Talk:Stat Growths/@comment-162.201.198.241-20150619182615/@comment-24458380-20150619204521

It's not a waste ! Having good pawns can make the game significantly easier and more fun.

At low levels, pawns spend a lot of time just circling enemies because they don't quite know what to do. But after several hundred hours of gameplay and full bestiary knowledge, they practically fight every battle for me.

I often don't even need to draw my weapon before the battle is over, or I just contribute to the fight by debilitating the enemy with Torpor or Silence. Watch my Gorecyclops, Garm, or Cursed Dragon videos (on those Wiki pages) where I use only Rusted Daggers if you don't believe me.

With regard to your question about staggering Dragons (and other enemies), I have four different accounts with four Main Pawns that I play with. They all have different builds and vocations (with Goldforged top tier Bitterblack weapons), but my pawn with the most stagger capability is definitely my Sorcerer pawn with the Emphasis augment (using a Sanguine Stalk and two Barbed Nails).

When she unleashes a well timed High Frigor or Comestion, it almost always interrupts Dragon roars before they can slay my pawns.

Besides my Sorcerer pawn, my second choice would be a Ranger pawn with only Tenfold Flurry and/or Great Gamble to deliver high stagger at a fast rate. Third, a Warrior pawn with a Goldforged Devil's Nail or Bitter End with Barbed Nails.