Fearful Din

Fearful Din is a skill available in Dragon's Dogma.

Description[]

"An advanced form of Flying Din that produces an even louder blare on impact that stuns nearby foes."

An advanced version of Flying Din.

A single arrow producing a loud blast, that may knock up a diretly hit foe and causes nearby enemies to flinch from the blast.

Notes and tactics[]

Direct Hits[]

A direct hit can inflict significant additional damage - smaller and medium sized enemies may be thrown high into the air, and may suffer Fall Damage as a result. This can be useful against armored foes as their armor does not mitigate fall damage.

The knock up or stagger power of the explosive is similar to a Blast Arrow, but the damage is lesser.
Effective against enemies susceptible to Fall Damage, such as Skeleton Lords.

Sonic Blast[]

All foes in the near vicinity of the arrows strike are impacted by the shockwave. In general this does not cause damage, but which cause flinching.

Whilst reeling from the sonic blast, all lesser foes are open to being grappled. Pawns will actively exploit this. The reeling from the blast is not mitigated by high stagger resistance.
The blast wave is effective against apple trees and grandgrapes bushes, but does not break objects such as crates, boxes, or barrels of any kind.
Will also dislodge large rocks and boulders.
Limited effectiveness against large and giant monsters, but headshots can be effective at knocking down a charging Eliminator

Flying Din damage[]

When used with the permanently enchanted longbow Dragon's Glaze, the shockwave of Flying Din will damage all enemies within its radius.

Fearful Din does not have this damaging effect.
Temporary Weapon Enchantments on the bow don't have the same effect.
The damage is thought to be magickal in nature, probably Neutral Magick, scaling with weapon strength, but has the oddity that against foes not immune to physical damage the damage increases with Strength Boosted, not Magick Boosted - while against foes immune to physical damage like Phantoms the situation is as expected.
The sonic blast cannot cause Debilitations.
The damaging shockwave is incapable of killing foes, and will leave them with at least one point of health.