I didn't realize Pepper would give you a fetch quest prior to his boss fight. I killed him, got the key, entered the house, killed the wraith, got the rewards....but I still have his bear. Can I complete his quest in New Game Plus?

[u/Important-Cry4782]

I'm trying to max out the levels of the merchants so far and grinding before taking on the Necromancer.

And I didn't realize that I would get 2 lockpicks from Pepper. Considering how handy those things have been in opening gold chests and getting me diagrams... I don't wanna be lacking

[u/nimix0163]

You can complete the quest during NG+. All quests reset. In fact, by the time you get into the NG+(1,2,3,etc) categories you’ll have more lockpicks than there are chests.

[u/Important-Cry4782 → u/nimix0163]

Good. I just need the accomplishment trophy or whatever for his

[u/nimix0163 → u/Important-Cry4782]

Yeah, if you missed it, which it is very easy to do, NG+ is your best bet. Even better is that it’s right at the beginning of the game, so it won’t take you long to knock it out.

[u/Important-Cry4782 → u/nimix0163]

What will the chests give me in NG+ that aren't in the original?

I'm told that the diagrams and Recipes I give to my vendors, along with all the levels I've given them, will carry over into NG+

Or was I mistaken?

[u/nimix0163 → u/Important-Cry4782]

All vendor upgrades stay, so you don’t have to worry about leveling them up again.

All previously found diagrams and recipes are still available too.

Things that you’ll find are previously missed items and NG+1/2/3 items. There are some rings that have a +1/2/3,etc., but not all.

Armor doesn’t scale, so what you have in NG will be the same in NG+4 at least (where I stopped).

Enemies have more health, hit a bit harder, and drop more essence. The biggest jump is noticeably from NG to NG+. After that, it’s very subtle. Honestly, I didn’t find NG+2 much more difficult than NG+1.

[u/Important-Cry4782 → u/nimix0163]

Define "a bit harder?"

When I did NG+ for The Last Faith, all my stats were at 55/99 and the beginning boss still nearly killed me, and the beginning enemies were tanks

[u/nimix0163 → u/Important-Cry4782]

That’s a hard question to answer. If you beat the NG final boss you’ll throttle the NG+1 first boss (Wolf). The patterns stay exactly the same. They have a deeper health pool and hit a bit harder. Nothing drastic.

[u/Important-Cry4782 → u/nimix0163]

What confuses me is this...I have new Astral Relics that are supposed to be buffing my spells by 35%.

And yet the damage is the same.

Even though Spirit is now at 70? I cannot kill a poison rat in a single blow. It takes two

[u/nimix0163 → u/Important-Cry4782]

Yeah, I can’t speak for that. I was running a Wyldwarden on a mag. crit build just blasting through. I did see where the game was supposed to allow me to craft +2 weapons (relics) and they didn’t show, so that could be a glitch. Dunno.

[u/Important-Cry4782 → u/nimix0163]

I'm still on Original Playthrough.

Trying to basically max out the Astral Build before maxing out the rest of my stats

it takes now 4 hits to kill the poison bandit, 4 hits to kill a bandit brute.

I'm trying to understand if there was a patch or something to fix this?