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my favorite thing about pawns is them letting me know there is a ladder here

I had a logistician pawn in my party during a quest for which i needed to pick up 3 wildflowers. And as soon as i picked up the 3rd one, she took it out of my pack and turned it into a salubrious brew. I was so mad i chucked her into the brine.

The community has come up with a cool way to let you know if your pawn has dragonsplague. If your pawn comes back from the rift with rotten meat as a gift, thats how people have been letting others know you have dragonsplague

My favorite for my main pawn is kindhearted no matter vocation. Mainly because the voice and voice lines are my favorite. I also like the idea of my main pawn being extra loyal. Straightforward is too posh lmao. Forager is also my favorite. Love that it practically shows boss locations too.

good: - thief with plunder/implicate/helm splitter (fourth spot flex the maister skill or smokebomb/the parry counter... you just have to play with it and watch which one your pawn uses most, sometimes they just turn the maister skill on and off randomly). plunder is a free ferrystone generator even if you dont want the extra crafting mats. implicate is one of the most lowkey yet powerful skills in the game ("its just a fucking rope") but it crowd controls virtually every small enemy inc. flyers and it secures the full knockdown on flinching big enemies, cant pass it up. thief is pound for pound the fastest killer against most enemy types and the best big boy climber/stabber (and you can set it up as a fake tank with aggro augment/ring and the maister skill). edit: also one of the thief endgame weapons are holy element daggers, which allows your party to shitstomp an entire category of enemies without having to think about that dogshit empyrean spell on mage. - mage. dont think i need to explain here, but celerity and halidom at minimum are nice. levin, palladium, argent succor, and a weapon enchantment can flex the other two slots though i usually just hire ones with cel/hal/lev/pal as you dont need big burst heals by endgame and the weapon enchantments feel like they drop off in value. - sorcerer. again, mostly self explanatory. amazing crowd control w/ hagol, thundermine, and seism (and is able to cover 4 of the 5 main elements and 2 status effects, to boot). i wouldnt equip the maister spells for the reasons you mention, but i will hire one with maister skills if im playing Sorc myself due to the cast speed bonus with multiple sorcs; dumping a double load of meteors more quickly is hilarious (and the player casting meteor or tornado forces the pawn AI to start casting too, giving you a small measure of control) ok: - fighter: the fighter will kill smaller enemies faster than you realize (the dodge counter skill is actually really good and the AI loves spamming it, virtually nothing will make it past a shield pummel, etc) and is okay for standing toe to toe with the big ones. the only issues i have is that even if you equip the cloud strike skill they still cant really do anything about harpies (so youll need to be taking care of them or have a thief/archer pawn as the caster pawns suck at taking them out), and while the shield bash is great esp on a full knockback spec, i havent really noticed fighter pawn AI spamming it against big enemies. overall, feels like a somewhat slower alternative to the thief pawn in endgame (and you can spec thief as a fake tank anyway) but it is better if you want to be absolutely certain they are holding aggro from everything on the screen. - archer: problem with archer pawn is same as on player, most of the non-consumable arrow skills are more or less boring variations of single target damage, and im not sure the special arrow skills are worth fully equipping a pawn for esp as the pawn feels really bad at getting utility out of them. thankfully, even with an awkward skillset, the archer pawn is good at constantly shitting out good damage more or less passively as long as they arent aggro'd, so there is some utility if want a ranged DPS that is much faster/more reactive than a Sorc. bad: - warrior. the problem with warrior on pawn is that its best skills are long casts. the fast ones are mostly redundant to what you can do on fighter/thief anyway (e.g. diluvian strike is good at punishing shielded enemies or saurians........ but so are implicate and shield pummel)... and the pawns mostly whiff on the long cast stuff due to goofy melee ai. the best utility i can think of is only equipping Mountain Breaker to the pawn so they are forced to spam it against big boys, but they still goofy with the timing. overall, its nice when it actually works but most of the time it isnt. much better class on the player because it requires a bit of intuition for spacing/timing/context for its highly specialized skills that the pawn AI just doesnt get right.

