The Professions (New Aetherlight Feature!)

Jayhawk_Greencape 2021-11-25 16:12:12 UTC #41

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-25 19:09:08 UTC #42

Hmm. Perhaps both the scholars and the mechanics have this quirk? I noted in this topic that scholars have a crafting stat.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-25 19:32:50 UTC #43

@Josiah_Ironcraft1 I see this on my Level 2 scholar:

I think that's a confirm.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-25 20:07:29 UTC #44

SFTP, but a change in Scholar battle stats for Level 2 might be useful to know:

Note that there are a number of new stats. I'm seeing a First Aid stat and Recovery stat, which I only saw previously on Medics, and Taunt, which I previously only saw on Soldiers, in addition to the increase in the Crafting stat. This tells me that eventually ALL of the professions may get all or most of the battle stat abilities as they level up. A Medic would obviously have a huge lead in the First Aid category, and a Mechanic has a lead in crafting, but eventually everyone may see a reduction in the amount of items needed to craft things. It just may take longer for certain professions - it's correlated with the crafting stat, not necessarily the profession.

Note the correlation between the health stat and the increase in health in the health bar as well. Alright, back to saving up my observations.

caleb_Larkmagnet1 2021-11-25 20:51:41 UTC #45

I think taunt is bad. It makes the automatons hit you over other people.

caleb_Larkmagnet1 2021-11-25 21:13:11 UTC #46

I have a theory on the rally perk that soldiers have. I haven't been able to test it, but it seems like it's for having more chance to hit those automatons that like to dodge. You know what I mean? Rally gives you more determination which would mean you're more determined to hit the automaton.

Titan_Candleburst 2021-11-25 21:24:36 UTC #47

If you click the Telegraph it pulls up your stats and you can hover over rally to find out what it actually is.

Have you already done that?

caleb_Larkmagnet1 2021-11-25 21:25:24 UTC #48

Oh, well, didn't think about that. Thanks.

Ephes_Eldercape 2021-11-25 21:28:34 UTC #49

The soldier gets armor so the idea was probably to take the strong hits with your armor so other players don’t get so beat up. 🤷‍♂️

Jayhawk_Greencape 2021-11-25 21:29:59 UTC #50

Maybe. Hey, do you know if the bugs for OG high level players are partially fixed?

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-25 21:30:36 UTC #51

But all of the other professions have armor too. See my second post in this topic.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2021-11-25 21:39:37 UTC #52

Is there a reason I shouldn't make @Jayhawk_Greencape a soldier?

Dathmaul_Crinklegadget 2021-11-25 21:40:36 UTC #53

I prematurely made Crink a scholar...

Jayhawk_Greencape 2021-11-25 21:42:09 UTC #54

Was that bad? They seem pretty all around.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-25 22:33:17 UTC #55

I don't think it was bad. I actually know more about medic and scholar than soldier at the moment, but I can look into more.

Medic seems to specialize in defense and healing, whereas scholar seems to specialize in offense and causing the automations more damage, similar to Mage and DPS in standard RPG parlance. Soldier strikes me as more of a Tank style class. So if you like being a Tank, Soldier is on par.

Soldier Level 1 ability seems to have limited usefulness in my view compared to the scholar and medic level 1 abilities. Hopefully it gets better as it levels up.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2021-11-27 01:41:05 UTC #56

I got a question last night about why I choose Mechanic for the main character. What happened, ironically, was that in testing each of the candidates, I eliminated...all of them. I like Scholar, but Scholar needs to play through the story from the beginning, and Soldier was just a no.

Medic I eliminated for more personality reasons. What I do on the Aetherlight is not really heal people - I actually am pretty terrible at that and do the exact opposite - instead, what I do is go around and fix things (or try to). So Mechanic it is.

As for Mechanic itself, I've found that it's actually a pretty terrible class - the special ability doesn't really seem to do anything, even worse than the Soldier abilities. Apparently it stops your clothing from being ripped to shreds? Which continues my tradition, as usual, of making comically terrible decisions. And since I never really wanted a profession anyway, my profession is pretty much a decoration that doesn't do anything and we can all get back to normal. Yay!

Now, to go find Lukas' cat.

Alex_Amberblast1 2021-11-27 04:54:20 UTC #57

Medic Info

I tried battling alongside another medic and we both used our elixirs. Things moved too fast to record the statistics (I'll try again later) but nothing exponential happened. We fought the tower guards and won, health stayed above 50%, but we weren't invincible. Also the "fortitude" effect only seems to regen health on specific rounds. Haven't figured that out yet.

Just a thought, but since there is a lot of research that will happen on this thread, I am going to try to title the posts I make (hence, "Medic Info" at the top of this post) to possibly make it easier to search the thread for info on specific professions. -Shrugs-

Titan_Candleburst 2021-11-27 08:49:23 UTC #58

Excellent idea. I shall do the same with Soldier and Mechanic if it is possible.

My leveling is fixed - I’m level 2 soldier now.

Soldier Info

My outfits are also fixed, though I had time to craft a second aethermeter. (that was interesting)

My health as a level 2 soldier is currently 105 at most, and my regeneration is 104%

Jayde_Eldersong 2021-12-03 04:13:11 UTC #59

I just started playing again, and I'm confused as to how we choose a profession. I started a new character, so I may not be far enough along, or is it something else.

Jessie_Dearsnap 2021-12-03 04:20:45 UTC #60

You go to the mission board in the basement of the basement. There will be several missions where you will be able to pick with profession you want. Once you choose a profession, the other profession missions will disappear.