As a note to my European friends looking at importing: you will not be able to play with people playing the US version online if you get the Asian version.

As for my character, it's been a little while since I fired it up, but I was a totally chicken mage. Got a bunch of spells, plus Evacuation and 'Warding' on the Faith side. Main weapons being a Crescent Uchigatana because I like katanas and with my magic stat it really owns fools. I can't remember what my other weapons were, but I started using a longbow when I last played.