Mine is having them remind me every single time I pick up an ingredient that different combinations of ingredients result in different items. Thanks, I had almost forgotten since the last time you reminded me two minutes ago!
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.
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.” 😅
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.
I have a Kindhearted female warrior pawn, and she she goes straight into battle so long as you give the 'Go!' command. I dislike the Straightforward pawn voice which is why I kept her as Kindhearted
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
@@wolfiemuse usually when the pawns pick up stuff like meat during your playthrough, it goes into the renting player's storage before the pawn gets sent back to the original Arisen. So if you rest at an inn (or house, not camping) and your pawn returns and the gift is rotten meat, then most likely you might have dragonsplague or someone trolling. It's just a good idea to start checking your pawns' eyes
@@rasamasala I frequently check them and I’ve never had Dragonsplague but I’ve gotten rotten fish haha. The singular time I almost got Dragonsplague was the time it gave me the notification and I did NOT leave the rift with that pawn lol.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!!
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!🫡
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. ❤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Logistician is terrible and should be avoided. I was once trying to farm gold from the ripened apple method at the Unnamed Village and a pawn with this specialization decided it would be a great idea to combine ALL my apples into fruit pies. Fired.
Doesn’t sound like Logistician is bad, just sounds like you were doing a really specific gold cheese and shouldn’t have had a Logistician pawn with you at the time. 🤷🏼
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.
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.
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.
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?
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..
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"?
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.
My personal preference is my fighter arisen A calm sorcerer logistician A straightforward hawker thief with the plunder skill A simple chirugeon warrior.
I hate pawns with meteor, takes two minutes to cast and then they get it off right as the big creature dies and the meteors destroy the corpse so no loot. Flare is really good though and malestrom, no corpse damage
If a Warrior pawn has Catapult Launcher I think they'll run away from the fights like a coward and wait for you to walk up to them so they can launch you.
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
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 believe you can have your pawn pass the dragonsplauge to a hired pawn. As far as i know, the sickness can only appear in one pawn at a time. So if you really dont want to kill your pawn, camp or doze off at a bench long enough so that it spreads to someone else's pawn. You can then dismiss/kill them. I haven't tested this out yet, but i think this makes sense.
My main is a Straightforward Thief and for a while, her sassy attitude kept making me stop and check her eyes, Larry David style, for Plague, until I realized that's just how she is
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
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.
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
Not sure if this is the video but he recommended simple for your pawns inclination, God please don't make that mistake! They will NEVER shut up and are always cringy happy about everything. I am saving up rift crystals to changer their inclination cuz that advice was incredibly bad, I almost started over when I learned how much it cost to change. No one is gonna wanna hire a pawn with that inclination cuz they are OBNOXIOUS.
@@Astristul not if you want a semblance of immersion from your open world rpg. I quit the game cuz of the chatter. I'll probably play again from the start and choose whichever gets them to talk the least.
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...
What happens to your pawn after a dragonsplague incident? Do you get them back? Im not really fussed about the townsfolk, hell, the way some of them talk to me theyve got it coming, i just want to know il get my pawn back!
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.
DON'T buy the incense any longer, you can actually change inclination with art of metamorphosis. This is 500 RC instead of the 2000RC, it also has a stack of 99 instead of 1.
god i hate when i grab a pawn and dont realise it has logistician, i tend to keep stuff and combine with thought behind it, whenever i grab a pawn without realising they got that i always curse out loud when they suddenly start wasting all my shit
I really don't like pawns in this game. They just seem to be broken. A lot of the time when they offer to lead me somewhere, they just seem to run aimlessly for six and half minutes untile we get attacked by a cyclops or something. I made the mistake of trusting a pawn when she said she might know where ulrika is, but she lead me all the way to the nameless village instead. I also hate that wandering pawns will force you to talk to them if you get within 10 feet.
Get thief with plunder, I'm shocked it's not mentioned. It's insane how much you'll get starting from money and finishing with more crafting items/wakestones/ferrystones. 2y2dkoplma0r for example xD
I just turn their voice down all the way in interface, they still talk but it only in subtitles. Also casters of the same type will spell sync if they have the same spell.
