Princess Of Rage (Competitive Sbrub Player)

First Maids of Space level up faster than the average class. Upon entering the medium, all Maids of Space automatically obtain the Fraymotif Progression Polyphonic. What this means is that they have a 1.25x multiplier to any EXP they get, so they level up 25% faster. Given the linear nature of EXP growth before God Tier, this is a busted ability. This plays into the nature of the Maid embodying the early growth and beginnings.

Progression Polyphonic is a huge part of the Maid's kit, which means it's great for when you're leveling up, but does nothing for you when you max out your level. It's not that you're weak or useless in the late game, but rather everyone catches back up to you and has a bigger kit so you're more middling than great. Essentially then as a Maid it's important you spike your early game and help the rest of your team snowball.

There are currently two majorly accepted schools of how to build your Maid. Essentially every class has some differentiation in how you can use their abilities. Usually only one is good and that's the one everyone uses and people will say you're griefing if you deviate from them. Those people are stupid and just be aware that you'll encounter them. Sburb actually isn't that hard of a game anyway unless you're doing something really dumb anyway.

Regardless: the two schools! The first is the Macro school. Basically you go all in on the ability to manipulate an objects spatial dimensions. You're super concentrated to shrinking objects and yourself down to miniscule proportions, or super sizing yourself or others to gargantuan heights. Think Ant-man from Marvel Comics, Gigamaxing from Pokémon, Mt. Lady from My Hero Acadamia. You don't need to get creative with it though, and enlarging your primary DPS player classpect to make bigger damage numbers vs Denizens and the Black King/Queen fights are perfectly acceptable. Alternatively supersize yourself and make the Black Queen fight a giant Space Player Kaiju rampaging through Derse. Lots of fun angles.

For a more creative use of this power, go check out the Jigen vs Naruto and Sasuke fight from Boruto and watch how Jigen uses those black rods and shrinking them and enlarging them for stealth attacks. For those of you not willing to watch a youtube anime fight clip that poorly explains the ability, imagine shrinking yourself to microscopic levels so that nothing can hit you, and then throw tiny throw handfuls of needles that you then size up to tree trunk sized spears that impale anything in their path with almost no time to react. Get cheesy with it, and use the game mechanics to your advantage.

The second school is the One With The World school. Time to take the class at its most literal. A Maid of Space is literally Made of Space, and by channeling their powers they are able to manifest a kaleidoscope of abilities depending on the nature of their planet. For example if you pulled Jade's Land of Frost and Frogs, your Maid of Space would have a wide variety of frost, snow, and cold abilities. For Kanaya's land of Rays and Frogs, you would gain a bunch of sun, light, and laser based abilities. In practice these are just a lot of the same abilities but with [Elemental Flavor Text] added on, but it's still an incredibly powerful, fluffy ability.

Also worth nothing that at max God Tier level with One With The World you gain the passive fraymotif Planet Pact Philarmonic. What this means is that any damage done to you is instead automatically passed onto your planet. So unless you're getting hit by something capable of shattering a planet (Reckoning Meteors, Red Miles, Another Planet Hitting You, Etc), you're practically invincible. Normally as a God Tier you can't really die due to the whole Heoric/Just thing, but there are still corner cases where you can have a true death (Denizen fights and Black King/Queen immediately spring to mind.) A max level God Tier Maid of Space following the One With The World path layers a second layer of immortality on top of the regular God Tier, making you literally functionally immortal.

In terms of breeding the Genesis Frog, Maids are often touted as one of the easier Space classes to breed Bilious Slick and recommended to newbies as such. I think this is a trap. The main reason Maids get recommended is because in the early stages the frogs literally throw themselves at you. Like you can just stand there and watch these dumbass frogs hop and practically beg to get slimed. This frees you up to focus on other things like snowballing your teammates. However this tapers off when you get to the more advanced levels to the point where you get no added bonus, and then you're an inexperienced frog breeder knee deep in the paradoxical muck trying to get this stupid frog over the finish line. Great if you know what you're doing, but you're not going to really improve as a Space player and get better at breeding the Genesis Frog.