Dragons Dogma 3: your pawn texts you while you’re at work, insists you sleep with the controller next to your pillow, and denies cheating on you with another arisen. “It was just one trip to Vermund I swear.” 😅

From divinity 2 to this game, thanks for always coming out with these guides.

Dont forget to forge your Eternal Wake Stone, that way you can use it more than once.

Best inclinations I’ve done nearly 60 hours of testing. STRAIGHTFORWARD: Fighter/Warrior/Thief CALM:Archer SIMPLE: any but they fight worse KINDHEARTED: Mage/Sorcerer Sorc may seem odd for kindhearted but they always stay near you and spam nukes. Idk if it’s bugged or not but kindhearted sorcs are like 20x smarter than straightforward or calm inclination . Calm archers are absolutely INSANE. They never get hit. They never miss. They almost always hit weak points. Straightforward warriors and fighters are absolutely vicious, they’ll charge ahead of you and just start slaughtering enemies you don’t even see. This also applies to calm archer.

Go near ore, press "GO", walk away, let pawn do the mining. Go to cable car, go near roller, press "GO". Go inside cable car, press "GO". GO.

You been cranking out the guides right and left! I’m a seasoned gamer so I don’t need a ton of direction besides specific locations. But I’m so grateful for the super worthwhile for all the tips I didn’t know!

Having a Thief pawn with Plunder on has helped me quickly get extra upgrade materials so fast; that I never was really hurting for the stuff needed to enhance all my gear. Plus; for some reason.; the pawns seem to have way better luck at stealing wakestones and ferrystones than I ever have lol

If you have a mage pawn equipping them with Legion's Might is great (reward for 180 seeker tokens). It auto-revives your pawn if it goes down, which es great in combat. But even out of combat you can use this to your advantage by throwing your pawn down a cliff, down there the pawn dies on impact and auto-revives itself, then you can jump after them and let your pawn catch you.

This was the most helpful video on dragon's dogma 2 that I've seen. Thank you so much for all the amazing videos that you've created!

Calm is my favourite: I started as simple and it's also a good one but, it's sometimes awkward when they destroy everything around so you can't use boxes to climb with, if you're not levitating.

Thank you for explaining how to change the inclination. I couldn’t figure that out. ❤

Great work on the content Fextra!

12:01 you CAN see Dragonsplague in the rift. They will still have red eyes in the rift, and if you hire them but don’t leave the rift, they will do the head scratching animations while still inside the rift once you’ve hired them. So if you hang idle for a minute and your newly hired pawn starts clutching their head and looking distressed, flashy or straight red eyes - don’t leave the Rift with them. To my knowledge, you *cannot* pass Dragonsplague any way except resting. I don’t know if that also applies to passing time also

Love this game. Came here to hit the like button and support Fex, and to yet again, state my love for this game. Even after playing the first one back in 2012, it was OK, i thought this one would be just OK, totally surpassed my expectations

You should avoid warrior pawns with Ladder Launch / Catapult Launch if you play a ranged character like Sorcerer. In combat instead of attacking they always duck next to you and wait there to launch you instead of fighting the enemy ... I call it "coward mode". Fighter have a similar skill with Springboard / Launchboard but they usually don't go into "coward mode" during a fight.

Master, there’s a ladder here!

PRO TIP: Don't spend the 2000RC on a new inclination. Purchase an Art of Metamorphosis for 500RC instead, go to the barber and change your pawns' inclination through the character creator. You're welcome!🫡

You have one of the better videos on this game that I seen info wise.

My pawn is simple personality, and a logistician. He alone is responsible for 80% of my medicine. He usually collects excessive amounts of extra things, and I seldom don't have something needed for a quest. Plus, he's a thief with plunder. He is just a factory to generate anything i need.

Excellent guide, thank you very much. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Great video,very informative! Thank you for the effort! I might've even learned a thing or two! 😉

Good video. I hope more pawn videos come out. I'd especially like to see an indepth pawn vocation and skill utilitization breakdown.

