Dragon's Dogma 2 Vocation: Fighter
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Welcome to the Fighter Vocation for Dragon's Dogma 2. Vocations are a very important factor that will determine the skills and weapons available to your character, influencing your overall approach to combat situations in Dragon's Dogma 2. Some Vocations and unique abilities can be unlocked by gaining the favour of Maisters. These are masters of their respective Vocations, and can be found in various locations around the world.
How to Use Effectively
The Fighter Vocation makes for an excellent tank that is capable of taking a ton of punishment from many enemies at once. Use them in the middle of the battlefield where they can gather aggression from enemies and debilitate them with powerful knock-downs and parries, while supporting the mobility of allies. As long as a Fighter or similar Vocation is taking the aggression of enemies, healers and high-damaging Vocations can feel at ease to deal tremendous amounts of damage.
Weapon Skills
Blink Strike:
Charge forwards and slam into enemies, staggering them and dealing damage. Upgrades to Burst Strike, travelling further and faster.
Compass Slash:
Perform a circular slash that deals damage to nearby enemies and staggers them slightly. Upgrades to Full Moon Slash, increasing the range of the attack.
Counter Slash:
Serves as a parry against enemy attacks, delivering a powerful blow in return if an attack is blocked. Upgrades to Vengeful Slash, consuming less stamina and increasing range.
Gouging Skewer:
Allows the user to repeatedly perform stabbing attacks at an enemy, pinning down smaller targets to do so. Upgrades to Gutting Skewer, dealing more damage.
Hindsight Slash:
The user will dodge backwards to avoid an attack before punishing with a savage blow. Deals more damage if avoiding an attack. Upgrades to Hindsight Sweep, increasing damage.
Impeccable Guard:
Rotate in a stationary position, blocking attacks from all directions, even while staggered. Upgrades to Flawless Guard, reducing stamina consumption and increasing range.
Perfect Defense:
Block all incoming damage from the front, consuming a lot of stamina while doing so. Upgrades to Divine Defense, consuming less stamina.
Shield Bash:
Using your shield, deliver a powerful smash that will knock targets over. Upgrades to Shield Pummel, which will deal two hits, dealing more damage.
Shield Summons:
Bang on your shield to attract the attention of enemies, causing them to attack you instead of allies. Upgrades to Shield Drum, which has increased range.
Springboard:
Throw your ally far into the air in a direction of choice, allowing them to cling onto large enemies. Upgrades to Launchboard, throwing allies further with lower stamina cost.
Riotous Fury:
Repeatedly hammer at your enemy to deal massive damage at great stamina cost. If you miss the first hit, you will be left open to retaliation for a decent amount of time.
Core Skills
Onslaught:
Repeatedly attack your enemy with your weapon, dealing significant damage over the duration.
Defend:
Tank against enemy attacks by blocking incoming damage at the cost of a small amount of stamina per absorbed hit.
Deflect:
Use this to deflect attacks back to opponents and perform a follow up attack. Upgrade to True Deflect to cause follow up attacks to cost no stamina.
Steeled Foundation:
When falling from a height that would cause damage, use this to reduce the amount of damage taken and recover faster.
Impale:
Perform a thrusting attack into your opponent which can be followed up with a second attack if the first hit connects with a staggered enemy.
Tusk Toss:
An uppercut attack that deals high damage and knocks smaller opponents down, dealing good damage.
Enchanted Counter:
While using a weapon that is enchanted by an ally, defending against attacks will automatically counterattack with the associated element.
The Fighter Vocation is dedicated to withstanding enemy attacks and running interference on the front lines, helping to support the rest of the group in doing so. This allows your more highly damaging allies to target enemies more safely while you take the brunt of their ire.
Making use of one-handed weapons and a shield, Fighters are capable of shrugging off large amounts of damage and recovering from disabling effects quickly, while delivering blows that are designed primarily to disrupt enemies in return. This can come in the form of knockbacks, knockdowns and staggers.
Fighters can even make use of their shield to propel allies high into the air so that they can grapple onto larger enemies and perform high-damaging critical strikes, all while the Fighter continues to soak up damage with ease.