This is a guide to all stats and their meaning in Dragon's Dogma 2. See a list of all stats, how the stats affect gameplay, and how to increase a character's stats.

All Stats Explained

Stat Categories
Primary Stats	Secondary Stats

Primary Stats

Primary Stats are the stats you acquire by leveling up. These stats are affected by Stat Growths and will have different values when leveling depending on your current vocations.

How Does Stat Growth Work?

Health

The Health stat represents the character's ability to withstand damage before dying.

Your maximum health decreases as you build up the Loss Gauge by withstanding hits or dying.

Restore health and the Loss Gauge by using Curatives or resting an inns, campsites, or houses.

How to Heal and Restore Max Health

Stamina

Stamina is the primary stat and resource used to perform Weapon Skills and other actions such as sprinting, jumping, and holding onto large enemies.

Lossing all your Stamina exhausts you, rendering you immobile and unable to defend yourself from enemy attacks!

A Harspud Roborant and better Curatives will restore sufficient Stamina to get you back to the fight!

List of All Weapon Skills

Max Encumberance

Max Encumbrance is the stat responsible for how much weight your character and pawn can carry before they slow down and eventually get over-encumbered.

Bringing too many heavy items will cause you to get the Heavy or Overencumbered statuses, making you slower, consuming more Stamina, or even losing the ability to sprint.

The Max Encumberance stat is influenced by the character's height and weight. It can be improved by equipping rings that increase Max Encumbrance or using Golden Trove Beetles.

All Golden Trove Beetle Locations

Strength and Magick

The Strength and Magick stats are the offensive stats that determine the damage you deal with physical and magical attacks, respectively.

These stats are largely dependent on your equipped weapon, which can be further improved by enhancing.

Augments, such as the Theif's Verve and the Sorcerer's Sagacity can also be equipped to improve these stats.

Best Weapons and All Weapons List

Defense and Magick Defense

Defense and Magick Defense is the stat that determines how much damage you receive from physical and magical attacks, respectively.

These stats are primarily obtained from equipped head, body, and leg armors, which can be further improved by enhancing them.

Augments, such as the Fighter's Mettle and the Mage's Apotropaism can also be equipped to improve these stats.

Best Armor and All Armor List

Secondary Stats

Secondary stats are your character's other stats that do not primarily scale with your level but your equipment.

Knockdown Power

A character's Knockdown Power stat determines how easily they can stagger or knockdown enemies to open them up for a lethal blow!

This stat is more commonly found in melee weapons that deal strike damage. It can be further improved by enhancing it from a Dwarven Armorer or Smithy.

How to Unlock Dwarven Smithing

Knockdown Res

Knockdown Res is the stat that helps you and your pawns endure hits without staggering or getting knocked down.

More Knockdown Res is commonly found in heavy armor and can be further improved by enhancing it from a Dwarven Armorer or Smithy.

How to Unlock Dwarven Smithing

Slash and Strike Strength

Slash and Strike Strength are stats that determine the damage type your weapon deals.

Hammers and Maces will have Strike Strength, while Swords and Daggers will have Slash Strength.

Different monsters have different weaknesses. Enemies, such as Skeletons, are more vulnerable to strike damage!

List of Monsters

Slash and Strike Res

The Slash and Strike Res stats decrease the damage you receive from their respective damage types.

These stats can be found in various head, body, and leg armors.

Best Equipment and All Equipment List

Element and Debilitation

The Element and Debilitations stats show the inherent element or debilitation damage your weapon deals.

An example of this would be The Exalted mace, which you can obtain at the end of Drabnir's Grotto. This weapon deals 100% of its damage as Holy Element instead.

All Damage Types and Elemental Weaknesses

Elemental and Debilitation Res

Elemental and Debilitation Res are stats that help endure elemental hits and other attacks that cause debilitations.

Elemental Res decreases the damage you receive from a specific element. In contrast, Debilitation Res decreases the debilitation build-up and causes you to be debilitated less.

Magical Robes that Mages or Sorcerers wear, as well as Cloaks and Rings, provide resistance to certain elements and debilitations. Some even prevent the accumulation of debilitations, such as the Ring of Thawing, which prevents Ice-bound accumulation.

All Debilitations and Status Effect Symbols

How to Increase Stats

Stat-boosting Tips
Level Up Your Character Purchase and Enhance Better Weapons Purchase and Enhance Better Armor Equip Rings for Different Effects Change Vocations Equip Augments from Other Vocations

Level Up Your Character

Raising the level of your character increases your stats.

Leveling up while being a particular vocation changes the values at which each stat increases. For example, Mages get more Magick from each level-up, while Warriors get more HP.

This Growth Stat system is something always to be mindful of when leveling your character, as these stat changes cannot be recovered or changed.

Leveling Guide: How to Level Up Fast

Purchase and Enhance Better Weapons

The majority of your offensive stats are obtained through your weaponry.

Weapons can be further improved to provide more Strength or Magick by enhancing them from armorers and smiths of different Smithing Styles.

Best Weapons and All Weapons List

Purchase and Enhance Better Armor

Defensive stats are largely obtained from the Head, Body, and Leg Armor slots.

While Cloaks also provide defensive stats, they give pretty minuscule benefits compared to other equipment slots.

Best Equipment and All Equipment List

Equip Rings for Different Effects

Rings are powerful additions to your equipment and may provide different stat boosts or other benefits.

Some rings provide flat bonuses to stats, while others negate debilitation build-up!

The Triumph Ring is a good ring you can acquire by submitting Seeker Tokens to the Vocations Guild. This ring increases your Max Health, Stamina, and Weight Limit!

List of Rings

Change Vocations

Changing vocations changes your base stats, which may increase your stats, but at the cost of lowering others. For example, switching from Mage to a Fighter will increase your Strength but decrease your Magick stat.

List of All Vocations and Classes

Equip Augments from Other Vocations

Augments are different passive skills you can unlock from each vocation and equip while being another vocation.

For example, you can equip the Theif's Verve and the Archer's Lethality Augments while being a Warrior to deal devastating charge attacks to enemy weakpoints!

Best Augments and All Augments List

Dragon's Dogma 2 Related Guides

Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Farming Guides
How to Get Gold Fast	Rift Crystals (RC)
Discipline Points (DP)	Wyrmslife Crystals (WLC)
How to Level Up Fast	-
Beginner Guides
Fast Travel	How to Tell Time
How to Increase Health	How to Save
Best Party Composition	How to Store Items
How to Dodge	All Stats Explained
All Debilitations	How to Combine Items
How to Increase Weight Limit	How to Get Out of Jail
List of Controls	Best Settings
What is Knockdown Power?	How to Light Up Dark Places
How to Lower Ladders from High Areas	How to Lock the Minimap to North
How to Fight Aerial Enemies	All Damage Types and Elemental Weaknesses
How to Deal Fire Damage	How to Deal Lightning Damage
How to Deal Ice Damage	How to Deal Holy Damage
Advanced Guides
List of All Exploits	How to Raise Affinity
How to Enhance Equipment	Cooking Guide
How to Give Gifts	How to Create a Forgery
How to Find NPCs	Dwarven Smithing
FAQs
What is Dragonsplague?	Can You Lock On Enemies?
Can You Change Difficulty?	Can You Sneak?
Can You Change FOV?	What Happens When You Die?
Why Do Guards Attack Randomly?	Can You Hide Your Helmet?
Important Locations
How to Get Houses	How to Enter Rose Chateau Bordelrie
Makeshift Vault Key and Vault Location	Hot Spring Location and Effects