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Awesome video. Just a few notes for those that are interested, 1. In this video, everything other than the four classes you can choose at the beginning of the game are referred to as advanced vocations, but this isnt necessarily true. Warrior and Sorcerer are advanced vocations, but Mystic Spearhand, Magic Archer, and the Trickster vocations are all hybrid vocations. While this doesn't mean much for you, it does mean something for the creation of your pawn, as pawns can only be basic and advanced vocations, not hybrid. 2. In the first game, you gained stats upon leveling up depending on which vocation you were when you leveled up. For example, if you were a sorcerer when you leveled up, you would gain more magic (offense) when leveling up. If you were a warrior when leveling up, you would gain a lot of health and physical defense. This has been changed for DD2. When you switch vocations, and you will be able to switch often, your stats will change as if you had been that class since level one. This will encourage you to play other vocations as you can take passive skills you learn from other vocations and use them on your preferred vocation.

Fextralife reducing my character creation time from 8 hours to 3 😂

Look, I like the Magic Archer, but we all know class selection really just comes down to who gets the best outfits.

You will unlock Sorcerer and Warrior first by Quest about 3-5 hours in game, and Then the Hybrids much much later…

They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong.

In the first game, vocations leveled quickly and we know in DD2 that vocation augments are still in the game, which are passive skills that can be earned by leveling up vocations but can be used on any vocation once unlocked. So it might be advisable to spend a little time in most vocations to grab some of the augments.

This gonna be like bg3 all over again never getting out of act 1 after 200 hours of making a new character

Wayfarer is my go to for this game. From a gameplay perspective I do like characters that go for versatility and options over extreme specialization. From a roleplay perspective I think it fits the Arisen the most. Having this preternatural skill at combat and survival thanks to their own immense will and the Dragon turning them.

Mystic spearhand reminds me of Jedi survivor play style. Cant wait :) Thanks for sharing, and getting us hyped.

I know I'm choosing Spearhand as soon as possible

I said this years ago when playing pillars of eternity 2, but I'll say it again. I just love your videos man, they are so helpful and fun to watch and listen to. Thanks again for all you do!

Nice video and great explanations in the vocations makes things easier in making a decision on what to choose or which to try in order of vocation. Appreciate it 👍😀

As always, Very helpful. Thanks! I think I will do Thief.

Thanks bro great video. Been watching your Bg3 guides very nice 👌

I love they added the trickster as a pet class with a really cool twist instead of the generic raise skeletons or zombies(which still would be cool in DD thi)

I love your video drawings, you are just winning every time with them. Its the biggest value of this account.

Hi thanks for the video ! As usual great content. Just a precision : for Warfarer (as it is described on the official Dragon's Dogma 2 website), you will have access to all weapons and all spells of all classes, but at the cost of lower base stats (i guess stats like stamina, health, defense, and so on).

I had a lot of fun playing Magick Archer back when Dragon's Dogma released, but this time mystic spearhand seems to be the perfect combo that I always wanted in Dragon's Dogma

Why do people keep calling the Warfarer vocation "Wayfarer"?

I was an Assassin or Sorcerer only in Dark Arisen, so I have decided to go Warrior for big bonk damage :D

Loved both the magic archer and assasin in the first game although thanks to your video i am for sure going to go the magic spear hand looks amazing 😆

Nice video and good explanation for the vocations. I need to correct you on one thing though, the Fighter vocation does in fact get a dodgeroll You can see it in one of the trailers for the vocations

Narrator: the fighter has no roll. Preview: clearly showing the fighter rolling.

Great video, thanks!

Trickster for me - quite a change after decades of melee. Hopefully, leveling other vocations for benefits will still play a role.

I remember from DD1 I tried all vocations and styles and spells.. and eventually settled on sorceror. But while everybody talks about maelstrom and those other huge, long casting, battle defining spells, I remember having the absolutely most fun with super basic level 3 fireball... the way it just knocked back enemies was so much goddamn fun, and was easy to use with super quick cast in close range self defense or very potent single/multitarget damage/CC on level3 charge made it the absolute goated spell in my book, useful in absolutely every scenario possible :D So most of the time, I just started with big bad super duper AOE apocalypse spell and then proceeded to mop up the rest with trusty balls of fire :D

Great video . I’m liking the mage levitation ability . In dragons dogma 2 character creation demo I created 1 mage 1 thief and 1 archer arisen I’m liking the mystic spear class .

