New Dragon's Dogma 2 Videos Put the Mage and Archer Vocations in Focus | MMORPG.com

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New Dragon's Dogma 2 Videos Put the Mage and Archer Vocations in Focus | MMORPG.com

The drumbeat towards launch continues with two new videos giving Dragon's Dogma fans a look at how some of the game's basic vocations will play in Dragon's Dogma 2. This time, Capcom's put a focus on the Archer and Mage vocations.

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Angrakhan

Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.

Sovrath

Angrakhan said:

Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.

In the first game some spells did take quite a bit but you could upgrade to the next level. I don't believe it made them "instant cast" but they were fast.

Ultimately you have 3 pawns as your party members and they can help you if you are a mage. While you don't literally control them you can call them to you and they can take care of your enemy as you reposition yourself.

Warlyx

ugh archer looks amazing , mage however .....that water spell looks lame, i dont mind invocations , but it has to take so much screen? u can barely see anything ...they dont want cast bars , and i can understand but ugh....

Sovrath

Warlyx said:

ugh archer looks amazing , mage however .....that water spell looks lame, i dont mind invocations , but it has to take so much screen? u can barely see anything ...they dont want cast bars , and i can understand but ugh....

I think it's supposed to be large enough to not only push the enemy but also be a barrier. That is if you are talking about the first ice spell?

Neoyoshi

Angrakhan said:

Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.

Yep, just like in the first game, hehe. It's a bit annoying, but you get used to it, and forming a party around the magic-users is pretty exciting- having frontliners to take on the enemies while your mage gets it's 1-2 shot death spell ready is part of a bigger learning process.

Enemy mages have the same weakness, they have long-casts; so when encountering more dangerous groups, you always look for the enemy mage casting something, cause usually it's a kill spell if it takes long, -so striking a mage while casting interrupts the cast.

Whoever was creating these demonstration videos didn't exactly showcase a mage in larger party make-ups; which is where the mage truly shines; but i'm guessing they were trying to keep the demonstrations simple and not show too much.

xdave78

Mage looks lame af - the movement and animation reminded me of my neighbour when he flamed away the weeds on his footpath...