Keep in mind that no matter what else happens in your session, if you get to the end and you don't have a properly bred Bilious Slick that's it. Game over. You're done. All the hard work setting up your session, prototyping your sprites, leveling up your echeladder, potentially dying, doing your denizen quests, and fighting the final bosses of the black king and queen mean absolutely jack didley squat. Get bent, kid. Hope you have a time player so you can at least scratch and go next.

[Sighs in the realization she's already at 1k words and hasn't even touched the Sylph.]

Alright. So Sylphs of space. Where to start. In their essence Sylphs heal through their aspect and heal their aspect. Space is not just physical space, but an item's attributes, as well as growth and creation. This is another one of those 'well what the hell how do you heal through beginnings and how do you heal geometric coordinates? Much like the Maid this is all kind of nebulous theoretical bullshit, so if you wanna take your Sylph in a completely different by all means pick and choose what you like from this and toss the rest out.

So an easy way to see how the Sylph heals via beginnings is during the Genesis Frog breeding. Sylphs are actually really good at breeding the Genesis Frog, and that's because they can actually heal damaged paradox sequences. So rather than needing a perfect sequence to unlock the next stage of the sequence, you just need to get 80% of the way there and then use your Sylph powers to heal the damaged 20%. These may feel like you're cheating just like the Maid, but it's a different kind of cheating.

Like. You gotta realize that this game rewards cheating and is heavily tilted in the player's favor believe it or not. If you weren't a Sylph healing the final sequence, you would be a Witch modifying the sequence to be the correct one, a Seer using your powers to easily locate the actual paradox sequence, a Rogue is stitching together the sequence from different frogs. Every classpect brings their own advantage to this, but Maids don't really teach you any cheats. It's just freebies that eventually evaporate.

Question: If the Sylph is so good at breeding the Genesis Frog, then why did Kanaya fail to successfully breed her frog and give the Kid's session cancer? Answer: Well let's get one thing very, very clear. The MSPA guided playthrough is not what you should expect from a typical session. To be explicit, Kanaya's session was undergoing an active invasion from a Lord of Time. If you are undergoing a Lord/Muse invasion then all the rules immediately go out and you're playing ball on an elite level. Post endgame content like Lords and Muses are something I plan on going on in depth sometime soon, but for now all you gotta know is that Kanaya had the entire deck stacked against her and she managed to clutch out a functional universe.

And let that be an important note. A functional universe. The push is for a complete 100% sequence for a perfect Bilious Slick, but the reality is if you get 90% of the way there the game will count it as good enough and let you move forward to your new universe. There will be some post endgame cleanup you'll need to do to get the remaining 10%, but it's not immediately game over. Once again barring obscene end game scenarios like Lord/Muse invasions, Sburb is heavily tilted in favor of the creation of a new universe.

Another way that a Sylph can heal via a beginning is their max level God Tier fraymotif Rebirth Refrain. Sylphs of Space are one of the few Classpects outside the Life Aspect capable of reviving a dead player. However there's a catch. The Sylph grants the player a new beginning literally. They start all the back at the bottom of the echeladder, lose all fraymotifs they had previously, and lose God Tier if they had it. They do keep all of their sylladex, weapons, grist hoarde, etc. So basically a New Game +. Note they can only do this once per player so no infinite continues. This can be kind of rough because it doesn't do much for you in the late game because a level 1 player is going to be struggling to pull their weight and catch back up, but it is an option available to them.

Their other healing abilities sound awkward in theory, but they are powerful in practice. In theory, any Space class is capable of modifying XYZ coordinates. They can shrink anything. They can enlarge anything. In practice it's a lot more complicated. It's easy to shrink or enlarge an inanimate boulder. It's a lot harder to do that to a living, breathing person. Sylphs of Space are especially attuned to modifying the spatial coordinates of others, but she specifically targets wounds. Consider all of the following.