I'm planning to start with Mage, I've always been a mage guy in RPG's and such. Archers are always cool too, imo, so I'm definitely leaning towards upgrading to Magick Archer. That said, Mystic Spearhand looks REALLY cool as well, with that DMC-style combat, and I do love me hack n slash games a lot. Though my argument for myself against that, is that I've played plenty of those. Haven't really had any opportunity to play a Magick Archer type style. I may or may not dabble in Warfarer to get a taste of both and compare them more closely.

Knowing Capcom and how they made it seem like Trickster can work on both big and small creatures, that shit is going to be wild when people get their hands on it, can't wait.

Great video, I cant wait to see what other vocations are hidden in the game!

This game looks so fun. I cant wait to get access. Gonna be playing archer as a start and change to mystic spearhand as soon as I can.

damn warfarer looks insanely fun indeed switching to whatever the situation in the moment needs the most, but also spearhand, teleporting on the back of a flying gryphon is pretty crazy and throwing stuff at them is fun

If you're prepared via alchemy with healing/buff consumables, you really don't need a Mage. My ideal party from DD1 was two sorcs synching and a Fighter with my DPS main. Solid way to go.

I hope this game is fun, I can see there is a lot of potential for pain and suffering and frustration. Will see once its out and watch other people before I get it

The trickster‘s pawn dmg buff looked pretty substantial. If the pawn AI is only slightly better than the original, which it probably is by a mile. Trickster might actually be up there with the big boys, in terms of damage

I'll probably start with archer to see if the range feels impactful and maybe decide between warrior or magick archer since I want big damage but still be involved without waiting on spells to happen, might want my party to be archer, mage, fighter, and something else at all times for myself

I’m gonna go mage then sorcerer like I did in the first game based on what I know. But I know some of the new unrevealed classes will change my mind. Can’t wait for this one to drop.

Great video!

There definitely have to be more, idk if its been officially announced that thats all theres going to be, but we still havent seen advanced archer, advanced thief, nor what the colors for Trickster represent. Nor a hybrid for thief

Kinda curious how long it will take to get the advanced classes and how easily you can change them. Might have both my main character and pawn on a mage at the start and switch to sorcerer or mystic spearhand asap and maybe warfarer later for the flexibility

How do weapons work in this game. Is it base weapons per class throughout the entire game or do you eventually find new weapons or upgrade current weapons.

On the warfairer; the symbol has 3 weapon types on it and gameplay has shown swapping between 3 weapons. So its safe to say 3, but who knows maybe you'll only start with 2 and the 3 is a master skill. The drawback is lower base stats, you have to use situational strength and cross class combos to make it shine. Not an endgame build either since we know stats don't work the same as the first game and stats get respec when you swap vocations.

This is honestly the first game were I’m struggling to actually choose what I want to play, they all look really cool and interesting! 😆😫

Warrior and Archer really appeal to me, so I might have to go with Wayfinder

Leaning toward archer vs fighter as my arisen to start with a thief vs mage for my pawn. Definitely going to try trickster and mystic spear hand. Those look very fun. Long term though most likely a wayfarer with a melee and ranger skillset and then probably trickster to have that extra utility

So it says there is no dodge but,in the beginning of the video there was de fighter who done a Barrel roll and in the right corner it says if you press B (in fight mode) dash so is there for some classes a evade function like a roll or dash ? Sorry for my bad english Greetings from germany :)

Im doing warrior as soon as I can

I feel like they nailed all vocations, and no matter what we chose it's gonna be fun

I can’t wait for this game. I’m playing every vocation! 👍

Sorry if this has been addressed but will starting vocation prevent my choice of an advanced or hybrid class? I really want to go mystic spear so I want to make sure my starting choice doesn't prevent that.

