Alright, so, let’s go over pure builds and how they vary from each other for me to set up my point:
Mage - Ranged, the basis of the game, might need to play more close depending on your magic’s speed, can have a second magic to perform synergies with, but requires a lot of aim.
Berserker - Close combat, can shred up close, but you WILL need some extra health so you don’t get blasted. Second fighting style isn’t as useful as the second magic is with mage, as there’s only one synergy as far as I’m aware. (iron leg bleed [not guaranteed] + sailor style)
Warrior - uhh… don’t have one. But you have three weapons to choose from, some with AoE, ranged attacks, grabs, etc. Chances are one weapon can cover all three of those as time goes on and more moves are added, so I dunno what you’ll do with the other two, but whatever.
They can all do their own thing, and Weapons kinds of acts like the mix between the two on its own.
Warlock - You can do stuff up close AND far away. Nice, you’ve covered both weaknesses, you should be good now. Might end up under or overusing some moves due to how many you have now. (why explode when you can crash, or beam when you could shot, etc)
Vitality hybrids - yay yippee more health hehe haha hope you didn’t have any plans to use those moves you would’ve had if you just went with a pure build
…and then there’s the weapons ones. let’s mix the already-made-to-be-mixed and the pure builds together to see what happens
Warlord - Yeah, weapons and fists. Cool. Both of them have grabs and other close-ranged attacks. Cool, right?
idk i havent made one Eeeeeh. Probably not. The only ‘combo’ I can imagine you doing with this is flash strike or mirrored river + shockwave smash. The thing is, though, weapons usually have a lot more ranged attacks than fighting styles, and Crash can help you get closer to someone in order to do that flash strike thing I just mentioned, or anything, really, so it should still make up for the shortcomings of the other.
and then there’s FUCKING CONJURER which i DON’T LIKE because its my WORST CLASS
Conjurer - Magic and weapons. Sounds badass, right? Yeah, 60% of the playerbase (including me) thinks so, too. That’s why it’s everywhere. That being said, magic has two very reliable projectiles. So do weapons. Weapons have grabs. Magic has one that’s meant to get you out of danger. Magic has placed explosions… and ok weapons don’t have that, but why settle for less damage and more endlag (i think) when you could just throw a flying slash or a blast at them? Magic has Explosion? Weapons have Devastate, Tempest, Whirlwind (actually really good btw wth), Raging Impact, and oh my god THEY DO THE SAME THING AS EACH OTHER SO MUCH
Practically every weapon has a projectile with it, so when I have four versions of Blast, which one am I even supposed to use?
“Jawa, don’t weapons cover short range better than magic, though?”
probably, i just havent figured it out yet Do they? Devastate takes a long time, Raging Impact is… ok who the hell uses morning stars, Tempest has the same problem as Devastate and Whirlwind is ACTUALLY close ranged. Flash Strike/Mirrored River is quick to activate, but you’re still frozen in the air for a good second afterwards, which is enough for Bob to shove a drill blast down your throat with.
I remember hearing that the key to Conjurer is not to use too much of one thing, but why should I? Why shouldn’t I just go Warrior? Is it for the imbuement damage buff? Yeah, having bleed + ice is nice, but not everyone has something like that. The most useful tools that magic could add to weapons that I know of would be Beams (double beams if you sacrifice elius weapons like i did), Snares since I swear to god, the dedicated grabs just don’t work on NPCs, and placed explosions.
That being said, I don’t actually want to turn my ice conjurer into a warrior (He’s been an icy man since the fourth WoM test, I don’t want to take that away from him. I already have too many mages, too), so if someone could just say “Hey meta-bitch, you’re overthinking this” or “Hey dipshit, flying slash is actually entirely different from blast because a, b, c”, that’d be awesome.