After a particularly brutal battle with an Ogre and a horde of imps, you have several deep cuts, dozens of smaller gashes, and you're pretty sure that last clubbing blow from the Ogre shattered your arm and broke it in three places. You need a healer, so you go to your Sylph of Space. Those deep cuts and smaller gashes? A wave of a hand and they all shrink down to barely noticeable papercuts. Your badly broken arm? The fractures shrink down to barely noticeable hairline fractures. After a few hours the soreness is completely gone and you're back up to 100%

You said that you wanted to bring in some Mage of Doom traits, and I think an easy way to do this is to just go literal with it. A Mage is someone who suffers and grows because of their aspect, and Doom has some more subtle meaning but let's go with death. The Prince had someone close to them die in their early life, giving them a fascination with finality and destiny, reflecting part of the possibility aspect of Time. They never want anything to ever end, and the creation of new things and endeavors is what they do. They're the kind of person I imagine would pick up a new hobby every other month, fliting from one to the next never really mastering any of them and instead always trying to do new things.

Alternatively maybe it's the other way around. Rather than going wide, they go deep. Think of the art of creation and shows going well past their expiration deep. How many seasons of Survivor and the Simpsons do we need? Think of the old Star Wars Expanded Universe before Disney acquired it where there were literally dozens upon dozens of novels and comics and tie ins that just went on for forever and forever, slowly baring less and less resemblance to the original space opera George Lucas envisioned.

Thus then is the art of balance. Allowing the mighty oak to grow big and tall, but understanding that one day it too must pass.

Another possible way to view the art of creation and destruction using forestry metaphors is the concept of a 'controlled burn.' Essentially a controlled burn is something where the underbrush of a forest or area is set on fire and allowed to burn away. This is done regularly to clear 'ladder fuels' which help really bad wildfires to spiral out of control. Essentially pruning a forest via fire which sounds crazy but so it goes! Just another way of demonstrating how destruction doesn't have to be a scary word. Every ending is a new beginning etc etc etc.

Something worth keeping in mind, you could very well be a Prince of Space player and the whole ghosting thing could be throwing off the analysis. If so the inverse applies, and what I've written should give you an idea of what to do for the Space by inverting my ideas. The Prince class is one of the hardest to work with, and don't be afraid to embrace uncomfortable truths about yourself.

Anyway enough of that time for some GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS!

So usually Denizen quests are something of a keystone moment in every player's playthrough. Everyone remembers the first time they successfully completed their Denizen Quest. Likewise everyone remembers the first time they chose strife instead, and Denizen boss fights are so, so much fun. A difficult challenge, but the EXP and loot rewards are more than worth it, plus sometimes the denizen quest is just a massive timesink or you're running low on time and need to keep things moving.

Usually the quests are randomized with some classpects having higher rates of pulling certain quests (e.g. Rogues and Thieves of heart have a 25% chance of pulling the 'Steal the Enemy Agents' Denizen Quest.) Princes are unique in that their Denizen Quests are not pulled from a randomized pool but are guaranteed to always get the 'Does Cronus Dream Of Redshifted Sheep?' Denizen Quest. Some people dislike it, but the few times I've shifted over to Prince of Time I've had a total blast with it.

So as you go through your land and up your gates, you'll notice a lot of interactable grandfather clocks scattered across the landscape. You'll get some cryptic message about how they have an ominous aura that weirds you out, but you can't do anything about it at the moment. Upon crossing the 7th gate and meeting your Denizen Cronos, Cronos complains about how he can't sleep because of these infernal clocks! Your mission should you choose to accept it is destroy all the clocks, and if you accept he gives you the legendary artifact the Crowbar that will allow you to break the clocks. Accept and the objective 'Destroy Clocks: 0/1000' gets added to your quest log and Cronus teleports you back to the start of your land. Alternatively you can fight him then and there for the Crowbar.

Now two big questions I'm sure you have. Question 1: Holy cow you mean the Prince of Time has access to a legit juju? Answer: Not quite! Like all legendary artifact weapons, enhanced versions of them are available in solo Lord/Muse sessions to help balance things out. The Crowbar the Prince receives is nowhere near as effective as Caliborns, and even when upgraded after completing Cronus' request it's still a pale imitation. Other examples include Calliope's Runic Etched Echidna's Quill. See also: the legendary 9th die of the Fluorite Octet, Hi-Powered Ahab's Crosshair, Trickster EX Rank Zilly weapons, etc.

Question 2: Why not just bail on the quest once I get the crowbar. That's the reward for the quest, right? Answer: Because Cronus being awake is bad news for breeding the Genesis Frog. While Cronus is awake all tasks related to breeding the Genesis Frog take twice as long, and the final breeding of Bilious Slick has an infinite timer as long as Cronus is awake. Obviously killing him means that he's not awake, so either fight him or destroy the clocks so he can sleep.

