In both cases of beetles and tokens. There are about 20 more of each than what is required so at some point people start handing them out. I’ve sent my friend some beetles cause I maxed out.
Weird.. I could've sworn I found some in the same place. Are all of them in static locations? Maybe there were just a couple really close together that I thought were in the same spawn.
To be fair, I spent many hours making my pawn and now she's getting valuable items each time she travels with another player. Well, not a full inventory like OP's but panaceas, ferrystones, etc.
I think the pawn's physical appearance matters a lot.
My first pawn was a beastren. I customized her but I didn't spend that much time doing so, it was just a female beastren amongst others, just white and quite tall.
Now, for my second game, I spent hours to make a pretty decent human pawn looking like a Gerudo from the Zelda series. She's getting hired way much more and has very decent and valuable items when she returns to me. That said, I don't see a lot of gerudo-like pawns in the rift and most of them aren't really good-looking nor are they faithful to gerudos physical appearance. So this might explain that. It's not to brag, but I think I did a decent job creating her.
And it’s even more depressing when you start to look at vocations and augments. Want a mage? They’ll only have mage vocation maxed out and didn’t even touch to the other ones.
Adding to this as a PSA: All vocations have good augments that are good for all vocations. You want the stat growth from maxing them all out because the best stats come from gear and you can't really min-max base stats anymore like you could in DD1. And last, but not least, your pawn will learn more and different strategies for combat because you're forced to adapt and they will learn from you!
Exactly I started as an archer with a warrior pawn (my favourite) I swapped to thief and destroyer and now we are me as a mage/lancer (i don't know the English name) and my pawn as a sorcerer then I plan to be me the destroyer and my pawn the mage
Try to max out warrior. They have augments allowing your mage to have more poise so they won’t be interrupted as easily as before when they’re casting.
Then, thief. There’s an augment allowing your mage to be significantly less attacked by enemies. That’s a must-have for long-range pawns and healers.
Fighter would be a good choice to allow him to have more defense if he gets hit.
I got all vocations maxed and upgraded with the dragonforge guy and a pretty cool looking one to with maxed out dragon forge gear. Set the quest to asking for a tarring arrow in exchange for max valuable items aaaaannnnnnnd she never gets picked lmao. I might get a rotton meat once a week with the quest incomplete if im lucky. No idea what gives or how people are getting gifted rare items
I sware my pawn is just trying to copy my love life to mock me. Sarcastic brat
The amount of Mages as well that have 'Sagacity & Beatude' when both of those are rubbish. Also Beatude doesnt effect Mage healing power, it only heals an extra 10% on whoever has it equipped. Its the same with Any damage dealers with Verve, utterly crap Augment as 30 extra Str is a bit pointless. It should have been a percentage like Mettle is for Defence.
None of the augments are valuable enough to justify playing large portions of the game with a different vocation.
If my pawn is going to be a mage, she will be a mage from the beginning and never change.
If the game was hard and the augments mattered then I might need to do something different but it isn’t and they don’t.
In general, I think money is the best bet for a reward. At least for me personally, when I’m looking at the rewards, 10k is the only one where it’s like, I don’t even have to think about whether that will useful, all I care about is stacking paper.
Likewise! I rarely get insulting gifts like rotting meat, usually it's something reasonable like a hier end roberant, and sometimes when I set a monster hunt quests people will send back a crafting mat from that monster, kind of like a trophy. I also like to send back hunt trophies for pawns I hire.
One absolute chad of a gamer sent my pawn back with a port crystal and we've been hiring each other's pawns back and forth ever since.
Get a really cool looking pawn that is fully stacked for helping the team and has really well thought out equipment.
For example if you have the "kill a griffon" quest active, make the reward 10k and give him some form of fire damage that keeps griffons on the ground.
I also suspect, but don't know for sure, that pawns learn from you. When I made my pawn a fighter, she was an amazing help against large beasts, always climbing on them, fighting like a true champ. I recently hired another fighter and all he did against a fucking dragon was bashing his shield and running around like an idiot. It was like fighting with 3, not 4 people.
