Learn how to play the Trickster build in Dragon’s Dogma 2, a Hybrid Vocation (class), as we show gear, skills, augments & more.
Best Trickster Build – Hybrid Vocation (Class)
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, the Trickster is a hybrid vocation and highly specialized support class that excels in deception and crowd control. In combat, this new Dragon’s Dogma 2 vocation (Class) uses a unique weapon called Censor and smoke-based skills to confuse and disorient its enemies. Their skills are particularly effective in group settings, where they can use their abilities to protect allies and disrupt enemy formations.
If you play the Trickster, expect your damage to come from Pawns. This vocation can only be played by Arisne player-controlled characters. Thus, you want to use this vocation if you like tanking, crowd control, and mitigating damage. We’ve built this Trickster build to emphasize defensive support with damage from pawns entirely.
How to Unlock Trickster Vocation
To unlock the Trickster Vocation, visit the Temple in Battahl, south of Rest Town, and speak with Oracle Luz. Then, pass the checkpoint at the Rest Town gate by purchasing a Beastren Mast for 8,700 and havinga permit. You can read ourfull guide on how to unlock the Trickster here.
Trickster Build Features
The following list presents all the essential Trickster Build Mechanics and Features in Dragon’s Dogma 2:
Weapon Skills
Sweep Shroud, Delusory Screen, Latching Effigy, and Aromatic Rally are the best skills for the Trickster build and vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Sweep Shroud attracts enemies to you, and then Delusory Screen debuffs their chances to hit. Latching Effigy helps prioritize targeting one enemy with your party, while Aromatic Rally buffs your entire party. If you have the Maister skill Dragon’s Delusion, use that instead of Illusive Divider. It will create a massive dragon illusion and fear enemies.
The following list presents the best Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trickster Build Hybrid Vocation (Class) Weapon Skills:
Sweeping Shroud (Suffocating Shroud)
The Sweep Shroud ability is your area-based taunt. Taunts attract enemies’ attention and are the main skills for tanks in RPGs. You want enemies to attack you while your DPS pawns are free to do damage. Consider opening up combat with this when in a range of 12 meters or less. The Suffocating Shroud skill is an advanced Sweeping Shroud that diffuses smoke over a wider area and draws targets’ attention.
Sweep Shroud—Diffuses smoke across a broad range, attracting the attention of any targets it touches. If Effigial Incense has been cast, targets will focus on the simulacrum instead.
Delusory Screen (Illusive Divider)
The Delusory Screen skill acts as an enemy debuff, blocking the field of view and lower movement. This is helpful when starting combat or aiding an ally in trouble with a smoke screen. Consider this your flex skill, and take Dragon’s Delusion once you obtain the rite. The Illusive Divider skill is an advanced form of Delusory Screen that extends the effect’s duration and allows up to two walls to be conjured simultaneously.
Delusory Screen – Conjures an illusory wall that hinders hostile targets’ movement and blocks their field of vision. The wall dissipates after a time.
Dragon’s Delusion
Alternative Dragon’s Delusion—This ability creates an illusory dragon that cannot directly deal damage but instills hostile targets with fear and even causes them to trip or flee. Consider traveling here and grabbing the Theurgist’s Rite to gain Dragon’s Delusion skill. Replace Illusive Divider as you advance with the Trickster Build and Vocation.
Latching Effigy (Binding Effigy)
The skill Latching Effigy helps single-target focus and control targets. You can also have pawns focus on a specific enemy, say a ranged spell caster, to destroy it quickly or latch onto it. The skill Binding Effigy is an advanced form of Latching Effigy that has a greater effective range and launches the simulacrum with increased speed.
Latching Effigy – Launches a simulacrum conjured with Effigial Incense toward a distant target and possesses it. The simulacrum disappears if it misses its mark.
Aromatic Rally (Aromatic Resurgence)
The skill Aromatic Rally is an offensive buff that allows allies to fight even if health runs out for a while. As a Trickster, you will entirely depend on your pawns for damage, so maintaining high uptime on this buff is critical for success. The skill Aromatic Resurgence is an advanced form of Aromatic Rally that has a longer-lasting effect and further enhances allies’ offensive capabilities.
Aromatic Rally – Diffuses incense in the vicinity that boosts the offensive capabilities of allies it touches and allows them to fight on even if their Health runs out. Allies’ Health falls steadily while active.
