Dragon’s Dogma 2 sees the return of Vocations from the original game and an array of new introductions to freshen up the sequel. With a variety of choices, combat will constantly feel varied and fresh, regardless of whether you’re fighting your first cyclops or your 20th.
All Vocations/Classes in Dragon’s Dogma 2
The Vocation system in Dragon’s Dogma 2 consists of four basic Vocations that you can choose for yourself or your Pawn at the beginning of the game and six advanced Vocations that you can unlock during gameplay.
Basic Vocations
The four starting Vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 are as follows:
| Vocation | Weapon Skills | Core Skills | Augments Skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archer | Barrage Shot Sweep Shot Keen Sight Explosive Shot Tarring Shot Manifold Shot Whirling Arrow Dire Arrow Blighting Shot Torrent Shot Cascade Shot Erupting Shot Incendiary Shot Deluging Shot Nocuous Shot Heavenly Shot | Loose Steady Shot Front Kick Leaping Punt Parting Shot Puncture Dart Swift Nock | Avidity Lethality Ambuscade Endurance Conveyance Opulence Radiance |
| Fighter | Blink Strike Airward Slash Shield Bash Compass Slash Springboard Shield Summons Gouging Skewer Impeccable Guard Hindsight Slash Counter Slash Perfect Defense Burst Strike Cloudward Slash | Onslaught Empale Defend Deflect True Deflect Tusk Toss Steeled Foundation Enchanted Counter | Dominion Provocation Diligence Thew Opulence Conveyance Mettle |
| Mage | Flagration Levin Palladium Fire Boon Frigor Ice Boon Lightning Boon Halidom Empyrean Celerity Argent Tonic Solemnity Spellhold High Flagration High Levin | Quickspell Focused Bolt Levitate Enchanted Counter Magick Bolt Anodyne | Apotropaism Beatitude Intervention Perpetuation Conveyance Opulence Exaltation |
| Thief | Biting Wind Enkindled Blades Shadow Cloak Helm Splitter Powder Charge Concussive Step Gut and Run Smoke Screen Ensnare Cutting Wind | Carve Twin Fangs Swift Step Scarlet Kisses Controlled Fall Footpad Bump and Lift | Subtlety Gratification Poise Vigor Conveyance Opulence Verve |
The base Vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 cover all of the usual grounds one would expect in a high-fantasy medieval world regarding combat choices. You have your usual melee class in Fighter, magic in Mage, and a ranged class in Archer. There’s also the Thief class, which is a fast duel-wielding combat style.
Advanced Vocations
There are six additional advanced Vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2, which include new additions to spice up the combat.
| Vocation | Weapon Skills | Core Skills | Augments Skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic Spearhand | Dragoun’s Foin Seching Storm Humble Offringe Thief Core Skills Devout Offringe Thief’s Hond Ravinour’s Hond Mirour Vesture Skiedragoun’s Fangtooth Unto Skie | Scattering Bolt Quick Foot Ferrene Bolt Winding Cut | Conveyance Opulence |
| Magick Archer | Frostseeker Bolt Frosthunter Bolt Irradiant Orb Ricochet Seeker Sedative Bolt Flamefang Arrow Hailstone Bolt Remedy Arrow Vimtaking Arrow | Climactic Arrow Scopic Sight Tracker’s Sight Protracting Arrow | Sustainment Voracity Conveyance Opulence |
| Sorcerer | Flagration Levin Salamander Thundermine Frigor Hagol Decanter Seism Prescient Flare Spellhold Bolide Sorcerer Core Skills Maelstrom High Flagration High Levin | Magick Bolt Galvanize Quickspell Levitate Bursting Bolt | Asperity Stasis Constancy Catalysis Conveyance Opulence Sagacity |
| Trickster | Sweeping Shroud Delusory Screen Aromatic Rally Espial Incense Tricky Terrace Aromatic Resurgence Visitant Aura Dragon’s Delusion | Mending Vapor Drifting Brume Effigial Quickburn Trailing Aroma Enthralling Aroma | Detection Enlightenment Conveyance Opulence |
| Warrior | Skyward Sunder Goring Lunge Bellow Rending Sweep Savage Lash Ladder Launch Knoll Breaker Revivify Gale Slash Tidal Fury Razing Sweep Surging Strike Heavenward Sunder | Mighty Sweep Stonesplitter Barge Chain of Blows | Vitality Impact Pertinacity Dominance Conveyance Opulence Intrepidity |
| Warfarer | Depends on equipped weapon. | Depends on equipped weapon. | Depends on equipped weapon. |
In the advanced Vocation category, you will find your usual advancements from Fighter to Warrior and Mage to Sorcerer. You can also run as a hybrid magic/melee and magic/ranged class with Mystic Spearhand, and Magick Archer respectively. These two hybrid Vocations are only available to the Arisen and so your Pawn will not be able to take advantage of these.
Other classes include the Trickster, which seems to be an advancement to the Thief class of sorts, as it focuses on illusions and similar tactics. As well as the most intriguing introduction, the Warfarer class. The Warfarer class allows the user to use any weapon of their choosing, which means that they can swap between classes on the fly. This could provide advantages depending on the situation the Arisen finds themselves in. Again, these two Vocations are only available to the Arisen, and you will not encounter Pawns in the Rift with them.
Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Vocations are varied. With combat being a focus of the game, players have plenty to choose from and are sure to find a Vocation, or even multiple, that fits their playstyle and needs.
