u/LadyAntiqua

Basically, my character is going to be a Divine Soul Sorcerer that is OBSESSED with idea of a Warlock, to the point of pretending she is and always has been one. A lot of her character was born from "It would be funny". Divine/Angelic powers from birth that she hates, because she's always dreamed of the darker and demonic. Desperate to be seen as a cool and powerful Warlock, when no Patron has any interest in her (yet). Constantly grabbing any Cursed objects in the hope it has ANYTHING to do with anything from fiend to Fae she could form a pact with. Heavily inspired by characters like Yohane from Love Live here. INCREDIBLY funny to me for her to be such a loser (affectionate), but have so much Charisma that you can't help but feed into her delusions. Grandiose and flashy, trying to make herself bigger than she is to gain the attention of everyone. Her biggest point of pride is the churches shunning her for being a Divine Soul despite hating that she is one, because being called Blasphemous is a compliment in her mind. Basically, complete weirdo. Not trying to make her an edgelord, just someone TRYING to be.

... But how do I build that? I've played Warlock before but never Sorcerer, and no idea how to mix Divine Soul with any of the Pacts. Hexblade is my main thought, though. I don't even know when she'll finally find a Patron yet, so for the foreseeable future she's solely Sorcerer. Thinking Chaos as my affinity for DS too.

How would I work to build it? Despite Divine Soul I'm not overly interested in healing, because my other current character is a Twilight Domain Cleric, so I was hoping for a more Control-oriented playstyle. Anything that can fit into her personality too would be appreciated.

Unfortunately I'm a big fan of the whole "can you beat x game with y conditions" videos, wondering what can be done with the Trails games.

Thinking about mandatory encounters only, on Nightmare potentially, but don't know how feasible that'd be. Also no Orbment, but I feel like that just wouldn't be fun, with a metric fuck ton of farming to get ingredients for buff or attack food depending on the game. Maybe no spending Mira or Sepith? That way, you only have what the game directly drops to play with.

How does it work? Is it a hold or a toggle? Does it just speed up combat animations or does it skip them all entirely like CS2?

Played CS3/4 on PS5, but the PC versions regularly have different Turbo workings, so just want to make sure before I commit to PC.

Playing on PC, I'm EU and my friends are NA. Can I play with them? Couldn't find a region change option so not sure.

I swear I never hear about HM runs that end normally. It's always someone doing some weird ass experiment 70 hours in and dying in ways I'd never even thought of.

They never just lose a fight.

Just something that crossed my mind. I'm in CS3 right now and have Aurelia as a guest, and she's more than proving all the hype she gets, which has me wondering about characters that either don't live up to their reputation, or are way beyond.

Zin is what came to mind first, being canonically an A-Rank Bracer capable of going toe to toe with Walter, yet in gameplay he's incredibly underwhelming. Everyone's favourite punching bag Josette as an example of a character that is basically the same in gameplay and in canon.