Dragon's Dogma 2 Pawn Guide - Specializations, Inclinations, Dragonsplague, Romance, and MORE!

[@Fextralife]

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[@stephengarforth2753]

how much affinity do you lose when your pawn dies?

[@lethargicwizard]

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.

[@piotrjanukanis4459]

lol, same :D Although my solution was to eat all the apples :D

[@cookytrix]

incredibly terrible specialization. i never hire them for this reason

[@jessejames4967]

😂

[@truegritdirt]

If i see logistician, its a hard pass lol!

[@marcoscunha511]

😂

[@bosshaussauce3804]

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

[@ryanlett587]

I wish they would say it more

[@Neonmirrorblack]

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!

[@bridgesbane7032]

Don't forget about the notes on the shops that could contain useful information.

[@iSpotJosh]

And how they draw your attention to ballistas -- and educate you on their function

[@theflaps76]

Bruh

[@pride893]

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

[@cht5001]

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.

[@twilightknight2333]

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

[@Astristul]

The best tips around here! 👏

[@sharinganuser23]

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!

[@pockystyx4087]

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

[@thewise_1one856]

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

[@Jordandeoo]

Where at??

[@Neface]

at ibrahims scrapstore, checkpoint rest town ​@@Jordandeoo

[@violetbliss4399]

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.

[@cookytrix]

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.

[@lupin2232]

WAIT, BOXES TO CLIMB?? ARE YOU A HOT-DAMN GENIUS? IM SO STUPID I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS

[@desto13c]

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.

[@wavybabe797]

GO?

[@xandfur7817]

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.

[@tonydeluna8095]

Great work on the content Fextra!

[@MarluxiaX2]

I swear this guy is always on fire

[@MikeV671]

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!!

[@Pumpkin64337]

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

[@felixthescholarlytitan4437]

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.

[@wolfiemuse]

Master, there’s a ladder here!

[@Andy-ic8pk]

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

[@essential_worker_no]

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.

[@neilsneilson]

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

[@sigmaballs93]

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!🫡

[@MarluxiaX2]

That's the only thing I've been spending my RC on

[@michaelmcconnell4343]

Bro 🤦. I've spent so much on the inclinations. Thanks for this!

[@guiltyblade]

The inclinations will improve your affinity with your pawn more though

[@dodgek5270]

​@@guiltyblade huh? You are max affinity to your pawn anyway.

[@sorina9130]

Yeah definitely the way to go especially after they added 99 i feel like they should adjust the price for the inclinations

[@Xorbius]

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.

[@violetbliss4399]

To follow, generally if you hit go when they say "shall I assist" or something like that, they will do it.

[@sebastienmurray8749]

A rented mage pawn also levitated up a cliff face to drop down a ladder for me.

[@MB-go6uy]

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.

[@attrage7545]

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.

[@Astristul]

It's overlooked because everyone's an archer! 😅

[@Zenovii-senpai]

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.

[@Nmitch555]

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

[@dwlr007]

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.

[@jean-baptistemayeux1253]

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...

[@Astristul]

Mages are using stamina for their spells, so yeah, it does count!

[@whoisj]

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"?

[@Eeiiaane]

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..

[@intothevoid2046]

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?

[@beastfromtheeast422]

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.

[@HighImRabbit]

If you decide to use Aphonite there is one drawback do it, your pawn will no longer offer quest knowledge while under that specialization.

[@marcelolinhares2465]

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.

[@cloudbloom]

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

[@TheBigPresident]

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

[@m4nc1n1]

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.

[@myster679]

Just the choose the baddest pawns 🙏

[@rotn2013]

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

[@lmarr12]

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.

[@Astristul]

That perk is the worse, lol! 🙂

[@flyingmojo1]

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.

[@funkengruven7773]

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...

[@jonwayne6341]

After you search, it will spawn pawns in the room based on your parameters, and take you out of the stone. Touch the stone again, and select "view pawns in the rift". And that will show you the list.

[@SamuraiBuns]

So, is inclination making my sorc / mage pawn climb monsters instead of casting spells? 😂

[@shiva369]

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

[@Parwitch69]

What to do if my pawn got dragonplague in unmoored world?

[@tokamnich4709]

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.

[@dubzilla1979]

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

[@BahnYahd]

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🙄

[@joshuaDstarks]

😂

[@iv0rysh0es39]

When do Pawn gear/outfits change in other players’ worlds? My friend summoned my pawn and she didn’t have the same higher end gear that she has equipped in my world.

