How do you create a Dragon's Dogma 2 forgery? While venturing across Vermund en route to the Battahl region, you'll through the Checkpoint Rest Town, where you'll come across several new quests and the suspicious scrap store. The store's primary function is to forge duplicates of items you already own, which will be familiar to anyone who visited the original game's Black Cat shop.
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Dragon's Dogma 2 scrap store location
To create a forgery, you'll first need to visit the scrap store situated in the Checkpoint Rest Town west of Vernworth. You'll venture through this area during the main questline on your way to the game's second major region: Battahl. That said, you can make the trip to the scrap store as soon as you gain access to the open world, but I'd say there's no real cause to rush there immediately.
Dragon's Dogma 2 forgeries explained
Once you talk to the store's owner, you'll get a tutorial pop-up that details the game's forgery system. You simply need to bring the owner an item, pay a set fee that varies wildly from item to item, and then wait roughly one in-game day for him to create your duplicate.
Unfortunately, it's not as foolproof a system as it may first appear. You see, while the scrap store owner can create duplicates of almost anything you bring him – including quest items – they may not always carry the same effect or magical properties of the real deal.
While I haven't attempted to duplicate every item in Dragon's Dogma 2, I can it to having lost several thousand gold trying to duplicate Jadeite Orb quest, where you're tasked with finding a stolen valuable and bringing it to one of two parties for a reward. You can duplicate the quest item and receive two rewards – just be careful about who you deliver the fake to.
Generally speaking, the forgery system's primary use is for cases like the quest mentioned above where duplicating items can lead to extra rewards, but it's also a great system for duplicating rarer late-game upgrade materials for a fair sum. If you know you need several of a specific material, be sure to keep one back in order to duplicate it.
Now that you've jumped headfirst into the game's criminal underbelly and returned all the richer, you should probably invest some of those illicit earnings into one of Dragon's Dogma 2 guide for beginners featuring expert tips we wish we'd known before we started.