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?
1. In DD1 pawn is always perfect parry everything which makes fighter pawn OP. 2. Idk about spellhold, but i have a hired mage pawn that does silence when a drake or chimera casts spells. Not every time but reliable enough, I'd say 60-70%. 3. Yes, as long as they have the monster knowledge. They usually shout like "fire is effective against this foe" 4. No idea. I have seen a fighter pawn do springboard to reach chest, my theory is the arisen that hired them is also a fighter and do springboard. So they "mimic" them. 5. When your mage do those things, just do "To me" get the buff and then "Go". So this is my experience, just like in DD1. If you want to train your pawn, be the same vocation using the same skill. I travel as both warrior, my pawn is just doing skills and most of the time its Arc of might which is not efficient. She has Revivify equipped but never used it every time she got burned or unconscious. So i as a warrior only doing the square combo for normal ground enemies, heavenward sunder for big monster and when toppled i do arc of might to their head. After a few days my pawn can use the revivify, do the square combo though not always but sometimes still charging arc of might for big monster. I think it is possible to make them copy your style but will need a lot of time. Sadly DD2 doesn't have enough playground yet like DD1 Bitterblack island.
My pawns bug out. ALOT.... cannot tell you how many times I sat "go" when they ask to show me something and they just pretend it never happened. About 50% of the time.
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.
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?
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.
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
I just dragon plagued Vernworth last night. Any mission dealing with that city failed. I woke up important people with wake stones then a day later everyone’s alive again but missions still gone. Pissed🙄
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how much affinity do you lose when your pawn dies?
my favorite thing about pawns is them letting me know there is a ladder here
I wish they would say it more
Mine is having them remind me every single time I pick up an ingredient that different combinations of ingredients result in different items. Thanks, I had almost forgotten since the last time you reminded me two minutes ago!
Don't forget about the notes on the shops that could contain useful information.
And how they draw your attention to ballistas -- and educate you on their function
Bruh
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.
lol, same :D Although my solution was to eat all the apples :D
incredibly terrible specialization. i never hire them for this reason
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If i see logistician, its a hard pass lol!
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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.” 😅
Yoooo what😂😂😂
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.
I have a Kindhearted female warrior pawn, and she she goes straight into battle so long as you give the 'Go!' command. I dislike the Straightforward pawn voice which is why I kept her as Kindhearted
The best tips around here! 👏
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.
Where at??
at ibrahims scrapstore, checkpoint rest town @@Jordandeoo
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
This is neat, but pawns may pick up meat and it just rots during the persons adventure
@@wolfiemuse usually when the pawns pick up stuff like meat during your playthrough, it goes into the renting player's storage before the pawn gets sent back to the original Arisen. So if you rest at an inn (or house, not camping) and your pawn returns and the gift is rotten meat, then most likely you might have dragonsplague or someone trolling. It's just a good idea to start checking your pawns' eyes
@@rasamasala I frequently check them and I’ve never had Dragonsplague but I’ve gotten rotten fish haha. The singular time I almost got Dragonsplague was the time it gave me the notification and I did NOT leave the rift with that pawn lol.
@rasamasala you get the pop up about dp the moment you hire a pawn with dp. Dismiss it immediately and you'll be fine.
When pawns die the items is has goes to ur inventory. You don’t lose them, they don’t take them with them
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
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!
Pawns are heart of this game I too was looking for advanced guide on this
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.
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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
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.
ive had quite a few Simple pawn that were so bad i had to shadowplay clip video and rewatch to see if i wasnt just making it all up. so bad sometimes.
WAIT, BOXES TO CLIMB?? ARE YOU A HOT-DAMN GENIUS? IM SO STUPID I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS
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.
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.
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.
CARE TO FEEL THE WIND ARISEN?????????????????????
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
Thank you for explaining how to change the inclination. I couldn’t figure that out. ❤
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.
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!!
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!🫡
That's the only thing I've been spending my RC on
Bro 🤦. I've spent so much on the inclinations. Thanks for this!
The inclinations will improve your affinity with your pawn more though
@@guiltyblade huh? You are max affinity to your pawn anyway.
