Dragon’s Dogma 2: Fighter Vocation and How to Play the Class Guide

Discover everything you need to know about playing Fighter class in Dragon’s Dogma 2, including skills and vocation capabilities.

Fighter Vocation (Class) Overview

Fighter vocation is the starting vocation designed to be the ultimate protector class, with various skills that can attract enemies’ attention and keep them focused on the Fighter. This vocation is suited for Pawns, as it allows the Arisen to unleash their full offensive potential without worrying about taking damage. With the Fighter by their side, players can confidently enter any battle, knowing their trusty companion will always have their back.

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 Fighter Vocation (Class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2?

If you like heavy armor and live in the heart of a storm during the fight, the Fighter vocation is for you. As a Fighter, you won’t deal much damage; your role is to be the toughest and most survive on the battlefield, with fantastic defenses and passive bonuses. You will have tools for crowd control with taunt ability as you embrace the offensive tank of the party playstyle. The fighter vocation playstyle and gameplay resemble the first Dragon’s Dogma class.

As a downside, your mobility is much slower than Archers or Thieves, but your role is critical.

Additionally, Fighter is an excellent Vacation (Class) for your Pawn. They will hold the enemy’s attention on themselves while you and the rest of the team can control the battlefield and focus on damage. Improved Dragon’s Dogma AI seems to do a great job fulfilling this group role. Unless you prefer a heavy warrior playstyle, consider Fighter to be one of the best vocations for pawns.

How to Play Fighter Vocation – Class Gameplay in Dragon’s Dogma 2

Survivability and Battlefield Awareness: The best protection is a shield, which plays a big part in a fighter’s resistance. Those part’s heavy warriors stay in the middle of the battlefield, always surrounded by enemies, and absorb the damage, taking out the pressure from weaker party members. A fighter’s role is to protect and survive; you should always be the last standing and first to take damage. Fighter protects other vocations by focusing enemies’ attention on themselves.

Damage per Second: If you want to deal tons of damage, you should probably pick another vocation or upgrade to one of the hybrid or advanced vocations later because, as a fighter, you will deal only moderate damage. However, you are still focused on your offensive capabilities thanks to weapon skills like Compass Slash, which allows fighters to swing the sword in a circle, slashing surrounding the enemies.

Fighter Crowd Control: Probably the second biggest advantage of playing as a Fighter Vocation is the fantastic battlefield-controlling tools used by this class. Thanks to the Shield Bash skill, you can knock enemies off balance by charging at them with your shield. At the same time, Shield Summons will taunt the attention of nearby opponents to you. In your toolkit, you can even assail flying targets if you successfully execute the Airward Slash weapon skill attack.

Resistances: The fighter Augments primarily focuses on enhancing his most significant advantages. For example, Mettle will strengthen your physical defense, and Diligence will ensure your fast recovery after filing or enemy attack. You can also become more intimidating on the battlefield thanks to passives like the Provocation Augment, which increases the chances of enemies attacking you instead of your allies.

Fighter Maister’s Teachings

In Dragon’s Dogma 2, you can learn an ultimate ability for your vocation from Maisters. Each of these teachers has mastered their chosen vocation, and once you have gained their approval, you can unlock these powerful skills. Acquiring these abilities can often change the way you play your class, and they are worth taking the time to earn.

Additionally, no Vocation Rank is required before you can unlock Maister’s skills. However, you must have the Vocation itself. Fighter, is immediately available at the start of the game.

The following list presents the Fighter’s Maister Skill and how to unlock it:

• Maister: Lennart
• Location: Melve
• Required Quest: ‘Readvent of Calamity’. This will send you back to Melve to fight a dragon. Help out Ulrika and Lennart, who will reward you with the Soldier’s Code scroll.
• Quest Timer: If you progress too far in the game, you risk losing access to this ultimate ability. This quest will no longer be available after you complete ‘Feast of Deception’ in Vernworth.
• Ultimate Ability – Riotous Fury: Rains a flurry of powerful blows on the target, dealing massive damage at great cost to stamina. Leaves the user vulnerable if the first strike misses.

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)

Fighter Skills and Augments

Just like all vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2, Fighter 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.

To clarify, you can only have a limited number of 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 in the list below might not be available for you from the start.

Below, you can find all Fighter vocation Weapon Skills, Core Skills, and Augmentations in Dragon’s Dogma 2:

The Best Fighter skills are:

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

• Blink Strike (Burst Strike): your mobility tool and gap closer to charge into the fight.
• Airward Slash (Cloudward Slash): attack for flying and large creatures.
• Shield Bash (Shield Pummel): primary skill to stun enemies.
• Shield Summons (Shield Drum): draws aggro and keeps squishy friendlies safe.

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