Dragon’s Dogma 2: Archer Vocation (Class) Guide

Learn how to play and what are the strengths of Archer Vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 with the class and skills guide.

Archer Vocation (Class) Overview

The Archer is the starting vocation of a highly skilled, long-ranged fighter with a bow and arrow. With the ability to target and damage individual enemies and unleash devastating area-of-effect attacks, this vocation is a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. In addition to its offensive capabilities, the Archer vocation (class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is proficient at keeping enemies at bay and controlling crowds by strategically using its weapons and skills.

The vocation you choose in Dragon’s Dogma 2 defines the skills, playstyle, and weapons you or your pawns (companions) can use in combat. Additionally, as you level up, you will improve statistics and unlock Augments, passive boosts. Both will help you increase your combat efficiency, including survivability and damage output.

It’s important to know that you can change your actively equipped skills at any campfire if you have a camping kit. You can obtain a camping kit by purchasing it from merchants, or, if you are lucky, you may find one in the world. However, it’s worth noting that you cannot unlock new skills or change your vocation at campfires.

Should you play Archer Vocation (Class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2?

Archer is an excellent choice for players who prefer to stay in back lines and deal massive damage from far away. One of the biggest pros of Archer is high damage. As an archer, you will have a ton of mobility and skills to control the battlefield from far away. As a result, you can quickly aid your allies in combat and be the most survive on the battlefield.

It’s worth noting that this doesn’t mean you will stand in one place and never have to worry about incoming damage. Also, one of the class’s weaknesses is low resistance to enemy attacks. You don’t have the survivability of a warrior. As a result, you will most likely need to change your position often.

Additionally, Archer is an excellent Vocation (Class) for your Pawn. In many games, the primary problem for companions is that they don’t avoid damage or stay away from the enemy’s harmful area effects. In Dragon’s Dogma 2, pawns seem to have improved AI and act swiftly and smartly, but it’s not a bad idea to give them a range position so they can deal steady damage and you don’t need to worry about their survival.

How to Play Archer Vocation (Class)

Aim Assist and Battlefield Awareness: Archery requires good battlefield awareness and decent aiming. The game provides players with what looks like soft target-lock aim assistance, but the additional player ability to precisely aim at the enemy will help them make the most of this class.

Rapid succession and Damage per Second: You should try to focus on dealing the most damage in a short window because Archers are known for quick and swift succession of shots. Each individual arrow may not deal much damage, but paired with skills like the Barrage Shot (“Fires arrows in rapid succession”), it not only has very high damage per second but also allows you to take advantage of Archers’ second most significant advantage—movement.

High Movement: Archers have a high movement that helps them survive and control the battlefield. The agile and swift Archer vocation (class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2 can deal damage from afar and target enemies from high positions. Augments like Endurance will significantly increase your stamina passively. At the same time, the Avidity augment helps you to climb up to high ground looking for a better position or even scale foes and other surfaces more quickly.

Party Support and Crowd Control: Thanks to the Exploding Shot (“Fires a loaded arrow that adheres to foes or terrain. The arrow can knock targets off balance.”) weapon skill, you can knock enemies off balance and give your team a moment to regroup or simply eliminate the most dangerous foe. This allows Archers to create opportunities for their allies and support the frontline. You will also be able to hit the target’s otherwise impossible to reach dor melee fighters in the party. Some skills can knocked down from the air weaker enemies, allowing your team to eliminate them fast.

Archer Maister’s Teachings

As you traverse through various parts of the world, you will encounter individuals who have achieved the pinnacle of mastery in their chosen vocation. These experts, known as vocation maisters, have honed their skills to perfection, and are highly respected within their community.

By forging a relationship with the Archer vocation maister, and earning their trust, you will be granted access to their vocation. This could mean learning the complex details of their craft or receiving special tomes that contain the maister’s teachings – advanced skills that are highly sought after by aspiring craftsmen.

With their guidance and support, you can unlock your true potential as an archer vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2.

How to Unlock More Skills

You can change and unlock more skills and vocations in Vocation Guilds and some Inns. Here are some Locations where you can change your vocation and unlock more:

• Inn in Melve (in the north)
• Inn in Vernaorth (center of the map)
• Guild Hall in Bakbattahl (northeast part of the map)
• Guild Hall in Vernworth (south)

Archer Skills and Augments

Just like all vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2, Archer has access to three types of skills:

• Weapon Skills: Vocation-dependent weapon skills refer to specialized weapon techniques that may differ among various vocations, even if they share the same weapons. ( As such, it is crucial to understand the weapon skills available to your vocation to optimize your combat abilities.) These skills can be executed by pressing the related weapon skill button.
• Core Skills: Skills that are dependent on a specific weapon can be used by any vocation that has access to it. These skills are performed by pressing the light and heavy attack buttons in a specific order.
• Augments: Passive trait buffs are earned when leveling a specific vocation. Once unlocked, the augment can be used regardless of the character’s vocation.

As you can see, some of those skills are passive boosts, and some are active abilities used in combat to deal damage and sometimes crowd control the battlefield.

You can have only a few skills per category active simultaneously. With ranks, you unlock skills by using specific vocations in combat as you level up. So some of the skills listed below might not be available to you from the start.

Below, you can find all Archer class Weapon Skills, Core Skills, and Augmentations in Dragon’s Dogma 2.

The Best Archer skills

Ensure you use skills matching your playstyle and exploit enemy weaknesses for the best results. Here are the best archer skills in Dragon’s Dogma 2 worth considering:

• Barrage Shot (Manifold Shot) – single target burst damage.
• Torrent Shot (Tempest Shot) – damage over time stationary skill.
• Dire Arrow (Deathly Arrow) – crowd control skill.
• Whirling Arrow (Spiral Arrow) – area damage skill.

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