Hello, brand new player, have a few questions
1. How the hell do you get skill points and what's the quickest way to grind them?
2. Is a summoner viable? I noticed Evolution can get a lot of summon skills. SpawnDrone, SpawnLavaDrone (via transforming into a lava broodqueen), SpawnFireBug, SpawnSymbiote. And there's a summon wisp too. Can I beat the game spamming only these?
My definition of "summoner" is all minions are 100% expendable and immediately replaceable. So not party members that need to be kept alive and leveled up.
3. If a summoner is viable, what's the build? I understand I need to max Magic and Size, how do you do that?
4. Is there a nude sprite for Creation in the portal stuff?
1.
What do you mean by skill points? Druid Skill points? The first three MC (Creation, Evolution, and Druid) all have different trees, the other 160~ options all just scale with genetics and level.
If it was Druid when you first opened the skilltree (Change) this would have popped up in the top left and stayed open until you closed it by clicking the X flower.
It tells you that you select a type of training in the same skilltree menu on the bottom left
After you have selected it you get skill points every time you level in the category you trained in
as you can see i leveled up Strength training to level 3 by doing a fight in the arena, i now have 2 Global Skillpoints which can be spent anywhere, and 6 strength skill points (you get 3 attribute skill points and one general per training level.
early levels are easy to level, later ones need more XP, and you get more XP if you're alone, if the enemies are stronger than you, and by how much stronger.
there are also XP modifying traits, intelligent(you can grab it in the setup menu for a new game, or get it by mutagen rolling)
Light Affinity(take light elemental summoning at the start or find one)
and then Ancient power gives you 1/5th XP but you get better stats.
The best/fastest way to grind levels is to use the arena till you and your team can stand on their own, and then head to special portals, highest difficulty is best, and just sweep enemies up, ideally with AoE magic, usually you use spirits in the arena to get some high stats/level caps as they get better stats and genetic level cap every time they reshape after hitting level cap, and Druid to cap out needs to hit level 20 six times, so its gonna take a moment lol.
Anyway, just roll some spirits up a bit then fuse them with fodder to make the Fire dragon-girl special hybrid, either from tavern or overworlds. (Fused parts need to be fire lizard and harpy or phoenix/ or dragon-girl and lava girl.)
you want high magic and mana, then they just wipe out teams by themselves and you get the XP for sitting there.
There's definitely faster ways but this is the fastest one i can think of for a completely clean new save-file.
1.1.
If you're Evolution or Creation you get skill points by performing rituals on higher genetic max level creatures of the base and mixed species, you can't do it to fused ones, but you can fuse creatures to level 20 genetic max level and then have them breed you an array you can level off of. Just go to any allies page and hit the ritual button if it says you get points.
2.
I haven't personally run this yet, but i have seen people do it on the discord, so yes? Your definition of summoner might make it more or less viable. If your intention is to only use the MC and Combat summons i would probably go Creation and try to get her special quest summon, she also has slime bulbs which are basically turrets and can combat summon tentacles (and gets improved tentacles later unlike Evo) as tanks/seducers, you could definitely run Evo for this since they can change out their skills for more summon options like all the plant/insect/tanid tree options, though you'd still only have 4 skills in combat to choose from.
2.1
If you allowed a full team of summoners, like 6 units you need to level up but all their skills are for summoning or buffing summons in combat, then i'd also run Creation, but Evo could work too, druid could maybe do some plant summon stuff but i don't think it would be as good. Other options for this would be like Flora MC to capture the Kitsune. Juliev gives spawned pylons double HP and 1 AP on spawn instead of 0, so definitely an option. There could be more, i don't have everyone unlocked lol.
3.
A bunch of starting traits and classes are locked behind doing the achievements but with what i have i'd do this for solo summoner.
Pick Creation, affinity doesn't really matter,
Injury, 50P, 50P, 100g, in town, small party, UnAssuming.
Magician Class, Potential, Evolved, Hidden power for tentacle swarm, you can take LifeRootand/or Summoner for more variety of summons but i wont bother, take every negative point trait, put magic gene to 10 because thats how combat summons scale as we cannot set ourselves to be gigantic, throw extra points into mana and HP, you will want them to be at leats 2 each. You may not be able to afford 10 Magic if you don't have all the unlocks, it will gimp you but lower it if needed.
Im using my starters as brothel minions, but give them some usueful traits to get you to an okay level if you like, maybe ligth affinity for that 25% XP boost.
Other than that it's just equipment and hoping your mutagen RNG isn't awful, grab empowered when it comes up, combine staves and wear magic boosting and mana boosting gear, summon your slimey minions and conquer the world.
4.
I don't think so? You mean her overworld combat sprite yeah? I think it only changes with corruption level, and maxed out corruption doesn't change her clothes.
