The best improvements in Dragon’s Dogma 2

By James On Mar 24, 2024

Increases are passive benefits Dragon dogma 2and are an essential part of creating an effective build for your character.

You earn augments by ranking vocations, but once you unlock an augment you can use it each calling. You can equip up to six augments at a time, with a set of six for each vocation. That means it’s often worth it to explicitly rank up a calling (even if you don’t enjoy playing it) to get a certain increase.

Read on for our suggestions the best improvements in Dragon dogma 2plus a list of all augmentations in the game.

How to unlock augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2

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While most vocations have five associated augments, the late-game Warfarer class only has two. You can unlock and equip new augments by spending Discipline Points (Dcp) at a Vocation Guild. (You can swap your augments at a campfire, but you can’t unlock new ones there.)

According to our testing, you’ll unlock a new augment approximately every two ranks per calling (i.e. at ranks 2, 4, 6, and 8), and you’ll earn the fifth and final augment when you max out a calling’s rank. However, keep in mind that our math here is imprecise. On an adventure in the world of Dragon dogma 2 often means gaining enough experience to rank a calling more than once, so we’re not sure which ranks lead to you unlocking which expansions per calling.

But the order is consistent, and our overall point remains: sometimes it’s worth spending the time ranking a calling just to get one of its expansions. For example, even if you hate close combat, you might want to rank up your Fighter calling for the express purpose of reaching Thew, one of the best expansions in the game.

Best improvements in Dragon’s Dogma 2

A main character waves at a pawn with the best buffs in Dragon's Dogma 2. — Don’t forget to equip augments on your main pawn as well.

While every profession plays differently and there’s a lot of room for personal preference, here are the five improvements you should prioritize to finish first Dragon dogma 2both for yourself and for your main pawn:

Thew (fighter)
Stamina (archer)
Vitality (Warrior)
Fearlessness (Warrior)
Detection (impostor)

As mentioned above, Thew is one of the best augments in Dragon dogma 2. It’s the third vocation you unlock as a fighter, and it increases your inventory size (your maximum charge) – a perk that’s essential to almost all vocations. To remind: Dragon dogma 2 commits the cardinal sin of counting your equipped gear as your maximum load. Blasphemy!

Stamina, the second expansion you can unlock by playing as an archer, is also invaluable. It increases your endurance. Yes, it contains a number of extensions Dragon dogma 2 that provide stat boosts. But a stamina boost is a bit more applicable than, say, a magical defense boost (which is useful for a warrior, but not so necessary for a mage or wizard).

The warrior’s calling brings two essential benefits: Vitality (the first one you unlock) and Fearlessness (the last). Vitality increases your maximum health, a benefit that needs no explanation. Fearlessness, meanwhile, protects your maximum health from taking a hit. When you take damage Dragon dogma 2, you also take a hit to your maximum health: how much health you can recover without sleeping (called the loss meter). Fearlessness minimizes how much your loss meter drops.

Finally, Detection, the first completion you get as a Trickster, is perhaps the best in the game – if you’re a completionist. When equipped, it literally sounds like you’re near Wakestone Shards or those elusive Seeker’s Tokens.

All improvements in Dragon’s Dogma 2

Of course, given how malleable the different play styles are Dragon dogma 2, this is all subjective; the best buffs for your character may be very different from ours.

There are 47 augments spread across the 10 vocations Dragon dogma 2. Below is the complete list of all extensionsgrouped by calling and arranged by the order you unlock them for each calling.

All augments list in Dragon’s Dogma 2

Increases	Vocation	Description
Increases	Vocation	Description
Courage	Fighter	Improves your physical defense.
Provocation	Fighter	Increases the chance of being targeted by enemies.
Thew	Fighter	This allows you to carry extra weight.
Dominion	Fighter	This allows you to lift and pin down enemies for extended periods of time.
Care	Fighter	Speeds up recovery when knocked down or crawling.
Ambush	Archer	Increases the damage dealt by your attacks when targets are not in a combat stance.
Stamina	Archer	Increases your maximum endurance.
Radiation	Archer	Allows your lantern to use less oil and illuminate a larger area.
Lethality	Archer	Increases damage dealt when hitting a target’s vitals.
Desire	Archer	This allows you to climb cliffs and climb enemies and other surfaces faster.
Apotropaism	Magician	Improves your Magick defense.
Salvation	Magician	Increases the amount of health regained by healing agents and healing magic.
Intervention	Magician	Reduces the duration of the weakness you suffer from.
Continuation	Magician	Extends the duration of enchantments and refreshments.
Glorification	Magician	Increases the recovery speed of your endurance.
Subtlety	Thief	Reduces the chance of being targeted by enemies.
Satisfaction	Thief	Restores some health when dealing a killing blow to an enemy.
Balance	Thief	Reduces the stamina consumed when struggling in an enemy’s grasp.
power	Thief	Reduces the stamina consumed when holding or pinning enemies.
Verve	Thief	Increases your strength.
Vitality	Warrior	Increases your maximum health.
Influence	Warrior	Improves your ability to push and pull targets when holding them.
Pertinacity	Warrior	Improves your ability to break through an opponent’s guard.
Dominance	Warrior	Increases your knockdown power.
Fearlessness	Warrior	Reduces the loss meter accumulation when receiving damage.
Smoothness	Wizard	Increases the chance of taking debuffs from your attacks.
Stasis	Wizard	Reduces the rate at which items deteriorate.
Fortitude	Wizard	Increases your knockdown resistance.
Catalysis	Wizard	Increases damage dealt when exploiting an enemy target’s elemental weakness.
Astuteness	Wizard	Increases your magic.
Transportation	Mystical Spear Hand	Accelerates the speed of movement when carrying or lifting.
Opulence	Mystical Spear Hand	Increases the gold obtained from acquiring coin bags.
Polarity	Mystical Spear Hand	Increases your strength during the day and your Maick at night.
Shine	Mystical Spear Hand	Increases the amount of rift crystals obtained when acquiring rift fragments and the like.
Athletic	Mystical Spear Hand	Reduces the stamina consumed while running.
Maintenance	Magic Sagittarius	Improves the physical defense and magical defense of pawns in your party.
Gluttony	Magic Sagittarius	Restores a small amount of stamina when you deal a killing blow to a target.
Prolificity	Magic Sagittarius	Increases the chance of smaller targets to drop items.
Predominance	Magic Sagittarius	Increase the power and magic of pawns in your party.
Improvement	Magic Sagittarius	Reduces the time it takes for fallen pawns to revive.
Detection	Cheater	Alerts you with sound and flashing light to the presence of Seeker’s Tokens or Wakestone shards nearby.
Relief	Cheater	You have the chance to create another of the resulting product by combining materials.
Volatility	Cheater	Reduces the chance of being attacked by enemy targets while camping or riding in a bullock cart.
Blackout	Cheater	Reduces the chance that enemy targets will detect you when you are not in a combat stance.
To tempt	Cheater	This makes it easier to increase your affinity with people.
Diligence	Warman	Reduces the stamina consumed when performing a weapon skill.
Dynamics	Warman	Reduces the extent to which weight affects your movement speed.

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