Tips for Mystic Spearhand and Magick Archer?

[Nimarus]

I like both of these vocations, but each has it's strengths and weaknesses it seems. I always liked Magick Archer in Dragon's Dogma 1, so I was excited to unlock it in the sequel. While Magick Archer is great at ranged combat, I find it lacks in close combat. I find the opposite with Mystic Spearhand. I find it is great with close quarters combat, but ranged is different (Like with annoying harpies).

I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts on how these vocations limitations can (if possible) be handled. A skill loadout that makes Magick Archer better at close combat? Maybe a loadout that makes Mystic Spearhand better at dealing with flying annoyances like Harpies.

[Cadaver]

Mystic has multiple ranged skills you can equip and an aerial attack you can use. Also you have the stun + teleport ability that easily gets you at harpies and the likes as well.

Magic Archer has no melee capabilities at all. You gotta play a better positioning game with this one and be aware of your cast timers.

[AvG]

magic archer has some lower attack shots until they get a few ranks
here are some recommendations:

-consider your main pawn to be a warrior pawn with 1 or 2 ring of disfavor eventually, if you don't have it, you can get them fairly early on when you first enter cat country. if you wear two disfavor rings on your main pawn enemies will mostly ignore you. it's great!
you can also do this with thief i think, with the evasion they will still target your pawn but miss repeatedly.
magic archer's only weakness is getting bodied by enemies so this helps a lot. Fighters can also equip one taunt skill for extra coverage.

[p00se2]

tried playing both with warfarer ?


i run frost bolt on magic archer
bubble shield on spearhand to deal with close encounters
with rearmament taking up 1 skill slot
you have 1 slot left for whatever