>color="black"]Tangentially, there's no strength stat in Skyrim,
>so player characters' carry weight is calculated based on Stamina.
>Logically, based on that, I assume Mugi can also sprint the farthest
>(if not necessarily the fastest - depends on whether she's wearing
>heavy armor) of any of the main characters, hold a zoomed-in view in
>archery for the longest period of time, and carry out the most
>consecutive power attacks before needing to stop and let her Stamina
>bar recharge and/or drink one or more green potions. :)

Since I've yet to properly sit down and watch K-On yet, despite my standing intention to, I'm going to take this moment to ask...

...Is it ever properly confirmed that she's got some sort of Attention Deficit or other? 'Cause, speaking as someone who does himself, her powers of Terrifying Hyperfocus sound very familiar.

>The obvious assumption would be that Mio's probably the team's healer,
>because she doesn't like to fight, but if she actually took the thing
>seriously as opposed to just rolling a character to humor Ritsu, I
>could see her mastering the complexities of one of the more esoteric
>support classes (for instance, as an Enchanter like Shiroe).

Given the rest of the team layout, she'd probably be stuck being the healer anyway, because Elder Tale strikes me as the kind of game where having one is only one step short of mandatory...

...But on the other hand, our main cast in canon does show that a party with a high-end Enchanter can hack it anyway.

>Ritsu's all about the DPS, so she'd be a Sorcerer or a Monk. Probably
>the latter, because she likes to hit things. This is simplistic, but
>then so, very often, is Ritsu's approach to recreation. :)

>Mugi's slightly spacey demeanor and deceptive strength would make her
>a hilariously convention-breaking Assassin. She seems all nice
>and ditzy and cheerful, like Marielle, and you assume she's probably a
>Cleric like her or some other largely-non-combat class, and then you
>get out of line and she whips out Extermination on your ass.

And also, given above points about Strength, she's probably slinging around some kind of hilariously outscale collapsing axe, like Krusty's only with the Mimbari Fighting Pike telescoping handle, just for that added little soupcon of WTF.

>Similarly, there is no question in my mind that Azusa would make the
>most pleasantly improbable Guardian in the game. Tiny but
>indestructible (particularly with Yui and Mio buffing her), and
>capable of making it so that you can't look away.

>The maximum party size in Elder Tale is six, but I'm going to
>stretch a point and bump it to City of Heroes' eight so that I
>can get all of the "provisional members" in.
>
>Ui's natural tendency would also be toward one of the
>healing/logistics classes (either Cleric or Druid, or maybe...
>whatever Minori's character class is, is it actually Miko or is that
>just a roleplaying thing, like Akatsuki being a ninja?), though, being
>Ui, I could see her taking an incongruous subclass (Berserker,
>perhaps) and making it work somehow. :)

Minori's formal class name is Kannagi. Elder Tale's national servers have a habit of replacing some of the twelve 'base classes' with locally flavored equivalents; Samurai like Tohya and Souji replace Pirates, and Kannagi like Minori replace Shamans.

The Kannagi's party trick as a class seems to be shields and so on, like Forcefield Defenders from CoH, although my understanding is that Elder Tale only has Res-based mechanics, rather than FF's +Def set.

>Jun is obviously a Swashbuckler and loving it, with a full suite of
>Witty Quips to go along with her dual wielding and fancy light armor.
>The only other class in the game that would sufficiently appeal to her
>fondness for the dramatic gesture would be Sorcerer, and that's
>reserved for...

>Nodoka, who would have had to be talked into playing more diligently
>than anybody else because she really doesn't have time for it,
>but who, as a Person Who Knows What She's Doing, would (once engaged)
>set herself the task of designing the most efficient character
>possible. She does this not in the spirit of petty stat-chasing, but
>because she has a seventh-level computer brain and that kind of thing
>comes naturally to her. The result, by the time they reach the level
>cap, is a Sorcerer build whose sheer destructive power beggars belief.
> Sure, she's a bit weak after the alpha, she can't do anything without
>a plan, and she's massively dependent on the support
>network provided by the others, but then Nodoka never does anything
>without a plan anyway, and Sorcerers were never intended to solo
>(right, Rudy?).

A buddy of mind tracked down a copy of a fan-translation of the official Log Horizon RPG... and a group of us who were all fans of the show sat down to try playing it.

(I don't recommend that others do so, at least until an official translation comes out; the translation is... inconsistent.)

Anyway. I was running a Sorcerer, and got abilities to stack damage multiplication on top of elemental affinities on top of everything else I could get ahold of.

Turns out that the resulting peak damage is about four times the total health of a standard goblin, and enough to one-shot most 'standard bosses' the game gives.