Dragon’s Dogma 2: All vocations (classes) & how to unlock them

Guys we will try to make this as Foolproof and Fast to do as possible. We unlock them all, and know that some of them can be a pain to get to. We will also offer you some brief overview of each class Strengths And Weakness. So with that out of the way here is your guide to all vocations in the game.

We can start with a quick note about the Archer, Fighter, Thief, and Mage. These are your 4 starting vocations and you unlock them by finishing making your character. It’s as simple as that. Now let us go through all of them.

1. Fighter

Fighters are your frontline. They sport a sword and board as their weapon of choice. Their skills encompass a tool for every situation and with all of that combined it makes them a great allrounder.

Strengths: 

• Best tank
• High HP
• Heavy armor, great stagger resistance
• Allrounder skillset
• Fast and impactful attacks

Weakness:

• Jack of all trades master of none
• Trouble reaching flying enemies
• Lacks Good AOE options

If you want to be in front of monster faces, blocking and parrying their attacks, and have a toolkit to deal with any situation while still dealing respectable damage this is the vocation for you.

2. Thief

Thief is the most agile class. Their weapon choice is dual daggers. Their skill set is focused on evasion, targeting the monster’s weak points, and dealing with flying units.

Strengths: 

• Fastest attacks in the game
• Most evasive vocation 
• Great for climbing up big monsters
• Amazing skills for targeting weak points

Weakness:

• Lacks knockdown power
• Light armor and low hp
• Lacks good AOE options

For those of you who want to zip around dogging attacks and being so agile that you never get hit while jumping on a monster’s back and climbing up until you reach their eyes so you can stab the shit out of them or stick a bomb in their mouth this is the vocation for you.

3. Archer

Archers are masters of ranged combat. The weapon of choice is a bow (no crossbows in this game, unfortunately). They can use specially crafted arrows to inflict different status effects on the monsters and are excellent at taking out flying enemies and always shooting weak spots that other vocations would struggle to reach.

Strengths:

• Close to 100% uptime on weak points 
• Special arrows are great for targeting weaknesses
• Best at dealing with flying enemies

Weakness:

• Stagers easily
• Light armor and low hp

Do you like Legolas? Do you like having an arrow for every situation like a superhero from comic books? Do you like shooting stuff from afar rather than being in their faces where they can swipe at you. Look no more, you found your vocation.

4. Mage

Mages are masters of all types of spells, offensive and supportive alike. The weapon choice is a Stave. Their skills include elemental spells and spells to heal and buff up your pawns. This is one Vacation that no party should be without, their support toolkit is that good.

Strengths: 

• Best healing and team support in the game
• Great magic defense
• Good AEO attacks
• Spells to deal with any situation

Weakness:

• Light armor and low HP
• Stagers easily
• Lacks knockdown power

Gandalf is your boy, you have a long gray beard or are a young but wise lady. If you want to dish out damage, help your teammates, and be the only vocation that everyone truly needs you found your calling.

5. Warrior

Warriors are masters of melee combat. They sport a Greatsword or Greathammers and Axes as their weapon of choice. Their skillset is focused on charged attacks that are great at knocking down enemies.

Strengths:

• High Hp
• Heavy armor, great stager resistance
• Best Stagger and knockdown potential in the game
• Massive single-target burst damage

Weakness:

• Slow attacks and attack recovery
• Trouble reaching flying enemies

You like Guts from Berserk and you want to be just like him. You want a big f-in sword so you can swing it in big f-in heads of big f-in monsters. And when you hit them and it knocks them down on their ass so you can jump on their heads, and do a charged attack that will DEMOLISH their HP in one swing. Sounds good? I bet it does.

6. Sorcerer

Sorcerers are offensive mages. They forgo buffing the party and healing and trade it for massive elemental AOE damaging spells. They wield an arch staff and their skill set focuses on elemental damage and debilitations.

Strengths:

• Best AOE damage in the game
• Great magic defense
• Great control effects
• Can deal dmg from every element in the game

Weakness:

• Light armor and low HP
• Stagers easily
• Long charge-up time for spells

If you ever played Final Fantasy and know what a black mage is and you love that slow charge-up time to do absolutely massive spells like summoning meteors and tornadoes this is the vocation for you.

How to unlock Warrior and Sorcerer

These two Vocations are the easiest to unlock. All you need to do is follow the storyline until you reach the main city.

When you reach it, make your way to the vocation guild and talk to Klaus. He will tell you that you can’t change into a warrior or sorcerer because a shipment of weapons for those respective vocations got stolen. This will unlock a quest Vocation Frustration.

Before you embark on recovering the weapons, talk to the guy who sells them named Roderick. He has a shop up in the Merchant Quarters. He will inform you that Goblins are behind the theft and are hoarding the weapons somewhere along Western Road. That somewhere is in Trevo Mine right here on the map.

Make sure to search the cave thoroughly for two fancy-looking chests. One will contain a Two-Handed Sword and the other the Archstaff. Bring them back to Klaus to unlock your new Vocations.

7. Mystic Spearhand

Mystical Spearhand is a hybrid vocation utilizing melee attacks and magic. Their weapon of choice is a dual spear(Darth Maul style weapon). Their skill set focuses on dishing out magical attacks from afar and quick, close and personal, fast spear combos.

Strengths:

• Physical and magical attacks
• Allrounder skillset
• High mobility
• Fastest at killing normal enemies

Weakness:

• No dodge or Block

Here are a few prerequisites to unlocking it:

• You have to reach the main town
• You have completed the quest “monster culling”

To reach the main town just follow the main quest and you should be there in the first few hours of the game. 