And oh just fyi if you try to wiggle out of this by accepting the quest and then going back and trying to strife Cronus, Cronus immediately gets an exponential ^3 rage bonus for you being an indecisive backstabbing little bitch. Pick one or the other, but don't try to flip.

Now then let's talk some early strategy. The current Prince of Time meta is to use whatever exploits you can (think: John's rocket jetpack/Dave using the shitty skateboard) to blitz all your gates and get to Cronus as early as possible. This is because destroying the clocks can be time consuming and it's easiest to do this as soon as possible. The fact that Cronus teleports you back to the start of your world if you accept makes this strategy relatively safe compared to other Denizen Quest Rush strats. So basically you get access to one of the best artifact weapons in the game that will legit hard carry you vs most enemies up to your 4th gate. Legit one of the best Denizen Quests. Just don't slack off and make sure you clear every area of all clocks before moving onto the next one and you should be good.

If you're reaching your 7th gate by the midgame, then it's probably for the best that you just fight Cronus and team up with a few other players to reliably take him down. 1000 is a very big number, and even with controlled burn style you're going to be blowing up clocks well into the endgame and you just don't have the time for that really. Either do it early or not at all.

Mage of Hope. Mages are the active counterpart to the Seer, and more towards the center ranking a 2 on the active scale.  What this means is that Mages tend towards being more of a DPS class than a support class, but still have a lot of support aspects involved in their kits.  All enemies in Sburb usually have an aspect assigned to them, even if it’s something they never utilize.  Hope as an aspect isn’t resisted by anything which is good for the Mage of Hope because they’ll always be putting out reasonable damage numbers and don’t have to worry about being aspect blocked or their damage getting cut in half.

Of course the flip side of this is that Mages of Hope are never really super effective against anything either (other than Rage obviously).  In the early game this isn’t so much of an issue, but once you start going up against big walls of HP starting with Ogres, the damage starts falling off fast.  The Mage of Hope is really going to struggle handling things 1v1 for the most part in terms of raw damage, but it’s not all that bad.  The nice thing about Hope as an aspect as opposed to the raw DPS of Rage, is that Hope has a bunch of fun status effects that they get to stack on top of their damage.

The easiest way to see this is with their first Fraymotif BeliefBeat which deals middling holy damage to a target and also increases all subsequent damage dealt to the target for a set time, representing the hope they  give others increasing their own potential.  Lazarus’ Lament is your mid tier fraymotif and is the only pure DPS spell you have and will see use well into the late game if for lackc of nothing else.  Your ultimate fraymotif Buff Rondo deals medium damage to all enemies and applies random debuffs while healing your friends and applying random buffs.

Overall the Mage of Hope is a classpect I’m never unhappy to see in terms of gameplay, but I’m not too happy to see it.  It’s a middle of the road class, which is honestly how I would describe most mage’s jack of all trades approach to their aspects.

Thief of Doom.  Say hello to one of the premiere tank classes in Sburb, and a wonderful example of how just because you play a Thief doesn’t mean you have to play like a selfish dickbag at every turn constantly screwing over your teammates.  Don’t let griefers like Vriska and Meenah convince you that this class is full of team killing asshats.  A Thief steals their aspect for themselves, and Doom is all about futility, rules, restrictions, fate, and destiny.

What this means in practice is that Thieves of Doom are capable of stealing the ‘fate’ of attacks.  Instead of striking their allies, instead the foes are drawn to attack the Thief instead.  Other Doom aspects dabble in this concept with redirecting aggro, but the Thief of Doom is the classical MMO tank drawing it all to themselves.  For the thief the only good publicity is bad publicity, and I could see them reveling in their bad reputation whether it’s well deserved or not.

However Thieves can be fragile, which sounds counter intuitive for a tank that’s supposed to be soaking up damage.  One way to counteract this is using another class’s ability to buff the Thief increasing their defense or by decreasing the attack, but the Theif isn’t without tricks of their own.  Not only can they can they redirect the fate of who the attack lands on for themselves, they can also steal the doom and destruction that comes with it for their own.

