After beating the game, what’s the next move? Well, beat it again, of course! After the credits you’ll find yourself back at the main menu-select the ‘Load Game’ option (not ‘New Game’, this will delete your old character and start over!) What’s the point of playing through the game again? Well…

• Your old character keeps all their experience, Vocation Ranks, Skills, and attributes. Beat the hell out of those monsters who gave you trouble the first time around!
• So does your Main Pawn.
• You keep all your equipment, Materials, gold, and Rift Currency.
• New Notice Board quests will be available throughout the game, many of them quite lucrative.
• All quest progress will be reset-if you missed anything the first time around, you can try to complete it again. Or if you’d rather see how an alternate quest option plays out, you can do that, too.
• NPCs will have retained their former affinity for you-for better or worse.
• Merchants will retain their advanced stock options.
• You can earn a second Gold Idol and give it to either Caxton or Madeleine-whoever you neglected the first playthrough.
• There is now a new Riftstone on the south-western beach of Cassardis’ ‘Starfall Bay’ which will teleport you to the Chamber of Lament, if you wish to fight the Ur-Dragon.
• Mountebank at the Black Cat now sells Portcrystals… for a hefty 200,000 gold apiece. You can now buy enough of them to place them regularly across Gransys, to make walking everywhere a thing of the past.
• When you make it to the Dragon, play another Vocation (or just bring a different set of weapons with you) to score some more unique Dragon weaponry… and freely Dragon-Forge another set of equipment (you might want to make sure you’re level 200 before this, to avoid any unwanted level-ups.)
• Your progress on Bitterblack Isle will be reset. Run through the early parts of Bitterblack Isle again, and show those critters what gave you trouble the first time who’s boss!