No Assassin vocation?

[Prince Croaker]

So I went through the Official DD2 website [www.dragonsdogma.com] and saw that they have 10 vocations listed, including the 3 new ones:

Vocations:
• Fighter
• Archer
• Thief
• Mage

Advanced Vocations:
• Warrior
• Sorcerer
• Magick Archer

New Vocations:
• Mystic Spearhand
• Trickster
• Warfarer

These are the 10 vocations that's shown in the website, but I can't help but notice Assassin isn't among them. Is there a reason for this?

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

They took out assassin because it was already a mix of other classes.

For example they took away daggers from Archer, and Bow away from Strider/Thief to highlight specialization.

[Senki]

im more annoyed by the removal of mystic knight tbh, assassin was mostly just fighter/strider combined but mystic knight was actually different from the others with it's own weapons and I loved playing it

the addition of spearhand and trickster make up for it though cause they both look like something I'll love playing

[AndryGate]

I have to admit that real-time vocation swapping is interesting. Maybe Itsuno hasn't succumbed to old age. I could almost decide to buy it. Remove DRM.

[I can do this all day]

the reason likely is: all vocations are now use one weapon type( with the exception of maybe fighter)

there are no "hybrid" like DD1, you can create your own hybrid vocation now. In DD1 Assassin can equip sword, dagger, shield, bow but you can only use 2 at a time. Now you can use all of them without waiting for character animation and switch in pause menu

man, everyone used to complain how warrior lack of range attack haha

[Prince Croaker]

Originally posted by Senki:

im more annoyed by the removal of mystic knight tbh, assassin was mostly just fighter/strider combined but mystic knight was actually different from the others with it's own weapons and I loved playing it

Damn, I can't believe I forgot about Mystic Knight. MK is what opened up my imagination to how cool magic knights in can be in RPGs

[nathan24]

yeah Mystic Knight was crazy and unique, never seen a game that had a MK like DD1

[BEEP!]

There's probably even more vocations they haven't shown because they just showed us Warfarer which wasn't on the
t-shirt which was one if the biggest arguments some people had to there being only 9 vocations.

[Drake]

Assassin is pretty much the warfarer, since the vocation can use 3 different weapons at the same type (so you can make dagger, bow, sword if you want).

[zmanbuilder]

As much as i liked assassin, it did not need to exist, its skills could have easily been given to strider and fighter, you cannot say the same about magic archer or mystic knight though.