Your Solarion

[Zoken44]

I'm getting excited about the playtest coming later this month, and the full release coming this summer, so I thought I'd try and see if anyone else is as excited. Solarion is the class, from the Core, that I'm most interested in.

I've shared elsewhere that I want to make a Skeleton Solarion. He did 200 years on Eox working customer service in a florescent lit cubical farm. and now that he has his freedom, he wants to feel the sun on his bones. Photonic Attunement.

What does your Solarion look like? Which feature do you think you'll lean into most? I'm thinking my guy will focus on the shot and the nimbus.

[DMurnett]

I am so sorry to do this to you but *Solarian

As interested as I am in the class I don't super have a concept in mind yet... I do know I wanna try Degradant the most because (assuming they make Balanced's Solar Shot reliance more palatable or pivot to a better gimmick in the full release) I feel it will get the least love. I don't wanna be all sparkly, I wanna watch everything wither away!

[Zoken44]

1: don't apologize, it's on the page as I repeatedly misspelled it. that's on me.

2: that sounds interesting.

[Justnobodyfqwl]

My first playtest Solarian was a Starlit Sentinel! They were a combined Barathu- one who specialized in studying photon, and one who specialized in studying graviton. They combine their knowledge as a Solarian, and gene-edit themselves into a Magical Girl Humanoid Form on the fly because they bonded over a mutual love for magical girl shows.

I've thought a lot about leaning into the transforming hero aesthetic for Solarians. Starlit Sentinel screams "magical girl", but the insectoid Shirren make me think of the grasshopper-themed Kamen Rider franchise. Kamen Rider also leans into the idea of "alternate forms" or power-ups that you combine in some way, which feels very fun and fitting with the way that Solarian as a class plays.

I have a few scraps of ideas, too. I'm curious to make a Vlaka Solarian with the new lore about their sun having a massive rebirth. I'd also be interested in playing a Solarian Pahtra, who uses a solar weapon because of the magnet-storms on Pulonis making tech unreliable. (The jokes about a cat sunbathing to recharge her powers are also very fun).

I've also toyed around with a few different solar weapon designs. A reach weapon that looks like a yo-yo, with a sun on one side and a black hole on another. A pair of boxing gloves, that either shine with sunlight or absorb the light around them like a black hole.