Have you heard of the Dragon Plague? It is a disease that the pawns from Dragon’s Dogma 2 can catch. At first, it enhances the performance of the fighters. But eventually, it leads to devastating catastrophe. Is there a cure? What can you do when quest givers and merchants are dead? MeinMMO provides the answers.
What is the Dragon Plague all about? It is a contagious, disease-like condition that the pawns in Dragon’s Dogma 2 can suffer from. Here is what you need to know about the plague:
- According to Capcom, pawns catch this disease when they travel back and forth between worlds. Specifically, it means: When you hire the pawn of another player in the Rift who suffers from the Dragon Plague, they can pass the disease on to your pawns.
- You can also bring the Dragon Plague into your group when you fight against dragons.
- You can recognize affected pawns only by their red eyes and a gloomy aura – two effects that become more noticeable over time.
- Affected pawns also behave strangely. They hold their heads as if they have headaches and jab at their master.
- At the same time, the Dragon Plague makes the affected pawns perform better – especially in combat against powerful creatures.
Why is the Dragon Plague so devastating? When the plague has progressed far enough in your pawn and you take a rest at an inn, catastrophe strikes. The infected pawn kills all the inhabitants of the town you are currently in – including quest givers and merchants.
Additionally, the game overwrites your save file during the inn rest. So, you are faced with a pile of dead NPCs that you might have needed for your further adventure, and you cannot turn back time. Whether you can solve this situation heavily depends on your starting position. More on that shortly.
How to fight the Dragon Plague
How can I prevent this? There are only two ways to get rid of the Dragon Plague, and unfortunately, a healing medicine to take does not belong to them.
- Solution number 1: The affected pawn is hired by another player as a support pawn and can thus pass the disease on to another pawn. However, you cannot trigger this intentionally.
- Solution number 2: Kill your pawn and revive them at a Rift Stone afterward. The best way to do this: Throw your companion into deep water.
Guaranteed safe: The launch trailer of Dragon’s Dogma 2:
What to do if the catastrophe has already occurred? There are indeed some ways to regain control of the situation after the catastrophe.
- Use a modification like the DD2 Save Manager to load an earlier save.
- User lightningbutt writes on Reddit that he simply sat on a bench after the mass death and skipped about a week, and then the town was populated again – including the important quest givers for him. Shadeberry adds under lightningbutt’s post that not all NPCs will reappear this way.
- Alternatively, do as Twitch streamer Elajjaz, who used his hard-earned Eternal Wakestone to revive 169 souls at once (via Reddit). You can get this powerful and very rare item as a reward for mastering the Sphinx puzzles. However, the range of the stone is not large enough to reach all the inhabitants of a large town.
- With simple Lazarus stones, you can alternatively only revive the most important NPCs. According to Xeikais post on Reddit, you can find out from the gravekeeper of the town Vernworth in which coffin a certain NPC lies whom you want to revive. The service is said to cost 5,000 gold per piece of information.
Tip: You can farm Lazarus stones specifically through pawn quests. Just look for pawns in the Rift that reward you with Lazarus stones or the associated shards after you have been out and about with them for a day and a night.
After an inn visit, you collect the reward and then find the next pawn with this quest. Repeat this until you have enough Lazarus stones.
How does the community react to this mechanic? Some players are frustrated because the plague can have such devastating effects, but there are also only a few ways to recognize or remove it.
Currently, the most popular method seems to be simply throwing the infected pawns into the abyss. But can you reconcile that with your conscience?
Other players are reminded of the plague from Zul’Gurub in Vanilla WoW, which took countless characters and NPCs due to the Corrupted Blood. You can find more nostalgic information about this epidemic in Azeroth here:
