You didn't do any damage to the Golem with Magike Speregonne because the ability is magic based. Magik bounces off of Golem cores, so you can't hit them with that. It also scales off your magic stat, so if you're trying to do damage with it, you gotta actually pump some stats into magic for it. Friendly reminder to double check the descriptions on those abilities. It's easy to forget that the Vocation is a dual role.
Me too. Then i played it i realized the thief i was playing so far was so much smoother and funnier (and stronger) than it... Really sad about the end result of it despite the whole idea being awesome/
@@DemonicInfinitymystic spear hand is just as strong. Makes it easy to reach the back of monsters. You can protect your entire party with a ridiculous bubble that shouldn’t behave the way it does. You can actually stun monsters if you hold the charge long enough. Overall, it has everything you need, range, mobility, utility, and damage. Tornado? Bubble, meteor? Bubble. Launch towards monster teleport vertically, you’re on its back.
@@DemonicInfinityThief is a zoomer class. Everything else is going to feel slow and sluggish in comparison. The downside if thief is that you run out of stamina really fast if youre spamming skull splitters or other thief skills.
MSH felt so slow after playing thief… Feel like the only fun ‘Arisen’ only class is MA. TS is niche and cool but can get boring fast. Feel like I’m maining Ma > Thief > Archer. Disappointed with MSH. I HATEEE the spin spear combo finisher animation! Gets me hit from dodgeable attacks so much!
For anyone who doesn't know: In order for the dragon to apear in Melve you must complete, at least, one of the 3 tasks that Brant gives you at the end of the mission called “Seat of the Sovran”.
You can unlock spear hand within the first 2hrs of the game. You have to do 1 main story quest(do queens regent it takes 10 minutes) then take a cart back to melve.. Then to really cheese kill the dragon with the ballista and you can unlock its master ability and one of the best weapons for the vocation
I killed the dragon, no maister teaching or weapon. Sigmund just said ‘well that was a fake dragon..’ (in essence, not those words). So I still had to go to dragonhead tower
You actually aren't locked to the map it seems, if you wished to take the long way to get classes and level up early, you can try to run your way as a thief all the way to the volcanic region maybe, to get the Wayfarer, which lets you level up ALL vocations at once it seems. There are 2 side passages to get to bakbattahl, one in the west (full of bosses and enemies, but if you skip them you can run through them), one in the east through a cave (you need to bypass the 'slippery slope' to get to the 'exit' of the cave though, its meant to be one way exit to vernworth, but certain vocations with abilities could skip it if you wanna go backwards)... For speedrunning.
Humble Offinge or Jedi Force Throw is very very OP if you set it up right. A enemy that falls down has to take time to get up, you can repeatingly slam groups of them with your redoubted bolt using the RB/R1 AoE extension to further 'trap' multiple targets, but a single target will do. When a ragdoll hits a enemy, they too will fall down and ragdoll, means they are game to be 'force thrown' again, over and over and over again. Now what happens if you have a pile of like 10-20 enemies in one spot and a giant boss is nearby? Hit the boss with 20 bodies, over and over and over again! Thrown physics will do a ton of stagger damage! Bolt a target from a distance, then teleport onto them, then force throw them into another group, remember to hold the button to recharge the bolt again, and recast it so you can catch up and teleport to them again... Then force throw them, and charge your bolt while you are throwing them. If you are in a rush somewhere and keep seeing hordes of enemies in your way, stunning them and throwing them away is the best way to kill them quickly.
Mirour Vesture (shield) into Wild Furie* (mastery skill) + Thef's Hond (stamina stealing) are a deadly combo that can shred any boss. I recommend atleast these 3 for anyone playing the vocation and to speedrun getting the mastery skill when possible
You can get the final Skill and the Dead Ringer Duospear for Mystic Spearhand early using the Ballista Method to kill the Dragon or using the Thief skill in Melve!
@@christopherheiser6090 I think he's talking about the thief skill that lets you loot an item off an enemy when you hit it with Carve. You can use it to loot the Dead Ringer Duospear from the dragon at melve when you fight it. It's how I got the duospear as well
ddont sleep on the telekinetic skill, that shit slaps hard. Especially thee upgraded version. Big group of enemies, kill one or two, then just start throwing bodies at the remaining until theyree dead and add them to thee body pile youre throwing around. Insanely strong
I like it but i dont see an upside as opposed to stunning a large group with the bolt aoe then just wade in with the spinning spear move and melt their HP, you can skip the bolt part and just shield up and do the same thing. Especially with a mage that casts an affinity spell. I have my main pawn a mage with fire affinity and always hire an archer with tarring arrows............groups of enemies quite literally melt. Level 42 and its been unstoppable.............
best spearhand loadout to me seems to be the dash, sky jump, shield and the fourth slot for your most preferred skill. I usually put in the master skill but the telekenisis can be fun
I use these 3 with the stamina drain skill, and I'm basically a God. My team is unkillable with the shield bubble fighting dragons, as I keep it up 100%.
The stun ability actually has 3 stages to be charged tap fire, charged stun, and overload. The 3rd stage take a while to build up somewhere between 10-15 seconds to hit it but it will last considerably longer on boss and slow them down more. It last so long that you ylcan chain cast this and cause the boss to never have free movement
You also forgot to mention the best way to optimize this class stat wise and to NOT upgrade the spear you get from killing the Dragon in Melve. Wish I would have waited to upgrade it at the area that specializes in strength and then did all knockback resist on armor. If you can stack knockback resistance on this build it can really pump out some damage on bosses.
Yeah, i recently found out just how OP Dwaf smithing is on my warrior class Drake tries to slap me: "LMAO git gud" and keeps on hitting, poor bastard didn't know what hit him
Yes i think the first level is tapping it. The second level is holding for 5 seconds. 3rd level is hold for 8-10 seconds. Each level makes the stun/slow stronger
Dont sleep on charged bolt. Stuff affected by your bolt is vulnerable to the offering throw. This + the aoe bolt can make things VERY silly. Had a lich fight where i was shotgunning him with his zombie/skeleton summons. Also great for rock lizards and shield enemies too. Bolt also makes enemies vulnerable to strong attack execution animations + you can charge while the attack animates and chain executions.
You’ll get a really good double spear, and the Mystic Spearhand Meister skill if you actually kill the dragon in Melve instead of just repelling it. You can accomplish that by running past the dragon and up the hill to the ballista on the tower. It takes 3-4 shots from the ballista to kill it. You do need at least one pawn to be able to horizontally aim the ballista so anyone doing a solo run will want to consider that.
@@resortX it’s really big. You only have control of the ballista itself which fires and moves up and down. To turn left and right you need another person to grab it and push it. If you’re asking why the developers made it that way idk it’s their game lol.
I just hit the dragon a bit to get it's hp down a bar or so before going for the ballista. Managed to kill it with two shots after that. It was pretty close because the second shot missed at first and the dragon started to take off. It crashed down on a house but I still managed to climb on top of it to loot it.
I've been using the Wild Furie + Stamina regen + Stun combo. Start with a stun, mash Wild Furie while charging another stun, let the stun go at the end of the Wild Furie combo, sap stamina while the boss is stunned and continue charging another stun, let that stun go and start another Wild Furie combo then rinse and repeat until the health bar is gone.
Hopefully this helps people. There's loads of ways to get the ability from him. If anyone messes anything up with him then you can max his affinity with gifts. If he doesn't give it to you when it's maxed then you will have to wait till he randomly approaches you( you'll see a little gold marker on your mini map just pop up. ALWAYS check out the random gold markers that pop up on your mini map!!!) He'll want you to escort him somewhere. He led me to a drake. And yes this all took place after I had already killed the infected one he wanted me to in the first place. I got the weapon from the drake but the dude just just disappeared without giving me the skill. Go back to his house after a day has past and he will give you the skill after the escort.
Greetings from Idaho! This game is Pimp status. Ive been waiting for years for a game to absorb me in the way this one has! Thanks for the great and informative videos mayne!
I always found the laser beam (the one you didnt like) to be pretty strong. I would use it point blank on a downed monsters head and it would delete HP bars. Yeah, its aim is GARBAGE and the wobble should probably be toned down but if you full stamina bar burn it and you make sure you're so close you cant miss, its stonger than the master skill IMO. Probably gonna put it back on as my "Big damage" move for boss monsters
If you use the ballista to kill the dragon in melve. You get the master ability and an end game spear. Reload your save if it flys off, and aim for the head.
if you manage to kill the drake attacking melve village you will get both a very strong weapon for mystic spearhand and Sigurd will be willing to teach you the mastery skill right after first talking to him to unlock the vocation. The easiest way to accomplish this is to use the ballista on the tower up the hill
This was an expansion class in Dragons Dogma Online. Very fun! Wish they allowed us to have more than 4 skills active like in the online version of this game.
on the other hand the new core skills are better than a lot of weapon skills in the first game, and most of the time you would just spam one skill over and over (helmsplitter, holy focused bolt etc. etc.)
I usually open combat with projectile stun, into dash, and then immediately connect with a finisher. While the dash is happening, im a charging another projectile stun for the next target. Then i just loop until whenever. When i break the loop, im usually just throwing the dead bodies around. But you can charge that projectile WHENEVER. So it's always locked and loaded.
Question about the Spear Hand: what body type is the best this vocation? Buff so you can have good armor? Light for the extra speed? A healthy balance?
My character is skinny and light. I main mystic spear hand. If your hand the mirror shield you should be okay if your smart with it. But when I get hit without the shield I notice myself getting staggered a lot and it takes me a long time to recover.
Good guide ! I'm using almost the exam same skill set except the master kill that I do not have yet, I took the big spear magick cannon in the meantime but I had the same opinion and am thinking of changing it with levitation. After a while, I will just choose skills that are fun. like the flick across the map.
I still havent unlocked the Spearhand, but i'm pretty sure the Magike Speregonne scales on Magic Attack, so maybe try that, since it seems you are focusing mostly on physical attack
A little build idea for you that I am running currently. Use Warfarer with Mystic Spearhands shield, Sorcerers Augral Flare and Ricochet Hunter(Can change with Martyrs if you want). You melt healthbars and are overall well suited for every single scenario
Bro if you forget thete is a ballista in melve. Then too bad to killing the dragon for an early powerful weapon. And sigards automatic approval of your arisens abilities to give you the mystichand spear ultimate skill wild furie
Triggering winding cut is a real pain in the ass when you play with a controller. It's quite easy to press a button fast enough when using your fore finger or middle finger. But if you have to use your thumb to press it fast enough, it's really hard to do. Wish they would make it a bit easier to trigger.
Part of me wishes that there was a dedicated 5th button for maister skills, because with Mystic Spearhand I am always torn between Skiedragoun's Feste and Wild Furie. In my opinion, Dragoun's Foin, Mirour Shelde, and Ravinour's Hond are essential skills and never leave my setup. Feste and Furie are both insanely good and when I equip one, I always feel the loss of the other.
Thanks man. I was very confused about that class...I was trying to figure out the timing of those bolts when really...my bigges mistake was trying to grab after the charge instead of stomping
I found the dude in Melve during a dragon attack I believe and I spoke with him and bam, I got the job and the only main ques I remember completing was rescuing the magistrate, I haven done the rest of the missions, so far I been doing sub-missions
Offering is situational, but those situations just keep coming up. You can throw enemies off cliffs, throw multiple bombs and I've even one shot a cyclops that was around a dozen bombs.
warfarer is my fav class cause i like the hybrid nature, magic archer + spearhand + either mage staff or sorc staff, for stamina or healing. But i love spearhand so much xD its just super satisfying from the movments to the skills . There is a mod in nexus that someone made for warfarer that lets you make skill sets that switch based off your weapons with rearment. Very fun to play around with. But mods are not for everyone.
I'm playing wayfarer as a heavy armor sorcerer spearhead hybrid, which is fun but if you play warfarer you passively level every profession which is cool.
Tried the spearhand and I thought it sucked. The mobility is nice but it seems really bad at dealing damage to weak points because they are usually just out of his reach and he doesn't have any good ways of dealing damage while grappling like thief and fighter do, and it doesn't really have enough stagger to warrant that weakness, unlike warrior. It also has no way of mitigating or avoiding attacks unlike every other melee class so you end up getting hit a lot unless you're doing the finger acrobatics to constantly be charging up and throwing out the stun/slow, and then you're only getting hit sometimes. To me it felt like the worst melee vocation by far.
Have to agree. It’s great for accidentally Yeeting yourself off cliffs. The vertical attack does no damage on the way up, so triggering it from right under his heart causes you to fly through it and stab his back on the way down
The levitating skill is my favorite and fun crowd control. Stagger a guy, throw him to stagger another guy, and before u know it ur throwing 6 guys at the last one
I killed the dragon in Melve using the ballista, just as it was about to fly off, didn't get the duospear (I assume it is not a 100% drop) or the maister skill... unless I overlooked it and threw it into storage... I did unlock the vocation though.
I thought that what be the class i wanted to play before i got the game, but when i played it, i just wanted to go back to being thief class. The thief hookshot ability is just too good and fun
@@leemcgee5164 Kind of, it hookshots enemies to drag them towards you, and stagger them, or make them fall over. On big enemies it can drag them down if they are staggering. You can't fly up ledges or hookshot to enemies heads or anything
He gave me wild furies right then after we beat the dragon the second time. I didn’t have to wait at all. Just had to initiate conversation with him twice right there
Mirror shield doesn’t expire after 3 hits. Non upgraded it lasts for 5 seconds fully upgraded it lasts for 8 seconds doesn’t matter how many times you’re hit within those time frames
The shield is the most op skill ive seen in a game, a shield that you can use most of the time and makes you immortal, for like 6 seconds, when it ends you can use it agains, and it gets applied in all your allies within range...
@@ApexFaiDural Two abilities are better at tanking than the whole trickster class.... And you can damage with the drain too... People saying it's damage is weaker than thief don't understand what unhindered pawns can do. I've thought about warfarering with trickster for the AOE damage buff, then just focus completely on shielding, draining, and aoe buffing.
The "best overall way to avoid damage" is to just keep your shield up. The ground stab isn't worth it since it means you have to give up one out of the shield (no), Thief (no) or Ultimate (no).
For me, I gave up the lunge stab, since for moving around the enemies I just use the quick fot (the teleport right after the bolt), in this case the lunge stab becomes redundant. While the ground stab is really strong for "parrying" incoming attacks/mounting.
If you kill the pimple dragon with the ballista in melve you will get a s tier weapon from the dragon and the skill wild furie from the spearhand master instead of waiting till almost the end of the game to get it. Good luck
@@andybanan1992 I did it by instinct I knew the ballista was up there so as soon I saw the dragon my first thought was to shot it with it he dies in 2 shots
@@richymancebo8014 welp, now i know what im doing once they add more saves. Been dying to restart as my character looks like shit. And i messed up a lot of things early on.
So i got the Wild Furie skill after I killed the dragon in Melve, i just though the game wanted you to kill the dragon with the ballista... game gives a scene and town comments positively, so i assume the devs wanted this as an option. Sigurd gave me the vocation and Wild Furie right after i talked to him in Melve after the fight. Also dragon dropped an OP weapon for the Mystic Spearhand, especially for early to late game.
I wanted to try it and at first I didnt like especially after mastering the thief becaus the thief is SO strong. But after getting a little more used to it, I love it. Being able to make the party invincible is OP especially when facing dragons because you absolute no sell their lightning bolt and meteor storm esque ability. As you see it casting just do 'to me' and cast it. No damage. Continue pwnage. Im hyped about doing the new game+ so I can do some of the previous quests I missed, like the damn Sphinx, who remembers that shit? I dont lol. Was like 30 hours ago. So Ill have to take note of where I found the first token but doing the whole game with mystic spear sounds awesome. So yea mystic spear is badass, the stamina syphon plus master ability is someone FINALLY making a class with synergistic abilities properly.
Its the first class I maxed out, which means now I have to play as the other classes to level them up😢. Of course when ai start on the jack of all trades class I’ll be using the dual spear again.
@@0xNobody depends on the situation. I had a hard time as a magic archer against the goons that pick a fight in the beastren city. I switched to the duo spear and folded them All with the spear ult ability, the shield spell and enough stamina drugs to become high as a kite for the next 2 playthroughs. The friendly merc who normally steps in to help you out a bit didn’t even have a chance to do anything. They are definitely better in terms of raw dps though I main the magic archer. Though I do sometimes like to use the spear weapon with the warmaster vocation, the sorcery robes you get at the volcano outpost and the visage of Ja’nuwa. It’s as close you can get to role playing a sith lord without actual lightsabers in the game.
I tried getting into spearhand and i just couldnt get into it, i never figured out how to effectively play the vocation so I ended up going back to thief but thanks to this vid ima try it out again, not about to let a skill issue get in the way of enjoying the class that made people buy the game💀
The thief meister ability is far an away the best skill imo. It is so broken I don't even use it. It makes you completely invulnerable by instantly automatically dodging every attack for as long as you have stamina and the cost is tiny. I can use it for almost a minute constantly.
The Thief meister ability only dodges physical attacks, which is still incredible, but the Mystic Spearhand ability negates ALL damage and prevents stagger effects while providing the same exact shield to your pawns. I would argue it's objectively a better skill.
I've been knocked off balance by drakes landing while shielded, so either that's bugged or it doesn't prevent all forms of stagger. It is insanely busted overall tho @vincentcavanagh1784
Is anyone else experiencing the bug where unto heaven is not hitting large boss monsters? Like they will he stunned, my weapon clearly hits them, but nothing. Is this just me?
you cannot use unto skie/heven on enemies larger than yourself if i’m not mistaken. it may say something about it in the description of the move i can’t remember, lmk if you find anything out!
Hello... I'm writing from Brazil. I'm playing this class, but I have a question... I see that your spear moves much faster than mine when you press the TWEIN CUT button... How do I make it faster?
Hey there, you may have solved this already but if not - You must acquire a CORE SKILL called "Winding Cut." Then, you can start spinning the spear by pressing your light attack button fast.
Winding Cut is the biggest drawback to this Vocation for me. It's too easy to activate it. I have to pace my clicks super slow otherwise I use it accidentally and end up in an animation I can't cancel when I want to move out of the way or activate the bubble shield. It's annoying af
U need to level sorcerer and equip magic damage boosting gear to make those 2 attacks do better damage. The majority of the damage this class does is physical. That's why the abilities feel weak. Invest in magic damage
This was the first class I played, early on it def. was not as strong as Thief, only because of thief getting Headsplitter which will one shot bosses health bars, and later combined with Flare from Sorc will one shot 4-5 health bars lol.. But Yea I love this class, its just so flashy and fun to play.
"the thing about performance is, your game is boring. if the game is dynamic and engaging, the player wont notice the performance, and even if they do, they will be having too much fun to care" -Itsuno, probably
I killed the dragon with the ballista. Got the class but not the scroll. Found Sigurd in Harve but he still has his standard lines and no options to make gifts. Also he acts like the dragon is still alive. Did i lock myself out of getting his master skill or am i able to meet him at the secon dragon location in Battahl? ( Im not there yet)
I hope they fix that spear skill where you shoot the projectile from your spear after you charge it up. I really like the looking feel of that and I was hoping it can do some knock down damage to big monsters
The attack scales off Magic dmg. 2 ways to boost this are to level while playing Sorc and Mage (vocation influences stats), the other is your gear, and where you upgrade it .The Elvish smith gives you more Magic Defense and Attack bonuses. Other smiths have different stat priorities.
cant get the master skill, quest is broken for me. In the fight with the dragon on the roof of the tower (later in rhe game) npc died. I slayed the dragon and i revived the npc, but he ignored me. Back in his house, he still ignoring me. This is bullshit
You didn't do any damage to the Golem with Magike Speregonne because the ability is magic based. Magik bounces off of Golem cores, so you can't hit them with that. It also scales off your magic stat, so if you're trying to do damage with it, you gotta actually pump some stats into magic for it. Friendly reminder to double check the descriptions on those abilities. It's easy to forget that the Vocation is a dual role.
Mostly true though I tried using martyr bolt on a golem once. It destroyed all but that one core that is usually covered instantly
How do you put stats into magic?
mystic spearhead is the vocation that made me want the game
Me too. Then i played it i realized the thief i was playing so far was so much smoother and funnier (and stronger) than it... Really sad about the end result of it despite the whole idea being awesome/
@@DemonicInfinitymystic spear hand is just as strong. Makes it easy to reach the back of monsters. You can protect your entire party with a ridiculous bubble that shouldn’t behave the way it does. You can actually stun monsters if you hold the charge long enough. Overall, it has everything you need, range, mobility, utility, and damage. Tornado? Bubble, meteor? Bubble. Launch towards monster teleport vertically, you’re on its back.
Agreed...This class is THIEF on crack. Love it@@SpliffyHusk
@@DemonicInfinityThief is a zoomer class. Everything else is going to feel slow and sluggish in comparison. The downside if thief is that you run out of stamina really fast if youre spamming skull splitters or other thief skills.
MSH felt so slow after playing thief…
Feel like the only fun ‘Arisen’ only class is MA. TS is niche and cool but can get boring fast.
Feel like I’m maining Ma > Thief > Archer.
Disappointed with MSH. I HATEEE the spin spear combo finisher animation! Gets me hit from dodgeable attacks so much!
For anyone who doesn't know:
In order for the dragon to apear in Melve you must complete, at least, one of the 3 tasks that Brant gives you at the end of the mission called “Seat of the Sovran”.
I only did the monster culling and it appeared.
I like my quest log minimal, so i take it bit by bit.
It appears at random didn’t go Brant and it appeared for me in multiple pay throughs.
I also got a master skill after killing the dragon in melve with thr ballista
@@mikefaz2696 killed the dragon with archer not very hard.
@@freezax4 you killed it without the ballista and still got the master spearhand reward?
You can unlock spear hand within the first 2hrs of the game. You have to do 1 main story quest(do queens regent it takes 10 minutes) then take a cart back to melve.. Then to really cheese kill the dragon with the ballista and you can unlock its master ability and one of the best weapons for the vocation
wow I din't know about the ballista thing.. I din't kill the dragon now I suppose I'm screwed and will have to wait much later in the game =/
I killed the dragon, no maister teaching or weapon.
Sigmund just said ‘well that was a fake dragon..’ (in essence, not those words).
So I still had to go to dragonhead tower
You actually aren't locked to the map it seems, if you wished to take the long way to get classes and level up early, you can try to run your way as a thief all the way to the volcanic region maybe, to get the Wayfarer, which lets you level up ALL vocations at once it seems.
There are 2 side passages to get to bakbattahl, one in the west (full of bosses and enemies, but if you skip them you can run through them), one in the east through a cave (you need to bypass the 'slippery slope' to get to the 'exit' of the cave though, its meant to be one way exit to vernworth, but certain vocations with abilities could skip it if you wanna go backwards)... For speedrunning.
@@Regianldo56 it's an item. It looks like a scroll
@@Regianldo56weapon was on the dragon and the ability is from the scroll he gives you.
Something you forgot to mention with unto sky/heaven is you do NOT get exp or loot from anything you blast off with it
Also, I really appreciate that the developers added that in..they really could have left that out and forced us to figure it out.
A fair price to pay for going full smash bros.
Well the game itself tells you that
But who needs the loot if THAT is what happens? I don't.
Yeahhhhh but any chance I can role play gene from god hand is a skill I’m going to abuse hourly!
Humble Offinge or Jedi Force Throw is very very OP if you set it up right.
A enemy that falls down has to take time to get up, you can repeatingly slam groups of them with your redoubted bolt using the RB/R1 AoE extension to further 'trap' multiple targets, but a single target will do. When a ragdoll hits a enemy, they too will fall down and ragdoll, means they are game to be 'force thrown' again, over and over and over again.
Now what happens if you have a pile of like 10-20 enemies in one spot and a giant boss is nearby? Hit the boss with 20 bodies, over and over and over again! Thrown physics will do a ton of stagger damage!
Bolt a target from a distance, then teleport onto them, then force throw them into another group, remember to hold the button to recharge the bolt again, and recast it so you can catch up and teleport to them again... Then force throw them, and charge your bolt while you are throwing them.
If you are in a rush somewhere and keep seeing hordes of enemies in your way, stunning them and throwing them away is the best way to kill them quickly.
Mirour Vesture (shield) into Wild Furie* (mastery skill) + Thef's Hond (stamina stealing) are a deadly combo that can shred any boss. I recommend atleast these 3 for anyone playing the vocation and to speedrun getting the mastery skill when possible
Winding cut? I don’t see it :((
You mean wild furie?
@@Regianldo56 Yeah sorry im dumb. i did mean wild furie
@@ghostcreeper_ nooo! Not you, I just legit thought I’m missing a scroll or a quest or something 😅
You can get the final Skill and the Dead Ringer Duospear for Mystic Spearhand early using the Ballista Method to kill the Dragon or using the Thief skill in Melve!
Which thief skill?
@@christopherheiser6090I think he meant the nameless village? I can only think of plundere giving the item we want.
@@christopherheiser6090 I think he's talking about the thief skill that lets you loot an item off an enemy when you hit it with Carve. You can use it to loot the Dead Ringer Duospear from the dragon at melve when you fight it. It's how I got the duospear as well
No, when you go to melve and kill the dragon using the ballista in the first encounter you'll get the best weapon and master skill for magic spearhand
ddont sleep on the telekinetic skill, that shit slaps hard. Especially thee upgraded version. Big group of enemies, kill one or two, then just start throwing bodies at the remaining until theyree dead and add them to thee body pile youre throwing around. Insanely strong
Also insanely useful against staggered enemies near cliffs. I've yeeted about 3 dozen Hobgoblins up until now.
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And you don't lose EXP like with the begone skill
I like it but i dont see an upside as opposed to stunning a large group with the bolt aoe then just wade in with the spinning spear move and melt their HP, you can skip the bolt part and just shield up and do the same thing. Especially with a mage that casts an affinity spell. I have my main pawn a mage with fire affinity and always hire an archer with tarring arrows............groups of enemies quite literally melt. Level 42 and its been unstoppable.............
best spearhand loadout to me seems to be the dash, sky jump, shield and the fourth slot for your most preferred skill. I usually put in the master skill but the telekenisis can be fun
I use these 3 with the stamina drain skill, and I'm basically a God. My team is unkillable with the shield bubble fighting dragons, as I keep it up 100%.
The stun ability actually has 3 stages to be charged tap fire, charged stun, and overload. The 3rd stage take a while to build up somewhere between 10-15 seconds to hit it but it will last considerably longer on boss and slow them down more. It last so long that you ylcan chain cast this and cause the boss to never have free movement
You also forgot to mention the best way to optimize this class stat wise and to NOT upgrade the spear you get from killing the Dragon in Melve. Wish I would have waited to upgrade it at the area that specializes in strength and then did all knockback resist on armor. If you can stack knockback resistance on this build it can really pump out some damage on bosses.
Yeah, i recently found out just how OP Dwaf smithing is on my warrior class
Drake tries to slap me: "LMAO git gud" and keeps on hitting, poor bastard didn't know what hit him
You can upgrade the weapon with vermundian and 1 dwarven… it’s fine.
The dwarven is only really op with armour, so… no harm done.
You can buy more of the same weapon you get from the drake - it is sold on the volcanic island.
Its vocation ability also has 3 levels of charge FYI. Took me 20 hrs before I realised.
Haha yes. It's better for bigger enemies.
So that’s why there’s a louder sound cue when I charge it too long
Yes i think the first level is tapping it. The second level is holding for 5 seconds. 3rd level is hold for 8-10 seconds. Each level makes the stun/slow stronger
Yeah, and i wondered why it didn't do anything when i tapped the button 😅
Dont sleep on charged bolt.
Stuff affected by your bolt is vulnerable to the offering throw.
This + the aoe bolt can make things VERY silly. Had a lich fight where i was shotgunning him with his zombie/skeleton summons. Also great for rock lizards and shield enemies too.
Bolt also makes enemies vulnerable to strong attack execution animations + you can charge while the attack animates and chain executions.
You’ll get a really good double spear, and the Mystic Spearhand Meister skill if you actually kill the dragon in Melve instead of just repelling it. You can accomplish that by running past the dragon and up the hill to the ballista on the tower. It takes 3-4 shots from the ballista to kill it. You do need at least one pawn to be able to horizontally aim the ballista so anyone doing a solo run will want to consider that.
"You do need at least one pawn to be able to horizontally aim the ballista..." why?
@@resortXThey have to push it horizontally
@@resortX it’s really big. You only have control of the ballista itself which fires and moves up and down. To turn left and right you need another person to grab it and push it. If you’re asking why the developers made it that way idk it’s their game lol.
I just hit the dragon a bit to get it's hp down a bar or so before going for the ballista. Managed to kill it with two shots after that. It was pretty close because the second shot missed at first and the dragon started to take off. It crashed down on a house but I still managed to climb on top of it to loot it.
Its like the Most Vergil thing in this game with clone and teleport. Thief is Beowulf gauntlets, Fighter is Nero
The floating swords from spearhand is totally Vergil too!
The MS is baiscally a jedi knight
Nope, MS also has the charged bolt to extend combos like Nero. It's Nero + Vergil in one
I didn’t pay $70 to play dragons dogma 2, I payed $70 to play mystic spear hand
I've been using the Wild Furie + Stamina regen + Stun combo. Start with a stun, mash Wild Furie while charging another stun, let the stun go at the end of the Wild Furie combo, sap stamina while the boss is stunned and continue charging another stun, let that stun go and start another Wild Furie combo then rinse and repeat until the health bar is gone.
3:33 hmm yes draining his "stamina"
I was looking for this comment 😂 there's a reason the ogre wasn't moving, and it wasn't from the bolt ability
Get the purple medicine beads they regenerate stamina and health at the same time
bro tickled those balls real good, that troll turned to stone!🗿
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Hopefully this helps people. There's loads of ways to get the ability from him. If anyone messes anything up with him then you can max his affinity with gifts. If he doesn't give it to you when it's maxed then you will have to wait till he randomly approaches you( you'll see a little gold marker on your mini map just pop up. ALWAYS check out the random gold markers that pop up on your mini map!!!) He'll want you to escort him somewhere. He led me to a drake. And yes this all took place after I had already killed the infected one he wanted me to in the first place. I got the weapon from the drake but the dude just just disappeared without giving me the skill. Go back to his house after a day has past and he will give you the skill after the escort.
Maxing his affinity with gifts makes him give us the maister skill if I understand correctly?
Greetings from Idaho! This game is Pimp status. Ive been waiting for years for a game to absorb me in the way this one has! Thanks for the great and informative videos mayne!
Damn straight... the game is top tier.
Already 60+ hours in... Send help xD
@@youhavetoguessit what your pawn id, il send snacks xD
I always found the laser beam (the one you didnt like) to be pretty strong. I would use it point blank on a downed monsters head and it would delete HP bars. Yeah, its aim is GARBAGE and the wobble should probably be toned down but if you full stamina bar burn it and you make sure you're so close you cant miss, its stonger than the master skill IMO. Probably gonna put it back on as my "Big damage" move for boss monsters
You can improve aim a lot by enabling motion control in settings. Btw this feature makes archer gameplay really fun too
@@grdtsvyeah but i think gyro aiming is reversed in this skill
@@grdtsvnice tip I'll try that
@@grdtsvI was wondering how I could make archer more fun, this seems like a fun way to play it
If you use the ballista to kill the dragon in melve. You get the master ability and an end game spear. Reload your save if it flys off, and aim for the head.
Can you kill it without the ballista?
@@rodjjt7742 not sure, i think it flys away too fast
if you manage to kill the drake attacking melve village you will get both a very strong weapon for mystic spearhand and Sigurd will be willing to teach you the mastery skill right after first talking to him to unlock the vocation. The easiest way to accomplish this is to use the ballista on the tower up the hill
Been playing Warfarer Mystic Spear and magarcher and it's amazing locking on homing missiles, then warping at them with a spear
This was an expansion class in Dragons Dogma Online. Very fun! Wish they allowed us to have more than 4 skills active like in the online version of this game.
on the other hand the new core skills are better than a lot of weapon skills in the first game, and most of the time you would just spam one skill over and over (helmsplitter, holy focused bolt etc. etc.)
I usually open combat with projectile stun, into dash, and then immediately connect with a finisher. While the dash is happening, im a
charging another projectile stun for the next target. Then i just loop until whenever.
When i break the loop, im usually just throwing the dead bodies around. But you can charge that projectile WHENEVER. So it's always locked and loaded.
you can also spam seching storm during any other animation. tactical button mashing for the win haha
Do you wait for the 5 seconds charge or the 8-10 seconds charge?
Question about the Spear Hand: what body type is the best this vocation? Buff so you can have good armor? Light for the extra speed? A healthy balance?
My character is skinny and light. I main mystic spear hand. If your hand the mirror shield you should be okay if your smart with it. But when I get hit without the shield I notice myself getting staggered a lot and it takes me a long time to recover.
@@akatsuki2793 hmm. so a healthy mix then? Light enough to get the extra stamina, but heavy enough to wear armor and keep your footing?
How would you compare Fighter and Warrior to him? I play these 2.
Also the telekinesis move i just was throwing enemys off cliffs and stuff to fun
Good guide ! I'm using almost the exam same skill set except the master kill that I do not have yet, I took the big spear magick cannon in the meantime but I had the same opinion and am thinking of changing it with levitation. After a while, I will just choose skills that are fun. like the flick across the map.
I still havent unlocked the Spearhand, but i'm pretty sure the Magike Speregonne scales on Magic Attack, so maybe try that, since it seems you are focusing mostly on physical attack
It scales on shit dmg lol 😂 just has good defensive ability’s
A little build idea for you that I am running currently. Use Warfarer with Mystic Spearhands shield, Sorcerers Augral Flare and Ricochet Hunter(Can change with Martyrs if you want).
You melt healthbars and are overall well suited for every single scenario
Bro if you forget thete is a ballista in melve. Then too bad to killing the dragon for an early powerful weapon. And sigards automatic approval of your arisens abilities to give you the mystichand spear ultimate skill wild furie
As much as I enjoy the barrier skill, I do wish the MSH could do a simple sidestep/dodge
I never thought id stop playing as Sorcerer for another class....then BOOM...here comes Mystic Spearhand. This class is fukiN CRAZY😅
They should have regular stops for the oxcarts along the road, and you should he able to wait and choose which city you want to go too.
Triggering winding cut is a real pain in the ass when you play with a controller. It's quite easy to press a button fast enough when using your fore finger or middle finger. But if you have to use your thumb to press it fast enough, it's really hard to do. Wish they would make it a bit easier to trigger.
Part of me wishes that there was a dedicated 5th button for maister skills, because with Mystic Spearhand I am always torn between Skiedragoun's Feste and Wild Furie. In my opinion, Dragoun's Foin, Mirour Shelde, and Ravinour's Hond are essential skills and never leave my setup. Feste and Furie are both insanely good and when I equip one, I always feel the loss of the other.
Thanks man. I was very confused about that class...I was trying to figure out the timing of those bolts when really...my bigges mistake was trying to grab after the charge instead of stomping
I found the dude in Melve during a dragon attack I believe and I spoke with him and bam, I got the job and the only main ques I remember completing was rescuing the magistrate, I haven done the rest of the missions, so far I been doing sub-missions
I didnt think I would like it, then I played for literally 15 seconds and realized it was fantastic
Loved this, but hated being out of stamina 90% of the time
Offering is situational, but those situations just keep coming up.
You can throw enemies off cliffs, throw multiple bombs and I've even one shot a cyclops that was around a dozen bombs.
I'm definitely starting with this vocation, it's like The Force Unleashed and Jedi Survivor blended together.
warfarer is my fav class cause i like the hybrid nature, magic archer + spearhand + either mage staff or sorc staff, for stamina or healing. But i love spearhand so much xD its just super satisfying from the movments to the skills . There is a mod in nexus that someone made for warfarer that lets you make skill sets that switch based off your weapons with rearment. Very fun to play around with. But mods are not for everyone.
This was the class I got from the quiz but haven't used him yet
You can VERY quickly notice that most of the dev time in terms of Vocations went into Mystic Spearhand.
