Get a complete guide to playing as a Thief vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2, including class information and skill explanation.
Thief Vocation (Class) Overview
The Thief profession is the starting vocation designed to focus on swift and agile maneuvers. It allows thieves to attack enemies from behind and deal massive damage to one target at a time. While Dragon’s Dogma 2 lacks the skills to inflict area damage like some other vocations (classes), the Thief more than compensates by delivering concentrated damage capable of taking down even the toughest foes.
The vocation you choose in Dragon’s Dogma 2 defines the skills, playstyle, and weapons you or your pawns (companions) can use in combat. Additionally, as you level up, you will improve statistics and unlock Augments, which are passive boosts. Both will help you increase your combat efficiency, including survivability and damage output.
It’s important to know that you can change your actively equipped skills at any campfire if you have a camping kit. You can obtain a camping kit by purchasing it from merchants, or, if you are lucky, you may find one in the world. However, it’s worth noting that you cannot unlock new skills orchange your vocationat campfires.
Should you play Thief Vocation (Class) in Dragon’s Dogma 2?
If you like swift combat and live in the heart of a storm during the fight, the Thief vocation is for you. One of the biggest pros of Thief is high damage per second. Thieves strike fast with an unmatched ability to move freely on the battlefield, climb obstacles, and even gigantic enemies. Similarly toArchers, those advantages allow this class to produce high damage per second, with per strike dealing less damage but with rapid success.
You will constantly move on the battlefield jumping from one enemy to another using tricks like bombs to defeat your enemies. However, it lacks the support skills of a Mage or archer, so you will be solely focused on dealing damage in the group.
Additionally, Thief is an excellent Vacation (Class) for your Pawn. In many games, the primary problem for companions is that they don’t react fast enough or don’t take full advantage of the support skills they have access to. In Dragon’s Dogma 2, pawns seem to have improved AI and act swiftly and smartly, but it’s not a bad idea to give them a thief vocation so they can deal tons of damage and you may focus on controlling the battlefield and keeping everyone alive.
How to Play Thief Vocation – Class Gameplay
Survivability and Battlefield Awareness: Despite being at the front lines at melee range most of the fight, thievesdon’t share the same protection and resistance as fighters or warriors. As a result, they must rely on their nimbleness and agility to survive. Shadow Cloak can be a fantastic escape mechanism when things go sideways. Blend into the surroundings and wait for the opportune moment to strike again.
Rapid succession and Damage per Second: You should try to focus on dealing the most damage in a short window because Thieves are known for quick and swift succession of dagger stabs. Each individual strike may not deal much damage, but paired with core skills like the Carve, which unleashes a flurry of dagger attacks, it will deal tons of damage, making you feel like the most deadly force on the battlefield.
High Movement:Thieves, like archers, have a high movement that helps them survive and control the battlefield. This is probably because those two vocations were one in the previous Dragon’s Dogma and now share a few characteristics, including the agile and swift ability to deal damage and find strategically beneficial positions within the battlefield. Augments like Verve and Vigour will significantly increase your stamina and strength passively.
Thief Tricks:Thieves lack proper party support. However, they have many tricks up their sleeve, exploiting enemies’ weak points. Enkindled Blades or Powder Charge skills can deal fantastic damage to pin down smaller enemies, giving you a short window to attack. Shadow Cloak helps strike from shadows, while a smoke bomb can disorient or confuse enemies, creating an opportunity to attack. Thieves can also plant flame strikes on enemies and effortlessly climb the big bosses to deal damage.
Thief Maister’s Teachings
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, players can learn ultimate abilities from vocation Maisters. Obtaining them requires extra effort, the abilities are worth it and have powerful effects.
To use maister abilities, you don’t need any specific Vocation Rank. However, you need to have a Thief class. The Thief Vocation is available from the beginning and can unlock two different ultimate abilities. Initially, one of these abilities may not appear to be beneficial due to the damage it inflicts on the user. However, it can become a formidable force when paired with the second ultimate ability.
Go to a Vocation Guild and equip both abilities to your keybinds. Then, when fighting a boss monster, first use Formless Feint. you may trigger Blades of the Pyre. The auto-dodge buff from Formless Feint should help you escape the fire damage from Blades of Pyre! Check out ourThief Maister Vocation guidefor a step-by-step walkthrough.
The following list presents the Thief’s Maister Ability and How to unlock it:
How to Unlock More Skills
You can change and unlock more skills and vocations in Vocation Guilds and some Inns. Here are some Locations where you can change your vocation and unlock more:
Thief Skills and Augments
Just like all vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2, Thief has access to three types of skills:
As you can see, some of those skills are passive boosts, and some are active abilities used in combat to deal damage and sometimes crowd control the battlefield.
To clarify, you’re able to only have a limited number of skills per category active simultaneously. With ranks, you unlock skills by using specific vocations in combat as you level up. So, some of the skills listed below might not be available to you from the start.
Below, you can find all Thief vocation Weapon Skills, Core Skills, and Augmentations in Dragon’s Dogma 2:
The Best Thief skills
Ensure you use skills matching your playstyle and exploit enemy weaknesses for the best results. Here are the best Thief skills in Dragon’s Dogma 2 worth considering to use:
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