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

Get a sweeping guide on playing as a Magick Archer Vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2, including their class abilities and skills.

Magick Archer Vocation (Class) Overview

The Magik Archer is an enhanced Hybrid Vocation that uses magic bows. It relies on its proficiency in ranged combat, spellcasting, and support abilities to deal damage and excel on the battlefield. This unique class combines potent offensive and defensive spellcasting capabilities with arrows.

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, which are 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 Magick Archer Vocation (Class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2?

Magick Archer is an excellent choice for players who want to play a mix between an archer and a mage. You will stay in the backlines and deal significant damage while keeping the essential crowd-control tools. Thanks to the archer class similarities, this vocation makes it easy to move around the battlefield and even reach flying enemies.

The advantage of using arrows is a lower emphasis on long animation cast time compared to mage or sorcerer, thus giving you the option to do damage on the move with Magick Archer Vocation. However, its exceptional spellcasting skills can come at the cost of raw damage output.

It’s worth noting that playing from afar 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, You can’t use the Magick Archer class for your Pawn. If you want your Pawn to learn an advanced vocation, consider Warrior or Sorcerer.

How to Play Magick Archer Vocation – Class Gameplay

In Dragon’s Dogma 2, when playing Magick Archer class, you can expect the vocation to deliver powerful blows with magical arrows and spells while supporting the team from the back lines.

Area Damage and Single-Target Damage: The Magick Archer excels in both area damage and single-target damage, offering versatility in combat situations. With attacks like Engulfing Homing Arrows and AoE Blast Attack, the Magick Archer can effectively control crowds and simultaneously damage multiple enemies. Spells like Fire Blast Arrow and Shock Arrows also provide potent single-target damage, inflicting additional status effects such as Burn and Shock to further debilitate foes.

Healing and Support: Besides its offensive capabilities, the Magick Archer possesses healing spells that can restore health to allies in need. This versatile support ability allows the Magick Archer to assist teammates during combat, enhancing their survivability and bolstering the party’s overall effectiveness.

Mobility and Range: The Magick Archer’s gameplay revolves around maintaining distance from enemies to effectively leverage its ranged attacks. With its mobility tied to keeping foes at a distance, the Magick Archer controls the battlefield from afar, utilizing precision bow attacks and magical projectiles to deal potent ranged damage. Spells like Sporadic Arrow AoE also provide further crowd control capabilities, allowing the Magick Archer to dominate the battlefield.

Defenses and survival tips: While the Magick Archer has impressive offensive capabilities, its lower base stats and weaker-than-archer or thief vocations mobility leave it vulnerable to close-quarters attacks. To mitigate this vulnerability, players should prioritize maintaining distance from enemies and utilizing crowd control abilities to keep foes at bay. To enhance the Magick Archer’s survivability in combat, it’s important to effectively use healing spells and master defensive maneuvers. This will ensure that the Magick Archer remains effective on the battlefield.

How to Unlock Magick Archer Vocation and Maister Teachings

To unlock the Magick Archer vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2, you must go to Agamen Volcanic Island and find the Magick Archer Vocation Maister, Cliodhna. This is the third continent you will visit in the game, and you’ll eventually get there by following the map quest storyline.

Magick Archer is one of six vocations you must unlock before playing it.

Here is how to unlock Magick Archer Vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2:

1. Purchase the Beastren Mask for 8,700 gold from Ibrahim’s Scrap Shop to Enter Battahl with a permit or Jump down into the river bed from the bridge outside the Checkpoint Rest Town to the north. Follow the river west into a mountain pass.
2. Locate Drabnir’s Grotto along the south coast of Battahl. Ensure you have healing items, camping gear, and a Wakestone.
3. Exit the Grotto and follow the straight path forward. You’ll see Gautstafr, a dwarf. Speak to him and accept the “Put a Spring in Thy Step” quest.
4. Pick three different kinds of flowers. These can be herbs such as Syrupwort Leaf or Greenwarish. Return them to Gautstafr.
5. Visit him at his home. North to Windwalker’s Home. Speak to his wife, Cliodhna, and then Gaustafr again.
6. Agree to help Gaustafr reach the Hot Springs. Camp before you start out, and make sure to stay with the slow-moving Gaustafr, or you can carry him.
7. Successfully reach the Volcanic Island Camp. Follow the dwarf to the Hot Springs.
8. Cliodhna will appear and reward you with access to the Magick Archer vocation. She’ll also give you a Martyr’s Bolt scroll to learn.

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)

Magick 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 you will use in combat to deal damage and sometimes control the battlefield.

In Dragon’s Dogma 2, you can simultaneously have only a few skills per category active. With ranks, you unlock more of them by using specific vocations in combat as you level up. Some of the abilities listed below might not be available to you from the start.

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

The Best Magick Archer skills are:

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

• Boltchain Stake: Mgickal lightning that deals damage in area effect. Great against big groups of enemies.
• Candescent Orb: Another area attack, this time dealing fire damage.
• Frosthunter Bolt: Ice bolt that freezes enemies, sometimes slowing them down.
• Recovery Arrow: Heals and revives fallen pawns. Fantastic, must-have support skill.

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