Talk:Autonomy/@comment-65.94.64.121-20121111072310

Autonomy is absolutely brutal when active. Level 70 Assassin with Autonomy and Bloodlust, alone at night, took on a Drake and killed it flat-out in about 30 seconds. Hundred Kisses and Chilling Razors completely devastated the Drake, taking out a health bar in about 4-5 hits.

Main Pawns that are neglected level up far faster when you resume adventuring with them. They won't always lag behind.

Even if you don't plan on using this augment as an assassin, when the chips are down and your last pawn just got knocked out, Autonomy kicks in and radically improves your damage. Becase damage in Dragon's Dogma is, to the best of my knowledge, simply your weapon damage - enemy defense per hit, a 70% increase to your attack value will result in more than a 70% boost to damage. Sometimes, way more. Instead of doing 60 damage per hit, you might be doing 150 instead - nearly twice as much.

I personally think that Autonomy works best when combined with a weapon that deals both Physical and Magical damage, since both your Strength and Magic stats are raised. Limited testing with Signs of Valor and Scalding Razors showed a MUCH larger increase in damage with the Razors than with the Signs of Valor, since the Fire damage was also being multiplied.