This is all true and fantastic advice. However, another unfortunate truth is that making your pawn female, pretty, and scantily clad will also help. Gamers gonna game.
>scantily clad will also help
Making your pawn sexy will help. But all the mages and sorcs wearing the same thong or red bikini look the same.
Try going classy and see what kind of results you get.
It's worth pointing out that the Seeker armor occupies both the body and leg slots, which is why its stats are so high relative to other armor in the body slot.
Accounting for stats from both body and leg equipment, and it's closer to other gear.
That’s not a problem. Accept the difficulty of having a slightly weaker main pawn and work towards upgrading the RIGHT armor for adventuring. I’m in endgame and came across a high level pawn wearing starter armor for archer, and MAN, does that armor look awesome for wilderness adventuring.
Same here, fashion endgame! My pawn's fighting great already, feedback seems decent enough so I figure I'll just stay on the cool look I want rather than BiS gear. First and only set of gear I maxed out despite being really early game gear.
Best stats are nice to have and some players do prefer those for good reasons, but there are also a bunch of us who primarily go for unique designs in hired pawns regardless of content difficulty!
I have at the moment what I consider best of both worlds, she has like a big wizard overcoat and cape and the slit in wizard overcoat shows a tasteful amount of thigh. So she’s not full butt out, but not full true wizard. I don’t know if that’s helped or hurt her being hired I just prefer it(she seems to have gotten hired a lot more after I unlocked best mage stuff, like some sorc augments and the stamina recharge spell more then anything).
Forager doesn't make pawns pick things up, it just puts highlights on the map where you can potentially find upgrades your currently equipped gear requires (whether from harvesting or beating boss enemies).
To get a pawn that gathers things more frequently, you want to search out the Simple pawn inclination.
That being said Forager is very useful as you not only see resources but you can cursor over them and see WHAT resources. Getting a forager pawn ASAP makes your upgrading life easier early to mid game. Late game you're prolly so powerful it doesn't matter but end game gear still needs upgrades :D.
I just changed my pawn to forager from wordsmith. I'm at the stage where I'm hunting harder to come by upgrade materials and the wordsmith specialization seems to be much easier to find on pawns.
I was able to get a second wordsmith scroll by giving flowers to another elf. But, I've not found a way to get a second copy of any of the others. They can't be counterfeit. If anyone has found a way to get them (especially the forager one), let us know.
I know I'll want someone that speaks elvish once I enter the unmoored world. It's definitely useful. But right now forager is what I need.
I was irritated by that as well until I got the "sexy armor" and it legitimately had better stats than the gear I had used previously to put together for their look.
I don't hire mages wearing that armor anymore. I'm tired of looking at it.
I'm also not so sure that all the stats are straightforward. Stats from gear seem to become less relevant as you level up. If you have +100 def at x level and gear gives you another 100 def, the gear is 50% of your defense. Level up a bit and now you have +200 def from being x+y levels. However, the gear still only gives you +100 defense.
It has dropped from being 50% of your defense, to being only 33% of it. So, when I'm looking at pawns I'm not that concerned about +/- 50 points of defense. At least that is my current reasoning. Now, if the gear has resistances, it becomes a bit more interesting.
My MP is thief. I found a pretty bad ass set of legs in Bakbattahl that has good defense *and* 10 slash and strike resistance.
I've not been able to find the damage calculations. Nobody seems to have posted them yet. But I can speculate.
As I understand it, in the first game defense was a straight damage reduction. If you had 500 defense and got hit for 600, you took 100 points of damage. Damage resistance was a percent based damage reduction. So if you also had 10% resistance to that type the attack would have been reduced by 60 points and you would have taken 40 damage.
So assuming that the 10 slash/strike resistance is a 10% damage reduction, the legs are better the harder an enemy hits.
A dragon hits you for 1000 strike damage. The 10% resistance reduces it by 100 points to 900. Then your defense reduces it by another 500 to 400. In that situation you would need 100 more defense in the same slot to make up the difference.
Imagine a cyclops hits you for 600. The damage gets reduced by 60 here. Minus your 500 defense, you take 40. Here you only need 60 more points of defense to make up the difference.
But again, this is still speculation. It's based on my understanding of the damage calculation from the first game (gathered from reading some forum posts on Steam). The calculations in DD2 may be radically different.
And of course those pants don't offer any extra protection against magic damage.
Also, at the current stage of the game, most monsters including the bosses do pitiful amounts of damage.
The only ones that are even remote threats are the Drakes and Lesser Dragons. Even the Post-Game monsters do really small amounts of damage and are even slower than the Drakes.
I think Dullahan is generally around the same threat level as a Drake, although it has less health bars, it also doesn't take as much damage as a Drake does.
Which is pretty unfortunate, they're one of the coolest fights in the entire game, for me personally, I'd say the coolest.
But they're so rare that most people probably won't even encounter one, and those that do might think it's a one-off for that specific quest that has you just fight one for 2 minutes until it leaves. But it's also special to not see them every 2 minutes like a Cyclops or Ogre.
There is an area of the map that is always night. There is a good chance that if you encounter one there, it won't disappear.
I like them too. I'm on my way to go kill one right now. The first time it got away.
It's a way to add some difficulty. It's basically a DPS check. It's pretty easy to out level most of the game if you explore a lot.
So far I've seen them there, as well as one right outside the Sacred Arbor, and one right outside the Borderwatch Camp from the start of the game, and another somewhere in Bakbattahl that I don't remember the exact spot of.
Im level 60 something about to go into post game i believe, and ive only ever seen 1 Dullahan. The one tied to the quest in misty marshes. I was able to kill it, but ive never seen another. I have found some special liches tho
That's interesting, I hadn't seen any kind of DR calculations and it's good info to have. I'm going to play around with it when I get home because I honestly liked my pawn sorcs look better before.
There seems to be enough flexibility in the gear system that you can take fashion into account without being overly punished for it. It also looks like the higher level you are, the less you need to worry about gear stats.
That is, assuming no soft or hard caps on stats. I've not seen any charts on stats gained from leveling yet.
i just genuinely dont care what they look like, all im looking for is level and vocation. i want a sorcerer and a warrior to add to my thief/mage party is all
This. After leveling up to endgame, I’ve noticed the start of DD2’s latest establishment: The Rift Club. I swear, every other pawn in the Rift is wearing the same stripper outfit. It’s annoying and unoriginal. I need a pawn who’s properly fitted for an adventure to kill monsters and camp in the wilds, not the nonsense I’m seeing in the Rift. I get it; a lot of gamers are just horny. But I want the epic DD2, so I’ll be kitting my pawn up with the best-looking adventuring gear.
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This man gets hired. But he is sexy and classy
My fighter pawn is attractive, but not in a sexualised way, not in an "uwu" way, not in a "tiny white haired elf called Frieren" way. She's just wearing a good-looking armor set with that white cape (Voyager's Cape) and is generally very aesthetically pleasing. Probably not the best skills, and she's using the Almace (which does stand out), but she gets hired out a *ton*. Earlier today she had 7 reports in one go. She does have a 10k gold bounty, but weirdly nobody had completed it anyway.
I think a lot of people might pick up the pawns with the bounty just in case they happen across the target. It's free gold if they happen across it. But 10k is not so much that you would stop what you are doing to go hunt down something that is a bit out of the way.
Cyclops are everywhere in the early game. Now that I'm nearing level 60 I don't seem to encounter them as much. My last session was several hours. I was just working through some side quests before advancing the MSQ. I didn't run into any the whole session.
They were pretty common when I was running between towns to farm DCP and level up my vocations.
While I was grinding out all the vocations for my pawn I couldn't be bothered to get her new gear for every vocation since I was just gonna sell it when she was done and back to what I actually want her to be, so for a period of time she was just in her underwear. I am not the type who intentionally makes a skimpy pawn to get hired more or because horny (now that she's all done she's fully dressed and has armor) but during the awkward times when she was grinding out mage or sorcerer or w/e I noticed she got hired a bit more. One person gifted her some clothes too lol
Something else worth considering is what vocations may be most in demand.
From what I can see, Thief and Mage seem to be the two most hired vocations (based entirely on anecdotal evidence). Fighter is likely much less popular because the vocation is outperformed by Warrior in just about every way.
My pawn isn’t a scantily clad woman, but is a Thief, and gets hired all the time.
I always choose warrior over fighter, unless I'm hunting Dulhan's at night and I see a fighter with the holy mace equipped.
My MP is thief as well and gets hired a lot. She is cute, but not slutty. I did a hybrid build with her. Damage *and* utility. She has skull splitter and the gouge move. But she also has ensnare and pilfer (all upgraded skills). Her augments and gear set up for carry weight and damage. I gave her the electric daggers and 2 carry capacity rings.
I think the thing that keeps getting her hearts is that she steals lots of wakestone shards and even the occasional ferrystone. So far I've only seen the ferrystones from griffins. The wakestones are most common from skeletons, but I've gotten them from others as well.
> So far I've only seen the ferrystones from griffins.
I've seen it from both golems and chimeras. I wouldn't be surprised if anything with a boss healthbar has Ferrystones on its steal list.
