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Each vocation inDragon’s Dogma 2represents a unique style of play that reflects a certain theme. For example, Fighters and Warriors prefer up-close melee combat, while Sorcerers and Mages will do well to use range to their advantage. The Warrior Vocation is particularly suited to a brawling playstyle.
If you prefer to take the fight to your enemies without hesitation, then the Warrior’s aggressive Skills will allow you to stay engaged in battle. With a focus on offensive pressure and high damage, the Warrior is one of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s best vocations for melee lovers.
Updated June 24, 2025, by Andrew Scariati:Whether you consider yourself a Dragon’s Dogma 2 Warrior master or are new to the vocation entirely, we’ve updated this guide with helpful information in the Core Skills section for your reference as you progress through the game.Check out our Warrior build guideif you need more detailed build advice.
What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Warrior Vocation?
Strengths
Warriors are a slow-swinging high-damage vocationthat uses a massive greatsword to decimate both groups of enemies and strong single targets.
Theirchargedattacks are extremely potent, especially when properly timed and aimed at a foe’s weak point.
The Warrior is particularly good at closing gaps between you and your enemies when combining the length of their sword with certain Core Skills that allow the Warrior to barge into foes.
Warriors are excellenttanksanddamagedealers that are a perfect blank canvas for Mages to augment with elemental damage that will pulverize unsuspecting enemies.
Be bold and don’t be afraid to grab larger enemies and attack them.
Weaknesses
Despite their immense power, Warriors have extremelyslowattack speed, as each swing of their swords requires a second or two of windup before you connect with an enemy.
This vocation, sadly, doesn’t have much in the way of active defense, aside fromTidal Wrath, the Warrior’s primary counterattacking Weapon Skill.
The timing of this parry is difficult to master, as is the case with the Warrior vocation as a whole.
Luckily,Repulse, one of the Warrior’s Core Skills, can also parry enemy attacks. More on that below.
The Warrior’s biggest weakness ispositioning, as you must be superb at finding the right spot to begin an attack swing, or else you will whiff completely.
Lastly, the Warrior boasts no elemental attacks of their own, so they must be supported by an ally to deal elemental damage.
Once you accept that whiffs are normal, you can begin to hone your timing and become more adept atstarting your attacks in the spot the enemy will be, rather than where they are at that moment.
Warrior Weapon Skills
The Warrior’s spiritshines through in its Weapon Skills, witha host of offensive optionsfor you to choose from to dispatch any type of foe you may encounter.
Jumps and slashes upward simultaneously. Can be charged.
Rending Sweep
Razing Sweep
Spins the blade to cut down foes in all directions. Can be charged.
Goring Lunge
Ravening Lunge
Press the assigned button to charge forward; press again to stab.
Ladder Launch
Catapult Launch
Enables you to plant your feet and launch an ally into the air.
Surging Strike
Diluvian Strike
Leaps up and plunges down. Deals further strikes to small, flinching targets. Employable while jumping. More power from a greater height.
Revivify
Inspirit
Gives you a second wind, curing you of Debilitations (caught fire, frostbite, sleep, silence, and unconscious).
Knoll Breaker
Mountain Breaker
Thrusts the blade upward, delivering a solid blow that can knock targets off balance or unconscious.
Tidal Fury
Tidal Wrath
Delivers a momentous counterattack if struck at the moment of activation. Can guard even if counterattacks fail.
Gale Slash
Windstorm Slash
Uses the blade’s momentum to unleash a series of slashes. Unleashes a powerful slash if the button is released while swinging fast.
Warriors aim todraw attention away from their frail alliesand occupy enemies with their dangerous series of attacks. Watch for unsuspecting enemies, and take the battle to them to keep you and your Pawns on the front foot in every engagement.
Warrior Core Skills
The Warrior boasts a few excellent Core Skills, which, combined with their Weapon Skills, comprise the vocation’s bread and butter.
Effect
Mighty Sweep
Sweepsin a horizontal arc. Holding the button turns the attack into a charged slash, and makes you less likely to flinch.
Stonesplitter
Performs a mightydownward slash. Follows up with a powerful strike if it connects with an off-balance foe.
Barge
Rushes forward, tackling the target and making them flinch. You are less likely to flinch when active.
Reduces damagetaken during a charged attack.
Breakneck Strike
Enables a charged attack toinflict greater harmby unleashing itthe instantit is fully charged.
Employs your momentum tounleash an additional Mighty Sweep.
Repulse
Parries a hostile target’s attackby unleashing a charged attack that can knock them off balance.
The Warrior vocation rewards aggressionand gives you every tool you can need to stay in your enemy’s face with plenty of steel to keep them on their heels.
Your sword’s size increases the knockdown effect’s potency, allowing you to stun and knock your foes to the ground.
Combine your Barge Core Skill with charged attacks for athree-pronged benefit:
This combination ofBargewith any of the other Weapon Skills you chooseis universally important for being a successful Warrior,as your biggest weakness is your lack of mobility on the battlefield.
Use your weapon’s size and your Core Skills to keep yourself engaged with enemies, as you’ll be ineffective if you’re wasting stamina trying to run up to your target.
The Warrior’s biggest utility, outside of damage, is disrupting their foes through flinches,knockdowns, and knocking them unconscious.
Warrior Augments
An augment is a passiveskill that slightly improves your vocation in some way. These passive buffs are always active, and are a permanent part of your vocation’s build once unlocked.
Improves ability to push and pull targets.
Intrepidity
Reduces cumulation of the loss gauge when receiving damage.
These augmentsfurther improve the Warrior’s disruptive abilities, allowing you to more easily knock foes down by breaking their guards, grabbing them, or hitting them again.
Dominance is perhaps the most powerful Augment for Warriors, and is worth the cost.
Intrepidity, despite its 5,000 Dcp cost, is also particularly useful as it will extend the amount of time you can go adventuring without worrying about your loss gauge.
