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| - Don't be afraid of switching vocations, as long as you don't spend 50 levels playing with the same class you won't be gimped. Capcom did a great job with making them feel much different, so if you get bored - try switching. | | - Don't be afraid of switching vocations, as long as you don't spend 50 levels playing with the same class you won't be gimped. Capcom did a great job with making them feel much different, so if you get bored - try switching. |
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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. | | - 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. |
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| - Pawn "inclinations" influence how a pawn acts, and some of them aren't as useful as they sound.
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| - 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.
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| - 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. | | - 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. |
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| - 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.
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| - 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.
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| - your pawn will be stupid at the outset of your journey no matter how patrician you are at the game. Proper inclination setup will help, but growing your pawn's bestiary knowledge will help even more. | | - your pawn will be stupid at the outset of your journey no matter how patrician you are at the game. Proper inclination setup will help, but growing your pawn's bestiary knowledge will help even more. |
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| - only Mages have healing magic and they also get some of the best buffs (for the classes pawns can be, anyway). Once you're well on your way to godhood you can forego the Mage for more firepower, but early on they're pretty indispensable | | - only Mages have healing magic and they also get some of the best buffs (for the classes pawns can be, anyway). Once you're well on your way to godhood you can forego the Mage for more firepower, but early on they're pretty indispensable |
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| - you can switch from Hard to Normal/Easy anytime, but going from anything to Hard will move your character over to a NG cycle. Do this and then switch back to Normal if you feel you've fucked something up extremely badly (failing Lost and Found or Chasing Shadows are good reasons).
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| - Hard Mode increases monster damage by 450% and doubles your stamina drain, among other things. It also drops crazy gold and doubles your EXP and DCP (job points). I wouldn't do it on a fresh lvl1 character, but in NG+ it's worth checking out.
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