For example during the late game when the Black King inevitably calls the reckoning and the final battle takes place, there will be meteors raining down around you destroying the battlefield and adding a timer to the fight. Timer reaches 0 and its game over. Important to note that because this is technically an attack, there is gameplay doom associated with it along with the narrative doom. A high level Thief can put themselves in front of the meteor, steal the doom for themselves, and then proceed to use the meteor as their own attack and launch it at the black king. This is huge because not only does this buy you more time to fight, it can inflict huge damage on the black king.

Thieves don’t just steal doom though.  They can also steal through the rules.  If a thief ever offers you a contract, immediately decline no matter how favorable.  The devil is always in the details, and they were screw you over based on the fine print.  Instead what your Thief needs to do is contract with the Back Queen.  This sounds dangerous, but usually they can get some assurances out of her in exchange for several other things.  God Tier Thieves of Doom being actively removed from the board is leverage enough, but if not you’ll have to offer up more.

Now you say what possible assurance could be worth removing one of your players from the game entirely?  Because usually it also removes the black queen from the board, and when Derse inevitably violates the contract, the fine print states that the Black Queen must give up her ring to Prospit, and then boom you’ve just rules lawyered your way into a useless Black Queen and a second White Queen for Prospit.

And as a final note, max Echeladder level God Tier thieves unlock the ability to steal the fate of another player.  This means that they can steal another player’s role.  This is a one way street with the Thief permanently giving up the Doom aspect to take on the aspect of another player.  Please note that if you do this to another alive player without their permission it is considered incredibly BM and if you do it you run the risk of getting blacklisted.  However where this does come in handy is if say your Space Player got super unlucky and got murdered by by a Draco Lich and then for some reason they had died early on against an Ogre while underleveled.  So dead Space player with no dreamself.  Dead session, right?  Nope.  At that point it’s appropriate to steal the dead space player’s aspect, allowing you to continue with the Genesis Frog quest and win the game. 

So that’s the basics on the Thief of Doom in a nutshell.  A deceptively straightforward class with a lot of play and wriggle room.  Never forget the devil is always in the details when dealing with a Thief of Doom.

The Heir or Time continues to be the premiere best in slot time class even after five straight years and countless number of patch notes trying to nerf it into the ground. It is literally absurd how good this class is and is a testament to how absolutely busted they are that they're still this strong after the nerfs. I'm not sure if anyone remembers how busted Heirs of Time were back in their heyday, but they were capable of just soloing most of the game. Go search up 'Max level heir of time vs 12x Prototype King [Patch 1.07.54.719 Gamma]', Absolutely broken and I'm low-key glad for the nerfs.

Part of the reason why they're so busted is that Heirs are literally made by and protected by their element. What this means in practice is that Heirs have all the time to do whatever they need to do. You will always have enough time to do whatever you want, and it's not unusual to have a future, max level doomed Heir player to pull a to Dave Sprite come back and 2nd prototype themselves to spike the session. It needs not be said how absurd this is in terms of gameplay and is reason enough to pick the heir.

However Heirs also have access to the best Fraymotif in the entire game in Redshift Rondo.  Now you may say, Princess of Rage, I’ve never played a Time player before and have no idea how their iconic ability works.  No worries!  It is good to read up on how a class works before playing it.  Good for you.

Everyone, from the players to the enemies, have an innate speed stat.  Normally for almost everyone it’s set to 1.0.  That means that you do things at normal speed.  Now let’s say your someone casts a spell that makes your speed stat to 1.5.  That might not sound like much, but it’s a 50% increase.  What that means that you immediately become 50% better at everything you do.  You move faster.  You attack more.  You cast more spells.  Etc etc. This is called stretching the time or Redshifting it.

Redshift is a one of the few passive frraymotifs that all Time players get access to at the middle point of their echeladder as an automatic unlock.  Redshift is a passive 10% bonus to your speed, and that’s a multiplicative effect not an additive.  So if your Time player has an ability that increases their speed by 50% for a few turns, Redshift boosts it by an extra 10% to an effectiveness to 1.65.  It should hopefully be obvious how effective this is.

