I posted a certain thread to some MMORPG website forums(excluding the WLO IGG and wlodb.com forums so it may affect the results drastically), asking them what element suits them, and for them the most useful both training and battle respectively. And according to 300 respondents, who also played/still playing and observed WLO, I came up with these data. Please note that this does not represent the whole WLO community's population. Read before you reply. The MMORPG forums I asked are confidential, because as you know, conducting a survey do require confidentiality.

According to these 300 respondents, I came up with certain percentages, that they think is the element suits for them, together with some of their own view, that I will narrow down to few points.

35% of the respondents said they want/like Water.
24% says they say Fire is very awesome.
20.5% replied that Wind and Earth suits them the most.

Here are some insights from those players:

Water
Pros - A very reliable support.
Cons - Like every support in other games, SP is a liability.

They've never seen a versatile supporter in this game like in WLO. It can be a melee combatant, at the same time, can be a conventional supporter like they've never saw in other online games before. But the main problem is still there, and a bit complicated. You need to attack and support at the same time, because of that you need more MP/SP recovery items with you for you to continue on using Water's support skill. The awesome thing in WLO, that if a character died in the battlefield(NPC character or another player), when you had a Water in your team that's not a problem at all. It's like carrying a FF Tactics priest with you all the time anytime you have a very difficult quest to finish. And level 10 Revive equals to 100% HP resurrection?! It's like having a Raise 3 spell on your priest in FFT(which a spell that doesn't exist, just a hyperbole). You don't need a Life Bottle(like in Atlantica) or a Phoenix Down(Final Fantasy) to raise your dead teammate. It is very unique, to have this kind of training called "Bursting", where Water play a role on it together with other elements.

Earth

Pros - A compliment support to Water. Specialized on pumping one's defense.
Cons - Does not "like" Water in the game, literally.

If you want defense, defense and a big DEFENSE. Earth is the element for you. Stone Wall(reminds them of Golem summon of FF Tactics) and Defense UP spell are really catchy for these tank junkies. Imagine if you put more HP and DEF on it, physical attacks are like steel smashing into a diamond, with matching shaking animation like in the cartoons.

Fire

Pros - Impressive damage inflicter.
Cons - If you want a decent burst training, you should buy a Ton hammer(at any -SPD amount depends on your Fire character's speed) at WLO's item mall. That might hurt "poor" players. Hates water, again literally.

Did someone said attack?! Call on Fire and let's burn and blow the monsters into smithereens. With its flashy and yet more impressive damage, attack loving players will fall in love with it. Whether its magic or melee, you'll definitely hooked up with it. A main contributor on recent way of "bursting", which is composed on 3 Fire and a Water. The amount of damage the enemy receive is the EXP you get from the enemy. The only downside is, you really need to spend on something that they call -SPD accessory, or what we call Ton Hammer. IF you watch Tom and Jerry tales, I'm sure you saw a 1T weigh fall on Tom's head. It drops your speed dramatically, as in, like several iron balls and chains are strapped on you at once, to reduce your speed at 0.

Wind

Pros - With high SPD, it can attack 7 to 8 out of 10 turns, you can have the initial attack. A defense breaker. Loves to irritate Earth with its defense debuffs.
Cons - It hates Fire. Ignition source + Oxygen + Fuel = Fireworks(kindly find the meaning for yourself^_^).

Speed is the main advantage of this element. In other games, speed means how fast your rate of attack, or your dodge/evasion rate is. In WLO, the faster you are, the higher the chance you always attack first. Second to Fire in terms of flashy skills, in melee. The "Dead Wind Attack" of Wind reminds them of Tales of Destiny 2(Tales of Innocence), Reid Herschell's Super Lightning Blade, and Wind Hit/Beating is like Twin Sonic Blade and Sonic Chaos, and for some, like Jack Vam Brace's Sonic Slash on Wild ARMs 1. Really fun to watch.

