Character differences

[Corvus Anathema]

Hello, could someone point out the differences between characters with more details? Are the basic attack, and those passives at the start that You pick up the only things that are not the same, or is there something more to them?

[fiendishdevil]

Each character unlocks 5 passives through achievements that do various things and enable certain builds. Here are my quick analysis from a few hours of play.

Character 1: Knight
-Melee arc attack
-Only equips Heavy armor
-The "tanky" high armor character, very generic

Character 2: Sorceress
-Ranged attack
-Only equips Light armor
-The only real ranged character that is super versatile due to the fact that her ranged basic attack can be modded in more ways than the melee attacks.

Character 3: Assassin
-Semi ranged multi hit melee attack
-Only equips Light armor
-High mobility, uses evasion

Character 4: Barbarian
-Melee AoE attack
-Only equips Heavy armor
-Spin to win. Tanky AoE clearing. Feels better than the Knight.

Character 5: Warrior
-Melee large arc attack
-Only equips Medium armor
-Versatile melee warrior that has spell caster passives. Feels like an overall better version of the Knight. I guess the main difference is she can't equip Heavy armor so armor builds are less effective

[Corvus Anathema]

Ok, thanks for the answer.

[mccloud]

There are more - different chars have different starting stats, e.g. armor, evasion and most importantly (don't remember the official ingame phrase but) the slowdown modifier - how much the movement speed is capped when you are attacking. For example, the sorc is the worst in that regard - she was at 50ish % cap, basically moving at HALF speed when attacking, while the highlander girl is very mobile, she was at 70ish % last time I checked.

Attack speed is also different - the knight is average, the orc is slow, the assassin is very fast, highlander is fast and sorc is average to slow.

They are archetypes basically, you want facetanky build - go knight or orc, want glass cannon - go sorc, want mobility ? - go assassin or highlander.