Two time classes take this a step further.  The Maid of Time upon god tiering immediately upgrades their Redshift to Redshift Beta. This adds an activated ability on top of the passive that when activated boosts the flat increase to 50% for a limited time.  So if you layer on a second 50%ability on top of the activation of Redshift Beta your temporary speed increases to 2.25 which means your literally twice as good at everything.  It’s what makes the Maid of Time so good.

Heirs of Time meanwhile start the game with Redshift unlocked, gain access to Redshift Beta as their midpoint on the Echeladder, and when they reach the final level they Redshift Gamma which makes that 10% passive and turns it to 50%.  Then the activation becomes a 2x multiplier.  Heirs get all of this without God Tiering. 

Now keep in mind that’s after all the nerfs.  If all of that math talk makes no sense to you, just know that Heirs are generally 50-200% more effective than other classes at everything.  No dedicated healer on your team?  No worries the Heir of Time is going to run around spamming Elixers and Ethers keeping everyone in top shape.  No dedicated DPS?  Let the Heir dual wield relic weapons and watch him spam attacks.  Have it all already?  Did I mention all the party buff fraymotifs the Heir has as well?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Heir of Time Classpect gets a rework at some point soon.  Legitimately one of the few actually  broken classes in the game and I do mean broken.  It was broken on the rework, and given years of nerfs not being able to bring it line it just needs to be redone at this point.  Love seeing it in my sessions, but god if it doesn’t lead to the most boring, easy sessions imaginable. 

Sure thing. I know I'm late to the game, but this is a fun little project that activates my neurons. I hope you appreciate it.

If you'd rather skip the armchair psychology 101 bullshit, just scroll down to when I start the Gameplay Analysis section in bold. (You might have to scroll a bit I did yap)

So to be straight up with you there's a lot of stuff we still don't know about sburb and are continuing to datamine to this day. Some people swear a knight indicates a lack of their aspect in their session and have an abundance of their aspect. While their seems to be a trend in that direction, that's not always the case and there have been instances of the contrary.

All we can say is that the Knight is an active class ranking a 3 under the Thief but above the Mage. We also know based off a conversation from Aradia, that a Knight is one who exploits their aspect for both their own benefit but more importantly to protect others. A knight generally has a troubled relationship with their aspect, but that's not always guaranteed. See Karkat struggling to become a leader that everyone could look up to as a knight of blood. Dave struggling with Time is a bit more nebulous. The only other knight we have is Latula which just come up with whatever headcanon you like for her given how little we see of her. What little can be gleamed is that you can make the argument that she exploited her mind aspect and logic to be an excellent legislacerator, but beyond that not much else.

So that's a vague idea on what a knight is. What about the aspect of Heart? In short, Heart is not just the aspect of emotions, but individuality, desires, how we interact with one another, and the very soul itself. Dirk the Prince of Heart, shattered his individuality and at various points has like 5 different versions of himself running around between his autoresponders and dreamselves and etc. Nepeta, the rogue of heart, played shipper to the extreme, creating an entire quadrant wall prospecting out all the different combinations of ships as she saw how each individual would compliment the other (or not!) The last we have is Meulin the Mage of Heart, and I guess she suffered because of her relationship and going deaf? She still retains Nepeta's interest in shipping, so there is also that. Dancestors are weird.

So anyway! What does that all mean? A knight of heart could very well be someone who struggles with their aspect. Maybe they just get all the feels, and those feels are so strong that they're overwhelming! Maybe they struggle with a true sense of individuality, trying to live up to what other people expect of them rather than who they are deep down inside. Or maybe they're such an individual and march to the beat of their own drum that they have issues working in groups. Main character syndrome types who dye their hair blue to stick out in the crowd without putting much more thought into what makes them them types.

Or maybe it's something else entirely or nothing at all! Classpecting! It's bullshit! If I had to sum it all up though, I think of that scene from Avatar with Uncle Iroh and Zuko where Uncle Iroh says "It is time you look inward and start asking yourself the big questions. Who are you? And what do you want?" If we also wanted to mix metaphors, look to the hedgehog problem from Evangelion. I feel like the Knight that is able to answer that question and center themselves is one who will succeed and be unstoppable. Once again though, complete bullshit so feel free to toss out and fill in the blanks yourself.

