In Dragon’s Dogma 2, managing your health and that of your pawns is crucial since it does not regenerate passively. Whether you are deep in a dungeon or just after a fierce battle, understanding how to heal effectively is essential. This guide brings together various methods to help you and your team stay alive and continue your adventures.
How to Heal Yourself and Your Pawns
Notice that after a fight, the damage you and your pawns sustain will not regenerate, so you must manually restore health through food, potions, rest, healing magic, and other means. Consumables and mage pawns are particularly effective for healing. You can even transfer healing items to pawns so they can heal themselves during combat. Let’s discuss all the available healing methods briefly.
Edible Foods and Plants
The simplest way to heal is by consuming the plants, fruits, and meat you find while exploring. Look around forests and riverbanks as you’re likely to come across green plants and can fish in the rippling ponds. However, ensure you use these items before they spoil due to the game’s time mechanics. Fruits and meats improve in effectiveness as they ripen, but will eventually spoil and become useless if not used.
While eating food and plants offers a quick fix, it’s more efficient to combine them to create more potent healing items, as detailed below.
Health Potions
By accessing the Combine feature in the item section, you can craft health potions called Salubrious Draughts or Fruit Roborants by combining:
- Greenwarish + Any fruit = Salubrious Draught.
- Syrupwort Leaf + Any fruit = Salubrious Draught.
These potions are far more effective at restoring health than their individual ingredients, and you can also give them to pawns for healing.
Mage Pawn
Transforming your main pawn into a mage or hiring secondary mage pawns can be a game-changer, as mages, along with the more advanced Sorcerers, are the only classes that have access to healing magic. The specific skill, Anodyne, creates a healing AoE (Area of Effect) dome around the caster. Be sure to enter this AoE during combat to benefit from its potent health regeneration effects.
Camping
Besides consumables and magic, camping is another method to restore HP. Across the world, you’ll find campfires where you can interact and set up camp using a camping kit. These kits can be purchased in town, found in the world, or obtained from other players. Camping kits come in various forms and allow you to rest until morning or dusk to restore health.
Resting in Inns
The simplest yet costliest method to heal is to sleep at an inn, where prices range from 1500 to 2000 gold. While not the most economical option, resting at an inn becomes necessary due to the wear indicator, which temporarily reduces your maximum health until you rest.
How to Enhance Health Potions in Dragon’s Dogma 2
As you progress in Dragon’s Dogma 2, you will find that basic health potions like the Salubrious Draught, crafted from Greenwarish and any fruit, may not suffice as your adventures become more challenging. To boost your healing capabilities, consider creating enhanced curatives such as Fruit Roborants or Meat Roborants, which offer much more health restoration. Here’s how you can do it:
- Dry Fruit (any two ripe fruits) + Greenwarish or Morningtide = Fruit Roborant.
- Dry Fish (any two aged fish products) + Greenwarish or Morningtide = Fine Roe Roborant.
- Dry Meat (any two aged meat products) + Greenwarish or Morningtide = Fine Mincemeat Roborant.
For an even more potent effect, you can add Cinnamon Bark to any Roborant to create a Mighty Roborant. Also, keep an eye on the quality of your ingredients as they can improve over time or spoil if not used promptly.
Why Can’t I Heal in Dragon’s Dogma 2?
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, if you’re unable to fully restore your health despite using healing items, you’re likely encountering the “Loss Gauge” mechanic. This feature temporarily reduces your maximum health every time you take damage, represented by a greyed-out section on your health bar. To fully recover and reset your maximum health, you must rest at a campsite or inn. This ensures you can heal to full capacity before your next battle or exploration.
Understanding and utilizing these healing methods will ensure your survival and prolonged adventure. From combining ingredients to create potent potions to utilizing mage pawns and setting up camps, each method offers unique benefits. Remember to keep an eye on your health and the health of your pawns, as staying healed will help you face the many challenges that lie ahead in your journey.
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