Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen Base Game Changelog

While by far the most important additions to Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen are the new areas, tiers of abilities, monsters, and generally everything that’s actually “new”, Capcom has saw fit to release a blog post with a changelog of the differences between the base game in Dragon’s Dogma and its expanded re-release.

It reads much like a patch, and that’s what it more or less is:

Player’¨
-Various attacks and skills for all weapons have been rebalanced for all weapons.’¨’¨
Enemies
-Made the Ur-Dragon corpse’s collision boundary smaller so players can now pick up drop items more easily.’¨
-Undead enemies will now come out of the ground with higher defense stats (super armor mode).
‘¨-When Saurians die after being knocked down, they will now use a special death animation for when they are on the ground.
‘¨-Goblin Shamans will appear in the Witchwood.’¨-Eliminators will appear on the Tainted Mountain.
‘¨-Pyre Saurians will appear on the Tainted Mountain.’¨
-Golden Knights and Silver Knights will appear in the Everfall (before the destruction of Gran Soren).’¨
-Gorecyclopes (condemned type) will appear in the Shadow Fort.’¨
-Living Armor will appear in the Catacombs.’¨
-Wyverns (strong type) will appear at Bluemoon Tower.’¨
-Wyrms (strong type) will appear at the Watergod’s Altar.’¨
-Drakes (strong type) will appear in the Everfall after the destruction of Gran Soren.’¨
Pawns
-Adjusted how often pawns will talk by spacing out less important lines; in effect, making them seem to talk less.’¨
-Adjusted and balanced the equipment and skills of all of the high-level pawns that are available to a player when they’re playing offline.’¨
-Adjusted how much it costs to hire a pawn that is higher-leveled than yourself down to a more realistic scale.’¨
-Added a Monthly ranking to the pawn’s Top Ranked section.’¨
NPCs
-You will not gain Affinity with Assalam simply by talking to him anymore.’¨
Items & Equipment
-Adjusted how much Ferrystones cost and how much they sell for. (Purchase price: 20000 >5000 | Sell price: 3500>1250)’¨
-Adjusted how much Premium Rings and Premium Earrings cost. (Purchase price: 1,500,000>150,000 Rift Crystals | Purchase price 3,000,000>300,000 Rift Crystals)’¨
-Tweaked stat increases for weapon upgrades (increases weaker upgrades, decreases ones that were too strong). Tweaks affect 68 different weapons.’¨
-Dramatically increased base stats for 12 weapons obtainable by defeating the Dragon. ‘¨
-Improved base stats for 10 Magick Bows
World
-A Portcrystal that allows players to return to Cassardis has been added just outside Cassardis’s gate’¨
-A character/warp point that allows players to travel between Bitterblack Isle and Cassardis has been added to Cassardis’s pier.’¨
-Added a removable Portcrystal to the following areas: The Gran Soren Everfall (before a certain plot point. . . .), The Shadow Fort, The Witchwood, Hillfigure Knoll.