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Depends on your platform. I have pawns on PS5/PS4 and pawns on PC. Usually using Gemmalady will at least get you my main. After that, they are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. Except on PS5--there I do not have a Gemmalady2.

@@Gemmalady hi gemma i am on ps4 but when i go to the rift i can't find ur pawns name. how do i enlist it on search pawn? do i need to add u on psn? I search barahir on rift and not showing?

@@stan-dl7hv you have to search by PSN ID.

@@Gemmalady thank gemma i did search on the discord link you shared but your pawns are on private gemma, i was able to hire on the list thou. please if you could change it to another setting maybe we can hire it. ty

Yep-I asked my good friend, Karathrax, if I could use his name and likeness for my alt Fighter pawn, since she isn’t able to play. We collaborated on the Arisen’s appearance (named “Kara”) as well as Draken. It’s an honor. She knows that should she ever decide TO play, that I will immediately relinquish his name and appearance sliders to her. I’m so glad your recognized him in his new role!! 😍

I also appreciate the steadiness of pawn inclinations: it makes it far easier to hire whatever Personality type you wish, without worrying about their effects on your pawn; you can use pawn commands far more effectively; enemies you fight or potions you use in battle don’t alter your pawn’s Personality; furthermore, no evidence of “secret timers.”

Personally I prefer the Hellfire set minus the helm for my Mystic Knight or Fighter Arisen. Same for my Fighter pawn-she wears the Hellfire set without the helm. I also utilize different under armor for my female Fighter pawn or Arisen. This whole set can be gotten through purification of BBI lvl 3 armor. Brett noticed that the armor pieces stats didn’t match what was on the wiki for the WHOLE set. I had all the pieces from 0 stars to Goldforged so I created this video in order to adjust the stats shown on the wiki-they are now corrected there. Brett only had the pieces he shows in his attached video to mine. I also made sure that I had no under armor or weapon equipped as that skews the data for the set.

It’s a fun game and I’m enjoying the combat. Not worth $60 or $70 worth of combat, though. That extra music track available if you buy Deluxe version? It’s the Masterworks collection PC players could buy in 2016; I thought it was going to be all new music. I felt cheated since I already have that music. You can insert it into the game in place of the DD2 combat music. If you already have the Masterworks music collection, you can’t insert that-I think that extra music is in a special format that allows it to be replaced. It’s called “BGM” music in the menu-greyed out if you didn’t buy the Deluxe version.

I’m going to bet it’s the voice…I had a lot of cognitive dissonance with my DD1 main and my main pawn here. My alt mage, Shadow-the voice suited her perfectly but then it was the hair…Kate is still Kate-just no Great Gamble. Those things make a huge difference. So I know what you mean.

​@@Gemmalady Quite possibly I don't think any of the voices are bad by any means but I would like to have been able to choose my own voice not predetermined by that specific inclination very strange choice they did on that lol I do think for Fighter/Warrior Straightforward is the way to go but I just cannot jive with it on my pawn so lol. I also hope they add either more voices or the ability to just pick and choose which you would prefer because it's pretty jarring honestly at least when it comes to your character voice not matching up with their face lol

Me too. My Fighter pawn is a hoot and my Mage pawn is so sweet-but tough as nails. As for dragonforging-I was doing a blind playthrough and didn’t know that dragonforging wasn’t a thing done by dragons anymore (kind of disappointed in that, lost some motivation I must admit) which then had me toss the whole story out the window for a long time in my search for the Dragonforged. He was disappointing too-instead of a wise sage I got a deranged old man who could do it for me. I’m used to the system now so it’s all good, and happy to see the Dragonforged and Luz help the Arisen out in many regards. Perhaps it’s the voice actor of that first Dragonforged I miss-I would have found the Dragonforged more believable if voiced differently. That’s what comes from spending 12 years playing a game though and I did try to prepare myself for the game changes, that is, as long as I knew pawns were in the equation then the rest was just fluff. Which it was.