This video was helpful asf, thanks!!!!!!!!

Dragons Plague is either more complex than this or my game glitched out. I knew what to look for and was being very careful. I rented a pawn that had it, they were doing the headache animation. I immediately dismissed them and the other rented pawn, and threw my pawn to the brine. I went back to town. On the way back to town, random pawns in the world would have the headache animation as i walked past them, pawns that were not in my party. (I had dismissed both rented pawns and brined my pawn). I got back to town, rented a new party of pawns. There was no headache animation, no red eyes, no rebellious replies to commands. I slept at the inn and my pawn went crazy and destroyed the town. Either my pawn 1) caught it vicaruously through me from a non-party pawn while walking past, didnt show any symptoms, and then went crazy Or 2) Caught it from a newly rented pawn, didnt show any symptoms and went crazy 2 minutes after exposure, i went straight from renting new pawn to resting at inn, thats when it happened. I had failed the sphinx quest so my playthrough was ruined.

I think they need to make the dragonsplague symptoms more noticeable. I've had it strike twice, and I really could not see any signs. They acted the same and didn't have red eyes. I even checked in the photo mode, and didn't see anything wrong

A good use of Logistician is where you’ve stockpiled a HUGE amount of fruits, harspuds and meats. Just bring like a stack of 99 of these things and as soon as they ripen/age your Pawn will combine them, preventing them from rotting and being useless. Just be careful about picking up Greenwarish and the like so your Pawn doesn’t make Salubrious Draughts when you don’t want them to. If you want perfect control of this, use a bench and pass the time there. It will rapidly progress the aging of the items in your inventory and your Pawn will do its best to combine them as soon as possible. Harspud Roberants are VERY useful items that restore a lot of stamina, so if you don’t want to wait for your stamina to slowly regenerate, use this method to make a bunch of Roberants (Greenwarish and Morningtide with Dried items). They weigh very little, too.

Great video!

When starting out, always make sure your pawns have a few Salubrious Draughts to chug during fights, save you having to revive them constantly. Archer is overlooked for main pawn, giving them exploding shot and explosive arrows they are an absolute powerhouse, but take the explosive arrows off them when wandering around otherwise they'll waste them on low level enemies.

There is another use of the go command I didn't catch in the video. You can use go for a fighter pawn with the launch skill to have them launch you up a cliff to grab a chest. It has to be the right spot where the launch will get you up there, but if you can make it and tell them to go in that area, they will get their shield ready for you.

I've started avoiding warrior pawns with the master skill equipped. Seem to use it constantly, miss, then they're out of stamina.

One thing I’ve noticed with inclinations in DD2 compared to the first game, is that it doesn’t necessarily affect the pawns actions in combat (for better or for worse) For example: my main pawns inclination is straightforward. Most of the times she’s either a fighter or warrior, which works out great, but even with mage it tends to work in my favor because she’s actively using her attack spells (high frigor, high levin) but when I’m in need of a heal if she hasn’t used Anodyne yet, I just use the “help” command and she’ll stop what she’s doing and cast it, or use any other support skills on hand👍🏽 The inclination system in DD2 is still great, but I actually prefer how it was in the first game more better. Because in the first game, you REALLY need to watch their inclinations, cuz if having the wrong ones (even just one wrong one) it shows in their combat tactics DRASTICALLY. It’s been really dialed down and simplified in DD2, but it’s still a great game!!

Straightforward inclination is by far the worst until you get them augments and gear. They constantly die and ignore commands and honestly are more of a hindrance then they are a help.

I've spent all my RC on metamorphosis, those sexy glasses and the tinctures for hair, tattoos and skins, I love that small, optional but vey nice things like that are behind a gameplay mechanic that entices engaging with other player's creations.

This is a really small one but helpful. If you have a fighter with shield drum, you can use help in combat and the fighter will use the taunt. Effective if you want the pawn to play a tank role.