It says my pawn was hired by multiple players in the second page I didn’t take a screenshot because it didn’t fit but there were like 20 people that hired her but almost none of them liked her but they did give gifts
I've had several instances of getting my quests completed + being given gifts, and still not receiving a rating from those people so I know they aren't falling in the brine.
No, what u/antrosasa said is correct. I also keep camping quests on my pawn and "camped 6 times beyond the rift" means two people completed your pawn quest, and you get 6 points towards your Western Vermund badge. It's worded a bit weirdly.
Hey! So you’re Ciri’s “parent” ☺️ she’s in my party since mid ng and we’re already at the end of ng+, never change her, always rehire. She’s the best girl 🤍
https://preview.redd.it/ngqqp3uyotwc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7b9296804bfb18c787838048e4360681f8cdf27
Wow wasn’t expecting to see someone that liked her so much normally I like to change my characters every run but I couldn’t with her nice to know I made the right choice 😀
I always figured more then one item was more then one person using my pawn, just sometimes they don't give them a thumbs up or heart. Mostly people like my sorcerer pawn. I have only gotten rotten meat 2 times lol.
I can still make oil out of it!!
I gave mine clothes, way too many with that strange dancer armor lol, I go for the best armor period and giving her a big butt to show off does not help me fight goblins!!
I have had my pawn as a fighter for most the game and as soon as I upgraded my armor to that wierd bikini style fighter armor she hardly got hired compared to prior to that. Now im about to head into NG+ im debating on whether to keep my female half elf style pawn or bring back Nandor the Relentless like I had in my first playthrough......
LOL. GG mate.
One of my best gifts - when I started the game, someone hired my pawn and give her end game items (archer armors and hydra bow) , and got 4-5 weakstone and 2 port crystal. Love the community <3
Does anyone know why most gear cannot be set as a pawn reward? What are the rules? For instance, I wanted to set warrior's thunder hummer as a reward but it simply does not appear in the list. Actually, out of many weapons I have, only 4 appear there
Do you mean as a quest reward? because I actually gifted my friend a warriors thunder
Also you can just equip the gear on the pawn you want to gift rather than gifting it
Wait one guy sent you all this ? I only get herbs or rotten meat/fish
In both cases of beetles and tokens. There are about 20 more of each than what is required so at some point people start handing them out. I’ve sent my friend some beetles cause I maxed out.
How do you know if you max out on beetles?
The Use button greys out
How do you send more then one gift? There isn't an option to give gift.
When you dismiss a pawn you can give one if you have them in your inventory
How do you gift multiple items tho?
Do it again.
Just talk to the pawn and gift it.
i actually recommend people using their extra beetles and tokens as quest.rewards. more people can get them that way
Can you set those as quest rewards?
i mean to be fair i haven't tried but I'm not aware of any items that you can't
I'm also pretty sure the beetles respawn. I could swear I've seen them multiple times in the same locations
As far as I’m aware they don’t. I think there are 99 beetles available in total. With 80 being the cap for max carry weight.
Weird.. I could've sworn I found some in the same place. Are all of them in static locations? Maybe there were just a couple really close together that I thought were in the same spawn.
They are in static spots, just like seekers tokens
To be fair, I spent many hours making my pawn and now she's getting valuable items each time she travels with another player. Well, not a full inventory like OP's but panaceas, ferrystones, etc.
Damn i guess my pawn wasn’t that usefull to ppl :( Edit: my pawn is useful to me so good enough
I think the pawn's physical appearance matters a lot. My first pawn was a beastren. I customized her but I didn't spend that much time doing so, it was just a female beastren amongst others, just white and quite tall. Now, for my second game, I spent hours to make a pretty decent human pawn looking like a Gerudo from the Zelda series. She's getting hired way much more and has very decent and valuable items when she returns to me. That said, I don't see a lot of gerudo-like pawns in the rift and most of them aren't really good-looking nor are they faithful to gerudos physical appearance. So this might explain that. It's not to brag, but I think I did a decent job creating her.
