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

Get a complete guide to playing as a Thief vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2, including class information and skill explanation.

Thief Vocation (Class) Overview

The Thief profession is the starting vocation designed to focus on swift and agile maneuvers. It allows thieves to attack enemies from behind and deal massive damage to one target at a time. While Dragon’s Dogma 2 lacks the skills to inflict area damage like some other vocations (classes), the Thief more than compensates by delivering concentrated damage capable of taking down even the toughest foes.

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

If you like swift combat and live in the heart of a storm during the fight, the Thief vocation is for you. One of the biggest pros of Thief is high damage per second. Thieves strike fast with an unmatched ability to move freely on the battlefield, climb obstacles, and even gigantic enemies. Similarly to Archers, those advantages allow this class to produce high damage per second, with per strike dealing less damage but with rapid success.

You will constantly move on the battlefield jumping from one enemy to another using tricks like bombs to defeat your enemies. However, it lacks the support skills of a Mage or archer, so you will be solely focused on dealing damage in the group.

Additionally, Thief is an excellent Vacation (Class) for your Pawn. In many games, the primary problem for companions is that they don’t react fast enough or don’t take full advantage of the support skills they have access to. 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 thief vocation so they can deal tons of damage and you can focus on controlling the battlefield and keeping everyone alive.

How to Play Thief Vocation – Class Gameplay

Survivability and Battlefield Awareness: Despite being at the front lines at melee range most of the fight, thieves don’t share the same protection and resistance as fighters or warriors. As a result, they must rely on their nimbleness and agility to survive. Shadow Cloak can be a fantastic escape mechanism when things go sideways. Blend into the surroundings and wait for the opportune moment to strike again.

Rapid succession and Damage per Second: You should try to focus on dealing the most damage in a short window because Thieves are known for quick and swift succession of dagger stabs. Each individual strike may not deal much damage, but paired with core skills like the Carve, which unleashes a flurry of dagger attacks, it will deal tons of damage, making you feel like the most deadly force on the battlefield.

High Movement: Thieves, like archers, have a high movement that helps them survive and control the battlefield. This is probably because those two vocations were one in the previous Dragon’s Dogma and now share a few characteristics, including the agile and swift ability to deal damage and find strategically beneficial positions within the battlefield. Augments like Verve and Vigour will significantly increase your stamina and strength passively.

Thief Tricks: Thieves lack proper party support. However, they have many tricks up their sleeve, exploiting enemies’ weak points. Enkindled Blades or Powder Charge skills can deal fantastic damage to pin down smaller enemies, giving you a short window to attack. Shadow Cloak helps strike from shadows, while a smoke bomb can disorient or confuse enemies, creating an opportunity to attack. Thieves can also plant flame strikes on enemies and effortlessly climb the big bosses to deal damage.

Thief Maister’s Teachings

In Dragon’s Dogma 2, players can learn ultimate abilities from vocation Maisters. Obtaining them requires extra effort, the abilities are worth it and have powerful effects.

To use maister abilities, you don’t need any specific Vocation Rank. However, you need to have a Thief class. The Thief Vocation is available from the beginning and can unlock two different ultimate abilities. Initially, one of these abilities may not appear to be beneficial due to the damage it inflicts on the user. However, it can become a formidable force when paired with the second ultimate ability.

Go to a Vocation Guild and equip both abilities to your keybinds. Then, when fighting a boss monster, first use Formless Feint. You can trigger Blades of the Pyre. The auto-dodge buff from Formless Feint should help you escape the fire damage from Blades of Pyre! Check out our Thief Maister Vocation guide for a step-by-step walkthrough.

The following list presents the Thief’s Maister Ability and How to unlock it:

• Maister: Flaude the Fraud
• Location: Nameless Village
• Required Quest: The Nameless Village. You will receive this quest from Brant as he directs you to learn more about the false Sovran.
• Quest Timer: There doesn’t appear to be a timer on this quest, given that it is a part of the main story.
• Ultimate Ability—Blades of the Pyre: This ability brings daggers together to ignite, wreathing them in a blazing inferno so potent that the user cannot escape being burned.

• Maister: Srail
• Location: Nameless Village, Thief Guild in tunnels below the manor
• Required Quest: The Nameless Village. You will receive this quest from Brant to learn more about the false Sovran.
• Quest Timer: There doesn’t appear to be a timer on this quest, given that it is a part of the main story.
• Ultimate Ability – Formless Feint: Accelerates the user’s reactions to an ungodly degree, enabling them to evade all manner of attacks from hostile targets; consumes stamina while active.

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)

Thief Skills and Augments

Just like all vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2, Thief 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 listed below might not be available to you from the start.

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

The Best Thief skills

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

• Biting Wind (Cutting Wind): gap closer mobility tool to initiate combat.
• Shadow Cloak (Shadow Veil): stealth ability.
• Helm Splitter (Skull Splitter): mid-air skill and large enemies.
• Enkindled Blades (Ignited Blades): buffs your dagger damage.

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