Can anyone confirm...(Pawn knowledge/behavior/tactics)

[neogeno]

I've always wanted my pawn to be a magic archer capable of magic arrows and some spell casting. But after being let down in DD1 and DA, I was hoping that they allowed this in DD2 but it seems they are still barring Pawns from having that ability. My cope for this back in the DD1 days was that Pawns could use Tomes that had magic spells. That was denied.

Now I'm wondering if its possible here in DD2. I haven't had any luck but I'm hoping that I'm just doing something wrong as the game seems to be blocking me at every step from making some kind of magically tuned Archer Pawn. I was even hoping that the Elven smithy could actually imbue elements on a weapon but that doesn't seem to be the case either. My pawn is holding like 50 Tomes in inventory and is a Logistician.

So I ask, is there a way to have pawns use Tomes as a replacement for not being able to use magic? Is there an elemental bow that I haven't found? Or did the devs just run a repeat of the last game?

[Edbi]

this is sadly same, no special vacation and cant use books, but you can still use it and enhance weapons, without mage.

[neogeno]

Originally posted by Edbi:

this is sadly same, no special vacation and cant use books, but you can still use it and enhance weapons, without mage.

Ugh...really frustrating.

Yeah, I know I as the arisen can use them but I enjoy playing as the Warrior class and wanted to leave the spellcasting or magic oriented stuff to my Main Pawn in some fashion and didn't want to change away from Archer. I really wish they wouldn't bar us from these kinds of things. There is very little individually among pawns. Even less so now that they streamlined the leveling process. I thought they would build off of the systems that Dark Arisen left us with but it seems like they just did a copy paste with some things shifted around.

It would be nice if there was some system withing the AI where you could actually train them to use the Tomes (or any battle item that isn't just healing). Thats what I thought they were boasting about the Pawn AI for. But using Tomes seems to be too much for them.

[Harry.Taco]

You get to be a Magic Archer late in the game. You even get a special bow as a reward for completing the quest that makes it available. All I can say is maybe you havent gotten that far?

[Edbi]

Originally posted by Harry.Taco:

You get to be a Magic Archer late in the game. You even get a special bow as a reward for completing the quest that makes it available. All I can say is maybe you havent gotten that far?

He wants it for his pawn, so he can't, cuz only arisen can do it.

[neogeno]

Originally posted by Edbi:

Originally posted by Harry.Taco:

You get to be a Magic Archer late in the game. You even get a special bow as a reward for completing the quest that makes it available. All I can say is maybe you havent gotten that far?

He wants it for his pawn, so he can't, cuz only arisen can do it.

Yes this.

It feels like the game is fighting me every step of the way.

Got a pawn. Wants her to be Mystic Archer. No. Not available for pawns.

Alright np, want to give her element imbued bow. No. No magic bows in the game.

Not a problem. Will just go to Elvin village and imbue a good Bow with an element. No. It doesn't work that way. Though a magic stat may rise, its utterly useless without an element to go with it.

O-ok cool. I'll just use Tomes to make up for no magic ability. No, Pawns wont use Tomes. They will instead combine materials for weaker healing items instead of using them for better combinations.

Uh...surely the Woodland Specification adds some kind of magical abilities???? No. Speak with elves to read menus you can already kind of decipher on your own.

Well ♥♥♥♥.