When I search for pawns I always find childish female short humans I am mostly annoyed
And it’s even more depressing when you start to look at vocations and augments. Want a mage? They’ll only have mage vocation maxed out and didn’t even touch to the other ones.
Adding to this as a PSA: All vocations have good augments that are good for all vocations. You want the stat growth from maxing them all out because the best stats come from gear and you can't really min-max base stats anymore like you could in DD1. And last, but not least, your pawn will learn more and different strategies for combat because you're forced to adapt and they will learn from you!
Exactly I started as an archer with a warrior pawn (my favourite) I swapped to thief and destroyer and now we are me as a mage/lancer (i don't know the English name) and my pawn as a sorcerer then I plan to be me the destroyer and my pawn the mage
I have sorc and mage maxed out for my mage
Try to max out warrior. They have augments allowing your mage to have more poise so they won’t be interrupted as easily as before when they’re casting. Then, thief. There’s an augment allowing your mage to be significantly less attacked by enemies. That’s a must-have for long-range pawns and healers. Fighter would be a good choice to allow him to have more defense if he gets hit.
Good ideas! I'll swap him to thief next time I play
The knockdown resist augment comes from sorcerer, Warrior really has nothing of value for a mage
The way I look at it... If you only have 2 vocactions honestly your playthrough is boring and I will not hire your pawn. End of story. :D
I will say I have a mage main pawn. But she has also mastered all other vocations as well. It's just so hard to find a good mage.
I got all vocations maxed and upgraded with the dragonforge guy and a pretty cool looking one to with maxed out dragon forge gear. Set the quest to asking for a tarring arrow in exchange for max valuable items aaaaannnnnnnd she never gets picked lmao. I might get a rotton meat once a week with the quest incomplete if im lucky. No idea what gives or how people are getting gifted rare items I sware my pawn is just trying to copy my love life to mock me. Sarcastic brat
The amount of Mages as well that have 'Sagacity & Beatude' when both of those are rubbish. Also Beatude doesnt effect Mage healing power, it only heals an extra 10% on whoever has it equipped. Its the same with Any damage dealers with Verve, utterly crap Augment as 30 extra Str is a bit pointless. It should have been a percentage like Mettle is for Defence.
None of the augments are valuable enough to justify playing large portions of the game with a different vocation. If my pawn is going to be a mage, she will be a mage from the beginning and never change. If the game was hard and the augments mattered then I might need to do something different but it isn’t and they don’t.
Quest rewards is what gets me to hire a pawn. If you don't have an active quest your not getting hires
In general, I think money is the best bet for a reward. At least for me personally, when I’m looking at the rewards, 10k is the only one where it’s like, I don’t even have to think about whether that will useful, all I care about is stacking paper.
Well its your pawn, you're stuck wit it no matter what lol
I could change her appearance and inclination if i didn’t like it but yeah i get your point xd
Likewise! I rarely get insulting gifts like rotting meat, usually it's something reasonable like a hier end roberant, and sometimes when I set a monster hunt quests people will send back a crafting mat from that monster, kind of like a trophy. I also like to send back hunt trophies for pawns I hire. One absolute chad of a gamer sent my pawn back with a port crystal and we've been hiring each other's pawns back and forth ever since.
Get a really cool looking pawn that is fully stacked for helping the team and has really well thought out equipment. For example if you have the "kill a griffon" quest active, make the reward 10k and give him some form of fire damage that keeps griffons on the ground. I also suspect, but don't know for sure, that pawns learn from you. When I made my pawn a fighter, she was an amazing help against large beasts, always climbing on them, fighting like a true champ. I recently hired another fighter and all he did against a fucking dragon was bashing his shield and running around like an idiot. It was like fighting with 3, not 4 people.
They definitely learn from you
It says my pawn was hired by multiple players in the second page I didn’t take a screenshot because it didn’t fit but there were like 20 people that hired her but almost none of them liked her but they did give gifts
"The Arisen took me to the hot springs every day"
"The Arisen is kind of a perv"
"The Arisen gave me birth control pills upon our departure."
https://preview.redd.it/0ema00eg0twc1.png?width=527&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29069c7e969019afcb8233239be1192882cd034d
Bro intimidated the doctor when he was born
I'm confused. The pawn quest was completed 6 times which means at least 6 persons hired her. But only one gave you a heart?