I'm playing wayfarer as a heavy armor sorcerer spearhead hybrid, which is fun but if you play warfarer you passively level every profession which is cool.
i killed the dragon right at Melve and instantly got the mastery skill and vocation unlocked. edit: you also get a better Duospears right off the bat
Tried the spearhand and I thought it sucked. The mobility is nice but it seems really bad at dealing damage to weak points because they are usually just out of his reach and he doesn't have any good ways of dealing damage while grappling like thief and fighter do, and it doesn't really have enough stagger to warrant that weakness, unlike warrior. It also has no way of mitigating or avoiding attacks unlike every other melee class so you end up getting hit a lot unless you're doing the finger acrobatics to constantly be charging up and throwing out the stun/slow, and then you're only getting hit sometimes. To me it felt like the worst melee vocation by far.
Have to agree. It’s great for accidentally Yeeting yourself off cliffs. The vertical attack does no damage on the way up, so triggering it from right under his heart causes you to fly through it and stab his back on the way down
The levitating skill is my favorite and fun crowd control. Stagger a guy, throw him to stagger another guy, and before u know it ur throwing 6 guys at the last one
I killed the dragon in Melve using the ballista, just as it was about to fly off, didn't get the duospear (I assume it is not a 100% drop) or the maister skill... unless I overlooked it and threw it into storage... I did unlock the vocation though.
I thought that what be the class i wanted to play before i got the game, but when i played it, i just wanted to go back to being thief class. The thief hookshot ability is just too good and fun
there is def a learning curve, stick with it.
Thief has a hookshot?
@@leemcgee5164 Kind of, it hookshots enemies to drag them towards you, and stagger them, or make them fall over. On big enemies it can drag them down if they are staggering. You can't fly up ledges or hookshot to enemies heads or anything
@@Ste12321 Oh I know what ya mean now, thank you.
He gave me wild furies right then after we beat the dragon the second time. I didn’t have to wait at all. Just had to initiate conversation with him twice right there
Can you make a video on the armor set you're using? Thanks.
Mirror shield doesn’t expire after 3 hits. Non upgraded it lasts for 5 seconds fully upgraded it lasts for 8 seconds doesn’t matter how many times you’re hit within those time frames
The shield is the most op skill ive seen in a game, a shield that you can use most of the time and makes you immortal, for like 6 seconds, when it ends you can use it agains, and it gets applied in all your allies within range...
and you can stun lock enemies with the bolt too😭😭
Yeah there is literally zero downside to that ability. By the time the shield disappears you already got all your stamina back. It's nuts
Used it to help my pawns slay a dragon on their own, didn't do damage, just stunning and shielding my pawns. They got the job done😎
@@ApexFaiDural
Two abilities are better at tanking than the whole trickster class.... And you can damage with the drain too...
People saying it's damage is weaker than thief don't understand what unhindered pawns can do.
I've thought about warfarering with trickster for the AOE damage buff, then just focus completely on shielding, draining, and aoe buffing.
I would love for you to do the same for armor and rings. Now that I have the weapons, I'm a bit of a glass cannon without good armor.
Use the shield ability
After I lvl my sorc, I'll play this one ❤
The "best overall way to avoid damage" is to just keep your shield up. The ground stab isn't worth it since it means you have to give up one out of the shield (no), Thief (no) or Ultimate (no).
For me, I gave up the lunge stab, since for moving around the enemies I just use the quick fot (the teleport right after the bolt), in this case the lunge stab becomes redundant. While the ground stab is really strong for "parrying" incoming attacks/mounting.
or just play whatever skills you want
@@Saint_8312 lunge stab is great for traversal tho
You do not need to progess in anything other than fight the baby dragon, then run to dragon tower and you can get the ultimate.
If you kill the pimple dragon with the ballista in melve you will get a s tier weapon from the dragon and the skill wild furie from the spearhand master instead of waiting till almost the end of the game to get it. Good luck
Man i wish i knew this yesterday......
@@andybanan1992 I did it by instinct I knew the ballista was up there so as soon I saw the dragon my first thought was to shot it with it he dies in 2 shots
@@richymancebo8014 welp, now i know what im doing once they add more saves. Been dying to restart as my character looks like shit. And i messed up a lot of things early on.
@@andybanan1992 u on ps5 or pc?
@@richymancebo8014 pc, i know i can manually go and remove the save file, but i also dont want to remove my first save either.
They need to decrease the speed at which we need to press attack for the winding cut, my finger actually hurts from doing it
So i got the Wild Furie skill after I killed the dragon in Melve, i just though the game wanted you to kill the dragon with the ballista... game gives a scene and town comments positively, so i assume the devs wanted this as an option. Sigurd gave me the vocation and Wild Furie right after i talked to him in Melve after the fight. Also dragon dropped an OP weapon for the Mystic Spearhand, especially for early to late game.
Yeah same. Got it pretty early and it kills most mobs in one or 2 hits.
Does killing the dragon early cause anything to break later?
I wanted to try it and at first I didnt like especially after mastering the thief becaus the thief is SO strong. But after getting a little more used to it, I love it. Being able to make the party invincible is OP especially when facing dragons because you absolute no sell their lightning bolt and meteor storm esque ability. As you see it casting just do 'to me' and cast it. No damage. Continue pwnage. Im hyped about doing the new game+ so I can do some of the previous quests I missed, like the damn Sphinx, who remembers that shit? I dont lol. Was like 30 hours ago. So Ill have to take note of where I found the first token but doing the whole game with mystic spear sounds awesome. So yea mystic spear is badass, the stamina syphon plus master ability is someone FINALLY making a class with synergistic abilities properly.
Its the first class I maxed out, which means now I have to play as the other classes to level them up😢. Of course when ai start on the jack of all trades class I’ll be using the dual spear again.
Thief and sorc and Magick archer are superior, it's ok.
@@0xNobody depends on the situation. I had a hard time as a magic archer against the goons that pick a fight in the beastren city. I switched to the duo spear and folded them
All with the spear ult ability, the shield spell and enough stamina drugs to become high as a kite for the next 2 playthroughs. The friendly merc who normally steps in to help you out a bit didn’t even have a chance to do anything.
They are definitely better in terms of raw dps though I main the magic archer.
Though I do sometimes like to use the spear weapon with the warmaster vocation, the sorcery robes you get at the volcano outpost and the visage of Ja’nuwa. It’s as close you can get to role playing a sith lord without actual lightsabers in the game.
