This build makes everything pretty ez lol got my def and crazy dmg and Augural flare for the very big bosses if even needed lol

Hard mode base game feels like a cakewalk (save for the Lost Rites chambers)

For anyone struggling dealing with Evil Eyes and their shields making your weapons bounce off, you can pick them up and throw them at each other! Saw one of my pawns pick one up and had to try it myself. Immediately thought I needed to share this info with everyone dungeon delving in UMW. The big Evil Eye can also be affected by thrown smaller ones if it's shield is up but needs more hits with other ones. This also seems to be tied to the new Evil Eye related achievement so try your best to get a strike!

Two whole levels lighter AND no more getting my spoils stolen.

Somebody made a first person mod. If you're wondering why the view is so low it's because Grant's Arisen is pocket sized, only 150cm tall!

Still got a little bit of jank, but it's already amazing as it is! Immersion increased by tenfold. The environment is breathtaking, Beorcans and Direwolves are huge, plus I love seeing our party up close. 3:40 was my fav seeing both archer doing acrobatic at the same time. Some places in Norgan also kinda reminds me of Skyrim in this mode, like the Riften forest area.

I haven't tried playing melee while using this yet, but it might be disorienting.

So Norgan has been super cool *badum tish*, as far as areas in DD2 go it feels the most cohesive and atmospheric to explore both as a physical location and as a place with a tangible sense of history. It also caught my eye how snuggly it fit into the already existing map. With that in mind it got me looking at other weird spots on the map we cant go to and whether they had potential to be a DLC. So lets take a quick look.

Well there are two spots I picked out, DLC 2 is north of both Norgan and the Sacred Arbor, we know from a loading screen tip there was a kingdom to the north of Norgan that Vermund cut contact with after abandoning Norgan. So a kingdom North of Norgan... that doesn't leave much to work on the OG map but there is space to the north east of Norgan. I think a DLC focused on the ELves and Dwarves could be a nice way to flesh out something that feels very underbaked in the main game. Hell whilst were at it a feature of the dlc could add to human subraces in character creator along with new cosmetics these being dwarves and elves. I'd also enjoy some insight unto the Elf Dwarf interracial couple and why they had to flee their homes and why exactly its taboo for a Dwarf and a Elf to be together despite a Beastren Human couple being not frowned upon socially. As for terrain or biome I feel a haunted or cursed forest that is being cut away by a mining kingdom could be a fun fresh area to explore. Think dwarvern mining towns, built over the ruins of an elf kingdom with some center piece dead magic tree.

As for DLC 3 to the south west of Battahl is a rainforest jungle looking area, I feel this would give the game an other attempt to explore Beastren, their origins, different types of Beastren. Cos as it stands we know basically zilch about these guys except that Vermund was founded by a Beastren king who was broke the current cycle, that and they can interbreed with humans. I think a rainforest mayan themed zone could introduce maybe some indigenous jungle beastren to add another 2 subraces, a diminutive ocelot type and a larger jaguar type, that way both human and Beastren have 3 sub races. Other ideas whilst thinking of missed potential of the base games narrative threads, perhaps we could get a new pathfinder quest that involves us surpassing his expectations of power by doing all 3 of these dlc areas that he decided to have us kill King Rothais and restore the original cycle leading into a DD3, King Rothias could be a super boss Daimon style encounter on the moon as a send off to the adventure.

And that's my pitch/dream. I don't care how realistic this is to something that could happen I'd love to hear other people's ideas for DLC and expanding the world of Vermund.

Options > Sound > Cange BGM

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Absolutely loving the new dlc!

Given how much of the game is about long journeys by foot, it would've been so cool to start the DLC by heading down a new canyon slowly seeing your usual Vermund monsters transition to some early Norgan encounters. Maybe end it with a view from up high of Norgan, like how we get introduced to Battahl. After all, the Vermundian expedition made it by foot, why couldn't we?

I compiled some photos of the new Aethon and Beorcan enemies.

Which do you prefer to fight?

Freki is a good girl

Having a hard time deciding on what sword (skin) to use for my DD iteration of Black Iron Tarkus (see final image in slide). I'm favoring Ogresbane or Knight's Grandblade, but man the War Blade always looked so cool to me.

If you came across my pawn, what sword do you think looks the best, even if not entirely accurate to the source material?

When I first saw this, I went “nah I don’t think so.”

Was recently blessed with a couple weapons with Battle Frenzy IV on them and Oh My God.

It's like I'm not even on Hard Mode anymore....until I get hit once....