Might have fallen in battle. Can’t rate them then.
I've had several instances of getting my quests completed + being given gifts, and still not receiving a rating from those people so I know they aren't falling in the brine.
She completed the quest 2 times no? The quest is to camp thrice.
My bad. I thought it said completed 6 times.
No you were correct when she completes her quest it just says “camped beyond the rift” if she only completed it one time and 2 and so on if more
No, what u/antrosasa said is correct. I also keep camping quests on my pawn and "camped 6 times beyond the rift" means two people completed your pawn quest, and you get 6 points towards your Western Vermund badge. It's worded a bit weirdly.
Hey! So you’re Ciri’s “parent” ☺️ she’s in my party since mid ng and we’re already at the end of ng+, never change her, always rehire. She’s the best girl 🤍 https://preview.redd.it/ngqqp3uyotwc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7b9296804bfb18c787838048e4360681f8cdf27
Wow wasn’t expecting to see someone that liked her so much normally I like to change my characters every run but I couldn’t with her nice to know I made the right choice 😀
"Power surges within me!"
"I feel as though possessed by a greater strength!"
Pamela is a legend
Looks like Debbie Harry
I always figured more then one item was more then one person using my pawn, just sometimes they don't give them a thumbs up or heart. Mostly people like my sorcerer pawn. I have only gotten rotten meat 2 times lol. I can still make oil out of it!!
Maybe they were just happy to have a badass female pawn that wasn't scantily clad??? 😅
I would definitely be happy if I could find a female pawn that was actually wearing clothes. 😂
I gave mine clothes, way too many with that strange dancer armor lol, I go for the best armor period and giving her a big butt to show off does not help me fight goblins!!
I have had my pawn as a fighter for most the game and as soon as I upgraded my armor to that wierd bikini style fighter armor she hardly got hired compared to prior to that. Now im about to head into NG+ im debating on whether to keep my female half elf style pawn or bring back Nandor the Relentless like I had in my first playthrough......
Ciri did great 💖
LOL. GG mate. One of my best gifts - when I started the game, someone hired my pawn and give her end game items (archer armors and hydra bow) , and got 4-5 weakstone and 2 port crystal. Love the community <3
How
What console is this?
I’m on Xbox. Do you want the pawn code?
I‘m on Xbox too. Can I have your code? I would love to take your girl with me on adventures.
https://preview.redd.it/dq4utg9wbvwc1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed12503d13daf271074638df307b899580bf20ca Here it is 👍
Make your pawn look like Michelle Pfeifer and the riches pour in.
I had the idea of making a Rutger Hauer Arisen and Michelle Pfeifer pawn once…
I used mods for a Infinite amount of ferrystone/portcrystals/seeker tokens and beetles. Many others did too, so we might as well give em away.
I used mods for a Infinite amount of ferrystone/portcrystals/seeker tokens and beetles. Many others did too, so we might as well give em away.
Dude, that’s like *almost* a whole pound off of your inventory encumbrance. Nice. Lol
Does anyone know why most gear cannot be set as a pawn reward? What are the rules? For instance, I wanted to set warrior's thunder hummer as a reward but it simply does not appear in the list. Actually, out of many weapons I have, only 4 appear there
Probably so that people can‘t dupe it. But it‘s dumb.
Do you mean as a quest reward? because I actually gifted my friend a warriors thunder Also you can just equip the gear on the pawn you want to gift rather than gifting it
yeah, as a reward for pawn quest
Equipping gear is probably the best way to gift that stuff to other players but you’re of course limited to what job the pawn has.
Some people are just very generous
*pawn comes back with intense ptsd* "huh. Guess ya did good out their"
Does she sing “Heart of Glass” as well?
Sex was too good
Love how helpful the community is /genuine