier enemies. This location respawns a random group of enemies every time you enter/exit, so you can get constant experience. Again, be on Hard with Weal active. The best enemies to fight are the Eleminators or Gorecyclops since they go down fairly quickly with good Pawns. The Living Armors can be good if you can pull one at a time. If the entire group gets activated, they'll tear through you.
So, the method I used? Farming Death. There is a scripted appearance of Death above the abyss in the Fortress of Remembrance, and using a Strider you can fire one or two simple shots of Fivefold Flurry while equipped with Blast Arrows and two Barbed Nails, you'll stun death and she will fall to her death. Assuming you are on Hard difficulty with no pawns and a Weal, you'll be getting about 2.5 million experience each kill for her, and 500k for the Gazer before that. Now, the caveat to this is that you only get this scripted appearance on each new game you start. So, you'll want to take these steps:
- Start a new game on Hard. If you were already on Hard difficulty, you'll need to switch to Normal first for the option to become available at the Main Menu.
- Get through the scripted sections of the prologue, then grab all your gear out of storage and complete the Encampment section.
- Go back to Cassardis, sleep until night, and grab the ferry from the dock to Bitterblack Isle. Grab the Blessed Flower out of storage (or whatever you're using to get Weal).
- Run past all enemies, get Void Key, kill Pawns, and solo the Gazer. Use a few Conqueror's Periapt to increase your damage, but just climb into its "mouth" and hack at its eye for a quick kill.
- Once you're done with the Gazer, the next area is the Fortress of Remembrance, so equip your Blast Arrows and once Death appears, knock her into the abyss for a bunch of levels.
- Repeat steps 1-5.
The first time I did this, I was Level 80 and jumped to 107 just from the Death kill. The second time I was Level 130 (I had tried some other leveling methods first) and went to 145 from the Gazer and Death kills combined. Obviously it will slow down as you level up, since each level will take more to complete, but this run can be done in about 20 minutes easily, especially the more you do it. I recorded myself doing just that, which I've included below.
You will have to farm BBI, and optimally only Death.
In the forum I described how to do this fastest
https://www.stratege.ru/forums/showt...07#post1467407
I also advise you to remove all pawns that are not 25 levels lower than you, because the experience gained for them is cut off.
To prevent death from escaping, it is advisable to use passive abilities to knock off opponents and buy Barbed Nails from Madelene, which increase the likelihood of a knockout. However, on Hard, even with them, death is much more difficult to knock out, but it gives 999k*2 (with a flower or amulet)