What is THE BEST BASIC VOCATION? | Dragon's Dogma 2

Dragon doent 2 offers 10 diverse vocations from  basic to Advanced to hybrid each one delivering a different utility or bit of offense to your  party but at what point do the basic vocations get phased out for the new ones when should you  even change to one of the advanced or hybrid vocations well in this video today we're going to  be discussing just that by looking at each of the four basic vocs to discuss how they apply their  skills throughout the game if this is your first time my channel

the way I do things is by upfront  the knowledge of my videos so you can decide if it's the right one for you so with that being said  you can stay any of the basic vocations from level one all the way to level 200 into New Game Plus  and Beyond without a single problem the advanced vocations aren't better forms of the basic ones  nay they're simply hyperfocused ones take the Mage for example Mage is an offensive support and  utility Caster buffing healing and doing damage the sorcerer is an off

ensive Powerhouse destroying  things with aoe's area of effects and what have you both are totally viable in the same party and  I actually have some really fun party composition ideas so let me know if you'd like a video on that  in the comment section below but really what we'll be doing here is talking about why you should  play one if not all the basic vocs to a certain point because this game is so much more about  swapping vocs and party members to get all the fun augmentations than it is

just simply playing one  class the entire way through but that's the entire gist of this video and if that's all you wanted  to know then please feel free to shut the video down and get back to enjoying your experience in  Dragon's Dogma 2 assuming your performance permits it and the performance patch is finally out or  whatever but before you do please don't forget to like comment or subscribe if this video helped  you as that has a huge impact on my channel if you have not yet picked up Dragon

's Dogma 2 for the PC  you can use the link to my Capcom Affiliated Nexus store in the in the comment and description this  will get you a key directly from the developer and I get something like 20% commission which goes a  long way towards supplying my mini Aussie vicious treat addiction also you can find my Pawn ID in  the description as well but let's get started here on basic vocations are they the best classes  in Dragon's Dogma 2 starting our conversation off with the Archer we have a cha

racter that has a  lot of really good dynamic range and I've talked about this in another video but pretty much the  the best thing about the Archer is that it is consistent DPS and it can constantly deliver  that range damage and as a base class that's a nice thing to do it has AOE as far as far as a  kind of cone in front of it and its augments are very strong what I really like about the archers  mment is that I I use them in almost every single one of my other uh classes endurance increase 

your maximum stamina is so good and ambuscade if I'm using maybe the thief or any of my other  characters that are not front Fighters it's a really great one because if some I can do a little  bit more damage to something that's not aware and the Archer I think kind of tis aside from of  course you know the Arcane Archer right which has a lot more uh damage to do but the one of the top  augments for the Archer is also doing more damage to weak points so spending the time with the  Archer class w

hich what you'll find when you play this game if you're not already playing it you're  going to see some quests that basically force you into playing a specific vocations let say hey you  need to do some archery stuff here or maybe you need to do some sneaking stuff in this location  what have you and that kind of I I think it's a game's way of telling you hey to get better things  on your current class play a different class or different vocation to kind of help add some spice  to it and I'll g

et into this more when we talk about the fighter and the thief of course but I  think that the Archer is one of those ones that I don't think a lot of people typically think  of because they're thinking about the fighter they're thinking about the Mage they're thinking  about um that kind of typical Trinity but the but the the range capability of this character is so  strong because there are so many monsters that fly around or jump around and they kind of leave  your melee attack range and that

's what makes this character so strong and gives you such really  good viability through every stage of the game now I will say that the Archer is probably I would  argue of the nine classes it's pretty damn tricky to kind of get your brain around how it really  works since so many of its abilities are kind of nested in okay if I'm going to Dash and then  press attack I'll do a slide and then shoot or you can do things with jumping on stuff and then  jumping off of them and then shooting you hav

e all these really weird interesting kind of nested  capabilities and not that some our core skills and some are not some are just part of the way  the character actually operates and works in the actual game world so I think that that's a pretty  interesting thing is it makes the character have a very cool fun high skill ceiling while at the  same time offering a lot of really fun utility and mobility and maneuver ability that allows  you to do a lot of really fun damage and like I said too bei

