Navigating the vast world of Dragon’s Dogma 2 can be overwhelming, but understanding the map icons can significantly improve your gaming experience. Here, I’ll give you a breakdown of the various map icons you’ll encounter and what each one means.
Map Icons in Dragon’s Dogma 2 explained
Dragon’s Dogma 2 features 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.
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Detailed Dragon’s Dogma 2 map Icon Guide
- Tavern: A place to drink and hang out. The Stardrop Inn in Vernworth is also a rendezvous with Captain Brant and a main place to get main quests.
- bench: Sit here to pass the time within the game.
- inn: A place for health recovery, time pass, and storage organization.
- Pawn Guild: Set your Main Pawn here.
- Riftstone: Use it to summon or switch pawns.
- Bordelrie: Where you can use court services and occasionally spy on royalty.
- My: Dungeons filled with enemies and bosses. They range from easy to do to quite challenging, so be careful if you make any attempts.
- an oracle: Look for tips for your next search steps here.
- Outpost: A smaller place 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.
- Pharmacist: Your place for remedies, tools and materials.
- Settlement: Accessible areas with various interactions.
- Armory (Armor): Buy or upgrade your armor here.
- Armory (Weapons): A place to buy or upgrade weapons.
- Vocational Guild: Here, you can change your vocation and gain new skills. You can also put all your collected Search Engines.
- Campsite: Ideal for recovery, cooking, skill changes and passing the time. Note that when sleeping at a campsite does not save your progress.
- Junk store: Duplicate items, except equipment.
- Mortuary: Revive NPCs using Wakestones.
- exit: Marks the exit points of current areas.
- Wear crystal: Use it for teleportation between fixed points on the map.
- an ox Station: Transport option between different cities. With Dragon’s Dogma 2 lacking reliable fast travel, Ox carts are the next best thing available.
- City: Cities host various facilities to explore.
- Riftstone: Vernmund’s magnificent rift sound.
With this guide as a reference, you’ll be able to identify what each map icon means in Dragon’s Dogma 2 when doing your research and interactions in the game world. It took me a while to learn my way around the map navigation, but it was worth it in the end, especially after I dived deeper into main and side quests.
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