[@Atom-yb5dy]

they have to sleep at an inn or their house to reset thier pawn on the server

[@iv0rysh0es39]

@@Atom-yb5dy much obliged fellow adventurer!

[@oneandonlycara]

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

[@Joerisc]

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.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

Do you know if the Pawn passing the dragonsplague gets cured of it? My pawn had it several times and eventualy got clean without me having to kill her.

[@R0ckB3ast3]

Happend to me too, seems like its passed around like a hot potato.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

@@R0ckB3ast3 yep, I swear for all the last times i got it, it got cured and i never had to kill my pawn, nor did she die by herself. Only time I did this was the first, because of all the fuzz around it being potentially save file ruining

[@mr.obvious331]

How do you know the level of affinity with your pawn?

[@R0ckB3ast3]

They Start blushing every so often when interacting with him.

[@AMBATUKAM11111]

what is fexelias pawn ID bro pls i want to hire her

[@Fextralife]

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[@coreymarcotte1240]

This is the ULTIMATE PAWN GUiDE.... "Maybe...." "Probably....." -FextraLife

[@nicklas5165]

Calm or straighfoward as fighter? Want my fighter to be hired by other players but straightfoward scare them off hah. Even with good tank gear with right skills. I dont want to have a nude fighter thats how you raise likes 😂 but men of culture…

[@EdwardENigma-ry1io]

Hawker is horrible

[@lmarr12]

Chirurgeon is a really bad idea on a mage pawn since it'll prioritize using curatives in close contact (which'll often end up getting hit by a cleave) instead of spells. Especially bad if you love wasting a slot on argent succor since it'll override its priority aswell. A mages priority should be utility and buffs anyways. For rest you should always have sufficient curatives.

[@tonyelgoatferguson809]

For instance

[@rasamasala]

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]

This is neat, but pawns may pick up meat and it just rots during the persons adventure

[@rasamasala]

@@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

[@wolfiemuse]

@@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.

[@marcoscunha511]

​@rasamasala you get the pop up about dp the moment you hire a pawn with dp. Dismiss it immediately and you'll be fine.

[@IUsedToMakeMusics]

When pawns die the items is has goes to ur inventory. You don’t lose them, they don’t take them with them

[@EStephensII]

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.” 😅

[@Jordandeoo]

Yoooo what😂😂😂

[@dondondonjujuju]

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.

[@BingBangPoe]

My optimal Pawn party setup has been Sorcerer (Main Pawn), Mage and Fighter. If the hired Pawn Fighter has the Ultimate Ability and high defensive stats it makes them quite the robust frontline that keeps enemies away from the backline.

[@zhilong]

I am 300 hours in and I agree on the warrior, my pawn started off as a fighter then progressed to warrior and the charge attacks are so slow it’s hard to hit the targets, looks amazing but just not practical, I changed my pawn from the warrior at level 60 ish to a thief, currently 120 and hasn’t changed to another class since. Epically at later level you don’t need a tank I sometimes roll with three thief and a mage. I don’t roll with sorc anymore as they actually damage the body before you are able to loot and at high level your thieves are enough to take everything out.

[@pippobaudo4011]

I must disagree on the fighter, I hired one that was incredibly able to hit harpies using cloud strike. I believe pawns can learn from the arisen and how to fight properly. There must be some hidden mechanics or something

[@Ell9862]

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[@SmokinSNYP3R]

When I switched my pawn to warrior, she was originally a mage with kindhearted inclination and she was absolutely going mental on the enemies and almost never over charged her skills and whiffed. This game is weird when it comes to the pawn behavior.

[@ItheauthorityI]

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.

[@guiltyblade]

Straightforward is too country to be posh lol but I do also think it sounds whack sometimes. It's my favorite though because I think they have the best true ending cutscene when you max their affinity out. Every inclination has a different speech they give at the end. They also all say different things for every situation actually cuz of their personality. But that end cutscene I'm talking about, every inclination voice shines with a great touching expression at the end.

[@Laghrian]

Straightforward is so fun to me. My main pawn is like this. I made him grumpy old man which is even funnier :D but everyone likes different things :D

[@lethargicwizard]

My main pawn is also kindhearted, and she gets extra annoyed at the Simple inclination lines, and scolds them for being too absent minded.