ng able to persistently do damage  to things more than any other class because you know you're you're slowed by casting time on  Mages and Sorcerers and of course the only class that kind of compares to it is going to be  that Arcane Archer which does a whole different style of other things in addition to being an  Archer right but you as an Archer just have such fun capabilities and can really lean into  the mag's Buffs to just add so much capability and Elemental damage to this vocation so is

this  the best DPS one in the game no but I think it's one of the best persistent DPS vocations in the  game able to consistently throughout an engagement with any of the monsters constantly provide DPS  maybe not at the spiking levels of a thief or the heavy ones of a sorcerer or the massive crushing  mounts of a warrior but the fact that they can just consistently do it I could just sit there  pressing X or whatever the basic attack is on whatever um platform you're on and just constantly  kin

d of tick away damage that could basically be treating myself like a damage overtime capability  as an Archer and I think that's pretty cool it's something that not a lot of classes have to do  because they need to be in melee range or they need to have the stamina to do it or they have to  wind up their abilities whatever it is so I think that the Archer's viability and also it's it's  a lot of godamn fun to play the Archer is one that is really going to last for the majority of  your playthrou

gh now the next location I want to talk about is the sword and board Master the  fighter and the fighter is really fun it's a really great way to play a kind of tank character  to get up close and personal to be able to jump in the air and smash things down to be able to kind  of use your um shield and have people jump off of your Shield to do a bunch of really cool Dynamic  amounts of damage to get cool uh maester abilities like is Fury in the very early portions of the  game to just allow for

a flurry of damage all this fun stuff comes out of the Fighter character  and on top of it the fighter has really really great augments like metal augments your physical  defense uh provocation increases the likelihood of being targeted by foes which can transfer  over both of those can transfer over to Warrior just so well but even more over they get one that  increases your carry capacity as a fight as as an augment that's a great capability to just kind  of have on every single character and

I really like that and that kind of is one that means that  hey try F out for a little bit unlock that one and have it really spice up you using um while I was  streaming someone mentioned hey you know what I I maxed out um Archer to get the increased damage  to weak points and then I maxed out fighter to get the increased weight capacity and I'm I Mystic  spear hand and Mystic spear hand uh really kind of hinges upon doing a lot of really cool weak point  stuff so all those things in conjunctio

n make for just a really fun cool dynamic character but the  fighter in and of itself is the best tank in the game yes sure you can tank with the uh um warrior  in a lot of different ways but there's so much direct ways to tank things with the fighter and  draw a bunch of quote unquote aggro to yourself you have a shield that can just outright parry and  mitigate damage this character is great from level one and it's great throughout the entire goddamn  game because it's the only one that can do

that everything else has to use other ways to mitigate  their damage other through maneuverability or specific skills what have you and as we've kind  of seen a lot of these skills and things kind of take place with the fighter we've really seen that  this is the class that depending on how your party composition works it's almost best to have one  in the class either yourself or even as a pawn and I remember in some of my earlier videos before  the game came out I was thinking man maybe maybe

a pawn fighter just doesn't really make a lot of  sense but I don't often play fighter and my main Pond is usually a warrior and I have a fighter in  my as just one of the other pawns and they Crush they do a really good job they do a pretty good  amount of damage they they they take the attention away from things it's a really fun vocation to  have as either yourself or as another character that that just like I said is going to just has  enough meat on it to stay with you from beginning middle

and end of your playthrough of Dragon's  Dogma 2 so a fighter has some of the best tanking capabilities in the game The Thief has probably  some of the highest Mobility capabilities in the game next to the Mystic spear hand you have just  right out the gate you have an ability that allows you to just jump around and move and dash through  things so that is absolutely huge and having your weapon skills like cutting wind or Helm splitter  which evolves to skull splitter just allow you to just jum

p around either vertically or horizontally  whichever one it is those things are really huge Shadow click which allows you to stealth around  those are all some really cool things but looking at the core skills of the thief we get an ability  a passive called bump and lift which BAS basically every time you use X or carve your your basic  attack you have a chance to um steal an item and furthermore you have a weapon skill called piler  that allows you to kind of actively steal an item if somethi

