Should You Pick Hammermage, Cryoknight, or Guardian Faction in Brighter Shores

In Brighter Shores, after the tutorial and first episode, you will have a choice to choose the faction with which your character will be aligned. Since your character's game strategy would differ depending on his faction, so choose wisely.

Overview of Brighter Shores

In Brighter Shores, you will be able to choose a faction to join, one of three. Your chosen group will serve as your selected class, even though they're going by factions. From the image up top, it's obvious each one will have their unique fighting style and armament.

This feature will be available once you begin to explore Hopeforest in Episode 2. Once you've found your allies, go to the Dryad Glade to save a Dryad by defeating the Mutant Stag.

Then the NPC will give you a leaf key item that opens a stone door on the Thin Trail. Just head northwest to find the Narrow Path. Once the door is opened with the leaf, you can enter the chamber in and choose your class.

The popular rock, paper, scissors game is essentially just elaborated into the factions. Guardian is Cryoknight's strongest opponent, while Hammermage turns out to be his weakest. Their basic weapons include swords, shields, and ice magic; they prefer metallic weapons. With its magic and melees, this class is probably one of the most aggressive in the game.

Guardian belongs to one of the ranged classes in Brighter Shores. For this class, Nature magic is a standard form of practiced magic. This indeed gives them the advantage over Hammermage. They are still able to use melee weapons, but their damage-dealing abilities are very low compared with both other two tribes. It requires bones to craft equipment, whereas Cryoknight requires metal gear to be crafted.

As both Hammermage and Cryoknight are magical melee warriors, the two are quite similar. Both have such strong lightning spells that they may easily defeat groups of opponents. However, rangers like Guardian may be a huge match with them. Since weapons and armor are made of rock, they are quite durable.

What Course Is Best for You?

But ultimately it is for you to decide. This game's developer clearly strives for maximum fairness, making every faction relatively equal. With both Hammermage and Cryoknight fighting close range, they are rather interchangeable. All you gotta do is pick a favorite: Ice or Lightning.

Guardian stands out from the crowd with their long-range armaments. This faction is fit for the players who like to play in the druids or elves due to this class, which does not suit me because I don't fancy bows.

Keep in mind that each faction will have special attacks while going through the game. The game is currently still in development, thus they are not available yet. There will definitely be some sort of relation between the special techniques and each party's main element and weapon.