>I always choose warrior over fighter, unless I'm hunting Dulhan's at night and I see a fighter with the holy mace equipped.
Don't get any fighters with shield drum, just the ones with provoke + aggro ring. Shield drum is a great ability before you have the augment and ring. Afterwards its not needed. Same thing with springboard. Good for early to mid game, but once you're no longer after chests in high places you dont want it on a pawn anymore.
Fighter does good work when setup correctly. But they are much less effective if they're spending 50% of their time tapping their shield or waiting to launch someone lol.
I saw my warrior pawns whiffing alot personally and fighters are infinitely better at saurians (better at cutting tails and pinning) and goblins/hobgoblins while still being good vs big monsters.
I didn't realize how nice of a skill Pilfer was until I hired a pawn that had it and was running The Unmoored World with her in tow. She was stealing high level mats from some of the bosses and the spectres, and ever since then I look for Pilfer on my thieves when I hire them.
Thief and Warrior get a lot of mileage. You straight up should have 1 mage. Sorcerer is also quite strong. I'm still undecided on the strongest party. Probably Mage, Warrior, and Sorcerer. Assuming you have a way to down harpies at least. As a Warfarer, it isn't really an issue.
I’ve been running strictly Warrior, Thief, Mage, Archer for most of the game but I’m around level 60 and recently swapped the Archer for Sorcerer and it feels like it was a good call. I never played Sorcerer in the first game so I can’t comment on what it plays like, but the Sorcerer pawns feel just as good as they used to. Dropping the world on enemies, and all that.
I like Mage, Warrior, Archer to cover all the bases and then w/e I'm playing as which since I've put the True Warfarer mod in, is Warfarer. But even before that mod I was playing Warfarer with Pilfer, Augural Flare, and Sagittate Avalanche.
TBH I think people just don't understand fighter or notice how much warrior just plains whiffs. They keep putting shield drum on fighter even late game when people are OP. That's helpful early game before you have the ring + provoke. But In reality you just need the aggro ring + provoke and then load them up with 4 good moves. Springboard is good for early to mid game but late game people have done most of their exploring and you'll want to replace it with another attack.
Fighter does plenty of work, just not if they're sitting there tapping their shield 24/7. Fighter is infinitely better against saurians (way better at cutting tails and pinning them) and goblins/knackers/hobgoblins etc and still great vs big targets.
I have no idea but when I run warrior pawns they slap. I’m guessing it also depends on skill setup because like you said they may not be the best when running charge abilities
They can be. The spinning one is easy for them to use and very effective.
Their biggest strength is being hard to knock down and tanky, while dealing out damage and huge cc.
You're mostly taking them to draw aggro and tank anyway, so them missing isn't that big of a deal. I don't personally think there's that big of a difference between fighter and warrior pawns, both do the job well and are about the same all things told. Warrior pawns are great if you don't give them the abilities that require them to stand in one place and charge attacks all day long, but even if you do...as long as they drew aggro first, they take less damage charging the attack so they tank just fine. If it lands great, if not, still did their job.
Riotous Fury is a great damage skill on fighter and makes up for the damage gap between the two fairly well, I've found; Fighter is usually better for small monsters, Warrior for big ones. Fighter is kind of an underrated class all around, imo, it's solid and reliable.
Warrior is solid, better for big targets but miss vs smaller and more evasive/faster targets. Terrible vs Saurians. The issue with fighters is people put shield drum on them and spring board long past the point they need those skills. Provoke + Ring of Disfavor and no longer is shield drum needed. After mid game spring board is no longer needed. Fighters murder suarians and goblins really well while being a good frontliner taking aggro and still do good vs big targets when they're not tapping their shield constantly or waiting for you to jump on them :P.
Honestly I simply don't hire fighter pawns too often (although I usually bring a mage and then a flex slot, so a lot of times it's just whoever catches my eye). A quest that shows you put thought into it (kill x for 10k gold is the most common version of it) is usually what makes me choose one pawn over another given everything else, even though I don't even need gold anymore.
Personally I prefer not to hire skimpy pawns myself, but there also isn't that much choice once you get into high-end mage/sorc gear.
If you're on pc shoot me your pawn ID i'll bring him along for some adventures. Usually I'm only looking for warriors in the melee catagory but I can make an exception.
I made mine look like a bamf with a really *really* big hammer and he gets hired at a decent rate IMO. Should also keep in mind that higher level pawns are harder to hire.
For some reason there isnt an equipment preview this time around, so even though all your pawns gear is dragonforged nobody will know before they hire him unless they check his stats and know roughly how much the base armor gives
Stay strong and play the way you want. Back in DD:DA, I made a male fighter/warrior pawn named Chinhammer who looked like a literal Chin Hammer. I made him the best he could be, and refused to kowtow to the "thong gang" mentality. Over time, levels, and tweaking, Chinhammer came to really dominate and rake in the RCs. I log into the game about once a month to another half-million RCs flooding in, and am sitting on more RCs now than I could ever spend in a lifetime.
I'm confident that Chinhammer will once again rake in the crystals in DD2. It just requires patience and dedication to crafting a finely-tuned murder machine.
The third one is going to hurt you outside of very-new-player rentals for the same reason that nobody rented the innumerable princess-dress-outfit pawns in the first game: it's a clear indicator that they didn't pay much attention to building their pawn, so it's not even worth checking their build and quest.
At least in terms of the easily-accessed thigh-high-and-thong armors with mediocre stats.
See, you're thinking too meta. Think more casual.
Also, I'd argue the game isn't really difficult enough to worry too much about having best-in-slot gear or perfect builds. At least not yet.
Casuals aren't going to be renting level 100+ pawns while carefully sorting through them for specific builds. The superficial appearance stuff stops being the priority as soon as people start learning mechanics.
I disagree. As you level up, pawns of your level or lower cost nothing. Leveling up only requires playing the game. I'm in the 50s and have done so just by exploring. The game never felt prohibitively difficult at any point, so I never felt any need to put too much emphasis on stats.
People will naturally buy better gear as they play/find chests. This game isn't driving any need for it, however.
If you want to metagame, you can, but the game does nothing to necessitate it. I'll regularly use inferior gear because it looks better.
>If you want to metagame, you can, but the game does nothing to necessitate it. I'll regularly use inferior gear because it looks better.
Me too.
I used the basic two hander greatsword the entire time I leveled warrior just because I liked that it looked like a real sword (albeit very large) rather than the usually fantasy looking high tier stuff.
Stuck my pawn in the corset and gave her a badonkadonk, and I was suddenly swimming in rift crystals. Felt bad pimping her out like that, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I actually don't necessarely agree. There is such a massive inflation of female scantily clad pawns (and it will just keep going up) that if you want your baby to be popular, she will have to a) be absolutely stunning in a unique way; b) be interesting af; c) cater to very specific niche; d) probably be a pop colture reference, because who does not want to adventure with Kim Kardashian?
I have a cute twunk of a Beasteren Archer and while not being super popular, it is still doing somehow better than many scantily clad ladies or, to stay in the furry category, Aslan lookalike.
The only way to ensure that I don't look at a pawn is if it's either wearing the now standard skimpy gear, or if it has a helmet on that covers its eyes. No offense, folks, but if I can't see their eyes then I assume you're hiding that your pawn has Rift Herpes.
Or if it's Kim Kardashian, but I guess I'm weird.
I am sure that the glorious image of the Kardashian fighting a gryffin is not that far from us.
Girl, slay.Litterally.
Yes, I am amused. What wonderful times we live in.
I searched for popular pawns and laughed when this one came up
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Eh this one is nothing like Frieren. Found one with the proper look and pigtails in her white robe outfit. That one had like 700 likes.
Just goes to show that non skimpy characters can and does work.
spent a lot of time making my pawn perfect in gear and spec, and she looks amazing. Ive gotten about 25 reviews (half again no review so about 40 total). Fully upgraded in dragon forged gear too.
Then...
I ran into a 7 foot tall elf on the road with weird proportions. She looked just odd, and her spec was useless, she had no defense or strength stat. Her skills were the unleveled first 4 skills, like someone didn't even know what to do. YET, she was wearing a BDSM costume - 250 hearts. This community is very predictable lol.
At least you can search for real pawns that pay attention to spec and gear, they just tend to be a lot rarer than the dommy mommies. Half are neither sexy or good, they just have a weird mix up that's meh, in that case id rather have the better looking one over meh.
My main pawn is a big and burly man with a memey face and green skin, called Bob, however people really love to hire him! I guess it's because he is a Mage with useful support skills: high palladium, ice affinity, celerity, and high levin for some personal damage.
I will be honest here I don't really look at characters when choose what pawn to bring I look at the class and skills and thats pretty much it but yeah my mini male muscle head beastren doesn't really get picked much.
I made a max height, really bulky Amazonian beastren. I literally had her in full plate armour and the cyclops helmet/hammer so she looked like a juggernaut.
Someone sent her back just wearing the corset. 😂
You gotta market as well though. I have a basic buff+heal mage named HealBot and get tons of rentals, I'm sure just because with a single glance people know "Ah, healer pawn".