ng is uh flinched or if it's a larger  Target it's been knocked down if you use this on it you can steal unique weapons or armor that you  otherwise wouldn't be able to get or maybe they're really expensive or it takes you a long time to  find them in a chest whatever it is an example of this would be when you're playing through the  early portions of the game and I don't want to spoil this but the first dragon you encounter if  you didn't know there's dragons in a game called Dragon Dogma uh th

e first dragon you encounter  throughout the main story quest which you'll take paron um if you attack it with a thief you have  a chance to get a unique Mystic spear hand full arm which is stupid strong and right after that  ability or right after that engagement you get the ability to unlock Mystic spear hand so Thief is  something that is super viable and something that like I I struggle to not have in my party either  as myself or as a pawn because of that ability for it to steal um unique a

nd rare items that's that's  a really really really huge ability that you kind of don't want to miss and every time I get into  like a really spicy fight I'm wondering to myself [ __ ] should I have been on a thief here to  try and get some things stolen from this now that's not the case of every single thing in the  game right sometimes you'll just get a Way Stone Shard or or or maybe just like something minuscule  but it's still fact remains that there are really important times when you do wa

nt to take advantage  of that ability to steal and piler from things and get those really good items now augments wise too  Thief has some great augments like um subtlety here decrease the likelihood of being targeted  by foes that's great on everything that's not up close and personal doing the damage right  if I'm on my warrior or my fighter I probably want to draw some attention towards myself but  if I'm my Archer a mage a sorcerer anyone that I just don't want to take quote unquote aggro  f

rom subtlety is a really great augmentation or gratification here slightly restores Health when  you deliver the killing blow to a foe those are really great capabilities that allow you to kind  of just keep your character online and fighting throughout um the entire durabil or durability  duration of doing any kind of D dungeon delving anything like that so you don't really need to go  back and try and uh Camp as much as possible so yeah uh the thief unfortunately too doesn't  have an advanced

counterpart right it has a hybrid counterpart in the Arcane trickster which  is a whole different style of of play but the thief is a character that like I said earlier in  this section I struggle to not have in the party because of the raw damage capability the ability  for it to have such Mobility that it's almost like the first time you put a thief in your party if  it's not you you're like okay I guess I guess we killed those goblins pretty damn fast huh and  that's a really fun thing about

it but then that added benefit that added utility of getting  stolen items from day one all the way to the end game and on that is such a huge boom to your  entire party and it's definitely one that going to keep you on the thief for a long time I saved  kind of the quote unquote Best For Last and it's not really even like the best best makes it seem  like oh if I'm not a mage I've I've just lost the game no every party composition that I've made so  far for myself and and experimentation everyt

hing like that includes a mage cuz the mag's utility  in this game is huge you just I just don't want to say you need one because I don't think you  really absolutely need one you can have a lot of fun with's like four thieves just going ass  wild jumping all over the place but the Mage just does so much to your party and you use it  at turn one or turn one at day one you use it at the end of the game You' got the capability to  add Bon to your character fire lightning whatever ice and that adds

Elemental damage so now you  can attack those Poltergeist or those ghosts that you encounter at night or this allows you to  smash apart um specific monsters that are weak to specific elements lighting a Griffin's Wings  on fire makes it so that they cannot land they cannot take off so if you don't have access to  that through your character the Mage is going to give that for you or padium which is going to give  you some defensive characteristics when it comes to um uh uh uh outright blocking

attacks for you  and then being able to amplify that even further and even one moreover you have an augmentation  here that's going to increase the recovery of your stamina that's great on every single vocation  so the Mage just has so much utility built into it even even just the basic capability of Lev um  no I'm sorry not Lev uh I'm looking at the spell Lev which is a uh um a lightning capability but  their basic capability to just simply levitate to places and and kind of like go go all over