I do think that you've already hit that equilibrium for what it's worth, or at the very least have the tools to succeed. I say that because you sideload into the Seer aspect. The Seer ranks a 2 on the passive scale, close to be the exact inverse of the Knight. It's interesting to me because I also double class, but for me I'm a Princess which is 5 on the active scale but go down to a Knight which is a 2. You go from the Knight to the Seer, actually flipping from active to passive. So whereas I slowdown to the Knight class, you speed up to the Knight class For what it's worth I think that flexibility is great and puts you in a great spot.

For Seers, they are one who see through their aspect and have a sort of 'future sight' about them, using their knowledge of their aspect to predict the future. Our seers are Rose of Light, Terezi of Mind, and Kankri of blood. So the kind of person that will immediately know whether or not a couple will work out just from the start, accurately predicting with an almost uncanny precision. They make great matchmakers. Even if they're not crazy shippers, they do have a few pairings, rarepairings usually, that they feverently see the vision of even if nobody else does ( and they're usually onto something for what it's worth.)

Anyway nevermind all that garbage. Let's talk about GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS!!!

First things first as a knight and as a primary DPS class you have to understand how Heart players deal damage. Rather than dealing traditional damage, your attacks to damage to a secondary 'Soul HP' pool. This leads to accusations of Heart players being lousy DPS classes, but significant enough soul damage will lead to status debuffs (less DPS, lowered defense, less magic power) for the enemy. But yeah no its awkward as hell and learning how to contribute in your own unique way in team fights is always a struggle for heart players when it comes to the big team fights like 2v1ing denizens or the final black king/queen fights.

The good news is as a knight you have the raw strength and dex required to put out enough damage that the soul aspect starts working in your advantage again. Knights of Heart are one of the premiere denizen and Arch Deaconstructor killers of their aspect, to say nothing of being able to chop down ogres in one blow and cut down rooks and bishops in short order. I once saw a Knight of Heart get juiced by a rogue of light one time to take down the Black King in 3x lucky crits back to back to back. Granted it was a 4x prototype session, but it's nothing to sneeze at.

If somebody is griefing you about your DPS or whatever as a Seer of Heart tell them to go suck an egg and learn how to play a support themselves (don't do that you should find a more seer of heart answer that is my inner rage acting up)

As for strife specibi, the knight is always a traditional sword user, along with axes, clubs, maces, flails, and other such implements. However what I feel like best fits a Knight of Heart is the Spear, being able to keep distance and attack from a far. For the Seer, you won't see as many wands as you will staves, quarter staves, and other such magical implements.

If the knight has the mission to take the frontline and be the more active class, the seer of heart is your support. Your friends should listen to you when you say 'x should work with y and not z.' You wanna up your Seer game to the next level? What separates the good seers from the great ones is the good ones will know 'x shouldn't work with z.' A great seer knows this but will find a way to get X to work with Z and have them get along and succeed, even if it is begrudgingly.

Last but not least breeding the genesis frog. People claim that a Knight must always be the one to assist the space player to breed the genesis frog, and the data mining hasn't shown that to be exactly the case. The knight player always has a natural inclination towards helping with this, and the datamining shows that the backend does favor them when it comes to breeding the genesis frog. We see this with Karkat and Dave being the ones to help breed the genesis frog, with even Karkat's classpect not being a knockout for being a stellar class to help out.

I say that to say that as a Knight of Heart you're not bad at helping breed the genesis frog, but your embodiment of your aspect isn't really going to help you out all that much as being a knight will. What I feel like you'll need to do if you wanna be a stellar knight of heart breeding the genesis frog, you start channeling that inner seer of yours. Note that because you're a knight and not a seer that level of foresight will not come naturally or easy to you, but it'll be another step to turning you from a good Heart player and into an amazing Heart player.

The Seer of Heart is specialized when it comes to breeding the genesis frog. They don't have the innate boost that the Knight has, but the Seer of Heart's ability to see identity is amazing for identifying what the next sequence you need to unlock for the genesis frog. Given that the sequence is RNG every time, being able to identify unique identities is really helpful. I'd pair this with something like a witch, mage, or maid of space to breed the genesis frog with a seer of heart, but honestly as the seer I'd find a better pairing for your space player and focus your energy on making that work.