I hired a Chirurgeon pawn to test how it worked. It’s a nice Specialization to have or hire when you are under-leveled for an area or feel you’d like in the Unmoored World-where combat is so engaging. In my opinion, if you are pleased with how it meshes with your Arisen and team, then keep it. It’s much like Forager and Woodland Wordsmith-all are Specializations useful to have if needed, and they don’t interfere with overall gameplay. Make sense? Your pawn has to please YOU first and foremost. Later, as you put in more hours, you may find yourself tinkering but my advice regarding behaviors and personality-combined in this game into PERSONALITY, is if you are happy, and your pawn is doing its job, then by all means stay the course. Your pawn is YOUR boon companion.

I get you. I rarely fall too. I have fallen off a Griffon (trying to get trophy for “Re-Griffoning haha) and yep that first time a Lesser Dragon shook me off…oh and the time a damn harpy grabbed me. Both times my Kindhearted Mage caught me-third time my Straightforward Fighter caught me. But that equals the times I was grabbed by harpies in Bluemoon Tower in DDDA and caught each time (4K hours on my main on console). It’s just good to know they have the ability, I think, and that we haven’t lost that moveset from pawns. I thought if I brought it up more people would begin to take notice that yes, indeed they will do it. As long as they’re not busy themselves of course. My Thief pawn does climb-not every monster but she does, as does my Fighter. I haven’t observed my Mage climbing but HAVE seen my Calm Archer-as well as a friend’s Calm Archer-climb. It is very rare. Point is-we no longer have to worry about it being a ‘thing’ like it was in DDDA. Cuz it sure was. One other funny thing I saw-two Calm personalities, one a mage, the other a Sorc-levitated to the back/top of a monster where they were promptly tossed, bludgeoned, stomped on, then died. Oof For the record I never did and myself and the other two pawns killed the damn Armored Cyclops. I was nosing around Batahl at level 20 hahaha

@@Gemmalady That's funny! When I had my pawn level sorc he was right there in the action spouting orders about bringing something off it's feet. I was like- aren't you supposed to stay back casting meteoron or something? He was used to fighter and thief so I'm surprised he wasn't hitting monsters with his staff instead of casting. Did I teach him that!? lol

Ummm no I disagree. Any Pawn will call out when Blades of the Pyre backfires (so to speak) but my Kindhearted Mage can’t insta-stop an animation to run over to me or heal me. Are there times during an animation you can stop casting? Yes but there are also times you are fully committed and the same goes for pawns. My Straightforward Fighter (who also played Warrior for lots of levels) only climbs on occasion. I can count on two fingers the times the two Calm Archer pawns have climbed to shoot down at an enemy-and I watch very very closely. Calm Sorcs and Mages tend to levitate more often than Kindhearted ones but-Calm pawns are far more focused on defensive Strats than offensive ones so-are they levitating to get out of the way? But get caught out? And those Archers? They did climb but I don’t characterize Calm as climbers no matter what you say. As far as “hugs” all my pawns get offered to the Sphinx and I high five, praise etc but since I don’t die that often-1 death in 189 hours on my first account 0 deaths on the other four with my second account nigh on 100 hours-maybe I don’t need them? Nor do I expect companions from the Rift (look up their origins) to behave that way.

@@Gemmalady do more testing. like you i also played alot over 600 hours with 3 characters.

@@vahngaming7107 sure I’ll do more testing. I have the ability to look at the save file too…which I’ve done

@@Gemmalady il be looking forward to the results then coz we also had a discussion about inclinations on pawn with multiple testers before. currently not playing as much now just waiting on a dlc as nothing much to do in the game. still play though on my third char to max all stat on it using our stat calculator.

