Augments are ways to customize your Arisen and your main pawn to your liking. Some have direct effects in combat, while others offer changes for your day-to-day convenience.

Augments are unlocked by reaching higher ranks in vocations. You earn a currency called Dcp (Discipline) every time you do anything that grants you normal experience points. Dcp is also used to unlock weapon skills, core skills, and vocations other than the one you start with. Once you've purchased something with Dcp, you no longer need to pay to for it again. You can switch between earned vocations, skills, and augments for free at any vocational service provider.

To buy or change augments, go to a vocation guild and speak to the representative.

Once you earn an augment, you can equip it regardless of your current vocation. People often "dip" into a vocation just to obtain a desirable augment or two, then return to their actual preferred vocations.

The maximum number of augments you can have equipped is 6.

Equipped augments are saved per vocation, so you'll need to reassign augments if you switch to a newly-unlocked vocation. However, once that's done, you'll keep your augment loadout in the future when switching between vocations.

As pawns cannot be warfarer or hybrids, they cannot obtain or equip augments from those vocations.

You earn Dcp by killing enemies and completing quests. The amount of Dcp you get depends on the XP value of the enemies you defeat. If it's similar to Dragon's Dogma 1, the calculation from XP to Dcp is a base logarithmic function.[docs.google.com]

This means you get more relative Dcp for smaller increments of XP, so you can farm Dcp in an efficient manner by killing many weak enemies rather than a few difficult ones.

See the example calculations on the right. Defeating 4 harpies gives you nearly as much discipline as a single griffin.

Pawns cannot obtain or equip augments below this point.

For the most part, augments provided by a vocation synergize well with that vocation. There's a few that are less than helpful, so feel free to skip over anything that doesn't interest you.


The most useful are usually the first and last augments for vocations, unlocked at level 2 and 9 respectively. Because of this, you can get a lot of bang for your buck by dipping into the start of many vocations to start with, then focusing on a particular vocation later.

For example:
Mettle (Fighter 2) gives you increased physical defense and Apotropaism (Mage 2) gives you increased magick defense. Both are quick to unlock to increase your resilience early on, and scale with you as your defenses get stronger. Vitality (Warrior 2) increases health for additional survivability, but only early on. Replace Vitality once you reach the higher levels.

If you like, Endurance (Archer 4) is a safe bet, as more stamina is always useful. If you still feel like stamina is a problem, you can't go wrong with Exaltation (Mage 9) for extra stamina recovery speed.

If you care about finding Seeker's Tokens, Detection (Trickster 2) is a must. The sound pings are binaural, so you can figure out the direction of a nearby token (or wakestone shard) by which side is louder. Much more effective with headphones. It will also cause the item to flash brightly if it's in direct line of sight.

You'll be running a lot in this game, so the reduced stamina consumption with Athleticism (Mystic Spearhand 9) and Dynamism (Warfarer 9) can save you a decent chunk of time. Likewise, you'll be spending a lot of time in the dark, so Radiance (Archer 6) will help with visibility for a good portion of playtime.

From there, you can unlock whatever else you'd like! Of course, it's unreasonable to expect you to follow this to the letter. These are just quick recommendations. Pick and choose to match your playstyle.

Pretty much all augments that increase your damage stats offer such a small benefit that they are not worth taking. While Verve (Thief 9) and Sagacity (Sorcerer 9) increase your attack stats, 30 is a fraction of what you'll end up with by the time you unlock them. Likewise, Polarity (Mystic Spearhand 6) only boosts base stats and ignores equipment. Of course, they're better than nothing if you have empty slots - but once you unlock something better, replace it.

Ambuscade (Archer 2), Lethality (Archer 8), Catalysis (Sorcerer 8), and such offer such a small situational damage bonus that they're not worth the slot.

With Gratification (Thief 4) and Voracity (Magick Archer 4), you can't count on getting killing blows, and the health/stamina returned is too small to be noticeable.

Other augments, such as Dominion (Fighter 8) or Conveyance (Mystic Spearhand 2) are too situational or the mechanic is not important enough to need an augment slot to boost.

Naturally, any other augment that doesn't interest you can be skipped over. Pick the augments you like; just be aware of the numbers so you know what you're exactly getting.

I cannot claim all of this information as my own; I've used several sources to speed up research, confirm data or discrepancies, or add to what I already knew. There's some conflicting information regarding augments; I've done my best to consolidate the truth. I've noticed some incorrect information from my sources, so I'm updating the guide as I unlock each augment myself. If you have any corrections to submit, please leave a comment.

Dragons Dogma 2 Wiki[dragonsdogma2.wiki.fextralife.com]
Science etc[docs.google.com]
u/BlastYoBoots's ALL Augments in Usefulness Order and Known Stats
u/frobones's Augments and their numerical affects

You can also check out my other Dragon's Dogma guide which covers general gameplay tips!

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3195212552
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