Dragon's Dogma 2 Unmoored World Guide

When I started DD2 true ending I've done so many mistakes and had to start from day 1 many times. I looked for a simple guide on YT or any website that I could find but all of them either were wrong or didn't answer the questions I had. Since I've completed the Unmoored World I decided to share the knowledge I got to prevent new players from making the mistakes I did.

This guide will consist of these main topics:

1. Things you should do before starting legacy quest

2. Things you should avoid doing in the unmoored world

3. Recommendations

4. Evacuation quest general guide

5. Red Pillars

Things you should do before starting legacy quest

The major quest in the unmoored world is the evacuation quest aka "Halls Of The First Dawn" in this quest you will have to evacuate 5 places

1. Vernworth

2. Bakbattahl

3. Sacred Arbor

4. Volcanic Island Camp

5. Excavation Site

You could evacuate Vernworth, Bakbattahl, and Excavation Site without any issues, However in order to evacuate Sacred Arbor and Volcanic Island Camp smoothly, you have to do some other quests otherwise the leaders won't listen to you unless you speak to them more than once which means you will have to sleep and this will cause the red fog to spread and the cities will be destroyed one by one.

For the Sacred Arbor you have to do the quests line of Glyndwr and his sister, if you do so they will help you convince their father to evacuate.

For Volcanic Island Camp you have to do the quest line of Gautstafr to earn his trust and make him convince his wife to evacuate.

Things you should avoid doing in the unmoored world

1. Don't sleep, the passage of time stops in the unmoored world and the only way it move is by sleeping, you have 12 days in total in the unmoored world so if you sleep before finishing the evacuation quest the passage of time will cause cities to fall apart one by one so avoid sleeping until you finish the quest.

2. don't destroy the red pillar in Bakbattahl before finishing Bakbattahl's evacuation, doing so will cause Menella to glitch and she will never appear to start the quest.

3. You will see Talos appear in your map, don't go nearby him or this will trigger a cutscene and a quest, and this might cause glitches in other quests so leave him for last

Recommendations

1. Stack up Allheal Elixir and Wakestones so you could survive without having to sleep

2. Bring a Thief Pawn in your party who has pilfer skill to maximize the resources you get from the monsters, especially wyrmslife crystals, they could steal up to 200 from each red pillar boss

3. Skeletons will be the goblins of the unmoored world, so I suggest making sure your pawns are quite strong or at least have weapons enchanted with Holy element

4. You have 1 free day where sleeping will cause nothing so I suggest sleeping after you're done with half of the evacuation quest to save your progress

5. set portable port crystals in the following locations: Bakbattahl, Volcanic Island Camp, and Excavation Site. and Don't worry about ferry stones because in the unmoored world they're as common as healing herb

Evacuation quest general guide

As I said earlier you have a total of 12 days in the unmoored world so I recommend doing the whole evacuation quest without sleeping to save those days to farm monsters because after day 12 monsters won't respawn.

you could evacuate the five locations in any order you want, but i suggest the following order in case you were forced to sleep, the red fog coverage goes as follows: Excavation site > Volcanic Island Camp > Sacred Arbor > Bakbattahl > Vernworth. Also note that even though you have 12 days in total the red fog takes only 7 days to fully cover all the locations.

1. Excavation Site

Once you reach it you will find a golem fighting the NPCs there, I suggest being a sorcerer with earthquake skill for easy kill, after you're done with the golem an NPC will approach you and ask you to follow him, you will find out that pawns were commanded to never leave the excavation site, the NPC will give you a key to all the locked doors there and ask you to find what holds the pawns, you will have to find the godsway and bring it back to him. You will find it in a locked house under the INN in the excavation site.

2. Volcanic Island Camp

In the Volcanic Island Camp you will have to find Ernesto and talk to him, he will ask you to go to Gautstafr's house and ask them to evacuate, go there and you will find his wife standing outside when you talk to her she will try to refuse but Gautstafr will convince her if you did his quest as I mentioned earlier. they will ask you to escort them to the camp, if you set a port crystal as I suggested just teleport them there, otherwise you will have to escort them. after you're done you will see Ernesto talking to Lamond, go there and he will ask you to convince Lamond to evacuate aswell. go talk to Lamond and ask him to escort Gautstafr and his wife, he will accept and you will be done.

3. Sacred Arbor

In Sacred Arbor if you've done Glyndwr and Doireann quests line you will find them standing in the middle of the Sacred Arbor with some other elves, go talk to Doireann and she will ask you to follow her to her Dad's office. then she and her brother will convince him to evacuate but before they evacuate, they will give you a sapling and ask you to plant it in Seafloor Shrine, teleport there and plant it then go back and talk to them and you should be done.

4.Bakbattahl

At the end of the merchant's street you will find 2 NPCs fighting and if you approach them Menella will appear and stop them, then she will ask you to go around the city and stop any fights you see and note that each one has a good and bad ending, there are 3 fights in total. 1st fight is between 2 soldiers once you approach them they will ask you to witness a duel between them accept and just stand there, eventually they will stop and thank you, 2nd fight is between a beastren and a human they fight over some food and they will ask you who do you think is wrong, to have the good ending you should choose that neither of them is wrong, then talk to the kid behind the human and give her food. 3rd fight is between two beastrens approach them and they will try to fight you, just keep running in circles until they get tired and stop. after that report to Manella and she will direct you to the empress go talk to her and you shall be done.

5.Vernworth

this is the easiest one, go to the tavern and talk to Captain Brant and he will direct you to Sven, go to the royal palace and talk to Sven, then go to Disa's room and get the box behind her and give it to Sven, he will find a message inside it then decide to talk to his mother, after that head to oxcart merchant and talk to him, he will accept to help, then report back to Sven and you should be done.

Red Pillars

Red pillars are basically boss fights, you have to destroy all of them to spawn the pillar in the shrine to finish the unmoored world, you could destroy the Red pillars in any order you want, however as I said earlier avoid destroying the one in Bakbattahl before the evacuation or Menella will glitch. Some players reported that if you defeated Talos and he died with at least one of his hands undestroyed he will take down a red pillar for you, however I didn't pay attention to the number of red pillars before and after Talos wakes up so I can't confirm.

This is the end of my guide I hope you find it useful, if I got anything wrong or you have an info you want to share please share your opinion below.

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