Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-94.140.84.108-20131122204149

there is a way to make this much easier if someone has problems getting trough at lower level.

1st, remove all periapts from pawns, sometimes periapts take precedence over party boosts. then simply put stock of salomet secrets and decotition of bandily on your mage pawn. steel nut salves and tagilus miracles on physical pawn and keep some sobering wine on you. all these can be bought in gran soren from fournival.

this way all party attack and defense will get boosted whole time when needed. pawns use those really efficiently and more or less for good cause only (they use it when you encounter larger monster, never on small). it works especially good if your pawns carry weapons with magic enchantment like heaven's key, sapfire daggers, cursed light... both attack properties will be boosted full time when needed, not to mention pawns will survive with ease. also, even if you'd put both periapts on pawn, they'd never use them. this way... they do

if 3500 per item seems expensive, it is not. simply loot chests in BBI and sell that gear or purify/sell v.1 cursed items which are cheap, but sell really good.

also, whenever you plan on entering poison marsh or anything like it (like encountering garm or cursed dragon), drink sobering wine and you or pawns never get status ailments.