[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

Welp them I go with Fight them! Put one more point in that stat! Them I will begin to focus in Crafts and Earthpower. I will be the Earth bender of the group. Avatar the last airbender feelings here.

Earthbending is...quite a stretch.  Earthpower lets ya bond better with your pokemon, remove curses like Forest's Curse and the Earthpower Blessing (and maybe Curse and other lingering mystical effects?) at level 5, and spend a ton of dough on creating one of those healing circles from Pokemon Tower in the Kanto games.  If you want to get the most out of that specialty, you're going to have to commit to it.  Level 5 costs a total of...6+6+12+18+24=64 exp...and then level 7 costs 64 (cost to get to level 5)+30+36=130 exp.

That's a LOT of exp.  Oh, and Ventus is probably going to avoid you whenever you're using those skills on top of that, which is...fun.

Essentially, Earthpower is an XP sink that is not fully understood at this moment, its benefits that ARE known are so XP expensive that is almost not worth it in linue of leveling up another Specialty to 5 or more (Like what I'm going to do with Medicine eventually), or maxing out Attributes. That, and Ventus is going to shun the shit out of Heart if he starts opening practicing Earthpower, as he's barely tolerate of the magical mumbo jumbo most of the group is dabbling in as is, with Shiva being a special exception. I'm not going to tell Spiritmon to not go that route if you want to being the Earth bender, though, as the uses of a 'mage' in the group with those skill and more is a nice benefit. Its just going be a long, hard journey for our pun lover Pokémon collector to get to that height of power.