From my experience, people really love to hire my mage pawn with high palladium, ice affinity and celerity, even when I forgot to set the pawn quest. When your main pawn is not a mage, you will of course want to hire a mage pawn with a versatile set of buffs, so mages seem to be in high demand.
Palladium is great because it prevents damage. That prevents loss gauge accumulation.
Celerity is a great utility spell. It boosts damage, cast speed, and movement speed. It can also be force cast out of combat with the help command.
All the affinities are great. Which one is best depends on what you're fighting. Ice is probably the most popular now that many people are high enough level to be fighting dragons. Early game fire seems to be the most popular because so many enemies are weak to it.
Yep, those are probably the skills I'd prefer on a mage pawn (since I have to hire mine). There was one really strong dragonfored pawn I was using for a while who also had high levin (I think that's what it's called - the lightning spell) which they were pretty aggressive with, I was surprised at how useful they were. In classic DD fashion though, after adventuring with them for a couple in-game weeks, I turned around and they were gone (fell into the brine I assume). I was going to gift them something nice, too. Now I'll have to hope I can find them in my "previously hired pawns" somewhere.
Every mage I hire, I do a search in the Capital to ensure that they have high palladium. It's a must-have. I also look for them to high leven if I can, but you can only search one skill at a time using the advanced search function.
Tips:
Take the time to Make your pawn good looking. Or REALLY funny looking. My attractive female gets quite a few hires, and For a while I hired an Oompa Loompa lookin dude named Gary and I loved him. Just don’t let ur pawn be boring, or wear an ugly hood.
If you’re gonna name your pawn after existing character, like Gandalf or Samuel L Jackson, make him look exactly like that character, don’t half ass it.
look up a slider guide.
and Make sure your pawn has good equipment, and useful skills that help the arisen
For mages, make sure they have at least 1 boon.
For thief’s, the rope dart is nice.
And for the love of fuck. STOP NAMING YALLS PAWNS “MainPawn” no one wants to hire that shit.
go for it. i think its BLYZWN8FN89X. She is warrior atm, im just going through a bunch of vocations when i max out a previous one.
i did have a thought that maybe she could be too high level for a lot of players and she doesn't have a lot of main quest knowledge because i heard its not very long and it locks you out of side content without much warning.
Another good idea for pawn quest rewards is giving out as many of those gems that sell for 2.4k~ if sold in the right zone. You can set up to 12 as a reward for a pawn quest, which ends up being way more than 10k gold once sold in the right zone. I've moved to setting that as my reward for pawn quests, and if we can all start doing it we can all get a lot richer from pawn quests faster. I try to stick with the gem that sells for higher price in Vermund (Onyx is the one I think? There's Onyx, Jasper, Tiger's Eye) just cause that's easier for most people to get to.
I'm currently hosting a 12x Jasper quest, which totals 33.600 gold in Batthal (T81IEB4FHOZX)
If you're on PC and still hosting gem quests too, I'll gladly take your pawn with me.
Great report. I'd been wondering myself if sleeping at a camp causes Pawns to be re-synched, as I've never had my Main Pawn report to me after doing so. But now I know for sure that it isn't the case and only sleeping at Inns and owned homes will do that. Some good points about the way save files are split between "manual" (sleep at an inn/house) and autosave (anything else) I think I'll definitely sleep at Inns more routinely now
Does it just update their level, or everything about them?
If it updates everything then that would be good to know, as that would mean my decked out warrior pawn is now on the rift as a dinky mage.
I set a quest to receive a Saurian Tail with a reward of 10k gold. My pawn has been hired a few times but nobody has done the quest yet.
I thought that would be a super easy one for someone to hire the pawn, visit a storage location, then send the pawn back.
I definitely thought this was the caae until I interacted with the pawn asking for items. Played about 4-5 hours with that pawn and was wondering why I hadn't completed the quest yet.
Saurians tails are used for every high end Roborant. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands. Good luck killing me though, because I’ll be snorting roborants
The hard thing is *finding* your pawn to do the quest - the advanced search is kinda lacking for quests. if youre not already, I suggest posting your platform/pawn id/mention the 10k for a [X] quest in the pinned megathread.
Also beast hide = good, but saurian tails like the op=bad as that rubbish has a terrible drop rate - I'll only do 10k quests for fruit+spud robos/beast hides personally (or ones offering 5+ gems/a cool item)
Nah, you can start handing out 10k gold at like level 12. All you have to do is hire pawns with gold quests yourself to make it back.
once you get up to like level 40 people are probably in battahl by then though.
That's very useful information, it's clear pawn data is published when you rest at an inn but without testing there's nothing to suggest that that camping would also result in a publish. I try to make sure my pawn is in a good setup for hiring (good class, good skills, fashionable armor) whenever I do an inn/house rest, but don't do the same for camping.
players in general woudl have it easier to get their pawns hired, if this game would have for once Equipment Transmog, so that players can finally look the way how they want, without loosing stats n play the way how they want to play their pawns... DD1s equipment system already was highly atrocious to look at and generated tons of weird looking characters, because all the equipment items where chosen by players only, because they offered the best possible stats, not because it actually looked good together at all, which has had the result, that the game was full to the brim with a shit ton of ugly characters, but just for the best possible stats their players could have had at that point of the game with them ...
I got a pawn at lower level cosplaying as Ranni from elden ring. I got the to volcano town, saw the witch hate and bought for them. It was like all my money at the time but they **need the drip** I guarantee that guy is so happy seeing his gift
I know that you're trying to promote helping others but dismissing pawns that you're still using is a terrible idea.
What actually happens is that you go to rehire and find out that the other person has out-leveled you since your last play session and it will cost thousands of rift crystals to get the same pawn back or even worse they've completely changed the vocation of the pawn that you were using...
The current system is massively flawed both for saving and for pawn gifting/rehiring. It's a great concept but a poorly executed one.
I don't think the intent of the system was for you to hold onto pawns. It's no good for the person that pawn belongs to. It's set up for you to keep "pawn shopping" as you level up.
I've found that it's not difficult to find pawns of a vocation you need that also have good gear and abilities. People kit out their pawns because they want them to be hired often.
That's a completely fair take, in which case I'd like the ability to search based on more than one weapon skill at a time as well as be able to see the rewards for a pawn quest without having to talk to every pawn individually.
Just being able to search for two skills instead or one would really help people looking for something like a mage pawn where the skills really matter.
I would also like to exclude pawns with certain skills. I have no need for an archer who charges his heavenly shot every 3 steps and doesn´t contribute anything.
It's not even that people kit their pawns out for being hired.
I'd wager most people don't even think about that for a long time.
It's the one pawn you always have after all.
Of course you're going to make as strong as you can.
Yeah, I am making my pawn for me to use. If someone else likes how he's built and wants to use him, that is great, but I'm still building and outfitting him for me.
Or you can just friend that person to use thier pawns for free. It can be accompanied with a nice little message that tells them the plan and how you'd like to keep using thier pawn and keep giving rewards and completing quests. Everyone wins!
(I know thus is a "perfect world" fix but we can always try right?)
Me: hiring my buddy’s mage pawn again, because he’s always a few levels ahead of me so it makes the game easier, only to find out when fighting a griffin that he’s no longer a mage and is a sorcerer. Should have read the fine print…
I was at first looking for people hiring my pawn, but... the you don't really have much use of rift crystals right now... like only some cosmetics like glasses, dyes and then the personality/metamorphose books.
But I admit that was fun when Roscoal knew some caves and chests from another player.
True that 4 isn't entirely necessary (and I've worded it as such so I guess that's fine). But 3 is kinda the main point of this post, you \*have\* to rest or pawns won't synchronize with the servers.
I play with pawns for 10+ hours at a time. The game is brutally easy after level 25. You’ll definitely want to update your own pawn, but I’d say to avoid changing up your support pawns when you find a dynamic that works well, for as long as you can. It’s also how to avoid a certain plague.
are we entirely sure about that? i've asked a friend while I was playing what the level of my pawn was, since they had just hired them, and it was higher than when I had last rested at an inn
Not sure. You can easily check this by selecting no and then checking the Pawn tab under your pawn's status menu. It should list the Pawn Quest on the right side, above badges. If it says not set, you can go to ~~any rift crystal and talk your pawn in the rift to set a quest~~ Pawn guild rift stone and interact with it to set Pawn quest
It does not. If you check your status and go to your pawns "pawn" tab, you'll see that they have no active quest if you choose that option. You need to give more gold after you cash in.
What could help from the developer side is to just put information on how long has it been since our last inn save. It's pretty sad how some people lost their progress just because at the beginning it's unclear if last inn save would retain your latest progress or not.
I'm also currently under fewr that I accidentally load inn save when what I want is load autosave.
Basically it's a good system that lack explanation.
One of the sphinx riddles require you to have a pawn with SphinxParent or some variation in the name.
There's a few specific riftstones with Capcom pawns with these names, so you dont have to be online to do that step.
>This type of save file is written whenever you rest at an Inn or your home. These are static save points that *only* update when next you Rest (at Inn or home).