Thank you ❤

One tip that I've noticed carries over from DD1 to 2 is that Ranged pawns "don't miss", meaning that if you build a ranger pawn and stick skills that require you to be accurate they are definitely going to put in work. The down side is if you use the arrow specific skills they will go all out and arrow management will be an issue. Aaaaaand often a goblin will catch an explosive arrow to the chest when you really didn't need to use that. Also, there's some synergy with Warfarer and pawns that I was hoping for: Trickster + Magick Archer. You now have a more offensive way (no mage class) to buff pawns atk and keep their hp up with Aromatic Resurgence + Lifetaking Arrow, actually straight up cheap on big enemies

Do you guys miss the chair of knowledge? Where you can change inclination and customise how the pawn respond to orders, getting hit, post victory, and helping you recover stamina. These kind of details what make dragon's dogma: Dark Arisen special. ❤

Loving the ligistician on my pawn, less time spend on bag management make the playthrough much smoother.

If you want to change your pawn's inclination it's better to use the Art of Metamorphosis since it's only 500 RC opposed to the other items which go for 2k RC.

I have my Thief pawn with Calm. He melts enemies, and never dies unless he gets smacked with a boulder from a ogre, or some other super high damage hit. He stays alive and rips enemies apart as soon as the Hired Fighter pawn gets aggro. Its quite good

When you say "die" do you mean knocked down, ready for you to revive them? Or full dead back to the rift?

also about pawns knowing a quest and leading you to it you have to be careful as sometimes they will run right into their own death. Like a low lvl archer pawn at night ran ahead, and ran right to a drake and tried to keep going and just got pimp slapped.

The only thing I wanted to know is does stamina and Stam recovery actually matter on pawns, or are the skills on timer/cool down whatever the stamina is...

I tried using the straightforward inclination on my sorcerer pawn but it was not that great. He would usually go melee on small ennemies and try to throw them around. On big ennemies, he would climb them and not cast any spell at all. I used calm inlination instead and had better result with this one

For a tank pawn would you go kind so it is always looking out for you or straightforward just to get into the fight and hopefully draw aggro? I am even thinking on trying simple so he helps looting.

It was my understanding that perpetuation doesn’t work as intended. I thought it only increases the duration of the person using it. For example, if my pawn gives me fire affinity, I don’t get increased duration. Only they do.

Will you be making an endgame guide?

Wish they didn’t tie the voices to their inclination. Quite liked mine as it was, but felt changing the inclination from Kindhearted to Simple was beneficial. Not very pleased with the new voice, but it’s not the worse.

The moment an Aphonite pawn speaks without being spoken to, it’s more than likely dragonsplague

The logistician specialization is a mix bag. I like how the pawns with it can keep your weight and inventory management cleaner. I don't like how it can also make the pawn a hassle to deal with when the pawn combines materials needed for quest items. What the devs should do is patch this to where pawns with this specialization won't combine materials you needed for a quest unless you give them permission to.

I laughed so hard when I presented my Legolas pawn to Sphinx and after the test he seriously said “Tis not what I expected” The game is fun as hell really. I almost got the full LOTR set of pawns in the team lol.

Love this game!!

I wish there would be a function to activate/deactivate their skills in status menu, so you can activate the big things for big enemies. Same idea would make logistician, medic and the merchant skill better too

With hawker, they should make it to where you can choose what to sell or have a damn storage chest at camp, and if your camp gets raided and you fail to defend it or spot the theifs you loose 25% of your storage inventory.

I really hope they add a feature to search by *pawn quest* - and a column to show the reward. Would be a huge convenience when hiring pawns.

I wondered about the scars

If you’re planning on just duoing the entire game with one pawn, a simple chirurgeon thief is elite. They basically always have some form of heals on them from gathering, chirurgeon can be more effective at times for healing than anodyne on a mage and plunder is plunder, free wyrmslife crystals.

If you see your pawn getting the dragonsplague in during dragon fight, you can actually attack them and kill them, kill the dragon and revive them, and they’ll be fine.