My man Sigurd created his own Sith style and his own spelling to make it cooler.
I tried getting into spearhand and i just couldnt get into it, i never figured out how to effectively play the vocation so I ended up going back to thief but thanks to this vid ima try it out again, not about to let a skill issue get in the way of enjoying the class that made people buy the game💀
If you defeat the dragon you get a really good weapon.
BTW
You can charge Forbeding bolt during a combo or anything else
I the quickness of this class. Once you get the ultimate it’s over. One of my favourite things to do is to throw people and goblins of cliffs.
I only play with this vocation for the memories of my onsect glaive days in MH!
Thanks Mystic Spear i was enter Battahl early get those elemental weapons and other final 3 Advance Vocation.
The thief meister ability is far an away the best skill imo. It is so broken I don't even use it. It makes you completely invulnerable by instantly automatically dodging every attack for as long as you have stamina and the cost is tiny. I can use it for almost a minute constantly.
The Thief meister ability only dodges physical attacks, which is still incredible, but the Mystic Spearhand ability negates ALL damage and prevents stagger effects while providing the same exact shield to your pawns.
I would argue it's objectively a better skill.
I've been knocked off balance by drakes landing while shielded, so either that's bugged or it doesn't prevent all forms of stagger. It is insanely busted overall tho @vincentcavanagh1784
@@keystonelyte I have dodged magic attacks as well not really sure how if it is not supposed to do that. I have never once been damage with it active.
@goosepapoose8666 High Palladium also does the same exact thing afaik. Negates attacks for everyone with the buff that is an aoe.
@@quickpawmaud I have also dodged Matk like lightning strikes n stuff.
Is anyone else experiencing the bug where unto heaven is not hitting large boss monsters? Like they will he stunned, my weapon clearly hits them, but nothing. Is this just me?
you cannot use unto skie/heven on enemies larger than yourself if i’m not mistaken. it may say something about it in the description of the move i can’t remember, lmk if you find anything out!
@@DameFlacko you are mistaken. I was able to hit them before, but since upgrading the impact just doesn’t hit them
Hello... I'm writing from Brazil. I'm playing this class, but I have a question... I see that your spear moves much faster than mine when you press the TWEIN CUT button... How do I make it faster?
Hey there, you may have solved this already but if not - You must acquire a CORE SKILL called "Winding Cut." Then, you can start spinning the spear by pressing your light attack button fast.
@@RaiKov Thanks for the info... I'm at the top of the spearman ranking, but I don't know why the spear doesn't make this move
My experience is that it looks good but the damage is not good. Coming from a sorcerer it feels like taking mobs down takes forever.
Winding Cut is the biggest drawback to this Vocation for me. It's too easy to activate it. I have to pace my clicks super slow otherwise I use it accidentally and end up in an animation I can't cancel when I want to move out of the way or activate the bubble shield. It's annoying af
U need to level sorcerer and equip magic damage boosting gear to make those 2 attacks do better damage. The majority of the damage this class does is physical. That's why the abilities feel weak. Invest in magic damage
Just so you know, it's perfectly normal for golemes to be immune to Magike Speregonne, it's a magic attack and golems only take physical damage
Any idea why sigurd is not giving his scroll? I gave him a lot of flowers but his dialogue doesn't change
How are you standing on bosses? My character just grabs the boss and starts stabbing
This is the class I've been playing and it's so much fun.
This was the first class I played, early on it def. was not as strong as Thief, only because of thief getting Headsplitter which will one shot bosses health bars, and later combined with Flare from Sorc will one shot 4-5 health bars lol.. But Yea I love this class, its just so flashy and fun to play.
It's ok. You can't block or dodge. You can later equip a forcefield for you and your pawns. You have to play smart with this vocation
The thumbnail though🔥
I still like fighter. Mystic spearhand is my second favorite have not tried any others yet.
Archer is really great, you can be super effective in melee range with sprint + light attack, if you charge into enemies the take damage and stagger.
Ans tips how to get Winding Cut work? Seems like i smash my Controller before get to work this skill repeatedly?
Hi can I ask if you're playing on the PS5...? if so how is the performance on it...?
"the thing about performance is, your game is boring. if the game is dynamic and engaging, the player wont notice the performance, and even if they do, they will be having too much fun to care" -Itsuno, probably
I killed the dragon with the ballista. Got the class but not the scroll. Found Sigurd in Harve but he still has his standard lines and no options to make gifts. Also he acts like the dragon is still alive. Did i lock myself out of getting his master skill or am i able to meet him at the secon dragon location in Battahl? ( Im not there yet)
Must be a bug. If not, try progressing the aftermath of the quest.
He spoke to me right away after I picked up my spoils from the dragon
I find the gap closer skill unnecessary if you use the bolt and teleport move effectively
I have been playing the class for an hour and I can't get the teleport to work. I'm I doing something wrong?
I like keeping it because it's an incredible traversal skill
@@Murf181 you have to charge the class action skill then press x when it hits the target. has some timing to it
Just let our house know there’s a new update for no man sky. The thing I’m most interested in is allows you to create your own starships
Thief is my favorite. Mystic spearhand is okay but, thief... Man that's something
Seching storm is good because you can use it at almost any time.
i hope they don’t commit diablo 4’s mistake here and nerf some of these skills like the invulnerability time or stamina consumption
I hope they fix that spear skill where you shoot the projectile from your spear after you charge it up. I really like the looking feel of that and I was hoping it can do some knock down damage to big monsters
It scales with magic. You can one hit goblins with it
The attack scales off Magic dmg. 2 ways to boost this are to level while playing Sorc and Mage (vocation influences stats), the other is your gear, and where you upgrade it .The Elvish smith gives you more Magic Defense and Attack bonuses. Other smiths have different stat priorities.
Does anyone know what cloak hes using? It looks awesome
cant get the master skill, quest is broken for me. In the fight with the dragon on the roof of the tower (later in rhe game) npc died. I slayed the dragon and i revived the npc, but he ignored me. Back in his house, he still ignoring me. This is bullshit
I hate that . a orge grand slammed him into the river and he drowned he completely disappeared I was so pissed lost the quest and everything 😢😢😢
give him gifts until his affinity is maxed and he'll give it. might need to rest and come back