@@vahngaming7107 really. Did you play DDDA? Do any testing? The first time around long ago-people interested in pawn inclinations had some anecdotal data but most of it proved invalid. I kept a notebook on all my rentals and observations-mostly because of how the OPSC worked but there was no hard data. We knew that taking daggers away from Rangers didn’t work, and taking bows away from Striders didn’t work-but we couldn’t prove anything. No one knew about the secret timers at all, and really it wasn’t a big deal until Dark Arisen released and odd behaviors popped up out of no where. On top of that people blamed the incorrect items-like Spring Water-for pawns turning Nexus, for example. We already knew that overuse of pawn commands influenced inclinations, as did hired pawns, and we knew that pawns learned from other pawns and some, I repeat some behaviors were the result of behaviors learned while in another world. But how this mechanism really worked was the result of a deep look at the save not possible until the game (and the tools to decode) came out on PC. It took Ghost of Kirin’s in-depth analysis to put most of it together (along with 3 other players). However it was a document rather than in video format. Then another HUGE content creator made a breakthrough regarding climbing behavior(s) and the classification of enemies. After that, it was rather easy to manipulate the pawn’s inclinations via testing, put it in video format, look at the save file, and even watch it happen in real time. For this game, operating under a different engine, with different priorities and two different behavior AI’s-possible in some respects by “advances” we did gain pawns with good pathfinding skills. Some vocations are still very good at their jobs-others are just meh, and still others are slow as before just look flashier ala DMCV style. If you played that you’d recognize some of the takeaways: for example showing the player in a preview window just what a skill is. Although if they went that far why not let us test against an enemy like you could in DMCV? I digress. Anecdotes are well and good, but you must be dispassionate. You have to stand back and watch the pawns operate without your influence and also account for play styles not your own. That means, for me, standing back and playing a vocation that’s more passive and can quickly react-should the need arise-to defend oneself while observing. Just some food for thought.

My main pawn often comments about being a Fighter first. That being said, my Archer pawn never says a word about being a Thief, Fighter, or Warrior before I put her in her final vocation. It must depend on the Personality (Kate is Calm, but she started that way as well).

@@Gemmalady that's very interesting. My main pawn has the kindness inclination so I wonder if that affects it somehow.. she also commented on how her master (me) did a certain task even better now than before..it seems she was referring to my First playthrough to me which is wild.. lol Pawns are full of surprises

@@sikevillain I have heard my pawns make similar comments (particularly my alts) when I re-hire them (or my main which is now an alt when I re-hire her on another account). Personally I think they have more engagement that way (unlike in the first game where you’d re-hire your alt or even a friend’s pawn you used all the time) and they acted like they didn’t know you. So I like that aspect for this game, along with the high 5’s, the clapping, just the personal little touches that way. In other respects though it feels like I got a Participation Award not a genuine cheer for doing well. Hope that makes sense

@@sikevillain I’d like to add I’m so glad you are having fun and enjoying your pawn because that’s what is important. I almost quit playing but I found I enjoyed the exploration far more-even the long hikes with the pawns and their “banter.”

@@Gemmalady it does! Looking forward to more DD2 content from you. Love your insight. Gonna be watching more from ya

I would agree that I haven't heard all they have to say BUT my main is level 163, my alt Fighter is level 118, my alt mage is level 111, and my alt Ranger is level 75. There are some funny statements my male Fighter pawn says about the storyline that my female main pawn never said. So that much is true. Whether or not it is gender + Personality related I don't know, but Draken definitely hinted there was along with a bit of a smarmy chuckle. I would have loved more voice choices--I am going to assume it was too much of a bother, or something. I remember watching the video of Kento Kinoshito talking about Personalities and voices, and I thought, "oh no, this guy doesn't get it, AT ALL." We want smarter pawns, yes. It's nice we don't have to think as much about how enemies directly or indirectly influence my pawn's behavior, or how pawns I hire affect my pawn, or what potions I use that may or may not affect my pawn. But, I still feel like somehow, they didn't trust me to take care of my pawn, and that was insulting. In DDDA, pawns were your ally--they only got smarter with each enemy they encountered. In DD2, it is like I said, after one encounter they will say the same thing they say after 30 (or in Barahir, Draken, and Shadow's case, let alone Kate's) encounters. Aren't you going to warn me about the Snake's head or Goat's head on a Chimera/Gorchimera? What about Garm? What--no comment on how to use fire on a Griffin? I know what they are weak to but I would like to hear that my pawn does too.

