Talk:Stat Growths/@comment-26156434-20150228212752/@comment-69.171.96.73-20150304230158

Apologies in advance for the following wall of text.

One useful thing to do may be to switch to a Strider first and max out its vocation ranks to unlock some of the basic (and most useful) dagger skills and augments related to daggers, bows, and stamina consumption. If you're seriously thinking of going ranger, then definitely start with strider to get some of the bow related augments; less of a disadvantage that way when you do switch to ranger as you'll likely be lvl 30+.

For your pawn, if she's already a strider, switching to ranger could be good for her as it would allow her access to some of the stronger bow-focused augments, which would prove very useful later on if you plan to keep her a strider -- which is actually a pretty darn balanced class for a pawn if built right. A few fighter/warrior and mage/sorcerer levels probably wouldn't hurt her either; good physical/magick damage reducing augments to be found in those four classes, which when combined, can render your pawn virtually unstoppable against most baddies.

Mine's lvl 78 and a strider at the moment, after having fully ranked up in fighter, mage, sorcerer, and warrior. Not post-dragon yet since I'm trying to finish ranking up my sorcerer vocation, but there's nothing in Gransys that can even hope to defeat my pawn thus far -- aside from dragonkin thanks to that stupid roar that instantly downs all pawns and silences players.

I won't claim to be an expert on this game or its leveling system, I'm just going off info I've gathered during my time playing and off the internet.