Update, what do you think the best way to start the game is?
Mine is to take soldier, (double damage first round)
get scientist outfit
get slavers license (5000 money)
go to nyan store sell all excess clothing
go to weapon store buy as many essences as you can
enchant a ring for slavery
go to the space one to the left of home
explore till you fight someone
enslave them
head to slavers alley
retrieve slave ring
sell slave
rinse and repeat till you have enough money to buy 4 bed slave room and more slave rings
I pick either chef or musician (imo those and soldier are the only jobs worth picking) depending on if I want more offense and defense (chef) or longer debuffs (musician). Fights against singlular enemies are over in one turn without soldier anyways, and soldier does nothing turn two+ so once you can maintain the potion effects, with chef you just have a +50 to ALL stats, which helps a lot in multi-boss fights or imp gangs. Musician's kinda funny though, since you can pretty much permastun anything with witch seal (from equipping witch broom), and the upgraded flash and ice shard spells for -6 ap to anything. Even without extended spell effects, alternating between 2 targets with upgraded ice shard twice and flash gives -3 ap, which is what most enemies have, meaning they never get a turn. Extra duration makes the stun last longer, giving you some leeway to cast upgraded soothing waters to heal, restore mana, and potentially res your elemental (at least, I think it can res) if you need it.
Also for your summoned elemental, unequip all abilities you don't want it using. I always take water elemental and just leave ice shard, soothing waters, and give it a broom so it gets witch seal. You can also change its targeting priority in battle to make it take different actions if it tries to heal on turn 1, for example.
I, uh, mostly played on Lillith difficulty, so all of this is way overkill for normal difficulty... but if there's a combat system with any degree of intriguing depth and customization, I WILL break it to the best of my abilities.
Ah damn I forgot to multi reply to spend an extra hour just explaining how much I love Meraxis's character
Double damn, used wrong its, I can't have my whole post be invalidated for that