Best Dragon’s Dogma 2 Pawn Build for Every Vocation – DD2

by JFFK · June 16, 2026

This Dragon’s Dogma 2 Pawn Guide will show you the Best Pawn Builds for every vocation.

Using Riftstones in the main cities will give you the best selection of pawns to find the Best Pawn setups for your party. Below is the most ideal party for combat situations. However, ensuring you have the pawn with the right Skills and Inclinations will pave the way for success.

Best Party Composition:

Your Character (The Arisen)
Mage (Support/Healer)
Thief (Damage/Stealing)
Warrior (Tank/Damage) or Sorcerer (Damage) or Thief (Damage)

Below we will showcase optimal setups to look for in your pawns. Therefore, Skills are listed in order of importance to search for. Using Advanced Search for the first skill will help you find the best pawn builds for your party. It’s important to avoid problematic skills or incorrect Inclinations for your Pawns combat behavior.

Best Build for a Thief Pawn

Arguably the best option for Pawn damage dealers in your party. Thieves are useful for their High Physical Damage and Ability to Steal. Stealing will net you a huge amount of extra rewards that are very difficult to pass up. Ensuring you have a thief like this will be very helpful.

The Best Skills for a Thief Pawn:

Pilfer – [Plunder]
Helm Splitter – [Skull Splitter]
Ensnare – [Implicate]
Formless Feint

The Best Augments for a Thief Pawn:

Thew
Endurance
Exaltation
Lethality
Apotropaism
Mettle

The Best Inclination for a Thief Pawn:

Simple

Best Build for a Sorcerer Pawn

Sorcerers offer your next best damage along with thieves and arguably better at times when Meteoron connects with your targets. Sorcerers will bring heavy AOE Magic Damage and Focused Magic Damage on your larger enemies. As a bonus, Meteoron can be very helpful for knockdowns.

The Best Skills for a Sorcerer Pawn:

Prescient Flare – [Augural Flare]
Meteoron
High Frigor
High Levin or Hagol

The Best Augments for a Sorcerer Pawn:

Catalysis
Asperity
Constancy
Endurance
Sagacity
Subtlety

The Best Inclination for a Sorcerer Pawn:

Calm

Best Build for a Mage Pawn

Mage is the Support Class of the party. It’s important to get what is relevant to your party. You may not need an enchantment or want celerity. Levin or Frigor can be swapped in if you’d like more damage or even add Halidom if you want someone to cure debilitations as well.

The Best Skills for a Mage Pawn:

Celestial Paean
Palladium – [High Palladium]
Celerity – [High Celerity]
Ice Boon – [Ice Affinity]

The Best Augments for a Mage Pawn:

Beatitude
Constancy
Subtlety
Perpetuation
Exaltation
Mettle

The Best Inclination for a Mage Pawn:

Calm

Best Build for a Warrior Pawn

Warrior is a powerful option for Pawns that provide Heavy Physical Damage and High Knockdown performance. This is ideal to help get large creatures down to score in heavy critical punishment. They can also act as a front line and act as a source of aggression for enemies.

The Best Skills for a Warrior Pawn:

Skyward Sunder – [Heavenward Sunder]
Gnoll Breaker – [Mountain Breaker]
Bellow – [Roar]
Gale Slash – [Windstorm Slash]

The Best Augments for a Warrior Pawn:

Provocation
Thew
Dominance
Intrepidity
Apotropaism
Mettle

The Best Inclination for a Warrior Pawn:

Simple

Best Build for an Archer Pawn

Archer Pawns are useful for eliminating scattered targets and providing an average but sustained damage. They can also assist in knockdown on striking harder to reach weak points and if given the correct arrows, they can debilitate any enemy.

The Best Skills for an Archer Pawn:

Barrage Shot – [Manifold Shot]
Dire Arrow – [Deathly Arrow]
Heavenly Shot
Exploding Shot – [Erupting Shot]

The Best Augments for an Archer Pawn:

Endurance
Dominance
Constancy
Mettle
Apotropaism
Lethality

The Best Inclination for an Archer Pawn:

Simple

Best Build for a Fighter Pawn

Fighter Pawns deal moderate damage but can draw aggression and absorb damage. Additionally, we want them to climb onto large enemies and distract them while skewering. To do so, we set them to a Straightforward Inclination. This will have them charge into fights and also climb more aggressively.

The Best Skills for a Fighter Pawn:

Gouging Skewer – [Gutting Skewer]
Airward Slash – [Cloudward Slash]
Blink Strike – [Burst Strike]
Shield Summons – [Shield Drum]

The Best Augments for a Fighter Pawn:

Apotropaism
Mettle
Vigor
Avidity
Dominance
Provocation

The Best Inclination for a Fighter Pawn:

Straightforward

Inclinations for your Pawn in Dragon’s Dogma 2

Inclinations are significantly impactful to how your pawn will behave and how they will go about using the skills they have equipped. Placing certain skills with the wrong inclination may have unintended effects and changing inclination may help you get your pawn to perform how you intend.

Inclinations can be purchased from Neomith using RC in Vermund next to the Pawn Riftstone. You can purchase Art of Metamorphosis to change your Pawn’s inclination more cheaply (500 RC instead of 2000 RC).

Simple – Arguably the best default for your pawn. Your pawn will help out with looting areas which takes the burden off collecting between and after fights. Great for aggressive melee that aren’t overly defensive but will not climb targets as much as Straightforward.
Calm – A great choice for Mage and Sorcerer if they are fragile. They will prioritize their positioning and survival in fights. They may cancel skills too often if fights aren’t controlled well though.
Kindhearted – Potential niche uses such as wanting an active Springboard Fighter or a Thief spamming Ensnare. These pawns will carry other downed pawns to you for Revival. This may be useful to you, but they will usually continuously do this until you Revive and take themselves out of the fight.
Straightforward – Useful if you want your pawn to aggressively engage and also climb larger targets. Climbing targets is good for specific roles, but I primarily only prefer it on a Fighter. Rogue‘s can make good use of this too but may miss out on stealing or using more Skull Splitters.

Specializations for your Best Pawns in Dragon’s Dogma 2

Specializations will not impact your pawns in combat use but the roles and functions they can perform outside of combat. Certain Pawn Specializations may be desired and some are undesirable. Understanding the specializations will allow you to properly find excellent Pawns that are difficult to replace.

Forager – One of the best specializations to have. Your pawn will help locate and mark necessary upgrade materials on the map for items you are using that can be upgraded.
Woodland Wordsmith – Allow you to translate Elvish and always great to have on a long term pawn so you don’t need to swap them in and out. You can favorite one and swap back and forth as needed when talking to Elves in Sacred Arbor
Aphonite – This will limit Pawns from interacting when in the party. This may be coveted by a lot of players who simply have heard enough from their pawns whenever they see a ladder or pick up any item.
Chirurgeon – Possibly could be useful as it allows Pawns to use consumables on the party and the Arisen. However, they may mismanage or use curatives you don’t want and run through a supply, so be weary of this one in party.
Logistician – Logistician can be useful for players that don’t want to manage their inventory or combine materials. However, they will generally not allow fruit to ripen and make roborants, but instead constantly upgrade to potions. Some players may avoid or seek them out them for this purpose.
Hawker – Initially, Hawker seems great because you can sell items off to your pawn while out in the wild. Unfortunately, you have no control over what is being sold and he will sell off your elite backpack or those crafting items you’ve been farming. This should be avoided until some control is allowed for the Arisen.