@@Gemmalady well yeah there is plenty Dialog I may have not heard but I'm speaking on the common voice lines like there is a "ladder here" maybe the pawn could say I wonder what it leads to? Or have you climbed it¿ etx etx stuffs they knew players would come across even the pawn history and scars maybe they could comment on the pawn not having scars and being high level or if the pawn affinity is high or low even as is the game is good but woth more time I feel it could have been so much better. Sadly they will spend more time working on optimization I'm almost sure that the pawn AI was why we recived so few enemies imagine pawns helping you fight in elden ring it would be a much larger game and the AI might get confused. xD

The Arc Skills in DDDA didn't work out all that well, if at all, in DDDA for pawns. Mountain Breaker is a type of Arc skill, in a way. It works best when the pawn targets a weak spot--and therein lies the rub. Pawns don't call out weak spots anymore--which to me means they don't really know them. They talk in generalities, and I did cite the examples where pawns talk about some enemies, but...I expected far more this time. There are other, similar skills to ones from DDDA, BUT again, there is no counter or offset that allows the pawn to recover their stamina or health if they use them, so they either don't or won't as a result. I do note pawns will almost always use health items, but rarely stamina ones--my Archer pawn does on occasion, but my disappointment in that vocation for pawns is there, nonetheless. Ah, Celestial Paean--some pawns will collapse after its use (in fact 3 of the pawns I hired did so), while others do not (Nihil's and mine). That is a question to ponder, for sure. I deduced that I didn't really need or want that skill on my pawn--you can see the range of skills Shadow has (buff, debuff and two attack skills) which works out quite well for my Thief Arisen. When I take my magnifying glass to each class for pawns, I will have more to say on the subject. They will use Panacea, but then, there you are against the Medusa and pawns may or may not use Malleating Potion when gazed upon, or even Panacea! Like, wow. Pawns were much 'smarter' in that regards compared to the pawns in DD2. This video was commenting on the positives--I do plan on going over the downside of what I have observed.

I’ve quite a bit more to discuss about pawns that I couldn’t cram into just one video but I know EXACTLY what you are saying. I plan on discussing my other observations in Part 2!

Stay tuned for Part 2 of my Introspection!

Thus far, I haven't noted secondary or tertiary personality traits. Note I am being careful in calling them PERSONALITY traits rather than inclinations. If they are Straighforward, then they engage any enemy as you explore the open world--even when you are clearly moving forward towards another objective perhaps. I am sure you have noted that those types will say something along the lines of, "Leaving so soon?" Oh, my dearest pawn, we are heading towards that lovely dragon over there, leave the nice goblins that are not in our direct line alone, please. And while one pawn may take the lead in heading you to an objective--doesn't matter the personality--then you have probably seen the Straightforward types fall back from being right up front, but not too far behind. Even Kindhearted pawns will take the lead even without an objective--although mostly I have noted that Kindhearted are a step behind, Calm can be anywhere in relation to you, and Simple will range quite a ways out. On that note, Simple is pretty good early on when you need any and everything to sell or hoard, since one doesn't know exactly what monster parts are needed for upgrades. But it got pretty tiresome (at least for me) to micromanage them, when we already have so much more to micromanage, at first. And, I am a first class hoarder, anyway!! Anyone doing a deep dive into damage values, or pawn personalities will need far more time to get the theories and insights needed than just 300 hours. I didn't start into my deep analysis of DDDA until I had almost 3K hours on my main account (along with the same value I had racked up on the PS3, which given the fact that all I had was anecdotal data). I will play far more, obviously. I do love many aspects of the game.