Wanna start as an archer, looks like one of the few games that archer is actually fun and still strong to play. but going to have to check out the mystic spear hand for sure once I can

I played strider in the first game, very fun class and from what I've seen from the trailers, the thief vocation in this game looks even more fun and satisfying, but when a game lets me use a spear/glaive you know I'm gonna be using that and the versatility shown with the mystic spearhand that's what I'll go for regardless.

Do I have a second weapon slot? I’m eyeing on playing archer but do I have like a close range weapon as well?

I was going ask Fextralife, can you please tell me how was the framerate for Dragons Dogma 2 on PS5 was it an issue at all?

I know I definitely want to main Mystic Spearhand. The difficulty is in choosing my initial vocation. All of them are good. I had the same issue in the original game as well.

i've watched so many of these same videos but idc. I cannot wait for this to come out

I like playing duelist, melee fighters. Ideally this would be someone wielding 1H-sword and using timed parries/blocks in combat with maybe some dodging or small sidestepping mechanic (So the witcher 3). From what I can gather Thief is all about dodging and slashing a bunch, and the fighter is probably the closest to what I am looking for, timed blocks and counters, except I have to do it with a shield, I wish I could just use a 1-H sword with no shield for RP reasons but it is what it is.

Looks so good.... Can't wait till next year so i can play it

Magick Archer looks like a straight upgrade to Archer. What reason would there be to not pick it if you want to use bows? Because I personally don't enjoy what Magick Archer looks like but I love bows and am looking for a good reason to stick to the basic Archer without ruining my effectiveness regarding bow gameplay. Also, do you "ruin" an advanced Vocation by starting with a Vocation that has no ties to it? I.e. Mystic Spearhand, judging by the logo, is a Fighter-Mage Vocation mix. Will I have to start with either fighter or Mage in order to make Mystic Spearhand be good, or will I get the same end product if I start with Archer instead?

Noob question. If I want my main pawn to be a Scorcerer in the end, is there any benefit for that main pawn to start out as a Mage rather than a Fighter ? For example, will changing the main pawn from the Mage to a Sorcerer have a more natural change because of the skills/abilities earned prior with the Mage? Or is there no real benefit so it's fine to have Fighter as main pawn than later change it to Sorcerer ?

Is your total party 3 or 4 units - and how is the AI (Can the Fighter tank on its own reasonably well)?

I want to try a few but for my first play through I plan to play Mystic Archer. It was my favorite in the first game. Luckily I got a 4 day weekend next weekend so I'm going to have lots of free time to play the game at launch. I haven't pre ordered though. I don't like pre ordering games.

I may pick pure magic vocations like in the first game if I can still cheese the holy boon and focused blast combo like in first game if not I'll probably do the spearhand or wayfarer

Interestingly, the mystic spearhand gameplay actually resembles the thief more than the fighter, to me. So I wonder if I wanted to go Thief before switching to that, would that synergize well... 🤔 I KNOW I want to go Mystic Spearhand eventually, but I feel more intrigued by the Thief over the Fighter in the early stages.

Starting off I'll be an archer, then move into Mystic Spear Hand or Magic Archer, whichever comes first. With MSH most likely being main vocation. I'm curious about Warfarer though since it kinda like a busted multi-class vocation. For example being able to have a sorcerer's firepower, spell sync with sorcerer pawns, and ability to regen your stamina quickly then switch to another 2 vocations seems broken.

You've left out one crucial detail: how are attribute points distributed upon levelling in DD2? For those without context: in the original DD, your attributes levelled automatically, but HOW MUCH they levelled up depended entirely on which vocation you were playing AT THE MOMENT YOU LEVELLED UP. In other words, you could take a ton of levels in Mage/Sorcerer and then change vocation to warrior, sure - but all those levels in mage meant you got a lot of mana, but very little health & edurance - meaning you'd be a much, much weaker warrior if you did that than someone who had played warrior throughout. Also, earlier levels gave you much greater stat gains than later levels. The trick in dragon's dogma was to figure out what you wanted to play eventually, and then swap vocations at critical level breakpoints to optimise your stats. I don't know if DD2 follows the same premise, but we'd better find out before choosing our starting vocations.

