Dragon's Dogma 2 Vocation: Mage
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Welcome to the Mage Vocation for Dragon's Dogma 2. Vocations are a very important factor that will determine the skills and weapons available to your character, influencing your overall approach to combat situations in Dragon's Dogma 2. Some Vocations and unique abilities can be unlocked by gaining the favour of Maisters. These are masters of their respective Vocations, and can be found in various locations around the world.
How to Use Effectively
The Mage Vocation serves best in a very strong support role, able to boost the healing, damage, speed, stamina recovery and damage resistance of allies. As such, they should be used on the back line, away from the fight itself, and other characters should cover the Mage quickly if they come under attack. While a Mage can make a viable attacker, losing out on their powerful support abilities would be a shame.
Weapon Skills
Argent Tonic:
Cast upon a single ally to restore a huge amount of health. Upgrades to Argent Succor to continue restoring a large amount of health over a period of time.
Celerity:
Create a sigil that will drastically boost the speed of the entire group, as long as they are in range. Upgrade to High Celerity for a longer duration on the effect.
Empyrean:
Create an orb that deals up-front damage and damage over time to nearby enemies. Upgrade to High Empyrean for a longer duration and longer range.
Flagration:
Cast a continuous, large area of fire forward that deals consistent damage to all enemies caught within, ignoring resistances. Upgrade to High Flagration for more damage.
Frigor:
Creates a wall of ice that can be used to get the drop on enemies or block their approach. Upgrade to High Frigor to also create a burst of ice damage.
Fire Boon:
Imbue the weapon of an ally with fire damage, causing them to deal significantly more damage and build up burning. Upgrade to Fire Affinity for a longer duration.
Ice Boon:
Similar to Fire Boom, Ice Boon imbues ally weapons with ice, causing them to deal more damage. Upgrade to Ice Affinity to increase the duration of the effect.
Halidom:
Creates a sigil to cure unconsciousness, silence, fire, frostbite, drenched, sleep and tarred on allies. Upgrade to High Halidom to also cure torched, ice-bound, drenched and blighted.
Lightning Boon:
Similar to Ice Boon, enchant ally weapons with lightning to increase their damage over a period of time. Upgrade to Lightning Affinity for a longer duration.
Levin:
Call down lightning to deal damage to your enemies and stagger them, channelling for a longer duration. Upgrade to High Levin for more damage.
Spellhold:
To avoid the lengthy cast time of spells, Spellhold will store a spell in your staff to be instantly cast at the cost of stamina recovery. Upgrade to High Spellhold for lower stamina cost.
Solemnity:
Used against thieves and mages, Solemnity will prevent their spells and stealth. Upgrade to High Solemnity to increase the range and duration of the effect.
Palladium:
Create a ward against up to three attacks that will disappear after a moderate duration. Upgrade to High Palladium to also apply the ward to allies and increase the duration.
Celestial Paean:
Cast forth a holy spell that significantly boosts the stamina recovery and speed of any ally that connects with it, along with significantly reducing the damage they receive. Consumes all stamina and staggers the caster.
Core Skills
Magick Bolt:
This is the standard attack of a mage that will send forth a projectile that matches the enchantment of the staff.
Focused Bolt:
An upgrade to Magick Bolt that deals more damage, and is based on the element of the active enchantment.
Quickspell:
At the cost of stamina over time, spell casting speed will be significantly increased.
Anodyne:
Create an area of effect that will heal any ally that comes into contact with it over a duration of time.
Levitate:
Great for mobility and damage avoidance. The caster will raise off the ground for a while.
The Mage Vocation completes many teams. Having a Mage available in your group is almost essential for survivability if you hope to avoid burning through consumables at an obscene rate. Mages support the team in two significant ways.
The first is their healing abilities. Mages have the capacity to heal large amounts of heal for both single allies and the entire team, keeping them alive through substantial damage and often meaning the difference between life and death.
Mages can also apply powerful buffs to the team. They can cast spells to increase the stamina recovery of allies, boost their speed, and even imbue their weapons with powerful elemental effects, such as lightning and fire.
Mages form the core of most teams, and it is always very highly recommended to have one with you in all combat scenarios.