Can you ever swap out your first character?

[Magus]

I picked a class I ended up not liking very much but I can't swap her out in the party screen since she was my first. Do we ever get the option to swap our first char? If anyone has any thoughts on how to make the Druid fun let me know. She seems like a worse monk so far.

[Kiriyama]

I enjoyed maxing animal kinship. Duplicate the bear a few times, delete the other animals. You can eventually first round spawn a couple of 150hp+ bears with multiple attacks each, and thats without your buffs.

[Littlenog]

What play style are you going for with the druid?

[Magus]

I'm still very early, lvl 8, but so far I've been going primal which seems to be mostly physical damage. She's not awful, but compared to my monk who can potentially delete 2-3 enemies per turn with physical stuff so she feels under utilized. I'm also not super clear on the differences between skill grids when you're given a choice to add new ones which may be contributing to the issue.

[Tesso]

Go to the Guild Hall. Put the person you want to be the new party leader into your party. Below their portrait, you will see a red dash (remove) and a crown (make leader). Try that.

[Trench]

Originally posted by Magus:

I'm still very early, lvl 8, but so far I've been going primal which seems to be mostly physical damage. She's not awful, but compared to my monk who can potentially delete 2-3 enemies per turn with physical stuff so she feels under utilized. I'm also not super clear on the differences between skill grids when you're given a choice to add new ones which may be contributing to the issue.

So each character has 3 skills. It will take some experimentation depending on the character/how you want to build them. But the general idea is you will be offered 3 skill grids each that have a skill node for the 3 different skills you can build for. Usually the first one is str based, second one dex based, third one int based but this isnt a hard rule for every character.

The general idea for druid though is first deck (str focused) is melee damage and bleed, second deck (dex focused) is lots of elemental and aoe board control type stuff, and the last deck (int focused) is all about summons and cards that effect those, along with a couple healing cards.

I havnt played since 1.0 release, but
My favorite druid deck was to go a str build, peaking into the int tree just so you can get summon bears(and bears double attack passive). You apply bleed, your bears apply bleed, one of the int deck final cards lets you shapeshift into a big bear that does even more damage and bleed, its pretty strong.

I wouldn't sweat it too much since starting in act 2 you can pretty easily respec your character. So for now I would just experiment and do whatever.

Druid is one of my favorite in rpg type games though and I really like it in this game. You have summons to tank stuff for you and your party, you get access to some basic healing to patch people up, and you still provide good damage along with the support options you have.