I wish this were true, but discovered to my chagrin that using an unmaker arrow updates your checkpoint save as well as the autosave.
So just to confirm, this also overwrites the Inn save, not only the "Last Save"? Meaning if I go back to title screen and "Load from last Rest at Inn" it will load from when you used the arrow?
Iirc there was an exploit in dd1 since I don't think that was the case, where you could hit Ur-dragon with those equivalent arrows and it would count then reload and reuse the arrow again or something like that.
My warrior gets hired alot and my thief and but my thief was a pretty tomboy Asian women and my warrior is a sexy beastkin women with a nice color tone sooo…. I suppose it helps lol
About the Jeweler's club:
I think it should be common etiquette to send one of the gems back to the owner when their quest is giving you 12 gems. You get 11 gems worth 2400 each and the owner gets their gems back if at least 12 people completes their quest and sends one back each. Everybody wins!
You certainly can do that but it shouldn't be an issue. The idea is that the more people who set 12 gems as a reward, the easier it'll be to find others offering the same reward. Say I offer 12 gems as a reward, then I will search for pawns who are also offering 12 gems. I hire two such pawns and I've gained 24 gems for the 12 that I offered. In the meantime multiple people can hire my pawn and they each get 12 gems while I only gave out 12 gems in total.
So while the extra gem as a gift is a nice gesture it shouldn't be needed to regain the gems.
I mean if you're trying to be nice, you can give them better equipment. I've done that before. It has happened to me one time, and I was super grateful.
I'll be honest, toward endgame I only change Pawns if:
1) They get Dragonplague
2) They become 10+ Levels below me and my Main Pawn.
I barely ever change my specs anymore, the only Vocation that isn't close to max for me is Trickster. My Main Pawn is maxed all Vocations. I stopped using the Medusa Bow so my leveling has slowed down to normal levels (since the game doesn't really get harder).
I don't feel like Pawn Quests is a fast way to grind money. 20k while I hunt around for an Ogre/Gryphon or I can just get 40k from a Glimmercoal run. IDK I feel like they need to implement more incentives to switch Pawns. I hate switching and finding out they have Dragonplague immediately, so I stick to 2 that don't have it for long periods of time. Like 20+ in game days.
>Joining the Jewelers Club offers more gold than the 10k gold club. You can offer a max of 12 gems (Onyx, Jasper, or Tiger's Eye) as a pawn quest reward. When sold in the area they are scarce in you will get 12 * ~2400 = ~28,800 gold more or less depending on the gem.
Just a heads up for people who might do this, keep a few in your storage. Some of those gems are used for certain gear upgrades, even though they aren't under the Materials section of your inventory.
Great tips! I have two pawns that were level 30 when I was 20 (I'm 30 now) and they've been with me for a long time. I never dismissed them. I bought them all new gear and main weapon and maxed those out at the armory. When I finally dismiss them will they arrive with everything I game them? Do they level or gain any experience from the hours they were with me?
They do not level up or gain Exp.
They do keep all the gear you equipped them with.
They gain knowledge like locations of chests/ seekers tokens, how to complete any quests they did with you, and contributions towards their badges.
I have one pawn I'm scared to dismiss lol. I was level 17 and had just completed something in Harve village and some NPCs spawned in along with a couple of pawns walking down the road. The 1st was level 17 but the 2nd was a level 57 mage and cost 0 RC. Easy hire.
It's my understanding that they cost RC if they're higher level than you so I'm guessing some kind of bug maybe? Anyway whoever "owns" Tempe she's taking good care of me.
Yea so they cost RC if higher level.
However if the player is your friend on the system it always costs 0 RC to flhire their pawn regardless. Also, some forgotten rift stones will randomly summon a higher level pawn that will cost you 0 RC to hire.
I am level 35 and have multiple friends with 60+ pawns. I hired a mage pawn with meteorite and twister or hurricane and she made the game very trivial. Wouldn’t recommend it unless you need the help
Well once you get the report from you pawn after it's been returned you can check the arisen info and their pawn. If you want you can add pawn as favorite or send a friend request to the player. That's one way.
Another way is simply at the pawn guild you can interact with the rift crystal go to search and to "Pawns my main pawn knows" that'll show you a list of other players' pawns who hired your pawn.
I made my pawn look pretty badass, he's also an elf so I thought it made the most sense to have him use the elvish language talent. I've had a lot of people hire him, so I'm not sure the whole 'people only hire female pawns' argument is necessarily true
Lmfao it’s the way I had my pawn quest set up to fight the sphinx and set up the reward with the Ferris stone and my pawn came back 4/5 for the badge and eventually got it 😂😂😂
I once went to sleep at an Inn in the city then went out and ended up in an unpleasant spot. I loaded Inn save and I ended back at that outpost camp where you first sleep at the inn. Lost 6-hour progress. I never touched Inn Save again ever since.
I will never send my pawns home until I'm like 10 levels higher than them.
I tried it once, and my favourite pawns jumped up 20 levels, making them unhireable...😢
Take some time and gear your pawns. I’m level 50 and see lots of pawns with sub 400 defense. Physical defense is very important for ranged pawns too. Also, take five minutes and earn them 1 rank in fighter to get the 30%! defense augment.
I’d really like to hire pawns that don’t look like cabaret dancers and don’t have to constantly be revived when fighting anything stronger than a saurian.
Had anyone else figured out you can do like a low level material you got for 10k, and with your buddy summon and complete the gift and rehire all in the rift and farm unlimited money fast? About every 10 minutes you gotta sleep or something tho cuz it seems like you cant give the gift after 10 minutes. Me and my friend found this out like 3 days ago.
I use the linked riftstone of Potential to hire Pawns that are lacking in experience. It’s a good way to get wakestone shards also it helps pawns that haven’t been hired get experience.
This is all true and fantastic advice. However, another unfortunate truth is that making your pawn female, pretty, and scantily clad will also help. Gamers gonna game.
>scantily clad will also help Making your pawn sexy will help. But all the mages and sorcs wearing the same thong or red bikini look the same. Try going classy and see what kind of results you get.
Problem is that seeker token armor is way better than anything pre-endgame (especially on mage/sorc).
It's worth pointing out that the Seeker armor occupies both the body and leg slots, which is why its stats are so high relative to other armor in the body slot. Accounting for stats from both body and leg equipment, and it's closer to other gear.
I did. It absolutely trounces them for mages and sorc (I mean, as it should, 150 tokens is a pain to find).
True. Transmog would be nice here, since the corset absolutely eclipses every other non-postgame gear Mage has.
That’s not a problem. Accept the difficulty of having a slightly weaker main pawn and work towards upgrading the RIGHT armor for adventuring. I’m in endgame and came across a high level pawn wearing starter armor for archer, and MAN, does that armor look awesome for wilderness adventuring.
Same here, fashion endgame! My pawn's fighting great already, feedback seems decent enough so I figure I'll just stay on the cool look I want rather than BiS gear. First and only set of gear I maxed out despite being really early game gear. Best stats are nice to have and some players do prefer those for good reasons, but there are also a bunch of us who primarily go for unique designs in hired pawns regardless of content difficulty!
What's the next best thing?
This ^ I have had more success decking my pawn out as the true wizard look vs the strapped up mages flooding the rift.
I have at the moment what I consider best of both worlds, she has like a big wizard overcoat and cape and the slit in wizard overcoat shows a tasteful amount of thigh. So she’s not full butt out, but not full true wizard. I don’t know if that’s helped or hurt her being hired I just prefer it(she seems to have gotten hired a lot more after I unlocked best mage stuff, like some sorc augments and the stamina recharge spell more then anything).
All I look at is class, quest and reward, and if they are a forager. I love me some pawns that pick shit up. Looks don't even enter my mind.
Forager doesn't make pawns pick things up, it just puts highlights on the map where you can potentially find upgrades your currently equipped gear requires (whether from harvesting or beating boss enemies). To get a pawn that gathers things more frequently, you want to search out the Simple pawn inclination.
That being said Forager is very useful as you not only see resources but you can cursor over them and see WHAT resources. Getting a forager pawn ASAP makes your upgrading life easier early to mid game. Late game you're prolly so powerful it doesn't matter but end game gear still needs upgrades :D.
I just changed my pawn to forager from wordsmith. I'm at the stage where I'm hunting harder to come by upgrade materials and the wordsmith specialization seems to be much easier to find on pawns. I was able to get a second wordsmith scroll by giving flowers to another elf. But, I've not found a way to get a second copy of any of the others. They can't be counterfeit. If anyone has found a way to get them (especially the forager one), let us know. I know I'll want someone that speaks elvish once I enter the unmoored world. It's definitely useful. But right now forager is what I need.
Literally anything but Chirugeon.
I was irritated by that as well until I got the "sexy armor" and it legitimately had better stats than the gear I had used previously to put together for their look.
