What Inclinations/Vocations Do Your Pawns Use Well?

[1CMF]

I can't help but keep using the calm inclination for my play style.

If it's a Fighter, I use calm so that they focus on counter attacks and take downs.

Archer works well for focusing weak points and staying at a safe distance.

Thieves, also work well with calm for climbing up and stabbing weak points when required.

Sorcerer/Mage also do well with calm for staying at a safe distance and using the right element against the right targets. Also calm helps mages cast the shield spell more often (I think), versus kindhearted, they tend to stay close to me when I'm in melee range. Maybe it could work if you do a bunch of melee based aoe spellls?

Warrior, I have mostly just put as straight forward, as I want them to be aggressive, and they don't have a lot of skills that focus weak points, so I just want them to pummel and knock things down/stagger them.

I have never used simple, I don't even know how it helps honestly other than being a loot bot.

With these setups and the right skills, I don't see my pawn standing around doing nothing, like some people complain about. I have had some fighters/warrior pawns blowing through stamina and getting staggered/out of breath due to bad combination of slotted skills, but my pawn has never really had that problem.

What does your pawn excel at with what inclinations? Or does everyone use calm also?

[D. Flame]

No idea. Just went with whatever voice sounded the best, and set her as an archer.

[1CMF]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

No idea. Just went with whatever voice sounded the best, and set her as an archer.

Peak fashion souls right here.

[Niels]

I made a calm thief companion, and I have no regrets

[Compy439]

From my experience Thief and Mage seem to be the best for Pawns. Archer got some hard nerfs and Sorc is a bit slow to cast and does not have access to heals and debilitation cures.

[Random Zero Gravity]

I too have calm, so far I'm happy with it and the rest I agree with melee as a straight forward.

[Dragon Dogma 2 6]

As a mystic spearhand, I created re-edited my pawn to become Kindhearted, Mage. He does wonder, gets hired non stop (I get an average of 300RC points/day sometimes more).

[1CMF]

Any combos you find awful. Straightforward mage? Simple fighter? Maybe something slept on that actually needs to be used more?

[Migromul]

I recently changed my pawn to straightforward. (started with simplle, random-changing to kindhearted.) But only because most of the pawns I see are kindhearted.

But I tend to not realy care, what inclination a pawn has, except I want to go on a grind-adventure. (then I hire simple pawns, probably simple thiefs with plunder...)

ATM I play trickster, my pawn being a warrior (without aggro-skills.) I don't realy know what inclination my hired pawns have atm, tbh.

[1CMF]

The popular combos I tend to see are:
Straightforward - fighter/warrior/thief
Kindhearted - mage
Calm - sorcerer/archer

Everyone sees kindhearted and thinks healer. Straight forward they think dps.
Calm they think ranged.

I actually stopped using mages (wow I typed images here?) and I try to hire kindhearted thieves with plunder and chirgureon to act as a alchemist/dps and they replenish their own stock of healing items.

I wanted to combos that with another pawn that has logistician, but apparently they don't move healing items around to the group like I thought "inventory management" would do. Supposedly calm manages inventory too, maybe if I combo logi and calm.

Apparently simple is the only one that plays catch, I wonder if they are good at finding hidden mechanics in game like the trebuchet or other possibly hidden things. Maybe I need to make my pawn simple now.

[AirSniffer]

Kindhearted for mage because it fits the support role. Calm for everything else because it sounds the best to me.

[justfaded]

I noticed calm thieves roll and dodge more than others. Mostly compared with simple thief.

[Zeel Ara]

Originally posted by 1CMF:

Any combos you find awful. Straightforward mage? Simple fighter? Maybe something slept on that actually needs to be used more?

Straightforward mage is surprisingly good. You don't want them waiting around to heal and support, since you only need that around 5% of the time, and with straightforward they use the rest of the time far more constructively. And you can still make them heal/buff/cleanse instantly with a keypress.

The exception is if you're doing a mage setup that is all about maintaining palladium and weapon buff. But that's a horrible build so you would only run that for thematic purposes anyway.

[Pine Rune]

Originally posted by 1CMF:

I actually stopped using images and I try to hire kindhearted thieves with plunder and chirgureon to act as a alchemist/dps and they replenish their own stock of healing items.

My pawn is a Kindhearted Thief with Implicate/Plunder and chirgureon, and I'm really liking this combo. Plunder nets a lot of healing items on it's own, so chirgureon seems to pair well with it. Not to mention Implicating enemies that get close to me. I'll also jump on and pin enemies that get knocked down, and she'll come up and coup-de-gras them every time.

EDIT: for anyone wanting to try out this combo, you can hire my pawn (add as friend for free hire if I'm higher level than you).

Name: Raven
Moniker: Morrigan
Pawn ID: OS68Z7218DK7

[rumpelstiltskin]

tbh all inclinations are rather confusingly named. might be a language/translation thing? the distinction between "simple" and "straightforward" (based on name only) is too subtle, and the rest just don't preclude one another, i.e. it's entirely possible to be simple, calm, and kind-hearted at the same time.

[The 5th Seraph]

If the voices weren't tied to the inclinations, I'd have everyone as Straightforward.
I mean Straightforward is the most aggressive in combat and barely ever loots, so I don't have to fight with it over opening chests or inventory management.

But as it stands I've got one Straightforward, one Calm and one Kindhearted.
The Kindhearted one is a Mage but the others are usually Sorcerers. Straightforward one out in front, Calm one further back. They both seem to do their jobs fine.


Incidentally, as far as looting goes, there is a very specific order to it:

Simple loots constantly.
Calm loots quite a lot.
Kindhearted loots a little.
Straightforward barely ever loots at all.