Alchemy is annoying me. So many Level 40-50+ equipment and so few Tier 5-6 mats ;__;
And there's a lot of oddities in the Alchemy recipes. Many of them seem to say one item (e.g., Knuckles) but the Level of the item in the details is way off (34, for instance, instead of <10). I guess this goes back to that pointer issue mentioned. Which is now getting a bit annoying since I think all the recipes I'm looking at are 3-4 items to make (e.g., Ascalon, Diamond Knuckle, etc.) and I spent ~150k gold on random recipes hoping to hit gold but unlocked actually nothing (or, most likely, duplicates). Once I get more Tier 5-6 mats, I'll try then to see if I can hammer out more recipes manually I guess.
Also, why do all the Mics say Mike?
How important is affinity because I quite fancy having a Diablos and Celestian in my party and everyone seems to hate the former and they both hate each other
It's used as a multiplier. As for the exacts of it (e.g., stats, damage, etc.), I'm not entirely certain. I've been more focused on playing instead of testing this.
I actually don't think you can adjust the status screen Affinity. Maybe some behind-the-scenes stuff with the +Affinity bonuses but I don't think the status screen itself reflects it.
Edit: Do be sure to use your Combination Attack skills pretty often. If nothing else, it raises the maximum of the Gauge along with the Affinity bonuses it keeps mentioning.
Can anyone give any feedback re: the racial classes? Any of them really, although the Necromancer is the one I'm most concerned about.
Basically, what has worked for people, what hasn't, etc etc.
I only have four so far (my Bahamun* Warrior and Celestian Samurai never went to their Advanced Classes) so:
Beast - My biggest grievanace with the class is that I have no idea where the Level 20-40 Fists are. Seriously, what's up with this? There's no Alchemy Recipes for them (though there's the mislabeled Knuckle and Baghknakh recipes) so I've been stuck with the same low-level weapons for like 30 levels. That said, she hits for 100-150 pretty often (+ Dual Wield), has good Evasion, okay HP (743 at 32), gets Counter at Level 7, and Godly Assault is 700-ish damage at the cost of her Defense. Basically, it's a Monk but better.
Summoner - Summon Seraphim, which you get in the teens, has a row attack that deals ~700-800 damage + Silences and can single-target Execute for 3000+ damage. Again, you get this in your teens. It's a permanent (until zoning out) summon. I've had this one-shot bosses. At the end of the game.
Outside of the Summon, no idea. I went from Sorceror to Summoner so I kept the spells. Having them is nice, I guess, and Whips/Harps aren't terrible items so far for damage. But, seriously, Summon Seraphim is absurd.
Alchemist - Honestly? Just seems to be a slower Sorceror in terms of spell acquisition. Maybe it's barred from the all-target Elementals and Ragnarok or something but it has Health Bomb, Restoration, Revival, Teleport, and at least the row-target spells. MP growth is okay (730 at 29). Item Storm is probably useless. Alchemist does get Dual Wield at 29 and Shin Yong 2 Sword at 45 so they can do some regular attack damage that way.
Alchemy in the field is okay but you're limited by the Alchemist's level. And no notes to check. So ... yeah. Their biggest perk is honestly that they're Gnomes and you'll get massive Affinity bonuses for everyone.
Edit: Just got Ragnarok on it (31) so I'll assume 31-40 will get the all-target elemental spells.
Sage - By your 20s, you have Ragnarok, Health Bomb, Restoration, Revival, and Teleport. 20-30 will get all the all-target elemental spells. Tremendous MP (1393 at 28). This is the best caster. Not much to say.
I want to note something about Samurai as well: They have some fairly good attack buffs. Namely, Clairvoyance. It can be cast on the field so outside of Anti-Magic areas, there's no reason to not to try to keep this up. Gleaming Sword is basically a worse Bahamun Breath (unless you're Dual Wielding status weapons or something since they're actual weapon swings).
*I have the stats for it but he's almost 40 so eh, I'll do it later and spend the ~2M Gold to get him back up.