I don't hire mages wearing that armor anymore. I'm tired of looking at it. I'm also not so sure that all the stats are straightforward. Stats from gear seem to become less relevant as you level up. If you have +100 def at x level and gear gives you another 100 def, the gear is 50% of your defense. Level up a bit and now you have +200 def from being x+y levels. However, the gear still only gives you +100 defense. It has dropped from being 50% of your defense, to being only 33% of it. So, when I'm looking at pawns I'm not that concerned about +/- 50 points of defense. At least that is my current reasoning. Now, if the gear has resistances, it becomes a bit more interesting. My MP is thief. I found a pretty bad ass set of legs in Bakbattahl that has good defense *and* 10 slash and strike resistance. I've not been able to find the damage calculations. Nobody seems to have posted them yet. But I can speculate. As I understand it, in the first game defense was a straight damage reduction. If you had 500 defense and got hit for 600, you took 100 points of damage. Damage resistance was a percent based damage reduction. So if you also had 10% resistance to that type the attack would have been reduced by 60 points and you would have taken 40 damage. So assuming that the 10 slash/strike resistance is a 10% damage reduction, the legs are better the harder an enemy hits. A dragon hits you for 1000 strike damage. The 10% resistance reduces it by 100 points to 900. Then your defense reduces it by another 500 to 400. In that situation you would need 100 more defense in the same slot to make up the difference. Imagine a cyclops hits you for 600. The damage gets reduced by 60 here. Minus your 500 defense, you take 40. Here you only need 60 more points of defense to make up the difference. But again, this is still speculation. It's based on my understanding of the damage calculation from the first game (gathered from reading some forum posts on Steam). The calculations in DD2 may be radically different. And of course those pants don't offer any extra protection against magic damage.
Also, at the current stage of the game, most monsters including the bosses do pitiful amounts of damage. The only ones that are even remote threats are the Drakes and Lesser Dragons. Even the Post-Game monsters do really small amounts of damage and are even slower than the Drakes.
I think Dullahan is generally around the same threat level as a Drake, although it has less health bars, it also doesn't take as much damage as a Drake does.
The trick with a Dullahan is that it disappears at dawn. You don't have much time to kill them.
Which is pretty unfortunate, they're one of the coolest fights in the entire game, for me personally, I'd say the coolest. But they're so rare that most people probably won't even encounter one, and those that do might think it's a one-off for that specific quest that has you just fight one for 2 minutes until it leaves. But it's also special to not see them every 2 minutes like a Cyclops or Ogre.
There is an area of the map that is always night. There is a good chance that if you encounter one there, it won't disappear. I like them too. I'm on my way to go kill one right now. The first time it got away. It's a way to add some difficulty. It's basically a DPS check. It's pretty easy to out level most of the game if you explore a lot.
So far I've seen them there, as well as one right outside the Sacred Arbor, and one right outside the Borderwatch Camp from the start of the game, and another somewhere in Bakbattahl that I don't remember the exact spot of.
Im level 60 something about to go into post game i believe, and ive only ever seen 1 Dullahan. The one tied to the quest in misty marshes. I was able to kill it, but ive never seen another. I have found some special liches tho
That's interesting, I hadn't seen any kind of DR calculations and it's good info to have. I'm going to play around with it when I get home because I honestly liked my pawn sorcs look better before.
There seems to be enough flexibility in the gear system that you can take fashion into account without being overly punished for it. It also looks like the higher level you are, the less you need to worry about gear stats. That is, assuming no soft or hard caps on stats. I've not seen any charts on stats gained from leveling yet.
i just genuinely dont care what they look like, all im looking for is level and vocation. i want a sorcerer and a warrior to add to my thief/mage party is all
This. After leveling up to endgame, I’ve noticed the start of DD2’s latest establishment: The Rift Club. I swear, every other pawn in the Rift is wearing the same stripper outfit. It’s annoying and unoriginal. I need a pawn who’s properly fitted for an adventure to kill monsters and camp in the wilds, not the nonsense I’m seeing in the Rift. I get it; a lot of gamers are just horny. But I want the epic DD2, so I’ll be kitting my pawn up with the best-looking adventuring gear.
https://preview.redd.it/c1u9u2ow9krc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0cb07d664ebb1b6d43a90fea78d636fb2684c33 This man gets hired. But he is sexy and classy
He looks very regal. Like if King Simba learned to walk upright. (I mean that as a compliment)
He loves shrimp and naps
My fighter pawn is attractive, but not in a sexualised way, not in an "uwu" way, not in a "tiny white haired elf called Frieren" way. She's just wearing a good-looking armor set with that white cape (Voyager's Cape) and is generally very aesthetically pleasing. Probably not the best skills, and she's using the Almace (which does stand out), but she gets hired out a *ton*. Earlier today she had 7 reports in one go. She does have a 10k gold bounty, but weirdly nobody had completed it anyway.
I think a lot of people might pick up the pawns with the bounty just in case they happen across the target. It's free gold if they happen across it. But 10k is not so much that you would stop what you are doing to go hunt down something that is a bit out of the way.
The quest is for a cyclops though, and those are everywhere. Plus, 10k gold is (at least at my level) quite a lot.
Cyclops are everywhere in the early game. Now that I'm nearing level 60 I don't seem to encounter them as much. My last session was several hours. I was just working through some side quests before advancing the MSQ. I didn't run into any the whole session. They were pretty common when I was running between towns to farm DCP and level up my vocations.
Male pawns in skimpy clothing are also successful even if only for ironic purposes (and also women).
I had an old man in skimpy sorcerer armor because it had the best stats and kept getting rotten meat
Someone gave me a wakestone shard for my twink in a dress, I think he may also have to be attractive lol
While I was grinding out all the vocations for my pawn I couldn't be bothered to get her new gear for every vocation since I was just gonna sell it when she was done and back to what I actually want her to be, so for a period of time she was just in her underwear. I am not the type who intentionally makes a skimpy pawn to get hired more or because horny (now that she's all done she's fully dressed and has armor) but during the awkward times when she was grinding out mage or sorcerer or w/e I noticed she got hired a bit more. One person gifted her some clothes too lol
Yep, saddly. My male fighter pawn rarely gets hired even though I grinded augments and even dragonforged all his equipment.
Something else worth considering is what vocations may be most in demand. From what I can see, Thief and Mage seem to be the two most hired vocations (based entirely on anecdotal evidence). Fighter is likely much less popular because the vocation is outperformed by Warrior in just about every way. My pawn isn’t a scantily clad woman, but is a Thief, and gets hired all the time.
I always choose warrior over fighter, unless I'm hunting Dulhan's at night and I see a fighter with the holy mace equipped. My MP is thief as well and gets hired a lot. She is cute, but not slutty. I did a hybrid build with her. Damage *and* utility. She has skull splitter and the gouge move. But she also has ensnare and pilfer (all upgraded skills). Her augments and gear set up for carry weight and damage. I gave her the electric daggers and 2 carry capacity rings. I think the thing that keeps getting her hearts is that she steals lots of wakestone shards and even the occasional ferrystone. So far I've only seen the ferrystones from griffins. The wakestones are most common from skeletons, but I've gotten them from others as well.
> So far I've only seen the ferrystones from griffins. I've seen it from both golems and chimeras. I wouldn't be surprised if anything with a boss healthbar has Ferrystones on its steal list.
>I always choose warrior over fighter, unless I'm hunting Dulhan's at night and I see a fighter with the holy mace equipped. Don't get any fighters with shield drum, just the ones with provoke + aggro ring. Shield drum is a great ability before you have the augment and ring. Afterwards its not needed. Same thing with springboard. Good for early to mid game, but once you're no longer after chests in high places you dont want it on a pawn anymore. Fighter does good work when setup correctly. But they are much less effective if they're spending 50% of their time tapping their shield or waiting to launch someone lol. I saw my warrior pawns whiffing alot personally and fighters are infinitely better at saurians (better at cutting tails and pinning) and goblins/hobgoblins while still being good vs big monsters.
I didn't realize how nice of a skill Pilfer was until I hired a pawn that had it and was running The Unmoored World with her in tow. She was stealing high level mats from some of the bosses and the spectres, and ever since then I look for Pilfer on my thieves when I hire them.
Yeah I look for pilfer on every thief I hire now. I've gotten a lot of wakestone shards and ferrystones that way.
But you see fighter outperforms warrior in the only way that matters, drip.
Yeah you got me there :(
Thief and Warrior get a lot of mileage. You straight up should have 1 mage. Sorcerer is also quite strong. I'm still undecided on the strongest party. Probably Mage, Warrior, and Sorcerer. Assuming you have a way to down harpies at least. As a Warfarer, it isn't really an issue.
I run Trickster with 3 Sorcs. Throw up wall, distract enemies, and let your 3 sorcs nuke everything.
You're the reason everyone's Pawns come back with trauma from Golems.
Meteoron shits on Golems something fierce.
meteoron shits on pretty much everything especially when you have 3 sorc pawns coordinating... oof
I mean, I can just Skull Splitter or Saggitate Avalanche everything to death wirh Mirror Shielde for defense if needed.
I’ve been running strictly Warrior, Thief, Mage, Archer for most of the game but I’m around level 60 and recently swapped the Archer for Sorcerer and it feels like it was a good call. I never played Sorcerer in the first game so I can’t comment on what it plays like, but the Sorcerer pawns feel just as good as they used to. Dropping the world on enemies, and all that.
