User blog comment:Fartbrain33/Fashion's Dogma 2015/@comment-26204779-20150602173647

It doesn't matter how a pawn looks. If you hire a pawn because they look badass, then that pawn and/or you may get your ass handed to you.In order to  maximize your pawn, you have to plan what you want to be from the beginning. A fighting pawn wants a lot of strength and stamina. A Magic pawn wants a lot of magic and stamina. Figure out what you want to be first, when all is said and done, and  upgrade your pawn from there. One suggestion though is when you change your arisen to your pawns vocation (to get your pawns items dragonforged) is to change your pawn to somethingthat will benefit your pawn as well. For example a magic vocation. If your pawn is say ..... a mage. You change your arisen which is ..... a strider. Change your pawn to a strider and use your arisens gear which is already dragonforged (most likely). Dragonforge your pawns items while the Arisen is a mage. Return items to your pawn once they are dragonforged and you change vocations back to their original vocation. Change your arisens vocation back also.