@@Gemmalady Thank you so much for your detailed answer Gemma and i'm really looking forward on what you discover next about DD2's pawn system (and other aspects of the game of course).I was lucky that i started with Simple for my thief/archer Pawn and then moved to Straightforward for Fighter/Warrior which i think i'm going to keep for quite some time even though i hate the voices for the Straightforward personality (i really liked the one it had as Simple and it also suited the appearance of my female human Pawn).

Couldn’t have said it better-I wondered how they would improve on the pawn system from DDDA, when it was announced as part of the marketing for 2. Imagine my dismay when it seemed that veterans got “Pawns for Dummies.” I’m glad the bodybag era is gone but for me pawns are all about Style over Substance. Have a pawn that looks like a celebrity or video game character? OMG!!!! Doesn’t matter if they are awful, all that matters is “Hearts.” What’s in a name? More Sphinx Mothers, Fathers, or Parents-again, all about the style. Just give me that Heart or Thumbs Up to validate me. (I’m being sarcastic here). I’ve lost a couple friends over heated discussions about how I truly have observed that the pawn system has been oversimplified. But, it has. My ruthless main pawn from 1 has been over-simplified-I’ve gotten used to the chipper version but-the terse, confident, pawn that I watched solo enemies in 1 is just a caricature of herself in 2. More to say in Part 2 of my introspection.

I do plan on putting together guides for each vocation. In DD2 I’ll also have to take into account personalities, though. Some skills unused by one personality will get used by another.

Hi! When you go to NG+ it functions exactly like the first game-your pawn, items, etc all go with you. You do lose items out of your inventory. For example specific quest items-like letters of passage, for example. Also all Portcrystals are removed. As to the duplicate pawns from starting New Game (not NG+) one friend had at least 10 or 15 but I noted after the last update he doesn’t anymore. Just the one. My theory is all the shouting from brand new players to the franchise (screaming, more like) had the devs add New Game without thinking it through or having a plan like we had in DDDA. They added the feature but forgot about those players who have 14 New Game restarts. I’m sure that got fixed or will be fixed in the future BUT-too bad for those who thought they’d get their old pawn back with Badges done at level 1 (I’m being sarcastic I don’t feel bad for people who tried to use/abuse the system like in DDDA). Def get augments from other vocations for your pawn-they aren’t multiplicative only additive this time though. Makes sense when you can only have one (meaning no stacking of them like in DDDA then it multiplying when doing damage).

That would be nuts!! But funny! Although I did have some guy comment on a video that was from 2019 when I streamed to YT that “a man would have said what it took you 3 hours to say in 10 minutes.” He failed to note it was an old live stream clearly marked “past broadcast,” nor did he see all the comments on screen from my followers!

I’m working on a pawn video as I speak. I’ve got close to 300 hours (between 4 accounts). While it isn’t as long as the time I put in before doing pawn videos before-I think I’ve a pretty good handle on behaviors. Hopefully it will clarify or reinforce what you’ve observed!

The hidden inclination is the 4th (the one you take 3 potions for). The 3rd can be found by sitting in the Knowledge Chair. ruclips.net/video/XV98A9IQZuk/видео.htmlsi=HDpC2l1ZXViHinSl

Oh boy I guess you just don’t understand how Dogma works, then. Most people hire their friends’ pawns. Until or if they create their own alts. People are always asking for RC so that they can purify BBI items. This method is a very fast way to get them RC-for a level 200 pawn (a friend’s pawn, let’s say) takes about 5 rounds of defeating Death. By the way it works the same for any of a player’s alt accounts as well.

If you are on PSN you should be able to find her. Playstion DDDA pawns don’t have pawn ID’s. Only DD2 ones do-excepting Nintendo Switch DDDA pawns, which also have a pawn ID unique to that system.

@@Gemmalady Wonderful, I didn't know that, I'll look for it! I wish you all the best, and thank you again!!!!!!