Vocations: all ten classes and how to unlock them
Dragon's Dogma 2 has ten vocations. Four are available from creation, two unlock through Vocation Frustration, and four are Arisen-only classes taught by specific NPCs.
Weapons, unlocks and maister rewards
| Vocation / weapon | Unlock | Maister skill |
|---|---|---|
| Fighter / sword or mace and shield | Starting vocation; pawns eligible. | Lennart: Riotous Fury. |
| Archer / bow | Starting vocation; pawns eligible. | Taliesin: Heavenly Shot. |
| Mage / staff | Starting vocation; pawns eligible. | Eini: Celestial Paean. |
| Thief / daggers | Starting vocation; pawns eligible. | Flaude: Blades of the Pyre; Srail: Formless Feint. |
| Warrior / greatsword or hammer | Return a greatsword to Klaus in Vernworth; pawns eligible. | Beren: Arc of Might. |
| Sorcerer / archistaff | Return an archistaff to Klaus in Vernworth; pawns eligible. | Trysha: Meteoron; Myrddin: Maelstrom. |
| Mystic Spearhand / duospear | Speak to Sigurd in Melve or Harve; Arisen only. | Sigurd: Wild Furie. |
| Magick Archer / magick bow | Complete Put a Spring in Thy Step; Arisen only. | Cliodhna: Martyr's Bolt. |
| Trickster / censer | Speak to Luz at the Reverent Shrine; Arisen only. | Real Luz on the roof: Dragon's Delusion. |
| Warfarer / mixed weapons | Give Lamond three Newt Liqueurs; Arisen only. | Lamond: Rearmament; cannot borrow other maister skills. |
How to change vocation and retain skills
Visit a vocation guild, or an inn that offers vocation services. Spend discipline points to unlock available vocations and skills. Character level and vocation rank are different: ranking a vocation exposes more skills for purchase.
Augments remain unlocked after changing class and can be equipped across vocations. Weapon skills still require a compatible vocation and weapon. Your main pawn has its own progression; hired pawns' vocations and skill sets are controlled by their owners.
The maister rewards above are base-game unlocks and do not require finishing Dark Arisen. Receiving a teaching scroll and using it are separate steps. Most reward delays are a matter of quest progress, affinity or the NPC moving, not an expansion gate.
Which class should you choose?
Choose Fighter for active shield defense, Thief for close-range mobility, Archer for manual ranged aim, or Mage for support. Warrior emphasizes charged physical knockdowns and Sorcerer emphasizes offensive casting.
Mystic Spearhand blends control and melee; Magick Archer supplies homing ranged magick; Trickster relies on pawn damage; Warfarer mixes normal skills at the cost of other classes' maister moves. Match the party to the missing roles instead of chasing a single universal winner.
Capcom expanded assignable weapon skills to six on September 2, 2026, not in August. That free update also added Magick Barrier to Mage and Sorcerer and Buoyant Brume to Trickster. These are not evidence of an eleventh vocation.
Questions
Which vocation uses every weapon?
Warfarer can equip the different weapon types. It uses one shared skill bar and cannot borrow other vocations' maister skills.
Which classes can pawns use?
Fighter, Archer, Mage, Thief, Warrior and Sorcerer. The other four vocations are Arisen-only.