Dragon's Dogma: How To Make The Best Pawn

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Dragon's Dogma contains a unique system that allows you to create a Pawn - a customisable companion that will follow and serve you on your journey to defeat the titular dragon.

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Much like the player character, Pawns can level up in a variety of classes, called vocations in Dragon's Dogma, learn skills unique to each vocation and equip a range of weapons and armour. As you journey through the land of Gransys, it will be necessary to manage the progress of your Pawns and develop their abilities to aid you in battle.

During the game's opening hours, you'll be tasked with creating two characters: your player character, and after you gain the ability to summon Pawns from the rift, you'll also be able to create a Pawn. You'll always have at least your own Pawn with you from this point onwards, but you can have up to three following you in total.

Your first Pawn will be particularly important to design with your own character's vocation and strengths in mind. Early on, your Pawn will do a lot of heavy lifting in assisting you in combat through providing healing or offensive magical buffs as a mage, drawing the enemies attention as a soldier, or attacking targets from a distance as a strider.

For this reason, your first Pawn's starting vocation is an important decision. The best strategy is to pick a vocation for your Pawn that differs from your own. For example, if you're going to begin the game as a mage (bearing in mind that you can change your class and your Pawn's later) then you might want to pick the sword and shield class, fighter, for your first Pawn.

This will help introduce you to the dynamic of Pawns, which you'll soon realise can be invaluable for covering your own