I´m courious how they did the "no lock on" combat with mouse & keyboard. Like the souls games, were camera rotates arround your charakter and you have to press forward and attak or block becaus you attack in the direction your char is looking. Or like Remant from the Ashes, where the camera also rotates arround your charakter, but you attak in the direction where your camera is looking. So you don´t have to press forward simultaneously. Or like good oldshool 3rd person games, where your charakter rotates with the camere, seeing your char allways from behind like BloodRayne or the original Rune. But for me it looks like the charakter have an (slight?) auto aim (wich was also mentioned in some previews), at least with some classes, and more like a Batman or Assassins Creed style combat system, wich would be a bummer. Neverseless we will see on Friday, and im exited to explore the game world. Referring to 1:25 - fighter class. As an PC and M+K gamer, we play the Souls games without auto aim - and ideally every game. We don´t have to rely on the pesky "focus" bs!

I just got it today not started yet but looks so good never played the first one so does that matter?

That spearhand gameplay looks crazy! Looks like the Jedi class lol

So I'm learning in these comments that your stats change according to your current vocation, which is excellent news, but is there any idea at the moment how advanced vocations are unlocked? For example, I want to be a spearhand, does that mean I need to level up fighter and mage or something like that?

Are all the vocations announced yet? Or are some of them secrets until you play the game?

Is there any info on which starting class to play before going into trickster? I can't find any online and I'd like to know what class I should start as

Are there more vocations then this? I was hoping on a mix of thief with magic. I guess warfarer will work

Is there a way for warrior to use sword/shield? I'd like to play more like a paladin and obviously Mystic Knight isn't available :(

Does the Warrior class have more than 1 skill bar, In the first Dogma the warrior only had three skills you could slot due to how the mechanics work.

I've always been hybrid fan with mystic knight or archer but spearman just screams dark maul so that's got to be the go to vocation.

Probably Warrior and Mystic Spearhand. I want to be close to enemies in all my games and aiming with a controller with Archer classes is not my thing at all. But i'll try them at some point

Man. I'm so stoked. The 22nd can't come soon enough

Warfarer seems like my cup of tea. But then again, I never really played assassin in the first game and they had access to a lot of weapons.

Thief, thief, thief ! power stance w/ dodge rolling - Dragon Souls ftw 😁

I played both Mystic Knight and Magic Archer in Part 1 so probably going with them (mystic spearhand) this go

There was optional lock on in the first game I'm pretty sure it will be in the second. You might want to confirm that since most of the gameplau hasn't had ui.

I'm going to start out as a Archer, and then once I max out my rank juggle between Magick Archer and Trickster. Going to try and have a more Zoning based character build like my guys in Monster Hunter. Gunner 4 life yo

So is there secret class like Remnant 2? There is 5 classes missing, I'm not sure but will be very upset if theses are only class available.

This game launches on my birthday …. Looks like I know what my present os going to be….a pre order copy of this game

Does Mystic Spearhand require you to level up both fighter and mage or could a thief become a spearhand?

Wouldn’t it be better to play thief/mage if you plan on going mystic spear ?

Is the leveling system and build building the same as the first game?

hell yea we baby! Getting my prep work in like batman it cant come soon enough!

Do we need to unlock the advanced vocations for ourselves, before we can apply it to our main pawn?

I main sword and board in Monster Hunter, I have a feeling it’s gonna be very similar and I’m very happy about that lol

The spearhead looks sick can you make like melee archer spearhead type build?

I'm thinking mage-mystic spearhand-warfarer, my arisen is my first Hawke from dragon age 2, and my main pawn is my second Hawke, making her fighter then warrior

I'm going to play the first 5h four times to try out he hest for me. on PC it's quite easy to have multiple saves since you can just backup the save files

I love playing a warrior , but this means I have to give up the possibility of having those three vocations in the team...

Doesn't the fighter roll at the 0:39 mark tho? I remember some skills in DD1 gave you s, like the roll on strider or escape slash on warrior. I wonder if any skills will give you s this time around...

Warfarer for me since they removed the OP strider class. Have a feeling with enough versatility in choices, people will find ways to make a new broken class from it despite lower stats. We all know stats mean nothing when it comes to combo pieces from gearing.

So is the Warfarer just a way to combine your favorite vocations?

Perfect timing