Core Skills
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, Core Skills act as passive perks or basic attacks for your Trickster Class. The Beveiling Fumes skill is your “light attack,” while Effigial Incense is your “heavy attack.” These don’t cost stamina and can be used repeatedly without running out of stamina. Beveiling Fumes is a taunt grabbing enemies’ attention, while Effigial is a shade that aggro specific enemies. You can use the extra button (right bumper or right mouse) to invoke essence. This will send a shade to the caster’s location and potentially pin it down.
The Following List presents Core Skills for Trickster Build:
Maister Skills
In Dragon’s Dogma 2 you can learn an ultimate ability for your vocation from Maisters. Each of these teachers have mastered their chosen vocation and once you have gained their approval you can unlock these powerful skills. Acquiring these abilities can often change the way you play your class, and are worth taking the time to earn.
Additionally, there is no set Vocation Rank you are required to have before you can unlock ultimate abilities. However, you must have unlocked the Vocation itself. Since this is a Hybrid class you will first need to find the Maister tounlock the Trickster vocation.
The Following Lists presents the Trickster Ultimate Ability and How to Unlock:
Augmentations
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, Augments are passive bonuses to your character and build overall power. You obtain these by leveling classes or vocations and can equip up to 6. However, you want to level in a particular way to gain the most effective ones at the start of DD2. This Trickster build uses three from the Fighter class; thus, we suggest leveling that until you unlock the Trickster. At the start, consider taking any vocations augments and experiment with different vocations.
The following list presents the best augmentations for Trickster Build:
Best Pawns for Trickster Build
The best pawns for the Trickster Build vocation are Sorcerer for area damage, Mage for support, and Thief for large enemy damage. As a Trickster, you are entirely dependent on your pawns for damage. You can also use a Warrior in replacement for Sorcerer if you feel lacking on boss damage.
Below are the best pawns for the Trickster vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2:
Trickster Gameplay Tips and Tricks
Crowd control with taunts and stuns is the most important aspect of the Trickster. Your goal is to free up your allies to do damage, especially in large enemy encounters. Focus your gameplay on buffs, debuffs, and stuns.
The Trickster has two ways to taunt and grab enemies’ attention with aggro. You can use your Sweeping Shroud skill or light attack. Sweep Shroud is helpful because it is area-based and can grab all the enemy’s attention immediately. Then, you can prioritize maintaining aggro on the most damage-producing target with basic attacks and crowd control.
Survivability
To survive with the Trickster, rely on movement and deception with your skills. Your stamina should be somewhat easy to maintain as long as you’re not ability spamming. You want to keep uptime high on your party buff skill and taunt, then use your other two abilities to keep your stamina above 25% at all times. Use potions that recover stamina and health when you need rest at camps or inns before adventuring out.
Large Monsters
Unlike other tanks, your Trickster will be ineffective against larger monsters. Thus, having a pawn that can jump and climb them is important. Warrior, Fighter, and Thief make great choices because they do significant damage once on top of the enemy. Thief, in particular, you want to support during these fights, which has the best chance of inflicting massive damage on large bosses.
Equipment for Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trickster Build
Not all equipment is known for Dragon’s Dogma 2, but the best equipment increases your strength and stamina. For Rings, look to increase health early on. While you progress, upgrade gear with raw materials to gain additional stat increases. Even one level that only costs gold can increase your survivability.
Additionally, prioritize weapon purchases over armor for the Trickster Build. Using the Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trickster Build Hybrid Vocation (Class), you want higher offensive capabilities rather than damage.
Best Trickster Beginner Gear
Below is the location for the best Trickster Beginner Gear:
Best Trickster Advanced Gear
You should know that theCharming Corsetis the best advanced piece of body armor for any vocation, but you can only acquire it once by turning in 150 Seeker’s Tokens at the Vocation Guild.
Finally, don’t forget to upgrade and enhance your items in order to improve their damage dealing abilities and levels of protection. The following is a table of the best advanced gear for our Dragon’s Dogma 2 Mage Build – Basic Vocation (Class) guide.
Below is the location for the best Trickster Advanced Gear:
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trickster Build Summary Guide
Looking For More About Dragon’s Dogma 2?
Thank you for reading Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trickster Build Hybrid Vocation (Class) Guide. We also provide the latest news and create guides for Dragon’s Dogma 2, Enshrouded, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Additionally, watch me play games onTwitchor visit myYouTubechannel!