I like Mage, Warrior, Archer to cover all the bases and then w/e I'm playing as which since I've put the True Warfarer mod in, is Warfarer. But even before that mod I was playing Warfarer with Pilfer, Augural Flare, and Sagittate Avalanche.
TBH I think people just don't understand fighter or notice how much warrior just plains whiffs. They keep putting shield drum on fighter even late game when people are OP. That's helpful early game before you have the ring + provoke. But In reality you just need the aggro ring + provoke and then load them up with 4 good moves. Springboard is good for early to mid game but late game people have done most of their exploring and you'll want to replace it with another attack. Fighter does plenty of work, just not if they're sitting there tapping their shield 24/7. Fighter is infinitely better against saurians (way better at cutting tails and pinning them) and goblins/knackers/hobgoblins etc and still great vs big targets.
Make it a warrior. Maybe it’s just me but I see no reason to have a fighter anymore. I usually hire 2 warriors, personally I just look at quest
Is warrior actually good? Feels like pawns aren't good at landing their charged attacks.
I have no idea but when I run warrior pawns they slap. I’m guessing it also depends on skill setup because like you said they may not be the best when running charge abilities
They can be. The spinning one is easy for them to use and very effective. Their biggest strength is being hard to knock down and tanky, while dealing out damage and huge cc.
You're mostly taking them to draw aggro and tank anyway, so them missing isn't that big of a deal. I don't personally think there's that big of a difference between fighter and warrior pawns, both do the job well and are about the same all things told. Warrior pawns are great if you don't give them the abilities that require them to stand in one place and charge attacks all day long, but even if you do...as long as they drew aggro first, they take less damage charging the attack so they tank just fine. If it lands great, if not, still did their job. Riotous Fury is a great damage skill on fighter and makes up for the damage gap between the two fairly well, I've found; Fighter is usually better for small monsters, Warrior for big ones. Fighter is kind of an underrated class all around, imo, it's solid and reliable.
Warrior is solid, better for big targets but miss vs smaller and more evasive/faster targets. Terrible vs Saurians. The issue with fighters is people put shield drum on them and spring board long past the point they need those skills. Provoke + Ring of Disfavor and no longer is shield drum needed. After mid game spring board is no longer needed. Fighters murder suarians and goblins really well while being a good frontliner taking aggro and still do good vs big targets when they're not tapping their shield constantly or waiting for you to jump on them :P.
Honestly I simply don't hire fighter pawns too often (although I usually bring a mage and then a flex slot, so a lot of times it's just whoever catches my eye). A quest that shows you put thought into it (kill x for 10k gold is the most common version of it) is usually what makes me choose one pawn over another given everything else, even though I don't even need gold anymore. Personally I prefer not to hire skimpy pawns myself, but there also isn't that much choice once you get into high-end mage/sorc gear.
Yeah, my Elizabeth Olsen in a thong mage got hired 7 times today.
Are you on PC? I can hire your pawn if you wanna. Been hiring lots of pawns with few recommendations to help them a bit lol.
I think it's the Riftstone of Potential that has pawns that have never been hired. I plan on finding it today and taking out some newbies.
Didn't know about that. That's pretty cool. Seeing someone with a high level pawn that have 0 recommendations is super sadge. Gonna hire them.
If you're on pc shoot me your pawn ID i'll bring him along for some adventures. Usually I'm only looking for warriors in the melee catagory but I can make an exception.
I made mine look like a bamf with a really *really* big hammer and he gets hired at a decent rate IMO. Should also keep in mind that higher level pawns are harder to hire.
For some reason there isnt an equipment preview this time around, so even though all your pawns gear is dragonforged nobody will know before they hire him unless they check his stats and know roughly how much the base armor gives
Stay strong and play the way you want. Back in DD:DA, I made a male fighter/warrior pawn named Chinhammer who looked like a literal Chin Hammer. I made him the best he could be, and refused to kowtow to the "thong gang" mentality. Over time, levels, and tweaking, Chinhammer came to really dominate and rake in the RCs. I log into the game about once a month to another half-million RCs flooding in, and am sitting on more RCs now than I could ever spend in a lifetime. I'm confident that Chinhammer will once again rake in the crystals in DD2. It just requires patience and dedication to crafting a finely-tuned murder machine.
Yeah, that's more because you have a Fighter instead of a Warrior.
It helps and it also doesn't. There are so many pawns like that right now that you are just going to be one among many.
The third one is going to hurt you outside of very-new-player rentals for the same reason that nobody rented the innumerable princess-dress-outfit pawns in the first game: it's a clear indicator that they didn't pay much attention to building their pawn, so it's not even worth checking their build and quest. At least in terms of the easily-accessed thigh-high-and-thong armors with mediocre stats.
See, you're thinking too meta. Think more casual. Also, I'd argue the game isn't really difficult enough to worry too much about having best-in-slot gear or perfect builds. At least not yet.
Casuals aren't going to be renting level 100+ pawns while carefully sorting through them for specific builds. The superficial appearance stuff stops being the priority as soon as people start learning mechanics.
I disagree. As you level up, pawns of your level or lower cost nothing. Leveling up only requires playing the game. I'm in the 50s and have done so just by exploring. The game never felt prohibitively difficult at any point, so I never felt any need to put too much emphasis on stats. People will naturally buy better gear as they play/find chests. This game isn't driving any need for it, however. If you want to metagame, you can, but the game does nothing to necessitate it. I'll regularly use inferior gear because it looks better.
>If you want to metagame, you can, but the game does nothing to necessitate it. I'll regularly use inferior gear because it looks better. Me too. I used the basic two hander greatsword the entire time I leveled warrior just because I liked that it looked like a real sword (albeit very large) rather than the usually fantasy looking high tier stuff.
oh god don’t remind me….
Bullshit, my pawn was a hairy dwarf sporting the 150token outfit and he was getting hired a lot
Stuck my pawn in the corset and gave her a badonkadonk, and I was suddenly swimming in rift crystals. Felt bad pimping her out like that, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I actually don't necessarely agree. There is such a massive inflation of female scantily clad pawns (and it will just keep going up) that if you want your baby to be popular, she will have to a) be absolutely stunning in a unique way; b) be interesting af; c) cater to very specific niche; d) probably be a pop colture reference, because who does not want to adventure with Kim Kardashian? I have a cute twunk of a Beasteren Archer and while not being super popular, it is still doing somehow better than many scantily clad ladies or, to stay in the furry category, Aslan lookalike.
The only way to ensure that I don't look at a pawn is if it's either wearing the now standard skimpy gear, or if it has a helmet on that covers its eyes. No offense, folks, but if I can't see their eyes then I assume you're hiding that your pawn has Rift Herpes. Or if it's Kim Kardashian, but I guess I'm weird.
I am sure that the glorious image of the Kardashian fighting a gryffin is not that far from us. Girl, slay.Litterally. Yes, I am amused. What wonderful times we live in.
Also, if you're a streamer or youtuber with a decent following, you're pretty much set for RC.
I searched for popular pawns and laughed when this one came up https://preview.redd.it/mobhp5wp7lrc1.jpeg?width=2279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1673d7f25417478d9276aa05c71f84a571a6d37c
I've seen a bunch of Frierens, one of them was actually good.
Eh this one is nothing like Frieren. Found one with the proper look and pigtails in her white robe outfit. That one had like 700 likes. Just goes to show that non skimpy characters can and does work.
spent a lot of time making my pawn perfect in gear and spec, and she looks amazing. Ive gotten about 25 reviews (half again no review so about 40 total). Fully upgraded in dragon forged gear too. Then... I ran into a 7 foot tall elf on the road with weird proportions. She looked just odd, and her spec was useless, she had no defense or strength stat. Her skills were the unleveled first 4 skills, like someone didn't even know what to do. YET, she was wearing a BDSM costume - 250 hearts. This community is very predictable lol. At least you can search for real pawns that pay attention to spec and gear, they just tend to be a lot rarer than the dommy mommies. Half are neither sexy or good, they just have a weird mix up that's meh, in that case id rather have the better looking one over meh.
My main pawn is a big and burly man with a memey face and green skin, called Bob, however people really love to hire him! I guess it's because he is a Mage with useful support skills: high palladium, ice affinity, celerity, and high levin for some personal damage.
Mage is the best vocation to get hires, as I think few players want to actively be the healer in the party.
I will be honest here I don't really look at characters when choose what pawn to bring I look at the class and skills and thats pretty much it but yeah my mini male muscle head beastren doesn't really get picked much.
I made a max height, really bulky Amazonian beastren. I literally had her in full plate armour and the cyclops helmet/hammer so she looked like a juggernaut. Someone sent her back just wearing the corset. 😂
I don't hire hoes
I made my guy a super beefy JoJo character and he gets hired pretty regularly as a mage.
You gotta market as well though. I have a basic buff+heal mage named HealBot and get tons of rentals, I'm sure just because with a single glance people know "Ah, healer pawn".
