Navigating the expansive world of Dragon's Dogma 2 can be overwhelming, but understanding the map icons can significantly enhance your gameplay experience. Here, I will give you a breakdown of the various map icons you'll encounter and what each one signifies.
Map Icons in Dragon's Dogma 2 explained
Dragon's Dogma 2 presents a vast, detailed world filled with a variety of icons on the map to guide your journey. Each icon has a specific meaning, helping you find what you need quickly.
- Tavern: A place to drink and pass the time. The Stardrop Inn in Vernworth is also a meeting place with Captain Brant and a main place to obtain main quest assignments.
- Bench: Sit here to pass the time within the game.
- Inn: A spot for health recovery, time passage, and storage organization.
- Pawn Guild: Customize your Main Pawn here.
- Riftstone: Use it to summon or change pawns.
- Bordelrie: Where you can use courtesan services and occasionally spy on royalty.
- Mine: Dungeons filled with enemies and bosses. They range from easy to do to rather challenging, so thread carefully if you make any attempts.
- Oracle: Seek hints for your next quest steps here.
- Outpost: A smaller location with limited facilities. Sometimes, they will only have an Armory and an Inn to spend the night.
- Barberie: Change your or your pawn's hairstyle. Using the book called Art of Metamorphosis, you can even completely customize your or your pawn's appearance for a limited number of times.
- Apothecary: Your go-to for curatives, implements, and materials.
- Settlement: Enterable areas with various interactions.
- Armory (Armor): Buy or enhance your armor here.
- Armory (Weapons): A place to buy or upgrade weapons.
- Vocation Guild: Here, you can change your vocation and acquire new skills. You can also place all your collected Seeker's Tokens.
- Campsite: Ideal for recovery, cooking, skill changes, and time passing. Note that sleeping at a campsite does not save your progress.
- Scrap Store: Duplicate items, excluding equipment.
- Mortuary: Revive NPCs using Wakestones.
- Exit: Marks the exit points of current areas.
- Portcrystal: Use it for teleportation between set points on the map.
- Ox. Station: A transport option between different cities. With Dragon's Dogma 2 lacking reliable fast travel, Ox wagons are the next best thing available.
- Town: Towns host a variety of facilities to explore.
- Riftstone: The grand riftsone of Vernmund.
It took me some time to learn my way around the map navigation, but it was well worth it in the end, especially once I dove deeper into main and side quests.
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