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 - There're two stores in the residential district of Gran Soren (The Black Cat, which lets you make forgeries, and the barber, which... barbers). They're hard to find, but get added to your map when you do.
-- Mage and sorceror are both really boring to play as. Don't do it unless you really want certain augments and/or are weird.
-- Fighters and Mystic Knights (focusing on ripostes instead of sword-magic) are the most fun melee combatants and probably the most reliant on player-skill in the game. All the classes besides the two pure magic ones are fun and worth trying, though.
 - The difficulty levels off really really hard, the entire game becomes a cakewalk at level 75 or so, earlier if you're an Assassin. Don't grind for levels or dcp.
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 - The higher the pawn level, the more Rift crystals they'll require. When you pay, check out their equipment, skills and quest knowledge to get the most out of them.
+- Pawn "inclinations" influence how a pawn acts, and some of them aren't as useful as they sound.
+- To give an example, Guardian sounds like it would be useful on a fighter pawn if you're a squishy wizard type. It's not, really. It makes it so the pawn doesn't really engage enemies until they take a shot at you and prioritizes staying close to you, even after taunting that big nasty ogre with wide rushing attacks that can flatten you. Guardian mages will also prioritize staying close to you over actually getting any spells off.
+- Scather encourages grappling on big enemies, so while it's great on a Strider, a Scather Mage might try to uselessly climb a cyclops instead of using spells.
+- Medicant encourages healing, so while it's good on a support Mage, you want it as a secondary inclination. If it's primary, the Mage will stop casting buffs or damage spells whenever anyone so much as skins their knee.
+- Be careful when using pawn commands, because they can cause shifts in pawn inclinations. Using "come" in battle too often will shift your pawn into Guardian, while "Help me" will add Medicant tendency.
+- You can force pawn inclination changes to your main pawn by using elixirs sold in the same room where you first got your pawn. The merchant that sells them shows up a main quest or two later. They cost rift crystals, which you can get a lot of easily if other players hire your pawn.
+- You don't actually lose your pawn when it's hired out, other players just get a copy and you get rewarded after they finish with it and you rest at an inn.
+- Character level and class ranks are unrelated. The only prerequisite to switching to a class is being character level 10 and having enough discipline points to buy the new class. Once you have acquired a class, switching to or from it has no cost. Advanced and hybrid classes are not straight upgrades, the base classes have their own niches. Warrior is the advanced Fighter class, but gives up on a shield for a huge two-handed weapon, so Fighters are still tankier, to give an example.
+- Stat growth is determined by what class you have active when you gain a character level. You can min/max by leveling with a class with good growth for the class you want to use (like Assassin for the best physical attack growth). Dragon's Dogma isn't hard enough that you have to do this. Don't get to max level before playing the class you actually want to play. You'll steamroll everything by then no matter what you do.
+- There are sidequests that are only available during specific parts of the story. Unless you use a guide, you WILL miss some. If you care about 100% completion, http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/...est_Progression tries to keep the spoilers light until you click on the links for more details.
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