I would like to remind everyone, this doesn't represent the whole WLO community. These are from people, who replied on my survey threads on various MMORPG websites. They know the game, the gameplay, the mechanics, and developed manuals of their own on playing WLO. Please be reasonable and make sure it relates on the topic. These are their views, including mine, mixing it up to share what these players outside of wlodb.com/forum.wl.igg.com. I don't know why they don't want to join the WLO forums, they're just there to read, not to interact, and whatever their reason is, it didn't matter. These are their opinions. Judge it.

Last edited Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 8:59pm by HomerRugliaBeoulve

:D great guide or observation!!! :D

good lord!!!!!!! It's awesome that you took so much time to do all of this ^^ Good to see someone posting something nice about winds instead of the usual 'they are fast but useless'. and water doesn't get enough credit as a mage. They are great at supporting and most people only think they can use recover and revive and that's it but waters can attack to and they have decent attacks as mages. You did a really good job on this Homer!! ^^

I only conducted a 2 week survey, and I can't wait for a month or more to do this, I'm so busy on other games and some important errands. And I did it, outside of official WLO forum and wlodb.com, because I believe that in order for you to get a reliable result, you had to think outside of the box.

We look at the game at the different point of view. We take time to think and see how things will work. There are ups and downs on each element, because we based our jugdement on skills and its utilization on actual battle. The great thing is, all of the respondents see WLO, as an incarnation of many epic RPG's in different consoles.

Those statements are our views... Nothing more, nothing less... ^_^

a month would give you really good results. I can't wait to see what you come up with ^^

Well, that would be next year. I'll conduct another survey, I'll update this topic when that time comes. And I will add more statements in their own thinking.

And thank you for recognizing and appreciating my efforts. By the way, does the topic fit to my post? Feel free to correct me, Sarin. ^_^

XD Bless my soul, I believe we have a winner!!! XD the topic is players perspective on the elements (ie their opinion) and you have peoples opinions in your post. Genius pure genius!! *shakes hand* marvelous job dear boy. XD

I think a few statements from the people you surveyed would be good. have a few people argueing the pros and a few different people argueing the cons or something like that. As long as it comes from people that actually have the characters though. People who assume the pros and cons of an element without actually playing as the element have no room to talk in my opinion.

Well, there are players that look up to other's works and judge it according to their own perspective before they actually put it into practice. Take a look at the Roman Emperor Vespasian, as he commenced the construction of the famous Colesseum. He think first, if it's possible that two Ampitheathers can do the trick for him. Well apparently it can't be helped.

As long as it's reasonable, even in theory, it's a viable information. They have their points and there are points that point to nowhere. It depends on someone to separate the gemstones from stones in mining. If you know what I mean.

I cannot promise, but I can assure that I can update this topic next year...

wow, now that's what I call proffesionalism :DD which server do you play? I would like to see in our guild xDDD Awesome job, and I really mean it ^^
Wind doesn't just irritates earths xD they are deadly against earths :D aslo wind chars can make serious damage on water characters ^^ I love wind chars ^^, and also love earths, if it wasn't for my earth, we couldn't pass CP, or my hubby's earth , we couldn't pass JD/DS. Awesome def, awesome stone wall, and earth JS is the best of all ^^

well, you just got a fan for yourself :DD keep up the good work ^^

Sophie, read my signature. I wrote there on what server I'm playing. And thank you so much, Sophie.

By the way Sophie/Sophia means "wisdom" in French.... I like your name =)

^^ right,, sorry ^^ Sagi, that's nice :)) and yes my name means wisdom in my language too :)) thanks ^__^

Sarin wrote:

XD Bless my soul, I believe we have a winner!!! XD the topic is players perspective on the elements (ie their opinion) and you have peoples opinions in your post. Genius pure genius!! *shakes hand* marvelous job dear boy. XD

Yep... He is genius alright and many people have stereotypes about wind/earth/fire/waters....
Fires can only be offensive but i have seen successful fire supports :D
Winds are fast and strong and they own at PK if builded correctly :D
Waters can heal and kill but people believe they can only heal
Earths.... Ni idea about them lol... sorry... I havent used an earth so i dunno

For the sake who want to know what other gamers say about the game, if you're interested, you can read it.. Thank you..