Talk:Pawn Inclination/@comment-80.229.239.198-20130401100737/@comment-7288461-20130402111200

A Guardian supportive Mage is certainly one of the more feasible uses - it works well in theory, staying near you to keep you alive, but I've had trouble in getting them to use anything besides Anodyne/Halidom; such infrequent buffs and even less regular attacks. True though that Utilitarian would at least help out with the buffs. Oddly there's this lvl 18 Mage I used (Guardian/Mitigator I think) who was brilliant, couldn't have asked for better, but on the whole (in my experience at least) they still seem to spend their time doing very little.

Part of it comes down to the vocation you're playing as too I guess - I'm often a Ranger and thus stay back a bit in fights. It would be awesome if Guardian made the Pawns stay with me and take out the enemy at that range, but no they just sit there until an enemy gets close enough to attack me directly, so doesn't work well.

As for Sorcerers however, I want them to get out there and use the offensive spells, not hold them back to stand with me. In my first playthrough (when I didn't know how any of this worked), my Sorcerer Main Pawn was a Guardian and it got so frustrating seeing her wondering around doing nothing of use behind me, whilst my hired Pawns charged at the enemy. On eventually looking this stuff up, I switched her to Scather/Utilitarian and BAM, off she went causing havoc haha.