So it's pretty much a given "your" pawn is never going to get hired, right?

[Archangel]

Unless you have a friends circle playing or make your pawn look like a celebrity or famous character...or if you happen to make one that gets high rank the first week.

[Eguzky]

Just share your pawn here, or on reddit, or just sleep at inns often to update it.
The first game was pretty niche compared to this launch, and my Pawn was getting hired left, right, and center.

Originally posted by Ezeris:

Will our pawns level up with us?

Yes, your Main Pawn levels up with you.
When you rest at an inn, it 'uploads' your pawn to the servers, so anyone who hires it after you rested will hire whatever level your Main Pawn is at & whatever gear you gave it at the time you rested.
Anyone who hired your pawn before you uploaded/updated via sleeping at an inn won't get the update, unless they release & re-hire your pawn. Meaning you updating does not auto-update it for people currently using your pawn.

The two 'secondary pawns' you hire from others don't level up from you adventuring, which encourages releasing them to hire more Pawns as you level up.

Note: This is a guess based on how it worked in Dragon's Dogma 1. Of course, the devs could have changed how hired/secondary Pawns work.

[Erif Snogard]

Originally posted by Ezeris:

Will our pawns level up with us?

Main pawn yes. Hired pawns no.

[Silverborn]

Pawns are very simple. You hire 2, you allow yours to be rented. If you want your pawn to be hired (a lot) there are two simple things to do, know the audience. This means that you understand how to make a pawn that looks and is named like people they know, or you make an attractive character. A small subgroup love troll/pawns as well. Everyone else will specifically look for skills and synergies.

So... best bet is a mage/caster give her a pretty face and a nice set of personalitities. That or go with the rough sword and board male, who looks like he'll steal a princess in his free time. Rangers and Striders aren't high in demand if I remember correctly from DD1

[Daedrius]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

A player will hire probably in the range of dozens of pawns during the time they play. Your pawn will level up, hired pawns don't. In the original I tended to hire a new pair every 5-10 levels in my first playthrough. Sometimes hiring a new replacement before then if one got instakilled by being knocked off a cliff or the like.

Thanks for the answer!

Kind of disappointing though. I was hoping for some sense of comradery among the pawns who have been through many battles, travels, and such throughout my game, especially after seeing the developer interview talking about the interactions between NPCs.

Then again they are called pawns, which means they are expendable so, I suppose I should have guessed as much.

So, another question. Can I just make all my pawns from the beginning so I don't need to get these expendables or is it just the 1 you mentioned?

Edit: I see much more info was added while typing this out. Thanks for the answers! This will be my first time in the Dragon's Dogma universe. I'm going in completely clueless. I didn't even pay attenting to the first one so, this will definitely be interesting.

[Erif Snogard]

Originally posted by Ezeris:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

A player will hire probably in the range of dozens of pawns during the time they play. Your pawn will level up, hired pawns don't. In the original I tended to hire a new pair every 5-10 levels in my first playthrough. Sometimes hiring a new replacement before then if one got instakilled by being knocked off a cliff or the like.

Thanks for the answer!

Kind of disappointing though. I was hoping for some sense of comradery among the pawns who have been through many battles, travels, and such throughout my game, especially after seeing the developer interview talking about the interactions between NPCs.

Then again they are called pawns, which means they are expendable so, I suppose I should have guessed as much.

So, another question. Can I just make all my pawns from the beginning so I don't need to get these expendables or is it just the 1 you mentioned?

You only create your 1 main pawn. The other 2 you always have to hire.

[Daedrius]

^ Thanks

[Tomatokek]

people really do not care about special pawn looks or anything like that. as long as your pawn has meaningful skills selected, they will be hired. People switch pawns very often.

[Seekrt]

Yes, I always chose pawns with compatible skills, good weapon and armor. FIrst and formemost. (No lollies allowed)

[Humble]

do player get bonus or unlock if your pawn hired by other player or something?

[GloomEater]

Game will be new, everybody is gonna get there pawns hired. No worries.

[LongTimeNoSiege]

In the first game the list of pawns was ordered by whenever they were last updated, so as long as you were playing the game constantly, your pawn would get hires. Most people are just going to look for a pawn that has the skills/vocation they want and hire the first one they find.

[Archangel]

I do kinda have to chuckle at the people who say no one cares how a pawn looks...only stats matter.

It may come as a shock to you all...but not everyone is a min-maxxer. So a lot of good looking pawns will get hired over ugly ones as long as they are at least functional in their role.

[Norinia]

No, that's not how it works. People will be drawn to your pawn based on it's skill sets. Everyone has different preferences on what they'd like in a pawn, and odds are good YOUR pawn will end up being what they want, as you tailored it to your wants.

Especially the higher-mid level your pawn gets. Not everyone sticks with the game very long to get past level 30-40ish, levels go until around 200 in the first game (then they'd say 'infinity') (Not a guaranteed sure on what level the game will cap at this time around.) so the pickings will get increasingly choosy as you go along, if you MUST have the very best pawns at all times.

The odds are good your pawn will be chosen, and thus you must be on your toes for the Dragon's Curse. I can't wait to see how messed up the game can get with such pawns ;)

[Archangel]

Like I said, not everyone is a min-maxer. Hell, even me as an example, I will get pawns that look good and are functional...and I will not touch any of those official pawns with a 10' pole.**

**Unless it's Asmongold, just so I can throw it off a cliff and then fire it. Still annoyed he stabbed the FFXIV community in the back after he got filtered by Alexander.

[Seekrt]

Originally posted by Archangel:

Like I said, not everyone is a min-maxer. Hell, even me as an example, I will get pawns that look good and are functional...and I will not touch any of those official pawns with a 10' pole.**

**Unless it's Asmongold, just so I can throw it off a cliff and then fire it. Still annoyed he stabbed the FFXIV community in the back after he got filtered by Alexander.

Don't follow any streamer so I would not know. But... I will not use their pawns.