Talk:Threat Level and Special Tool/Curative Usage by Pawns/@comment-24634511-20140813190116/@comment-23878607-20140813193315

I never heard "Hopeless Battle" in vanilla Dragon's Dogma. By the time I was about level 55 and fighting the Noble Quarter guards for the first time to rank up vocations for augments, I stopped hearing "Combat Tension,"  too. The only time I've ever heard "Hopeless Battle" is when I fight the two Living Armors in the Catacombs as a melee vocation, but the music steps down as soon as one of them dies.

I'm of the opinion that the vanilla game was balanced such that it was very easy to level up past the criteria for special tool and arrow use. There was one report of "I trained my pawn to use blast arrows!" from vanilla DD, but no one was ever able to verify the assertion. The assumption was always 'ohhai, no, pawns NEVER use tools and special arrows', so when Dark Arisen came out, it was a very pleasant surprise that they WOULD-- but then it started disappearing again as people either leveled up or got significantly better with party selection to compliment their Arisen's strengths and weaknesses.