Avatar of Jarlsberg/Strategy

Astral Consumables

Jarlsberg won't eat anything he didn't make, even if they're astral. However, astral energy drinks are exempt from this rule, and therefore your only option.

Astral Gear

• Avatars of Jarlsberg can't use their weapons to attack, so anything that improves Weapon Damage is largely useless. astral pet sweater also has no use, since you can only use companions.
• astral statuette improves your damage output considerably and provides extra adventures per day. Highly recommended.
• astral ring is an all-around strong item, providing three important stats for AoJ. Recommended if you have trouble maintaining MP.
• astral bracer reduces your MP usage per adventure, but it reduces your damage output due to how AoJ spells' damage cap scales with MP used. While not good for low-MP spells, it can be more useful for high-MP spells, in cases where you don't need to deal as much damage. However, this utility is largely overshadowed by the astral statuette.
• If you have trouble maintaining HP, an astral shield may help with this issue. While your magical prowess is diminished, it gives extra HP, HP regen and damage reduction, making you near-invincible early game.
• astral belt is probably the best choice for speed, once you have the skill points to handle combat with it.
• astral mask is never a bad choice. You can always use more item drops.
• astral shirt cannot be worn unless you ascend under a Gnome sign and buy Torso Awaregness in run. If you're doing this in softcore, you'd be better off pulling a cane-mail shirt (or similar) instead. Access to the Beach in hardcore will probably come too late for the shirt to give much benefit, so in both cases, the astral shirt is a fairly poor choice.

Skills

The following is an analysis of all of the skills available in Avatar of Jarlsberg. Some skills will be more desirable after you bank skill points.

Intrinsic

• Curdle: Your most basic spell. Other than being the primary source of damage on first few levels, costing no MP and opening up half the basic boozes, there's not much to say.

The Path of Breakfast

• Boil: A great early-game spell for AoJ. It's the first skill in the tree, so you can pick it up immediately after Curdle starts becoming weak.
• The Most Important Meal: An important skill for increasing adventure gains, providing 3-21 adventures per day. Once your food options open up as you bank skill points, you can use it more effectively to maximize adventure gains. It also gives a large amount of substats, enough to go from level 1 to 2 in a flash. Essential for speeding up runs.
• Conjure Eggs:
• Egg Man:
• Conjure Dough: Allows you to summon dough, as well as the Staff of the Staff of Life, which great for maintaining HP and MP and increasing survivability while still providing a good bonus to spell damage. Since Avatars of Jarlsberg lack a healing skill, this chefstaff can be used as such.
• Early Riser: You can conjure 1 extra food item per cast. Its effectiveness increases as you gain Stomach/Liver capacity and need more consumables to fill them.
• Fry: Once your 5-MP spell doesn't deal enough damage, Fry is an excellent mid-to-late game spell to use, dealing high elemental damage for a reasonable cost.
• Coffeesphere: Increases +Combat%. Lets your complete the Lighthouse sub-quest at a reasonable time, but other than optimizing speedruns, it's not essential.

The Path of Lunch

• Conjure Vegetables: The most useful aspect of Vegetables is that you can use it to make Die Sauerlager(s). While it's a crappy booze, it's superior to mediocre lagers.
• Radish Horse:
• Chop:
• Conjure Cheese:
• Slice:
• Working Lunch:
• Lunch Like a King: Increases stomach capacity. While being able to eat more food is always a good thing, it is not something you should rush with low skill points, since being able to make better food is more important than being able to eat more.
• Oilsphere: Provides elemental resistance.

The Path of Dinner

• Bake: Deals damage over time. Largely a weak combat spell, since you should be focused on one-shotting monsters.
• Food Coma: Gives 10 free rests, and rests fully restore MP. Great for maintaining MP, as well as healing slightly. With resting now removing Beaten Up, it's also good for weaker players who find themselves getting Beaten Up a few times.
• Conjure Potato:
• Hippotatomous:
• Conjure Meat Product: Conjures meat, which you can use to craft the Staff of the All-Steak, which has a Jiggle effect that greatly increases item drops. Very useful if you're trying to get an important item to drop ASAP.
• Never Late for Dinner: Gives 10 adventures per day, as well as +50% Combat Initiative. The bonus initiative almost guarantees you the first move, saving you HP and allowing you to handle large ML boosts. A good skill overall.
• Grill: The most expensive combat spell. While its steep MP cost can be a pain to maintain, it is good in situations where you need to deal a lot of damage, particularly against the bosses.
• Gristlesphere: Increases ML. Largely a luxury skill not taken outside of speed runs.

The Path of Dessert

• Conjure Fruit:
• Best Served Cold: Gives +100% Spell Damage. A very strong damage booster, allowing you to take out even the toughest of monsters, plus you can get it early in the tree. It's almost essential to have against the final boss.
• Freeze:
• Nightcap:
• Conjure Cream:
• Blend:
• Cream Puff:
• Chocolatesphere: Boosts -Combat%. While -Combat is great overall, make sure you can create good foods/drinks before you pick this up.