Elin:Witch

Some of the text on this page is from the Beta build of the game.

Witches manipulate the secrets of alchemy and make a living by concocting mysterious potions. They are also rich in magical knowledge, making them quite troublesome adversaries with their penchant for throwing poisons, casting curses, and using magical artifacts. They lead carefree lives with their black cats, selling potions to the townsfolk and travelling the world on their brooms.

Class Stats and Feats

Class	Str	Con	Dex	Per	Lea	Will	Mag	Cha	Total	Domains	Skills	Weapon Skills	Feat	Feat Effect
Witch	0	0	0	5+25	8+40	4+20	7+35	4+20	28+140	Fire Poison Chaos	Throwing(140) Spot Hidden(160) Alchemy(150) Casting(130) Magic Device(140)	Staff(130) Short Sword(140)	Magic Mastery 1 Way of Witch 1	+1 Specialized Domain Can brew more potions Skilled at broom riding

Overview

While capable of spellcasting, witches prefer to resort to a variety of tools to get them out of sticky situations. With an array of potions, rods, wands, scrolls and other magical knick-knacks at their disposal, witches harness the power and versatility of a full backpack, always having just the right item for the job.

Strategy

Witches are a class-centered about the magic device skill. They can perform in a support role, throwing potions to either heal and buff allies or damage and debuff enemies. Alternatively, they can choose to blast away with more offensive wands and rods, leveraging their magic device skill into damage. Witches are also capable of more conventional spellcasting, but are not as good at it as a dedicated wizard would be. While alchemy is not implemented as of the Beta 22.57, witches nevertheless are intended to brew bonus potions from alchemy to make up for the number they will be tossing around. Reliance on magic device makes witches resilient to statuses like silence and dim, at the expense of needing to carry around large quantities of items.

While witches have access to the throwing skill, they do not have the strength growths required to deal good damage with throwing weapons alone, at least at the outset.

Broomification transforms any ally into a broom; while transformed, a creature will gain about 50 speed at the cost of a minor stat penalty. A witch can then ride the broomified creature for an extra speed boost above what a non-witch would receive. While being ridden, the buff timer on broomified creatures creatures will not run down. Spellbooks of broomification are only sold at Rodwyn's bakery in Mysilia; a witch should make it a priority to recruit her as soon as possible.

The broom-riding feat will multiply a witch's riding skill by 1.25x, then add an additional 25 riding skill on top of that when riding a broomified mount.

Chaos-element damage does randomly inflict statuses, while the fire and poison elements can afflict the enemy with slip damage.

The first thing early-game witches should do is craft a wand at the carpentry table, granting them a ranged attack based in magic device. The starting little girl can be transformed into a broom and ridden for a large speed boost. Since a witch has few defensive abilities at the outset, keeping distance and pelting enemies with wands is a strategy made easy by the speed from riding a broom. Witches can also opt to pursue the weightlifting skill and strength in order to increase their carrying capacity, given all the items they will be expected to carry around.

Suggested Races

Races that have magical potential do well as witches.

• Eulderna
• Elea
• Fairy
• Lich
• Mifu
• Succubus

Suggested Gods

• Itzpalt is a strong recommendation for any magic-focused class.
• Jure provides bonuses to meditation, magic capacity and magic device, all of which are useful to witches.
• Opatos can cover for a witch's physical fragility and helps inventory management with bonuses to weightlifting.
• Kizuami's artifact prohibits players from inflicting damage, but does not cover slip damage caused by state abnormalities. This makes it a good match for witches who have fire and poison as their domain and fight mainly against interference by potions.

Starting Equipment

• Spellbook of broomification
• Spellbook of fire touch
• Spellbook of poison arrow
• Spellbook of teleport

Lore and Trivia

The Witch is a backer class.