Dragon’s Dogma 2 players are using mods to gift free fast travel Portcrystals to their fellow Arisen 🥹

With mods, you can give away one of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s rarest items like candy.

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Of all the different rewards and treasures you can earn by exploring and completing quests in Capcom’s long-awaited ARPGDragon’s Dogma 2, Portcrystals are one of the rarest, and are also arguably one of the most valuable. These magical blue crystalline stones act as anchors you can warp to with Ferrystones when placed, and making use of them the game’s only truefast traveloption (youcandoze off on oxcarts, but in my experience, a giant monster will usually come along and smash it to pieces).

Only a handful of Portcrystals are available in the vanilla game normally. However, by installing mods likeCrazy’s ShopandItem Tweaks, players on PC can buyhundredsof the things from vendors for the amazingly low price of 1 Gold a pop. And by taking advantage of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Pawn system, several folks using these mods are passing them along to their fellow Arisen like (rock) candy — that’s pretty funny when you consider that Capcom is selling one for $3 on Dragon’s Dogma 2’s online store.

I learned of this phenomenon this morning when I stumbled acrossthis Reddit post, in which a player expresses amazement that their Pawn was given a Portcrystal before being dismissed. For the unaware, Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a mechanic that allows you to send hired Pawns home with a “thank you” gift when you dismiss them. Typically, most players offer things like flower bouquets or useful consumables, but there’s nothing stopping you from giving away extremely rare items like Portcrystals, too.

A few users replied to the post suggesting that mod users could be gifting Portcrystals to other players, which several stepped forward to confirm. “Lol right on the nail! Im one of those guys lol, i spent an hr just gifting port crystals at the riftstone,“wroteu/KidFrankie3, explaining how they’ve been taking advantage of the fact you can hire and then dismiss Pawns immediately to quickly give gifts to countless random players. “Prob gave out like 80 😎”

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Of course, because Portcrystal drops are designed to be extremely limited so that you’re driven to travel through and explore Dragon’s Dogma 2’s world on foot, some are concerned that these players are affecting the balance of the game for others. I think these worries are somewhat warranted — the open world is absolutelyphenomenal— though realistically, you’re probably never going to get more than one or two fast travel crystals from these benefactors, and you’re never able to have more than 10 active anyway.

A few of the Portcrystal philanthropists have offered their takes on the matter. “I have modded a shop selling me stones etc etc and I do gift portcrystals to others. Now, if they keep it or not, it’s up to them,“explainedu/Cuboru. User u/FriedBaecontook a similar stance: “I use mods and I give out portcrystals all the time. If youre a purist and you have a problem with it go dump it in the brine.” You could also go sell unwanted Portcrystal gifts for Gold — don’t worry,Dragonsplagueis making sure the Brine stays well-nourished. You could always pay it forward and give someone else the Portcrystal if you don’t want it, as well.

There’s also the question of whether or not it’s safe to either use these mods or receive the extra versions of items that they add. While the safety of the former is still up in the air (as far as I’m aware, nobody has yet been banned from interacting with Dragon’s Dogma 2’s online Pawn features for using mods), there’s no way Capcom would punish random players for getting things like these Portcrystals as gifts. Though they’re mod-added, it’s not like these are “illegal” items that don’t exist in vanilla — folks with the mods installed just have way more of them than they’re supposed to.

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Notably, the modding scene for Dragon’s Dogma 2 is off to a strong start in general; in addition to mods like these that make Portcrystal giveaways like these possible, there’s also one thatadds 99 cheap appearance change items, another thathelps you out with the Sphinx’s hardest riddle, and auseful CPU priority tweak that improves performance, among others. If you’re interested in using these mods and others, make sure you peruse theDragon’s Dogma 2 Nexus Mods site.

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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).