[@DeathlyOath]

i absolutely need a straightfoward warrior in my group, the voicelines are absolutely hilarious

[@AdmiralFloof]

Straightforward works well on those tiny pawns. Anything taller than 190cm just doesn't fit it imo. Kindhearted/Calm however are so well suited for those tall mommies.

[@crazy-tommy]

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.

[@lupin2232]

CARE TO FEEL THE WIND ARISEN?????????????????????

[@crazy-tommy]

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.

[@darekw4710]

yeah want to get it, currently at 105 tokens, guess I will get it in NG+

[@crazy-tommy]

@@darekw4710 How I understood it the tokens you already picked up don't respawn in NG+, so you have to find the tokens you haven't picked up yet aka it does not matter if you do it in your current game or NG+. According to an unoffical map there are at least 241 seeker tokens available, so you don't need all to unlock every reward.

[@darekw4710]

@@crazy-tommy I know, but I think after 70+h its time to go to endgame finally. Also I found finders token after failing Sphinx quest, wonder if it will still be in inventory on NG+

[@JayJordan99]

Same. 110 hours just found all seeker tokens and maxed all vocations you made the right choice ​@@darekw4710

[@Catelynmeow]

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!

[@vanbod]

Pawns are heart of this game I too was looking for advanced guide on this

[@TrentBurford]

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.

[@CaptainAugust]

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.

[@wolfiemuse]

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

[@Odda.Omarion]

Will you be making an endgame guide?

[@BSpirit90]

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

[@majorcosmos2]

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

[@marlow21]

I made a sorc pawn with meteor and flare. Now i feel like a side character to my pawn. :(

[@Atom-yb5dy]

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

[@uwu-ge6oj]

game is too easy for get into this much depth

[@zhilong]

The point isn’t about overcoming combat, it’s to have your pawn behave in a certain way. Like training a pet maybe.

[@juanpaulounera2956]

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.

[@LovelyDaly]

You can still revive them while the dragon is alive. Did it with my pawn (he's the healer, had to get him up fast lol), and the plague never set in. Has happened far to often with my pawn (poor guy just loves to get picked up for it lol)

[@Trenia]

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.

[@samslenderman]

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

[@Bayocand]

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. ❤

[@Hulkitout]

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 😢

[@Bayocand]

@@Hulkitout 10 years...😮‍💨🤷

[@devranyilmaz9806]

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.

[@terrythegnome2408]

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]

What it counts is their behavior in battle! And yes, a mage needs to be simple! 🙄

[@terrythegnome2408]

@@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.

[@wickfut8917]

I just wish there were more actual voices for them.

[@Constellasian]

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.

[@Siepher83]

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

[@Constellasian]

I experimented with my main pawn on this by making him an archer, and have seen him miss quite a few shots. I made his inclination calm to see if he'd be more accurate, but battles are non-scripted, so there were situations where he'd even miss an explosive shot. For example, one of my pawns sent a group of enemies flying in all directions with an ice spell. My main pawn was in the middle of using dire arrow and missed the shot as the foe he targeted was suddenly thrown into the air.

[@tinnylaa6741]

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

[@thewise_1one856]

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

[@matticcusphynch]

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

[@DogTBH]

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

[@Plushmellow]

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

[@HowellDiesel]

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

[@OneEyedOneHornedGian]

I remember in DD1 the pawns would learn enemy weaknesses over time to make them more effective at selecting the right elemental attack/weak point to attack. I wonder if this is a thing in the current game?

[@DominicTanTV]

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

[@jarl-]

What hidden quest are you talking about?

[@biaseagleIII]

​@@jarl- sphinx quest

[@SmokinSNYP3R]

How can you even tell if your pawn's affinity is high enough that they fall in love with you?? I high five the shit out of my pawn and changed their hair at the barber multiple times. Secondly, why does the inclination also change the voice?? Just seems.. dumb

[@ashslayer3285]

how to get my pawn is far....far from my party

[@Spida37]

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!

[@monfe5532]

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.

[@LLachs283]

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

[@llnkv_]

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.

[@TatsukiHashida]

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

[@Luke_McCormack]

Cant stand Logistician. I like my meat nice and aged, seared to perfection for them good buffs. They like to make beef jerky.

[@handelnwankwo7714]

How do I choose the specialization if I have multiple uo ked

[@leocreuu3254]

I bet 99.9 of the people who are watching this made a baddie of a pawn and are Trina romance them

[@ryangomez6326]

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