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Quick Start Guide & Beginning Tips
Dragon's Dogma 2

Quick Start Guide & Beginning Tips

Master Dragon's Dogma 2 with our Quick Start Guide. Learn about saving, camping, item recovery, exploration, pawns, quests, and vocations to make your Arisen journey smoother.

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Master Dragon's Dogma 2 with our Quick Start Guide. Learn about saving, camping, item recovery, exploration, pawns, quests, and vocations to make your Arisen journey smoother.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Rest at inns or houses you own regularly to create reliable save points.
  2. 2
    Complete the quest "A Place to Call Home" and purchase a house for 20,000G to have a free, reliable place to save and recover.
  3. 3
    Bring Camping Kits on long trips to rest at campsites, fully recover Health (removing the Loss Gauge), cook food for buffs, and change the time of day.
  4. 4
    Consume Gold Beetles found at night to increase your Max Encumbrance.
  5. 5
    Keep Salubrious Draughts on hand for healing in combat.
Tips
  • Dragon's Dogma 2 has only one save game slot, making it difficult to recover from missed or failed quests.
  • Inn Saves act as checkpoints separate from the manual/auto save slot, updated only when resting at an inn or owned house. Reloading an Inn Save overwrites the other save slot.
  • There is a day/night cycle that affects enemy spawns, visibility, and NPC behavior. Time can be passed by sitting, sleeping, or waiting.
  • More expensive Camping Kits may offer benefits like being lighter or more resistant to monster ambushes.
  • At campsites, you can cook meats like Scrags of Meat, Beast Steaks, and Dried Meat to gain buffs. Hunting and aging Beast Steaks is recommended for these buffs.
  • Skills can be changed at campfires without consuming a Camping Kit.
  • Monsters respawn after a single rest cycle, but chests and other loot sources like fishing spots and ore veins do not seem to be affected.
  • Taking damage reduces both current and maximum Health. Lost maximum Health (marked black on the health bar) can only be recovered by resting at an inn, campfire, or owned home.
  • Mages can use the Anodyne healing spell by default. Having a Mage pawn ensures healing is always available.
  • Stamina recovers gradually when not in use and is consumed by most spells, skills, sprinting, and climbing. Standing still recovers stamina faster.
  • Items can be used quickly in combat by holding the L1 button (DualSense controller).

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