Character Creation Guide
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:09 am
Character Creation Guide for Loren: The Amazon Princess
Hello and welcome to my guide for creating a starting character in the RPG game “Loren: The Amazon Princess”.
It’s based on the newest available version and this guide offers some insights/thoughts in what and how to choose in the beginning of the game and why you'd want to. The end of it also has some quick example builds, if you're interested.
I hope you enjoy the time invested in this guide and find it informative.
Now, onwards to the real reason you're here!
(Some of the guide is in spoilers to make the post manageable and also to go past some of the more speculative/descriptive parts of the guide - if you just want to get started use and example build)
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Right from the start it asks you to play Standard or Tactical – both have their advantages over each other. Tactical lets you have more skills faster and that leads to faster kills in combat. However, the reduced HP/SP does hurt those somewhat.
Standard is slower, with more grinding if you want to see more of each individual character’s skills.
Maximum number of abilities/skills is 16, no matter which play style you choose - Reaching that far requires a lot of grinding, though.
Afterwards, you get to choose which gender you want to play as – It doesn’t affect gameplay mechanics wise, but it will affect who you can romances, and dialogue through the game. I suggest looking up Aleema’s Romance Walkthrough guide for more information about this subject.
Now, the next thing that happens, is that you have to choose between being a warrior or a thief. Your secondary class, Hero, is already chosen by default.
It's not too important which you choose, you can win the game with either one - but if you're unsure, the following gives a thorough description of the classes.
You should know that during the game you can get to recruit/manage up to five warriors and up to four thieves, which might give you an inclination to choose thief. However, there are also good reasons to go warrior.
Analysing the aforementioned individuals can give you some of these reasons.
(You can skip this part if you're not interested and continue onwards to character building)
It’s up to you which class you choose, but warrior makes for an easier, more consistent play through with less deaths - Now, select your starting class based on this information.
Now that you’ve chosen your play style, your gender and your primary class, you’ll be asked a series of questions which will each grant a +2 increase to one of the three attributes and some of them will give you a weapon, some armor or some jewellery.
The information in the spoiler below will give you an overview of what you gain from each answer. Answer accordingly to how you want your character’s powers/attributes to be.
Some example ‘builds’ - (Look in the above spoiler for more information)
High damage dealer build: Choose warrior. Choose five answers of + 2 Strength where one of them must be the one that gives you the Long Sword. Choose one answer of + 2 Skill. Be in the front row. A little slow this way.
The defensive, slow tortoise build: Choose warrior. Get the Shield OR Leather Armor and the Ring of Magic. Focus mainly on + 2 Strength answers, but have one or two answers with + 2 Will.
Be a fast, but fragile character: Choose thief. Get the Small Crossbow and the Ring of Speed (Will answer). Otherwise, choose all + 2 Skill answers. Be in the back row and watch your hit points closely.
Well-rounded: For warrior choose three + 2 Strength answers, two + 2 Skill answers and get the Ring of Speed. I recommend getting the Long Sword, but the Small Crossbow is okay too.
For thief choose three + 2 Strength answers, two + 2 Skill answers and one + 2 Will answer.
Get either the Long Sword/Small Crossbow and the Shield/Leather Armor.
Financial build: This is just the way to get the most monetary value out of the choices - Get the two rings, they’re more expensive/harder to get than any of the other items.
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As always, any comments, suggestions or critiques are welcome!
Oh, and if you're wondering, I didn't make a 'mage-build' because there's no obvious reason to do so - you do get to heal more with a higher Will, but you get potions and other healers in the party who can help and the player's skills have a highest and lowest cap of healing anyway. You could however, make a magic oriented character for flavor reasons, of course.
Hello and welcome to my guide for creating a starting character in the RPG game “Loren: The Amazon Princess”.
It’s based on the newest available version and this guide offers some insights/thoughts in what and how to choose in the beginning of the game and why you'd want to. The end of it also has some quick example builds, if you're interested.
I hope you enjoy the time invested in this guide and find it informative.
Now, onwards to the real reason you're here!
(Some of the guide is in spoilers to make the post manageable and also to go past some of the more speculative/descriptive parts of the guide - if you just want to get started use and example build)
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Right from the start it asks you to play Standard or Tactical – both have their advantages over each other. Tactical lets you have more skills faster and that leads to faster kills in combat. However, the reduced HP/SP does hurt those somewhat.
Standard is slower, with more grinding if you want to see more of each individual character’s skills.
Maximum number of abilities/skills is 16, no matter which play style you choose - Reaching that far requires a lot of grinding, though.
Afterwards, you get to choose which gender you want to play as – It doesn’t affect gameplay mechanics wise, but it will affect who you can romances, and dialogue through the game. I suggest looking up Aleema’s Romance Walkthrough guide for more information about this subject.
Now, the next thing that happens, is that you have to choose between being a warrior or a thief. Your secondary class, Hero, is already chosen by default.
It's not too important which you choose, you can win the game with either one - but if you're unsure, the following gives a thorough description of the classes.
Spoiler:
Analysing the aforementioned individuals can give you some of these reasons.
(You can skip this part if you're not interested and continue onwards to character building)
Spoiler:
Now that you’ve chosen your play style, your gender and your primary class, you’ll be asked a series of questions which will each grant a +2 increase to one of the three attributes and some of them will give you a weapon, some armor or some jewellery.
The information in the spoiler below will give you an overview of what you gain from each answer. Answer accordingly to how you want your character’s powers/attributes to be.
Spoiler:
High damage dealer build: Choose warrior. Choose five answers of + 2 Strength where one of them must be the one that gives you the Long Sword. Choose one answer of + 2 Skill. Be in the front row. A little slow this way.
The defensive, slow tortoise build: Choose warrior. Get the Shield OR Leather Armor and the Ring of Magic. Focus mainly on + 2 Strength answers, but have one or two answers with + 2 Will.
Be a fast, but fragile character: Choose thief. Get the Small Crossbow and the Ring of Speed (Will answer). Otherwise, choose all + 2 Skill answers. Be in the back row and watch your hit points closely.
Well-rounded: For warrior choose three + 2 Strength answers, two + 2 Skill answers and get the Ring of Speed. I recommend getting the Long Sword, but the Small Crossbow is okay too.
For thief choose three + 2 Strength answers, two + 2 Skill answers and one + 2 Will answer.
Get either the Long Sword/Small Crossbow and the Shield/Leather Armor.
Financial build: This is just the way to get the most monetary value out of the choices - Get the two rings, they’re more expensive/harder to get than any of the other items.
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As always, any comments, suggestions or critiques are welcome!
Oh, and if you're wondering, I didn't make a 'mage-build' because there's no obvious reason to do so - you do get to heal more with a higher Will, but you get potions and other healers in the party who can help and the player's skills have a highest and lowest cap of healing anyway. You could however, make a magic oriented character for flavor reasons, of course.