Wyrmslife Crystals are incredibly important items inDragon’s Dogma 2. While they may not seem that important in the early game, as soon as players meet a certain NPC called the Dragonforged, their importance will immediately become clear.
Not only are these items used for extra Ferrystones and a Portcrystal (as well as the Unmaking Arrow), but players can also Enhance their Equipment a fourth time at the Dragonforged using these Crystals, and they’ll be able to purchase the best end-game items from the Dragonforged in the Unmoored World. So, let’s go over the best ways players can farm these Crystals inDragon’s Dogma 2.
Updated December 1st, 2024 by Jacob Buchalter:Farming items in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a pretty core part of the game. Thankfully, the game has an absolutely fantastic combat system that makes fighting enemies over and over enjoyable regardless of how tedious it might appear. However, Wyrmslife Crystals are a resource the Arisen is going to need an absurd amount of to completely upgrade their Weapons, Armor, purchase some of the best Equipment in the game, or even buff specific skills of their choice in NG+. Luckily, it’s not too difficult to farm these items in DD2, at least as long as you’re in the late game. So, let’s go over all the best methods we could think of for farming these crystallized fragments of dragon blood
Method 1: Fighting Drakes Normally
And Hoping They Drop a Whole Lot of Crystals
The first or the ‘default’ method of getting these Crystals is by simply fighting Drakes.Whether these are the standard greenish Drakes or the pustule-covered Red Drakes players will fight in Melve, either works.
Typically, you’ll only get a couple of Wyrmslife Crystals, at most, by fighting a Drake until it flies away. But, you’ll get far more if you manage to kill and loot said Drake.Each Drake has about four items that can be looted from its body, with Wyrmslife Crystals being one of the potential drops alongside Ferrrystones, Wakestones, Wakestone Shards, and Dragon Scales.
So, depending on your luck,a single Drake kill can get you anywhere from 5 to 24+ Wyrmslife Crystals.However, it’s not like Drakes are all that plentiful inDragon’s Dogma 2, so here are some well-known locations where they spawn:
Keep in mind the difficulty of these Drakes seems to be relative to the area they’re found in, so don’t expect the Ancient Battleground Drake to be just like the Excavation Site one. Also, while not completely confirmed,it does seem like Drakes follow the same respawn timer as bigger enemies which can be anywhere from 7 to 14 in-game days (it’s best to pass time far away from their spawn as well).
Method 2: Farming Drakes With Thief Vocation
Letting Bump and Lift Do all the Work
For this next method, it will require players to play as a particular Vocation, which is the Thief. See,the Thief Vocation has a Skill called Pilferwhich allows them to steal items from enemies while they’re staggered. However,the real core of this second Method is the Thief’s Core Skill called Bump and Lift.This Core Skill makes it so that whenever the Thief connects with their light attack (AKA Carve) they have a very small chance to pilfer an item from the enemy they hit. And, while Pilfer doesn’t allow you to steal items infinitely as long as you keep staggering the enemy, Bump and Lift absolutely does.
So, this second method involves using as weak of daggers as you can as the Thief Vocation, finding a Drake and just absolutely going to town on it with Light Attacks for as long as you can to get as many Wyrmslife Crystals as possible.Again, depending on your luck, this method may not work as well as you’d expect, but it should still be the most efficient method to farm these Crystals overall. Just try and make sure your Pawns are dedicated to support or tanking while you’re doing this so they’re not actively fighting the Drake and reducing your number of chances to get Crystals. Additionally,if you can get the Ring of Derisionfrom the Sphinx’s Riddle of Contest, this actually helps a ton since it lowers your overall damage to almost 0, giving you hundreds more chances to trigger Bump and Lift.
Method 3: Farming The Unmoored World With Thief
Slashing at Every Dragon in Sight For the Lowest Damage Possible
Disclaimer:This final method does involve spoilers about the post-game or ‘True Ending’ of Dragon’s Dogma 2, so read at your own risk.
Finally, the last and probably most efficient method overall for getting Wyrmslife Crystals is playing a Thief (or party of Thieves) in the Unmoored World.Not to spoil too much, but there’s a sort of ‘endgame area’ you can enter at the end ofDragon’s Dogma 2based on your choices near the end of the main story.
And,while you’re here in the Unmoored World, time doesn’t progress as it normally would. Instead of time passing…well, over time, it passes when you rest. And, after a certain amount of ‘rests’ enemies stop respawning entirely and you’ll basically have no reason left to stay here, which is the actual ‘time limit’ related to this world that everyone is talking about.
However, another aspect of the Unmoored World is that there are a ton of Drakes and Red Drakes to fight here as well as the actual Dragon-type enemies that spawn from the beams of red light that also drop a good chunk of Wyrmslife Crystals each.So, as long as you farm all these Drakes (which should be able to respawn once or twice, given your time limit of rests) and defeat all the main story Dragon-type enemies, you should get a pretty absurdly tall pile of Wyrmslife Crystals by the end of it.
Some Farming Tips For the Unmoored World
We’ve also put together a list of a few other things to keep in mind while you’re in the Unmoored World to make farming as easy as possible. The tips listed below aren’t in any specific order or categorized in any specific way, but all of them should help make it a bit easier to farm in the Unmoored World, since the whole system can be really confusing at first glance:
Method 4: Completing Specific Quests
Sometimes You’ll Get Crystals as Quest Rewards
And for the final and least effective method, let’s talk about getting Wyrmslife Crystals from specific quests. There are a certain few quests inDragon’s Dogma 2where, when completed, the Arisen will receive a certain number of Wyrmslife Crystals. Again, this is the least effective method by far, but it’s nice to keep these quests in mind for when you need just one more chunk of Crystals to get the item or weapon you want. Plus, once you clear the game once and go to NG+, it doesn’t take much work to clear it subsequent times, so you can technically ‘grind’ these quests in a way if you’re trying to collect everything in the game.
Without further ado, here are the quests that give Wyrmslife Crystals as rewards, as well as the actual amount of Wyrmslife Crystals they grant:
Shepard of the Pawns
30
35
40
