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[Kaitol]

Figured I'd post my basic first impressions of Pandawa's, since their blurb is somewhat lacking in the op.

Pandawa, the Totally Not Drinking Alcohol Panda "Milken" Boxers

Firstly, there are two basic types of pandawa, Earth/Fire and Water/Fire. There is basically no reason to even try to single element a Pandawa other than pure stubbornness, because fire feeds off and activates off dizzy enemies, and both Water and Earth trees inflict dizzy, which fire does not. So, the essential differences between Earth and Water can be summed up by two points.

1. Water is Ranged, Earth is Melee. Although as a caveat, all water spells I believe can be used point blank, and there is one Earth spell with a range of two, and also has a modifiable range (why would you ever do that though seriously spend the points elsewhere).

2. Water focus' on leaving their Barrel on the field and using it to draw enemies to it and make their spells AOE's, whereas Earth focuses on carrying their Barrel with them and using the buff Merry from drinking your booze-err "Milk" to boost their melee damage and add special effects to their spells, as well as heal themselves.

Both schools have passives and support spells catered to them as well as general ones for both, and it's fairly simple to tell them apart. If it says Merry anywhere(aside from the Barrel spell itself and Bamboozle which buffs allies with Merry), it's earth, if it has to do with your barrel being on the field, it's water.

In summary, Water is Ranged AOE damage, Earth is Melee single(mostly) damage. Both inflict dizzy which reduces all of an enemies resistances, boosting everyone's damage against them. Both schools can use the Fire tree to trade any Dizzy effects for Burst AOE DPS at medium-short range. Earth tree is slightly tanky with a Lock passive, resistance boost, and regenerates when drunk- err "Merry" (gotta keep this PG gents). Earth also has pretty good field movement, and both trees have a little control

Remember, it's Milk. MILK. M-I-L-K. Totally not alcohol. It's entirely a coincidence that enemies doused in it explode when exposed to fire. Milk totally does that.

Edit: Oh, also Earth/Water probably don't mix well, relying on your one of a kind barrel to be in two completely different places. So yeah. While nothings stopping you from using both of them, they really don't synergize well.

[cerapa]

Been trying out the Masqueraider. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, but the end result seems to be dropkicking Piwis into eachother.

[Seriyu]

Man, its really disappointing how they nerfed invisibility and Sram Air in general into near uselessness.

It's friggin terrible now.

Yeah, Sram is horrific right now. Really needs a buff. It's still barely acceptable in PvP thanks to invisibility, but even there it's not great.

I'm going to need a reinvite to the guild. I deleted my sacrier because I didn't really like them. Not my style. I'm on my Cra, Janet-Toaster, if anyone who can invite is on.

EDIT: War seems to have ended. Brakmar is now allies with Sufokia and Amakna.

I have been checking for ya when I get on, I think the issue is I just get on later then you by a decent margin. I'll keep checkin until I can find someone willing to help me scan for folks! That'll help quite a bit.

Been trying out the Masqueraider. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, but the end result seems to be dropkicking Piwis into eachother.

You are doing it right. (Fire is AoE, Air is battlefield manipulation, water is support-ish, but notably fugue is really AP efficient for the damage)

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Also expect an Iop rundown later, I've been playing mine a bit lately and I've forgotten how much I love them. Also Pandawa bit added!

[cerapa]

Been trying out the Masqueraider. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, but the end result seems to be dropkicking Piwis into eachother.

You are doing it right. (Fire is AoE, Air is battlefield manipulation, water is support-ish, but notably fugue is really AP efficient for the damage)

I'm thinking of going Air/Fire. Just punch enemies into walls and use AoE fire when I get surrounded.

Could you invite me to the guild, if you're on right now? The name of my Masqueraider is Green Joke.

[Seriyu]

I am getting on as we speak, I'll getcha in!

[bulborbish]

I'm feeling like I should change class, since it's just too frustrating to be 4 levels above an enemy and nearly die every time I fight. Anyone want to throw a random class out?

[Kaitol]

Srams were awesome in the Beta. Now they've kinda taken an arrow to the knee. Uhhh. Rogue is kind of like a less nerfed Sram that isn't as specialized in melee.

I... I can't decide which character to main. I have four I like right now and I've only tried like half the classes....

My New Character obsession has struck once again.

Maybe I'll just choose from the classes no one else uses that I like the most .

[Jack_Bread]

This game is killing me with Alt-itis as well. I'm on right now, by the way, for a guild invite.