Yeah definitely the way to go especially after they added 99 i feel like they should adjust the price for the inclinations
Great work on the content Fextra!
I swear this guy is always on fire
Master, there’s a ladder here!
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. ❤
Yes I really had thought campsites would be a cool place to do it but after 100 hrs of playtime it's just a distant dream now 😢
@@Hulkitout 10 years...😮💨🤷
I've started avoiding warrior pawns with the master skill equipped. Seem to use it constantly, miss, then they're out of stamina.
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.
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.
To follow, generally if you hit go when they say "shall I assist" or something like that, they will do it.
A rented mage pawn also levitated up a cliff face to drop down a ladder for me.
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.
Good video. I hope more pawn videos come out. I'd especially like to see an indepth pawn vocation and skill utilitization breakdown.
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.
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.
It's overlooked because everyone's an archer! 😅
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.
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.
Tinctures for hair? I didn’t know that was a thing
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.
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.
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
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
Use Wait when you're scaling sheer ledges or narrow causeways in search of loot, to prevent pawns from hurling themselves to their death.
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.
Another point of dragonsplague in infected pawns: they'll start to brag about a newfound strength they have.
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.
TIP: Eternal Wake Stone is forgeable. You can make as many copies of them as you want, they cost 30,000 to forge.
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
What hidden quest are you talking about?
@@jarl- sphinx quest
Logistician is terrible and should be avoided. I was once trying to farm gold from the ripened apple method at the Unnamed Village and a pawn with this specialization decided it would be a great idea to combine ALL my apples into fruit pies. Fired.
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Doesn’t sound like Logistician is bad, just sounds like you were doing a really specific gold cheese and shouldn’t have had a Logistician pawn with you at the time. 🤷🏼
@@BMuR13utilizing intended game mechanics isn’t a cheese.
@@BMuR13 Inventory automation is just never a good idea when things can go wrong. It’s called out in the video as such.
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.
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.
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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.
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You can 100% see pawns with Dragon's Plague in the Rift by their eyes.
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.
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?
Art of Metamorphosis also lets you change inclination, and costs 500 RC instead of 2000. Use that, not incense.
This video was helpful asf, thanks!!!!!!!!
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..
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"?
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.
My personal preference is my fighter arisen
A calm sorcerer logistician
A straightforward hawker thief with the plunder skill
A simple chirugeon warrior.
If you decide to use Aphonite there is one drawback do it, your pawn will no longer offer quest knowledge while under that specialization.
I made a sorc pawn with meteor and flare. Now i feel like a side character to my pawn. :(
I hate pawns with meteor, takes two minutes to cast and then they get it off right as the big creature dies and the meteors destroy the corpse so no loot. Flare is really good though and malestrom, no corpse damage
If a Warrior pawn has Catapult Launcher I think they'll run away from the fights like a coward and wait for you to walk up to them so they can launch you.
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
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.
Loving the ligistician on my pawn, less time spend on bag management make the playthrough much smoother.
Except when you wanna save that syrupwort leaf you've just found for a detoxifying concoction and it automatically wastes it on a salubrious draught.
That perk is the worse, lol! 🙂
I believe you can have your pawn pass the dragonsplauge to a hired pawn. As far as i know, the sickness can only appear in one pawn at a time. So if you really dont want to kill your pawn, camp or doze off at a bench long enough so that it spreads to someone else's pawn. You can then dismiss/kill them. I haven't tested this out yet, but i think this makes sense.
I've done this several times. Dozing off at a bench doesn't work, but camping works.
My main is a Straightforward Thief and for a while, her sassy attitude kept making me stop and check her eyes, Larry David style, for Plague, until I realized that's just how she is
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
When you say "die" do you mean knocked down, ready for you to revive them? Or full dead back to the rift?
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.
Just the choose the baddest pawns 🙏
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
would be cool if each pawn skill slot had ascending priority. kind of a micromanaging
Straightforward's attitude made me suspect pawns with Dragonsplague lol but nah they're just like that
Great video!
