So, what kind of character(s) have you made?

[Zedrin]

see title, just wanna see what people have been enjoying.

My long term character has been a thief that's dabbling a bit in everything. Her primary strategy is to rely on thrown weapons, specifically a putit in amber (of which, I need to double check if throwing weapons use dex or str; might be better to start leveling bows), and is decent with lockpicking and appraising to make dungeoneering profitable. I'm currently working on getting some inns up and running in my two towns for passive income as well, and her music is good enough to be an easy way to get money at the casino if I'm short.

My main concern is if there's some anti synergies in what gear I'm using. Her best stats are dex and charisma, but for weapons she's usually using a putit in amber and a spear. I have a decent bow, but the lack of magical properties on it makes me drift back to the putit in amber.

I also made a fairy wizard that's still fairly fresh, but the start of that game has been way faster, since I know what I'm doing there now. The tiny size has made gearing things out interesting, but the high dodge means she can survive very well even with just 7 hp, and the strong magic makes up for the inability to use a lot of weapons.

[KillMolly]

I chose Demigod for the safety of not being punished for changing to another God and Warmage cuz it looks fun.

I plan to be godless until I reach the +7 to all stats from Eythe that demigod gets then pick Opatos and Horome in that order. I might decide to change Opatos to another god, not sure. I'm now using unarmed and a boomerang. Oh,my first mutution is pretty cool, my hands are dripping poison, which also gives me strong immunity to poison. I should farm for the putit in armour. Little Girl is using claymore and a bow. One of her favorited items are bows so I gifted her one. I'm nearing the end of Nov. in the first year and she just got rid of her bow for a different bow and I'm not sure why.

I'm undecided what industry to try first, they all look fun. I didn't make any farms before winter, will probably do that in the spring. I'm really interested in breeding monsters.

[Shard]

Nefu for the fluffy tail, foxes are the best. Had to get the mod that lets you actually have the fluffy tail though. Then I went with a farmer, and have been using martial arts plus magic as my main combat tools. I haven't put any serious effort into my settlement, only done some manual farming and made some storage chests for my loot.

I found some nice obsidian armor at a blacksmith, so I'm not too squishy anymore, and my ice arrow spell is up to 2d17, so I can hit pretty hard with it. I also made myself an onyx cane that does darkness damage and occasionally blinds targets for when I don't want to use up spell stock.

Been going with the fox gods, since they apparently give you fox people as pets, and I gotta have them. Kizuami seems like the less nice of the pair, so I'm going with him first just long enough to nab the fox, then going to have to find the other village and switch to Horome.

[Zedrin]

Originally posted by Shard:

Nefu for the fluffy tail, foxes are the best. Had to get the mod that lets you actually have the fluffy tail though. Then I went with a farmer, and have been using martial arts plus magic as my main combat tools. I haven't put any serious effort into my settlement, only done some manual farming and made some storage chests for my loot.

I found some nice obsidian armor at a blacksmith, so I'm not too squishy anymore, and my ice arrow spell is up to 2d17, so I can hit pretty hard with it. I also made myself an onyx cane that does darkness damage and occasionally blinds targets for when I don't want to use up spell stock.

Been going with the fox gods, since they apparently give you fox people as pets, and I gotta have them. Kizuami seems like the less nice of the pair, so I'm going with him first just long enough to nab the fox, then going to have to find the other village and switch to Horome.

I am unfamiliar with the lore of this game so I didn't know all this going in but
based based based based based based

edit: wait, I'm learning that these are backer-exclusive player options? That's kinda lame.

[Shazza]

Originally posted by Zedrin:

I am unfamiliar with the lore of this game so I didn't know all this going in but
based based based based based based

edit: wait, I'm learning that these are backer-exclusive player options? That's kinda lame.

Backer created not backer exclusive, to be clear. And they're canon to Elin's world despite being player additions, Ylva is pretty wild in variety once you start exploring the different towns.

On topic, I started as an Elean Farmer (spellcaster) but have been enjoying Chaos Shape Sword Mage a lot. It takes a bit to level up your dedicated weapon type and dual wielding, but you wind up with enormous action economy - and with spell talismans, it's double strike every successful hit.

I started with an adopted little girl companion, got a quest early on to deliver an assault rifle, and decided to keep it instead. So she's been riding on my 6-armed samurai, pelting anything at a distance while he slices and dices whatever gets too close.

[Akameka]

Nefu Wizard (obviously took the mod for fluff), although I am more dedicated to building Vernis for now, and the fact I don't have spell writter yet means I am more likely to bash my hammer in the ennemies face or spam them with my cane rather than using darts that I keep for toughter ennemies lol.
Going with Elkath of luck as god, might change for one of the two fox gods (although the swapping penality is over 9000 in this game, so I might not do it)

Interesting to note that Mifus/Nefus have the 'pet' tag due to the tail feat. Which means people coming close by will randomly pet you lmao

You can use backer race and classes such as Mifus/Nefus by activating them in the character creation ( very missable tick case bottom right of the screen.)

[Burden of Brine]

Hillfolk Farmer is what i made first, just honest work and no less, god bless. Faithful servant of Opatos of Earth, as I want him as tough and strong as possible to frontline with. Then I forgot about the first mistake of Elona/Elin; not picking the little girl companion. His bear cub companion has been a benchwarmer for some time now. Though the character is currently sitting on the bench in general as I wanted to try something else instead.