EDIT: I've been invite, now. Woo!

[bulborbish]

I've decided to go Rouge as Kaitol suggested. Thanks mate.

Anyway, I guess I'll wait for an invite while I get used to the new abilities.

EDIT: Due to in game discussion I'm officially being a craft monkey for the guild. Currently I suck at everything, but soon I should be able to provide something for everyone.

[Seriyu]

It's time to talk about IOPS. IOPS are BIG MEN. IOPS do a LOT OF DAMAGE. IOPS DON'T HAVE ANY EYE PUPILS.

Really though, Iops. They have access to earth, fire, and wind elements. They all do damage in some particular way.

Fire Iops have a focus on explosion procs, Earth Iops have stun procs, and Air Iops have you gonna die. By that I mean, their AP/MP/WP to damage efficiency is through the roof and if you get into melee range with an air Iop they really only need one turn to kill you from full health.

Fire Iops in general do lesser damage over a wide area. Notable skills are... well, Fire is kind've an inclusive tree. If you must have a fire skill, just pick an explosion proc you like and use that.

Air Iops have absolutely no range and do amazing damage to single targets. Let's put it this way. Three 2 AP Jabs. Two 1 MP Gutting gusts, Probably 2 1 WP Uppercuts. Looking at them at the cap level currently (155),  that is... somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 base damage, assuming no crits, in a single turn.

That is a lot of damage. Their grand weakness is that they literally have no ranged attacks. All 1 range. No mobility in them. They're banking entirely on jump for catching up with anyone with more MP then them.

Notable skills are, particularly for earth Iops, Jabs/flurry/gutting gust/uppercut if you have no other use for WP.

Earth Iops do pretty respectable single target damage, on top of stunning and removing MP. Probably the most support oriented tree, whichi s to say, not much. Jabs at the very least is almost required for them, as most of their skills use a minimum of 4 AP. Notable skills, charge, maybe for air Iops, for mobility. Rocknosceros is also Iops only non linear ranged skill I think.

Stats. Easy. Crit, AP, MP, rest into your relevant elemental stat. Any spares after that, health.

Skills.
Jump is great except maybe for earths, max worthy in any case.
Defensive stance is okay, max it if you wanna go for a sort've battle tank role.
Flatten, absolutely terrible, pass.
Bravery standard... not terrible. Get it if it tickles your fancy.
Increase, pretty good. Worth maxing.

Compulsion. Max.
Vitality, maybe max if you're going for the battle tank motif. Maybe even if not.
Authority, pretty good! 40% chance to get a free buff when you melee a dude. Not bad at all. Worthy.
Show off, generally pretty good, depends on your team, obviously.
Locking Pro, ehhhh. Maybe for battle tanks? Even then, kinda iffy.

That's Iops. Hit it very hard.

[Kaitol]

It is worth noting that flatten has more range than jump. By a lot. Also stunning those annoying goddamn cra that refuse to stay near you from 6 squares away has its merits. Also, it doesn't use Wakfu like jump. You can only jump 6 times a fight, and that uses up WP that could be used for MURDERIZING. Flatten as much as you want.

[Seriyu]

The real issue is it has a decent chance to stun you. If they removed that I might change my tune, but it's low enough that you might get stunned but the other guy might not, in which case you're letting him and everyone near you bash on you for a turn with no reprecussion.

[Aklyon]

The real issue is it has a decent chance to stun you. If they removed that I might change my tune, but it's low enough that you might get stunned but the other guy might not, in which case you're letting him and everyone near you bash on you for a turn with no reprecussion.

But you are IOP. IOP is BIG MAN. IOP can TAKE HIT.

[Keuran]

Revised based on new information about AP sap and fire damage.

Spoiler:  How to Xelor (click to show/hide)

Hmm, sacriers and such are nice but what about the magicky ranged cla-

It's time to talk about IOPS. IOPS are BIG MEN. IOPS do a LOT OF DAMAGE. IOPS DON'T HAVE ANY EYE PUPILS.

HMMM.

It's time to talk about IOPS.

time

Let's talk about Xelor's Hourglass!

With Xelor's Hourglass, it's party time all the time.

Xelor is a class so fast that some of your speed actually rubs off on your teammates. All you have to do is bludgeon them with a clock! funkatronic!