After you reach it, talk to Captain Brant and on the list of quests he can offer there will be a quest called “Monster Culling”. You can find him at the Inn in the middle of the town, he hangs in there at nights.

After you complete the quest take the Oxcart back to the Melve village, where you started your adventure from.

Upon reaching the village you will find it under siege from a Dragon. Join in the fight and after you and the good citizens of the village do enough damage the Dragon will fly away (unrelated this is also start of the another quest line Readvent of Calamity).

Now find a hooded fighter with a long spear on his back. His name is Sigurd and he hangs near the entrance around all the burned houses. Talk to him and ask him about his fighting style and you will unlock your new vocation.

8. Trickster

Trickster is a unique vocation that is great for support and creating multi-purpose illusions. You can use the illusions to make enemies jump off cliffs, Buff your allies and Debuff your enemies (This Vocation would be something closest to a Necromancer minion build). Trickster wields the Censers. Their skills are focused on taunting and confusing enemies, supporting allies, and creating environmental illusions.

Strengths:

• Strongest buffs in the game
• Taunting enemies
• High Knockout power
• Using terrain to get kills

Weakness:

• No good normal attack option
• Heavily reliant on pawns
• Most skills are highly situational

To unlock the Trickster first you will need to make your way to the next region called Battahl.

We suggest you follow the main story and get to it that way, but if you just want to speed run to the region so you can unlock one of these advanced vocations, we will explain how to do so.

There are several methods to do this but for the sake of keeping this article on point, we will give you the one we find to be the simplest.

First, you will take a Oxcart to Checkpoint Rest Town from the main city of Vernworth.

You can find the cart in this location.

After you reach the town you can stay on the bridge and look around for a different type of Oxcart.

It is a fancy-looking Merchant Oxcart that trades between two main cities. You can simply wait on the bridge or use one of the nearby benches to skip time until it shows up.

After it pops up all you need to do is jump into it, and the cart will take you through the gates with no one being none the wiser.

Now that we have all that out of the way the last thing you need to do is follow the main road and take a side path to the Reverent Shrine right here on the map.

Talk to the Illusion of a Trickster Maister named Luz and you will unlock your new Vocation.

On a side note, if you want to know where the real Maister is find the ladder on the side of the temple and climb to the roof, she will be impressed you found her and will reward you.

9. Magic Archer

Magic Archer is a vocation that specializes in dealing both Aoe and single target dmg magical damage through a bow. Their Weapon of choice is a Magick Bow. They have a great skill set both suited to dealing damage and buffing and healing allies.

Strengths:

• Close to 100% uptime on weak points
• Great Aoe and single target damage
• Can deal with flying enemies easily
• Can Heal and buff allies

Weakness:

• Stagers easily
• Light armor and low hp
• Long charge-up time for Attacks

To Unlock the magic archer you will need to make your way back to the Volcanic Island Region of the game, where you were working as a slave.

After you unlock the Battahl region it’s as simple as walking south from the main city, until you reach this cave called Drabnir Grotto. Pass through the cave and on the other side few meters down the main road there will be an Old man with back problems named Gautstafr.

He will need your help to get back to his house called Windwalker Home (it will be marked on your map once you accept the quest). Escort the poor dude and give him any medical herbs you have lying around in your inventory.

After he is done arguing with his wife Cliodhna he will go inside to get your reward and his back will crack again.

Unfortunately, this Dwarf was probably deadlifting with a poor form his whole life 

This time your herbs won’t do, and you will have to take him to the curative springs in Volcanic Island Camp right here on the map.

After you are done with your escort quests his wife will show up and you will unlock your new
Vocation.

10. Warfarer

Warfarer is a vocation that can use all the weapons and armor in the game and their associated skills. Wayfarer has a special skill that lets you equip multiple weapons and swap them in the middle of combat. You can mix and match anything you want to achieve your perfect build.

Strengths:

• Most versatile vocation in the game
• Can use all the weapons and armor in the game
• Can swap between weapons in combat

Weakness:

• Cant use ultimate abilities of vocations
• Has worse stats than original vocations

Before we can unlock the Warfarer you will have to go shopping for some Booze. Yes, i am being serious. 

Specifically, the Maister of this vocation has a special hooch in mind called Newt Liqueur and you will need 3 in total.

Now there are a couple of ways to get this item. If you are lucky enough to have Fruit Wine in your inventory you can combine it with Saurian tails.

Otherwise, go to the main city of Battahl region called Bakbattahland and make your way to the Higgs Tavern stand.

(This step is optional but doing it will mean you won’t have to fight the guards). Put a Beastren mask on, that you can buy from the merchant Ibrahim who makes forgeries at checkpoint rest town.

When you are done with all that we want you pick up this sack and put it in the yard next to the hay. This will prompt an interaction and you will be dragged into the tavern where you will be able to buy your liquor.

After you finish the prerequisites, make your way to the Hot springs in Volcanic Island Camp (check the Part about Magic Archer for pictures of the locations and how to reach them) and talk to the guy named Lamond sitting and drinking outside of the springs entrance.

Give him the hooch and your vocation will be unlocked.

Now you know what all the vocations are and how to unlock them. Pick your favourite one or try them all out.

That’s it you are done my dudes and dudettes. Hope it’s Friday where you’re at and Game On.