When you say your pawn dying reduces affinity, do you mean actually die (gotta use a wakestone) or they just go down?

just bought my copy of dd2 today. played for about 6 hours and havin a blast. got a question tho, is the Hydra making a comeback in this sequel ? god i love fighting that monster in dd1 specially the one that spawns at end game in that underground dungeon with the giant metal gate that opens at end game

Well well well I was going to comment yesterday that you should do a pawn video about inclination, specialization, pawn quests and dragonsplague. You're reading my mind at this point smh

Even if it was just a NG+ thing, it would be cool if you could spec control all three pawns. Not that there's a huge reason to min max, but I feel like I'm just gettin what I get when I bring in pawns.

I have a Warrior pawn. I can say never put arc of might on a pawn... they will spawn it every chance they get. So you'll constantly have to pick them up.

I personaly like a smiple logistician in my party. Really manages all your carry weight issues very well. They do combine random stuff, but half the time i get to my bags with out her and everything rotten anyway. For the very few quest where you do want to comine things yourself you can work it around it, but honestly the pawn is super hesitant to combine things in your bag. you have to be massively encombered before they will start messing thigns in your pack. For me with that pawn i make more money on every trip out than with out them.

I got some questions, please help: 1. How to make my fighter pawn use perfect parries/perfectly timed hindsight sweep? Or my warrior pawn tidal fury? Or masterfull kill on my rogue pawn? 2. Do mage pawns correctly use spellhold and silence abilties? 3. Can mage pawn with all 3 affinities choose the correct affinity against the correct enemy type to exploit weakness properly? 4. How to make fighter/warrior pawns NOT use their springboard/equivalent skill in combat and only make them use those skills for exploration? Sometimes I see them using those skills in combat and just sitting there in that position. 5. Halidom and celerity are small circles around mage pawns, wouldn't they be bad in a big open battlefield where enemies and pawns/arisen would be spread out all over? How to fix this or should I not use these 2 mage skills?

I got a fighter pawn from the rift who had Chirurgeon and kindness....he refused to use healing on himself and only healed others I noticed it after I was running out of healing stuff haha xD

this might be a dumb question but do the specializations do anything to their behavior or combat choices?

If you look at pawns before you recruit you can see who is infected with dragonsplague. Every few seconds their eyes will glow.

13:00 if summoned pawn is having a dragon plague, instead of dismissing this pawn, would killing them clear the plague from such pawn? As in, whoever hire this pawn onwards will not have the plague to deal with?

I ended up with a Calm Archer. I'm debating Wordsmith or Forager. I know Forager is more useful, but I made my pawn a elf and wanna stay true to that lol

How do you get to the screen where it lists all the pawns and their info (at 7:23 in vid)? Is that while you're in the Rift? I never saw that screen and if it is what I think it is, the that would be nice to be able to see everyone's data without having to run up to each pawn and hold down E to see their detailed stats. I scrolled through all the options which changes the tag data which presents over the Pawn's head's while you're looking at them, but I never saw this screen. Playing on PC...

How do you change specialisations? Aren’t the tomes single use?

QUESTION: is there a way of changing specialization without using the scrolls?

I like logistician late game when ive got just a lot of crap and it makes healing pots i can just spam and makes bundles of flowers whenever i have the items.

How come no one shows what level you acquire the augment skill. Every vid tells us to select certain ones, but they don’t say Windell become available. Does every new level come with a new augment? How many levels do I have to put in to get certain augments? I would think a lot of people are asking the same question.

TIP: Eternal Wake Stone is forgeable. You can make as many copies of them as you want, they cost 30,000 to forge.

Another point of dragonsplague in infected pawns: they'll start to brag about a newfound strength they have.

Is there any way to.. Change your 2 ‚hired pawns’ Inclination / Vocation or Look ? With any Book or Scroll ? I know you can do all of it with your main pawn but what about the others ? I also have 2 hired pawns without any specialisation, can you learn them any specialisations ?

Use Wait when you're scaling sheer ledges or narrow causeways in search of loot, to prevent pawns from hurling themselves to their death.