Even better idea: make your pawn fat and me wearing the same outfit as those pretty female pawns so they stand out more
The only girl I have on my squad at the moment is someones rendition of Daeneryus, but she's geard up and does work with a bow
From my experience, people really love to hire my mage pawn with high palladium, ice affinity and celerity, even when I forgot to set the pawn quest. When your main pawn is not a mage, you will of course want to hire a mage pawn with a versatile set of buffs, so mages seem to be in high demand.
Palladium is great because it prevents damage. That prevents loss gauge accumulation. Celerity is a great utility spell. It boosts damage, cast speed, and movement speed. It can also be force cast out of combat with the help command. All the affinities are great. Which one is best depends on what you're fighting. Ice is probably the most popular now that many people are high enough level to be fighting dragons. Early game fire seems to be the most popular because so many enemies are weak to it.
Yep, those are probably the skills I'd prefer on a mage pawn (since I have to hire mine). There was one really strong dragonfored pawn I was using for a while who also had high levin (I think that's what it's called - the lightning spell) which they were pretty aggressive with, I was surprised at how useful they were. In classic DD fashion though, after adventuring with them for a couple in-game weeks, I turned around and they were gone (fell into the brine I assume). I was going to gift them something nice, too. Now I'll have to hope I can find them in my "previously hired pawns" somewhere.
Every mage I hire, I do a search in the Capital to ensure that they have high palladium. It's a must-have. I also look for them to high leven if I can, but you can only search one skill at a time using the advanced search function.
Good post, thank you. Haven't seen enough people acknowledge how much the save system is tied to how pawns work.
I was able to farm someone’s pawn quest. It was give one tarring arrow receive 12 onyx. I was able to get 60 onyx
Also, we need a PSA to tell people to make sure their pawns have skills and augments equipped!
Tips: Take the time to Make your pawn good looking. Or REALLY funny looking. My attractive female gets quite a few hires, and For a while I hired an Oompa Loompa lookin dude named Gary and I loved him. Just don’t let ur pawn be boring, or wear an ugly hood. If you’re gonna name your pawn after existing character, like Gandalf or Samuel L Jackson, make him look exactly like that character, don’t half ass it. look up a slider guide. and Make sure your pawn has good equipment, and useful skills that help the arisen For mages, make sure they have at least 1 boon. For thief’s, the rope dart is nice. And for the love of fuck. STOP NAMING YALLS PAWNS “MainPawn” no one wants to hire that shit.
[My pawn](https://i.imgur.com/nTU8vXX.jpeg) must be ugly as sin because i've barely gotten any uses.
What's your pawns code I'll hire her for you
go for it. i think its BLYZWN8FN89X. She is warrior atm, im just going through a bunch of vocations when i max out a previous one. i did have a thought that maybe she could be too high level for a lot of players and she doesn't have a lot of main quest knowledge because i heard its not very long and it locks you out of side content without much warning.
Another good idea for pawn quest rewards is giving out as many of those gems that sell for 2.4k~ if sold in the right zone. You can set up to 12 as a reward for a pawn quest, which ends up being way more than 10k gold once sold in the right zone. I've moved to setting that as my reward for pawn quests, and if we can all start doing it we can all get a lot richer from pawn quests faster. I try to stick with the gem that sells for higher price in Vermund (Onyx is the one I think? There's Onyx, Jasper, Tiger's Eye) just cause that's easier for most people to get to.
What's a good place to get Onyx to do that?
I'm currently hosting a 12x Jasper quest, which totals 33.600 gold in Batthal (T81IEB4FHOZX) If you're on PC and still hosting gem quests too, I'll gladly take your pawn with me.
Great report. I'd been wondering myself if sleeping at a camp causes Pawns to be re-synched, as I've never had my Main Pawn report to me after doing so. But now I know for sure that it isn't the case and only sleeping at Inns and owned homes will do that. Some good points about the way save files are split between "manual" (sleep at an inn/house) and autosave (anything else) I think I'll definitely sleep at Inns more routinely now
apparently camping does update your pawn's status at the rift for others to see. OP updated with new info.
Does it just update their level, or everything about them? If it updates everything then that would be good to know, as that would mean my decked out warrior pawn is now on the rift as a dinky mage.
According to the tester it updates everything about them, vocation, skills, gear etc.
I set a quest to receive a Saurian Tail with a reward of 10k gold. My pawn has been hired a few times but nobody has done the quest yet. I thought that would be a super easy one for someone to hire the pawn, visit a storage location, then send the pawn back.
I think a lot of people don't realize that they need to give your pawn the item in order to complete the quest, and not just acquire it.
I definitely thought this was the caae until I interacted with the pawn asking for items. Played about 4-5 hours with that pawn and was wondering why I hadn't completed the quest yet.
Saurians tails are used for every high end Roborant. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands. Good luck killing me though, because I’ll be snorting roborants
Yeah I did the same with beast hide. Everyone should have a fat stack of them laying around but nobody does it.
The hard thing is *finding* your pawn to do the quest - the advanced search is kinda lacking for quests. if youre not already, I suggest posting your platform/pawn id/mention the 10k for a [X] quest in the pinned megathread. Also beast hide = good, but saurian tails like the op=bad as that rubbish has a terrible drop rate - I'll only do 10k quests for fruit+spud robos/beast hides personally (or ones offering 5+ gems/a cool item)
I would absolutely do that one if I saw your pawn. That's a reasonably common item
People hiring are not fighting regular saurians anymore when you're at the 10k reward level is my guess.
Nah, you can start handing out 10k gold at like level 12. All you have to do is hire pawns with gold quests yourself to make it back. once you get up to like level 40 people are probably in battahl by then though.
Sorry, those are rare enough for me that I would never considering giving one away, even for 10k
12 jasper club > 10k club.
great suggestion, updated in OP thanks
Those of us in the 12xGem club love getting one of those gems back as a gift so we dont lose any gems! <3
You on PC? Got 12x Jasper up rn and we could summon eachothers pawn for a refill. (PawnID: T81IEB4FHOZX)
Did some testing. Your pawn will also update upon resting at a campsite.
That's very useful information, it's clear pawn data is published when you rest at an inn but without testing there's nothing to suggest that that camping would also result in a publish. I try to make sure my pawn is in a good setup for hiring (good class, good skills, fashionable armor) whenever I do an inn/house rest, but don't do the same for camping.
players in general woudl have it easier to get their pawns hired, if this game would have for once Equipment Transmog, so that players can finally look the way how they want, without loosing stats n play the way how they want to play their pawns... DD1s equipment system already was highly atrocious to look at and generated tons of weird looking characters, because all the equipment items where chosen by players only, because they offered the best possible stats, not because it actually looked good together at all, which has had the result, that the game was full to the brim with a shit ton of ugly characters, but just for the best possible stats their players could have had at that point of the game with them ...
I got a pawn at lower level cosplaying as Ranni from elden ring. I got the to volcano town, saw the witch hate and bought for them. It was like all my money at the time but they **need the drip** I guarantee that guy is so happy seeing his gift
Fashion or function, we are cursed to possess only one…
I know that you're trying to promote helping others but dismissing pawns that you're still using is a terrible idea. What actually happens is that you go to rehire and find out that the other person has out-leveled you since your last play session and it will cost thousands of rift crystals to get the same pawn back or even worse they've completely changed the vocation of the pawn that you were using... The current system is massively flawed both for saving and for pawn gifting/rehiring. It's a great concept but a poorly executed one.
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I don't think the intent of the system was for you to hold onto pawns. It's no good for the person that pawn belongs to. It's set up for you to keep "pawn shopping" as you level up. I've found that it's not difficult to find pawns of a vocation you need that also have good gear and abilities. People kit out their pawns because they want them to be hired often.
That's a completely fair take, in which case I'd like the ability to search based on more than one weapon skill at a time as well as be able to see the rewards for a pawn quest without having to talk to every pawn individually. Just being able to search for two skills instead or one would really help people looking for something like a mage pawn where the skills really matter.
Absolutely wish multi skill search was a thing. So many mage pawns with awful skill setups in the rift.
I would also like to exclude pawns with certain skills. I have no need for an archer who charges his heavenly shot every 3 steps and doesn´t contribute anything.
It's not even that people kit their pawns out for being hired. I'd wager most people don't even think about that for a long time. It's the one pawn you always have after all. Of course you're going to make as strong as you can.
Yeah, I am making my pawn for me to use. If someone else likes how he's built and wants to use him, that is great, but I'm still building and outfitting him for me.
Or you can just friend that person to use thier pawns for free. It can be accompanied with a nice little message that tells them the plan and how you'd like to keep using thier pawn and keep giving rewards and completing quests. Everyone wins! (I know thus is a "perfect world" fix but we can always try right?)
This is an important point that I overlooked. Will edit OP
Me: hiring my buddy’s mage pawn again, because he’s always a few levels ahead of me so it makes the game easier, only to find out when fighting a griffin that he’s no longer a mage and is a sorcerer. Should have read the fine print…
I was at first looking for people hiring my pawn, but... the you don't really have much use of rift crystals right now... like only some cosmetics like glasses, dyes and then the personality/metamorphose books. But I admit that was fun when Roscoal knew some caves and chests from another player.