the  place uh is is absolutely huge because with that with that added capability you can simply go hey  I want to get to that that chest over there and I could go all the way around to try and find  it but sometimes you can just simply do it or you can actually have a pawn do it for you have  them just levitate up to it and open it up so having all those things unlocked for you with  the Mage is absolutely huge so if you start as a mage don't feel like at any point you have to  go go to sorcere

r go to sorcerer if you want to do more damage just like if you're a fighter if  you want to do more damage as fighter then go to Warrior and you still be a defensive character  as a fighter into a warrior yes can you still do some of your utility capabilities as a sorcer  actually no um your ability to just outright heal heal people is baked into being a uh Mage so  you'll lose a lot of those capabilities ities and that's the biggest thing right is Mage is the sole  character that can heal no o

ne else can do that you've got the Arcane Archer who can resurrect  someone who's downed which is a huge capability but and that that's also kind of worth noting  here too is that the arcan Archer is a Arisen exclusive vocation versus Sorcerer And Warrior  can both be Pawn vocations um but I think Mage more than any other of the basic classes is one  that I think that you will guaranteed use from start to finish um I could see myself not playing  a fighter anymore I could see myself using subing

out a warrior for it or I could see myself not  using an Archer and maybe subbing out the magic Archer on myself where I I I almost main uh almost  mainly use Archer um and I've said it's it's it's a struggle for me to to not want to bring a thief  just because of that capability to steal things but the Mage defense the Boom the healing the  utility it's just so insane that I just I just don't see myself ever not wanting one in the  party and every time I want to like oh let's try something dif

ferent I'm like but I miss the  boons even if I take the wrong Mage Pawn from the pool I'm like oh man I missed the boons I got to  go back and get another one now so that just shows you how strong this vocation is even as a basic  vocation that's open from from from day one so at that it brings our video here to a close and  I just wanted to kind of break apart these basic vocations so that when you jump into the game or  if you're in the game right now and you're like oh man I I'm rushing to g

et to Magic Archer I'm  rushing to get to miss spean and I'm I'm afraid I'm I'm losing time in a basic vocation you know I  I don't want people to think that they're jumping into this like oh I got to go play that one class  because I'm so used to playing video games where I jump in I select my class and I'm that class  the entire game this game encourages you to swap your vocations to swap your pond your main pawns  vocation to get different Pond vocations all those things kind of set up for yo

urself rather than  simply playing the same thing over and over and you definitely can right I mean my main character  um I usually play an Archer and I'll usually set my main Pawn to a warrior but I've set him to  a thief sometimes and we kind of have this cool little like oh Robin Hood Thief thing going on  and then I'll get myself a Mage and a fighter as my other backup pawns whatever it is and I  just encourage you to try all these different combinations out because you can see that the  bas

ic vocations even though they kind of unlock a style of an Advanced or a hybrid um well maybe  not directly unlock it but they they give you that kind of taste of that of that gameplay there's so  much you get from the augmentations of these basic vocations that you should be definitely dipping  into them trying them out and you'll find that jumping into them at if you were to play the game  all the way through as just a mage or maybe even just to get to level 50 as just a mage jumping  over to

a warrior or I'm sorry over to a fighter doesn't mean that your fighter is underleveled  it's a level 50 fighter but with rank one meaning they just don't have a ton of weapon and core  skills and augmentations unlocked so your uh stats will scale to your level of the vocation  you choose so swap these around have fun with them try the basic ones out and really get access  to these augmentations that's going to make your basic Advanced and hybrid vocation gameplay go  through the roof but as alw

ays guys thank you so much for watching here today like I said you  can find my uh Pawn ID in the description if you want to bring tiger here along you in your Many  Adventures but if you have any additional things you want to throw in here hey yeah you know  what he brought up a really good point about this make sure you get this augmentation or make  sure you really go down this path first I found that doing it really helped me out and I now a  my spear hand and I have all these capabilities o

r now I'm an Arcane trickster and this really  helps me because I I did the Mage thing first and I wanted the stamina recovery or the ability  to uh attack people and do more damage to them since they're not in a combat stance whatever it  is just let it be known in the comment section below but as always guys thank you so much for  watching here today have a good one and take [Music] care