As you progress through Dragon’s Dogma 2, your Vocations and character will gain experience points (XP) and Discipline Points (DCP). The XP will help you level up and become stronger passively, while DCP is needed to unlock new skills for your current Vocation. There are a total of 10 Vocations that you can eventually unlock, and each one has a dozen or more skills to discover. However, you can only use four skills at a time, making it challenging to choose which ones to unlock. To help you optimize your build right from the beginning, we’ll recommend the best skills for each Vocation in the game.

Best Skills

The best skill will vary for each Vocation based on what role they are most suited to in combat. Some skills can be upgraded to better versions as you level up your Vocation, so check back in the skills menu every so often to make sure you’re using the best version available.

Fighter
Fighters might struggle with attacking flying enemies due to their limited range, but Airward Slash enables them to attempt a leaping strike. On the other hand, Gouging Skewer is a move that can be used against targets of all sizes. With this move, you can impale your sword into an enemy and relentlessly attack them. Additionally, if you use this move against a large foe, you will automatically grab onto them.

Archer
Torrent Shot — This move makes you immobile but fires off a near-constant stream of arrows at an increasing rate as you tap the button.

Exploding Shot — If you like sticky bombs in other games, this is effectively that. You fire off an arrow that sticks to whatever it hits and explodes either after a short time or if it is attacked. Great for knocking down unstable enemies.

Mage
Levin – Call down bolts of lightning to smite your foes! You can keep the cast going with more strikes at the cost of stamina. A great ranged attack that deals high damage. Halidom – This spell creates a zone that cures caught fire, frostbite, unconscious, sleep, silence, drenched, and tarred. This will save you a ton of grief and consumables.

Thief
Powder Blast — After scaling a massive beast, or getting yourself surrounded by smaller mobs, plant a bomb and detonate it when the time is right for great effect. Also handy for exploring and clearing breakable objects in the world.

Gut and Run — Use this skill after climbing up and reaching a big foe’s weak point to get a guaranteed critical strike before leaping clear. Works best against weak points if you can find and reach it, but deadly either way.

Warrior
Surging Strike — Take your massive sword, leap high into the air, and slam it down with this devastating skill. As you would expect, the higher elevation you can perform this move from, the more damage it will do.

Savage Lash — When you need one, big hit to finish things off, go for the Savage Lash. This charges us one massive strike that can melt an enemy’s HP if you time it right.

Sorcerer
Thundermine — You’re very vulnerable while casting since you can’t move, so toss out a Thuindermine to keep you safe. it will act as a little turret to zap any enemy who gets close.

Decanter – All magic users have low HP by default, so a spell that steals an enemy’s life is a win-win. You can drain an enemy for as long as you have the stamina.

Mystic Spearhand
Devout Offringe — This is the upgraded version of the Humble skill which lets you levitate an object and toss it at the nearest enemy but has better range. A great compliment to a mostly melee-range Vocation.

Mirour Vesture – Whenever you see a massive attack coming but don’t have time to avoid it, cast Mirour Vesture to create a temporary barrier that completely negates any damage.

Magick Archer
Irridant Orb — Shoot a glob of fire onto an enemy for continuous burning damage that may also cause the target to catch fire. This is a great way to add passive DPS to tanky enemies.

Vimtaking — Your Pawns will be taking most of the damage with this Vocation so keep them healthy with this skill that saps enemy health and gives it to your pawns.

Trickster
Aromatic Rally — This is a simple but powerful attack buff for all your Pawns, and it can even keep them going when their HP hits zero. It does drain their health, however.

Delusory Screen — Build a trap by summoning a wall to block enemies and funnel them, or just sneak by unnoticed.

Warfarer
The Warfarer can learn skills from any other Vocation, so mix and match any from this list to make the ultimate build!