Anyways, Water Xelor is basically the Final Fantasy Tactics time mage, except a little less stupidly broken in the sense that you can't just cast stop on a group of 5 enemies from 3 paces away. Specifically, the spells take AP from enemies or give it to allies. Note that most monsters have only a couple more AP than they need. Watch out, though, because if you drain a lot of AP from an enemy at once they develop a resistance to it for the next turn or two.

The odd skill out from water is Sinistro, which summons a turret that casts Frostbite on nearby enemies for 3 turns. It can be pretty great if you get some control and CMC to build walls of damage that enemies have to walk around, but it runs into issues otherwise in that it doesn't inerit your water bonus damage.

Watch out with Time Control: It actually just causes the first ally you cast it on to steal any AP bonuses you try to give to other players. It's a bit more affordable than Sandglass and has better range, but you always have to be careful about that focus status.

I don't think pure air Xelor is really a viable build, but there are three notable skills that you should consider:
Aging synergizes well with fire for mad damage.
Tempus Fugit is a short teleport. It doesn't get much better if you train it, but it's good to have on your hotbar for going fast and as a lock breaker since you get no push spells at all.
Punishment is the most powerful spell you can have. It deals stupid damage at long range without line of sight. Downside is you have to be on the dial and targeting anywhere but an hour cell will break the hour cell you're standing on. It's totally capable of turning you into artillery, but it can also get you into bad situations if you're not careful.

Fire's all about crushing: Tick lets you burn initiative to trigger aging several times at once for rad single target damage, while tock lets you expand your radius of crushing to break up crowds. Other than different cost/damage and area of effect, they're mostly the same. Except Hydrand. All you need to know about Hydrand is don't get it.

Core stats are AP. Get AP. Use your level 30 restat to put all your points into AP. Xelor's the name, so speed is obviously your game.
One extra AP is enough to combo Aging with Hand, +2 AP lets you get Aging plus Temporal Dus, and 3 AP lets you triple cast Frostbite.

Range and MP are also decent for most builds, and control+CMC are good if you just want to flood the arena with Sinistros.

A Xelor can actually effectively have 10 (up to 12 if you're lucky) AP by level 30 with the gobball set+satisfaction ring and maxing Rollback for a 90% (9 tries at 20% each) chance of a free AP every turn.

As for the specialties:
Xelor's Dial: The dial lets you teleport and gives you a power boost, but restricts where you can move without it collapsing. Required for a couple air spells.
Timekeeper: Not terribly uselful before you max it, but at level 9 it suddenly become REALLY GOOD. Consider maxing this before Dial since using it a lot gives your dial an effectively infinite lifespan regardless of charges.
Mummification: A resurrection spell, like the eniripsa/lumino one, except the target starts at your current health and drops to 1 instead of starting at 1. Okayish support but not a priority.
Devotion: Converts your MP into AP. Like Timekeeper, it's meh up to level 8 then suddenly AMAZING.
Desynchronization: Good if you're using any spells that rely heavily on tick and tock. The most obvious purpose of maxing it is being able to fire a tock Temporal Dust at all enemies at once on the first turn.

Temporal Waves: Important component of GETTING HUGE for Aging combo Xelor. Also useful for water Xelors roughly half the time.
Master of Time: Really good for water spells and Sinistro. Otherwise, eh.
Time Theft: Synergizes stupidly well with Master of Time and the water tree. Master this first if you always play support because it also boosts accelerator.
Temporal Prism: THE POWER OF CRUSHING. As long as you cast at least one spell every turn, you can build stacks of damage up to 100% bonus. Very good for fire, even better for tri-elemental.
Rollback: Free AP from the government! If you aren't 100% sure what to get, just get this. It's pretty good for just about anyone.

[TTHSK]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hmm, sacriers and such are nice but what about the magicky ranged cla-

It's time to talk about IOPS. IOPS are BIG MEN. IOPS do a LOT OF DAMAGE. IOPS DON'T HAVE ANY EYE PUPILS.

HMMM.

It's time to talk about IOPS.

time

Let's talk about Rolex Watches!

With Rolex Watches, it's party time all the time.

Rolex is a class so fast that some of your speed actually rubs off on your teammates. All you have to do is bludgeon them with a clock! funkatronic!

Anyways, Water Rolex is basically the Final Fantasy Tactics time mage, except a little less stupidly broken in the sense that you can't just cast stop on a group of 5 enemies from 3 paces away. Specifically, the spells take AP from enemies or give it to allies. Note that most monsters have only a couple more AP than they need. Once you can consistently land 2 or more AP burns per turn, you are now the government. Your word is law.