So I made a Nefu Pianist, with the tail mod of course, and she's turned out into decent but not overwhelmingly capable spellcaster while the little girl frontlines, loytel shoots arrows from the back, and farris does... whatever she does. A heal here and there and some boomeranging so far from that one. This character went with Horome of Moonshadow, as I figured i'd go all in on the pianist stuff for once, and the spellcasting bonuses are welcome too. She's also had, for my limited experience with the franchise, pretty wild luck in having gotten the seven league boots early on from a delivery quest that was "unfortunately" failed to carry out, and got herself a chance to wish for a vindale cloak so i don't have to worry as much about ether disease.

I'll probably go back to, or recreate, the Hillfolk guy one of these days. Or try something else entirely. Maybe a Succubus Priest or Paladin or something. Or Golem Warrior to just ungabunga with.

[Akameka]

pretty wild luck in having gotten the seven league boots early on from a delivery quest that was "unfortunately" failed to carry out

LMAO how could you lose something so precious ?! I wonder what happened....
Amazon delivery : "I am sorry sir, when I was on the way, someone stole your package (*That's me*). I guess I'll take the blame for being robbed something that doesn't belong to me and that's it. Please have a good day"

[Zedrin]

Originally posted by Akameka:

You can use backer race and classes such as Mifus/Nefus by activating them in the character creation ( very missable tick case bottom right of the screen.)

OH that's how you get them. I was worried that only backers had access to them.
I wish I had known that at the start, would've made different character creation choices.

[Wolfdoggie]

I just used my PSO2 kemono character for pic Wutz this tail mod you speak of?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361842100

Demigod Witch... took forever to find a weapon so I made good use of the Witch's Throwing skill; pelting things to death with rocks and using magic. Eventually found a melee weapon but throwing skill is too high now, kept throwing rocks. Eventually found an unlimited throw-able slime monster encased in amber and been throwing it around like a Blitzball... and I throw whatever potions I have in a pinch~ blind/confusion pots are pretty OP. Feels like a Chemist class.

Swapped to Elemental god once I found it for the staff and Exile (my fav pet in Elona+) then idk, is Void permanent stat boost when you max it and switch to make it worth? Cuz I liked collecting all the pets in Elona.

Currently following me around as allies are the rescued puppy and a bat, except I turned them into a humanoid dog and bat. Dogboi uses a sword and Batboi uses a handgun... Pretty good anime so far.

[Burden of Brine]

Originally posted by Wolfdoggie:

I just used my PSO2 kemono character for pic :zaggrin::zaggrin: Wutz this tail mod you speak of?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3358081434

[Shard]

Best mod, gotta have that fluffy tail. And you can recolor them at a mirror so they match your hair.

[Country Square]

Playing an Juere archer, going for a sort of ranger archetype, have a solid shortbow and longbow, and found a really good miracle bronze axe early on that compliments the whole thing, been two handing it and sometimes dual wielding with an iron shortsword. Pretty good so far, been mostly focusing what magic training I get towards trying to level up my heal spells, got some solid scale armor my light mail of which is currently at +5 and has [9,21] while only being 3.2s in weight, and recently got a dawn cloth cloak for +5 speed, so it's going pretty well. The recent change to make crafting skill increase arrow strength is looking good too, so I'm going to be good for a while. I hope I get a good artefact bow soon, my current ones are fine but nothing special so a good bow is the only gear type I'm currently kind of lacking.

[Helios]

Its not labeled as a weapon since i cant enchant it but found a iron mic pretty early and was using a boomerang before that both return into your hand after throwing dex based.

[Ragnaman]

First char and current is a Yerles Thief.
Since i had no idea what to expect i created a generalist that should work for anything.
My plan is to praise Ehekatl and get 100+ luck. I assume that double dice rolls on everything should help with just about everything.
Doing fine so far, but didnt know that starter skills get permanently high potential.

[Ragnaman]

Originally posted by KillMolly:

I chose Demigod for the safety of not being punished for changing to another God and Warmage cuz it looks fun.

I plan to be godless until I reach the +7 to all stats from Eythe that demigod gets then pick Opatos and Horome in that order. I might decide to change Opatos to another god, not sure. I'm now using unarmed and a boomerang. Oh,my first mutution is pretty cool, my hands are dripping poison, which also gives me strong immunity to poison. I should farm for the putit in armour. Little Girl is using claymore and a bow. One of her favorited items are bows so I gifted her one. I'm nearing the end of Nov. in the first year and she just got rid of her bow for a different bow and I'm not sure why.

I'm undecided what industry to try first, they all look fun. I didn't make any farms before winter, will probably do that in the spring. I'm really interested in breeding monsters.

in Elin you only get bonuses from a single god, no point growing with Eythe if you later plan to switch. The only thing you can farm from gods that stack is their pets, they stay with you even if you change gods, but god weapons are also only useful as showcase trinkets except the single weapon of the god you are following.

Well, i guess im lying a bit, the weapons are good weapons, its just that the weapon bonuses will be disabled if you stop following the weapon's god.