Not sure if this is the video but he recommended simple for your pawns inclination, God please don't make that mistake! They will NEVER shut up and are always cringy happy about everything. I am saving up rift crystals to changer their inclination cuz that advice was incredibly bad, I almost started over when I learned how much it cost to change. No one is gonna wanna hire a pawn with that inclination cuz they are OBNOXIOUS.
What it counts is their behavior in battle! And yes, a mage needs to be simple! 🙄
@@Astristul not if you want a semblance of immersion from your open world rpg. I quit the game cuz of the chatter. I'll probably play again from the start and choose whichever gets them to talk the least.
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...
Mages are using stamina for their spells, so yeah, it does count!
Why does some weapon skills have a different border than others on the pawns
What happens to your pawn after a dragonsplague incident? Do you get them back? Im not really fussed about the townsfolk, hell, the way some of them talk to me theyve got it coming, i just want to know il get my pawn back!
Fighter:Calm
Mage:kindhearted
Thief:Calm
Archer:Simple
Warrior:Straight Foward
Sorcerer:Calm
There you go
Is it possible to make other people's pawns fall in love with you, or is it only your main pawn that can do that
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.
How do I choose the specialization if I have multiple uo ked
DON'T buy the incense any longer, you can actually change inclination with art of metamorphosis. This is 500 RC instead of the 2000RC, it also has a stack of 99 instead of 1.
Thank you ❤
be honest now, how many straightforward pawns have you thrown in the brine or if great of the Dragon Plague?
god i hate when i grab a pawn and dont realise it has logistician, i tend to keep stuff and combine with thought behind it, whenever i grab a pawn without realising they got that i always curse out loud when they suddenly start wasting all my shit
I really don't like pawns in this game. They just seem to be broken. A lot of the time when they offer to lead me somewhere, they just seem to run aimlessly for six and half minutes untile we get attacked by a cyclops or something. I made the mistake of trusting a pawn when she said she might know where ulrika is, but she lead me all the way to the nameless village instead. I also hate that wandering pawns will force you to talk to them if you get within 10 feet.
Get thief with plunder, I'm shocked it's not mentioned. It's insane how much you'll get starting from money and finishing with more crafting items/wakestones/ferrystones. 2y2dkoplma0r for example xD
I wondered about the scars
I just turn their voice down all the way in interface, they still talk but it only in subtitles.
Also casters of the same type will spell sync if they have the same spell.
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?
1. In DD1 pawn is always perfect parry everything which makes fighter pawn OP.
2. Idk about spellhold, but i have a hired mage pawn that does silence when a drake or chimera casts spells. Not every time but reliable enough, I'd say 60-70%.
3. Yes, as long as they have the monster knowledge. They usually shout like "fire is effective against this foe"
4. No idea. I have seen a fighter pawn do springboard to reach chest, my theory is the arisen that hired them is also a fighter and do springboard. So they "mimic" them.
5. When your mage do those things, just do "To me" get the buff and then "Go".
So this is my experience, just like in DD1. If you want to train your pawn, be the same vocation using the same skill. I travel as both warrior, my pawn is just doing skills and most of the time its Arc of might which is not efficient. She has Revivify equipped but never used it every time she got burned or unconscious. So i as a warrior only doing the square combo for normal ground enemies, heavenward sunder for big monster and when toppled i do arc of might to their head. After a few days my pawn can use the revivify, do the square combo though not always but sometimes still charging arc of might for big monster. I think it is possible to make them copy your style but will need a lot of time. Sadly DD2 doesn't have enough playground yet like DD1 Bitterblack island.
My pawns bug out. ALOT.... cannot tell you how many times I sat "go" when they ask to show me something and they just pretend it never happened. About 50% of the time.
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.
So, is inclination making my sorc / mage pawn climb monsters instead of casting spells? 😂
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?
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.
Love this game!!
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
Great video,very informative! Thank you for the effort! I might've even learned a thing or two! 😉
Can pawns be naturally clumsy mine falls in the brine every time we are near water 🙄
this might be a dumb question but do the specializations do anything to their behavior or combat choices?
I just dragon plagued Vernworth last night. Any mission dealing with that city failed. I woke up important people with wake stones then a day later everyone’s alive again but missions still gone. Pissed🙄
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Can you make build guide for pawns all classes