Shout out to Sinistro! Sinistro is a little steampunk dude who casts Frostbite once per turn. It's totally renewable at 4 AP and no WP, works on charges instead of hp, and shoots ranged AP burns. The hypothetical level 200 sinistro has a 90% chance per shot of taking an AP off the target. You can have 3 of them with Master of Time, more if you get some control equipment. Downsides are that it doesn't move and it only lasts 3 turns at most.

Also notable is Time control, which lets you tag an ally to gain an extra AP every time you give an AP to anyone else. I haven't tested yet whether gaining AP from passive abilities will activate it or if only the accelerator moves are valid.

I don't think pure air Rolex is really a viable build, but there are two notable skills that are good to have available:
Aging synergizes well with fire Rolex for mad damage.
Tempus Fugit is a short teleport. It doesn't get much better if you train it, but it's good to have on your hotbar for going fast and as a lock breaker since you get no push spells at all.

Fire's all about crushing: Tick lets you burn initiative to trigger aging several times at once for rad single target damage, while tock lets you expand your radius of crushing to break up crowds. Other than different cost/damage and area of effect, they're mostly the same. Except Hydrand. We don't talk about Hydrand.

Core stats are AP. Get AP. Use your level 30 restat to put all your points into AP. Rolex's the name, so speed is obviously your game.
Range, control, and MP are all pretty good too because most Rolex strategies rely on going fast and hitting things from relatively far away. Never sacrifice AP though.
A Rolex can actually effectively have 10 (up to 12 if you're lucky) AP by level 30 with the gobball set+satisfaction ring and maxing Rollback for a 90% (9 tries at 20% each) chance of a free AP every turn.

As for the specialties:
Xelor's Dial: The dial lets you teleport and gives you a power boost, but restricts where you can move without it collapsing. Required for a couple air spells.
Timekeeper: Mandatory for dial use. Possibly more important than the dial skill itself.
Mummification: A resurrection spell, like the eniripsa/lumino one, except the target starts at your current health and drops to 1 instead of starting at 1. Okayish support but not a priority.
Devotion: Converts your MP into AP. Also usable on allies, but it's limited to 2 per person per turn. It's a decent alternative to Timekeeper if you don't use the dial.
Desynchronization: Good if you're using any spells that rely heavily on tick and tock. It costs WP though, so it won't blend with the dial.

Temporal Waves: Important component of GETTING HUGE for fire Rolex. Also useful for water Rolexes roughly half the time.
Master of Time: Max this immediately if you want to hurt things with water Rolex. 3 Sinistros and +30% AP burn is good times all around. Otherwise eh.
Time Theft: Synergizes stupidly well with Master of Time and the water tree. Master this first if you always play in a group because it also boosts accelerator.
Temporal Prism: I don't know a lot about this, but I heard it stacks up to 100% damage boost for some significant time frame. Mandatory if you want to get the really good damage.
Rollback: A generally decent support for any build, doesn't do the synergies but a couple extra AP is always helpful.

I've been playing a water Xelor, so associated thoughts:
+ You can use the dial to cover a lot of ground, and it's very good for smacking enemies from behind/doing mean things with line of site/cover.
+ Water Xelor doesn't really seem to need ap - apart from Frostbite your ap removal abilities only ap remove every second turn (tick/tock mechanic is a pita); and the other two fit into 3 ap (the 1 ap attack can only be used once per target).
--> +ap along with Timekeeper might work out well, but it's probably better to wait until you've maxxed timekeeper first so you can store an ap for an ap, instead of paying 2 or 3. They do use different points but there's other nice things (master of time ^^) for water Xelors to spend speciality points on.
+ AP removal is very chancy, even with tons of points in master of time T_T
+ Dial counts towards your control limit, so you can't have three Sinistros unless you decide to go without the dial or have another source of +control.
+ Sinistros often perform kind of lacklustre due to range issues and seemingly random targeting.

I've kind of given up on my Xelor at level 32 because using the dial and carefully fiddling with things just so I can do mediocre damage (water damage isn't very good) and occasionally stop enemies from doing a full set of attacks (most have a spare ap or two and my luck is trash so I rarely manage) is too boring for me x-x. It does look like a group of water Xelor would be terrifying to face, though; you'd be able to mess with players (who tend to use all their ap I expect) a lot.