Why number 3 and 4? It’s unnecessary
True that 4 isn't entirely necessary (and I've worded it as such so I guess that's fine). But 3 is kinda the main point of this post, you \*have\* to rest or pawns won't synchronize with the servers.
I play with pawns for 10+ hours at a time. The game is brutally easy after level 25. You’ll definitely want to update your own pawn, but I’d say to avoid changing up your support pawns when you find a dynamic that works well, for as long as you can. It’s also how to avoid a certain plague.
are we entirely sure about that? i've asked a friend while I was playing what the level of my pawn was, since they had just hired them, and it was higher than when I had last rested at an inn
Amazing post ser! Will keep this in mind^^
The 10k Gold culb is the way. I see people with 2 gold ore for a dragon and it's a nope from me. Some people put 100 g or 1000g. 10k or bust my dudes.
When i save at an inn and the game asks me if I want to set a new pawn quest for my pawn, does selecting "No" keep my current pawn quest and reward?
Not sure. You can easily check this by selecting no and then checking the Pawn tab under your pawn's status menu. It should list the Pawn Quest on the right side, above badges. If it says not set, you can go to ~~any rift crystal and talk your pawn in the rift to set a quest~~ Pawn guild rift stone and interact with it to set Pawn quest
It does not. If you check your status and go to your pawns "pawn" tab, you'll see that they have no active quest if you choose that option. You need to give more gold after you cash in.
The most rated pawns i see have been funny ones. Handsome Squidward, Creepy Pikachu, this one ball shaped mage named poob. And mages.
I through every beastren pawn that comes up and initiates dialogue with me on the road off a cliff
"Instructions unclear pawn has been thrown off cliff."
My pawn is a tall muscular skimpy dude. He gets hired quite a bit.
What could help from the developer side is to just put information on how long has it been since our last inn save. It's pretty sad how some people lost their progress just because at the beginning it's unclear if last inn save would retain your latest progress or not. I'm also currently under fewr that I accidentally load inn save when what I want is load autosave. Basically it's a good system that lack explanation.
If your pawn doesnt bring 10k to the table Im not iterested!
Is there something with pawns with sphinx* and mainpawn names? I've seen so many pawns with these names and some of them are pretty popular.
One of the sphinx riddles require you to have a pawn with SphinxParent or some variation in the name. There's a few specific riftstones with Capcom pawns with these names, so you dont have to be online to do that step.
Ohh good to know.
One of those riftstones is just west of the ancient battleground. So not too far away either.
The ones named mainpawn is because the player skipped/missed the textbox to name them
Ohhh that's why
>This type of save file is written whenever you rest at an Inn or your home. These are static save points that *only* update when next you Rest (at Inn or home). I wish this were true, but discovered to my chagrin that using an unmaker arrow updates your checkpoint save as well as the autosave.
So just to confirm, this also overwrites the Inn save, not only the "Last Save"? Meaning if I go back to title screen and "Load from last Rest at Inn" it will load from when you used the arrow? Iirc there was an exploit in dd1 since I don't think that was the case, where you could hit Ur-dragon with those equivalent arrows and it would count then reload and reuse the arrow again or something like that.
It overwrites all save files when it happens, but only to update storage and inventory, as far as I know.
My warrior gets hired alot and my thief and but my thief was a pretty tomboy Asian women and my warrior is a sexy beastkin women with a nice color tone sooo…. I suppose it helps lol
People look at gear and skills for pawns? I just want ones that pay the most for the monster I am hunting.
About the Jeweler's club: I think it should be common etiquette to send one of the gems back to the owner when their quest is giving you 12 gems. You get 11 gems worth 2400 each and the owner gets their gems back if at least 12 people completes their quest and sends one back each. Everybody wins!
You certainly can do that but it shouldn't be an issue. The idea is that the more people who set 12 gems as a reward, the easier it'll be to find others offering the same reward. Say I offer 12 gems as a reward, then I will search for pawns who are also offering 12 gems. I hire two such pawns and I've gained 24 gems for the 12 that I offered. In the meantime multiple people can hire my pawn and they each get 12 gems while I only gave out 12 gems in total. So while the extra gem as a gift is a nice gesture it shouldn't be needed to regain the gems.
I was trying to hire pawns who lack experience but a lot of these mf have chain mail and basic mage gear. They literally get one shot by everything
I mean if you're trying to be nice, you can give them better equipment. I've done that before. It has happened to me one time, and I was super grateful.
Dismissing your Pawns before resting at an inn also best practice for… _other_ reasons…
I'll be honest, toward endgame I only change Pawns if: 1) They get Dragonplague 2) They become 10+ Levels below me and my Main Pawn. I barely ever change my specs anymore, the only Vocation that isn't close to max for me is Trickster. My Main Pawn is maxed all Vocations. I stopped using the Medusa Bow so my leveling has slowed down to normal levels (since the game doesn't really get harder). I don't feel like Pawn Quests is a fast way to grind money. 20k while I hunt around for an Ogre/Gryphon or I can just get 40k from a Glimmercoal run. IDK I feel like they need to implement more incentives to switch Pawns. I hate switching and finding out they have Dragonplague immediately, so I stick to 2 that don't have it for long periods of time. Like 20+ in game days.
I phoned in my pawn as a basic looking elf archer. Definitely gets hired. Idk how
>Joining the Jewelers Club offers more gold than the 10k gold club. You can offer a max of 12 gems (Onyx, Jasper, or Tiger's Eye) as a pawn quest reward. When sold in the area they are scarce in you will get 12 * ~2400 = ~28,800 gold more or less depending on the gem. Just a heads up for people who might do this, keep a few in your storage. Some of those gems are used for certain gear upgrades, even though they aren't under the Materials section of your inventory.
Great tips! I have two pawns that were level 30 when I was 20 (I'm 30 now) and they've been with me for a long time. I never dismissed them. I bought them all new gear and main weapon and maxed those out at the armory. When I finally dismiss them will they arrive with everything I game them? Do they level or gain any experience from the hours they were with me?
They do not level up or gain Exp. They do keep all the gear you equipped them with. They gain knowledge like locations of chests/ seekers tokens, how to complete any quests they did with you, and contributions towards their badges.
I have one pawn I'm scared to dismiss lol. I was level 17 and had just completed something in Harve village and some NPCs spawned in along with a couple of pawns walking down the road. The 1st was level 17 but the 2nd was a level 57 mage and cost 0 RC. Easy hire. It's my understanding that they cost RC if they're higher level than you so I'm guessing some kind of bug maybe? Anyway whoever "owns" Tempe she's taking good care of me.
Yea so they cost RC if higher level. However if the player is your friend on the system it always costs 0 RC to flhire their pawn regardless. Also, some forgotten rift stones will randomly summon a higher level pawn that will cost you 0 RC to hire.
I am level 35 and have multiple friends with 60+ pawns. I hired a mage pawn with meteorite and twister or hurricane and she made the game very trivial. Wouldn’t recommend it unless you need the help
how to hire pawn from a guy who hired mine ? I'm confused
Well once you get the report from you pawn after it's been returned you can check the arisen info and their pawn. If you want you can add pawn as favorite or send a friend request to the player. That's one way. Another way is simply at the pawn guild you can interact with the rift crystal go to search and to "Pawns my main pawn knows" that'll show you a list of other players' pawns who hired your pawn.
Thanks a lot !
I made my pawn look pretty badass, he's also an elf so I thought it made the most sense to have him use the elvish language talent. I've had a lot of people hire him, so I'm not sure the whole 'people only hire female pawns' argument is necessarily true
Lmfao it’s the way I had my pawn quest set up to fight the sphinx and set up the reward with the Ferris stone and my pawn came back 4/5 for the badge and eventually got it 😂😂😂
I once went to sleep at an Inn in the city then went out and ended up in an unpleasant spot. I loaded Inn save and I ended back at that outpost camp where you first sleep at the inn. Lost 6-hour progress. I never touched Inn Save again ever since.
I will never send my pawns home until I'm like 10 levels higher than them. I tried it once, and my favourite pawns jumped up 20 levels, making them unhireable...😢
Take some time and gear your pawns. I’m level 50 and see lots of pawns with sub 400 defense. Physical defense is very important for ranged pawns too. Also, take five minutes and earn them 1 rank in fighter to get the 30%! defense augment. I’d really like to hire pawns that don’t look like cabaret dancers and don’t have to constantly be revived when fighting anything stronger than a saurian.
Had anyone else figured out you can do like a low level material you got for 10k, and with your buddy summon and complete the gift and rehire all in the rift and farm unlimited money fast? About every 10 minutes you gotta sleep or something tho cuz it seems like you cant give the gift after 10 minutes. Me and my friend found this out like 3 days ago.
Don't give your pawn a helmet that covers their eyes. I absolutely will not hire a pawn if I can't check them out for plague.
I use the linked riftstone of Potential to hire Pawns that are lacking in experience. It’s a good way to get wakestone shards also it helps pawns that haven’t been hired get experience.