Do you have to give your Archer Pawn more than 1 arrow of the type you want them to use? Also, Dragons Plague-Many people say that when it happened to them, Pawn's eyes never went red, so always go by behavior.

Pawn Affinity max out at 1000, pawns fall in love at 620: Small Talk +2 Fist bump or high five after fights +5 Hotspring visits +10 Remark her as your beloved during hidden quest +20 Barber visits +50 Death -25

I strongly suggest for everyone to set their pawn's quest and for it to have a good reward (max gold or rare item). I won't hire a pawn unless they have a quest set and very good reward. Another recommendation is hiring pawns that don't have many thumbs up and hearts. If I find two pawns who have identical builds, but one has 100+ thumbs up and hearts and the other has 10, I pick the one with 10 because the other person already is popular and probably doesn't need the RC.

Anyone discovered this yet, my main pawn suddenly started smiling more often and sometimes even blush and I have no idea what's causing it and what I did exactly but seeing it was really cute LOL because we never had that in the first game..

be honest now, how many straightforward pawns have you thrown in the brine or if great of the Dragon Plague?

Dragon's plague struck me in Harve but luckily didn't kill Ulrika. My main pawn got grabbed by a dragon so I threw her into the brine to be safe but it was actually one i hired and i occasionally checked for red eyes but no sign. They didn't act ant different. Slept at the inn and at least the cutscene was cool. But i felt like Frank Castle saying no no no no and turning off my ps5 in a panic.

re: pawn falling in love is that why my Main Pawn blushes when taking to my character and says this like "I could look at you all day" and "stay with me forever, it's all I ask"?

Pro tip: Buy a ton of RC in the online store and hire a max level pawn or two as soon as you have access. Then watch them play the game for you. That wouldn't be pay to win by any chance, would it?

My personal preference is my fighter arisen A calm sorcerer logistician A straightforward hawker thief with the plunder skill A simple chirugeon warrior.

Just the choose the baddest pawns 🙏

Can you make build guide for pawns all classes

I was so confused with the blue hand. I thought I had to wait to do those quests. Oops!

Straightforward definitely isn't great for a Thief at least not until end-game and Kindhearted is a waste of an inclination entirely. Kindhearted makes them too focused on Healing when you can simply use the Help command to get the same result and avoid having a party member that tends to do very little outside of Healing for the rest of the time. Calm increases the likelihood of targeting weakpoints and keeps them from running in blindly, the AI isn't terribly adept at using the defensive techniques of Thieves including their basic dodge so keeping their Calm trait meshes better in general especially early game where Thieves can be a bit squishy. End-game when you can force your way through everything it doesn't much matter. IMO Simple for Mages is a good shout since you can still force them to Heal you when needed and they'll pick up some items. If you just take a Mage to have a Healer then they typically won't have too many Offensive skills anyway so you're not missing much if you just end up directing them as needed and the rest of the time letting them gather materials. - Logistician is actively harmful a lot of times if you're trying to collect certain ingredients. Easily a reason not to hire pawns. Chirurgeon is good on a Simple pawn who is collecting a lot of items which includes basic Healing items, but is pretty redundant with a solid Mage that can both Heal and Cure Debilitations. Decent if you don't want to carry a Mage around however. Woodland Wordsmith is niche no real negatives, but not useful for the majority of the game. Hawker blanket sells items limiting it's usefulness, but if you need a quick buck you can higher a bunch of Simple Pawns and mass sell items. Forager falls out of use as you max out your equipment that you're using, but has no negatives. Chirurgeon for a Simple Pawn and Woodland Wordsmith or Forager on anything else to negate any potential negative issues. Hawker is fine as well since you have the option to use it or not. - You can 100% see pawns with Dragon's Plague in the Rift by their eyes.

The Dragon Rot is kinda funny what they say, they make it pretty obvious, then you look in their eyes and like yeah she’s going mad

Art of Metamorphosis also lets you change inclination, and costs 500 RC instead of 2000. Use that, not incense.