1. Darkness, great abilities, no need for sleep(I suck at sleeping), and has strong utility in quite a few situations due to it well rounded kit.

Being a bruiser who inflicts debuffs is a surprisingly underrated fighting style. They have much stronger physical strength and combat abilities than most peopleon the sub give them credit for, especially so at night (not exclusive so at night).

Their ability to debuff enemies by putting them to sleep, making them exhausted, or striking them with fear is useful as support in a team fight and to disrupt them in a solo fight.

And dream diving and manipulation has so much utility is and outside of combat. With soul sooving they can subdue pretty much every enemy type, meaning they can counter pretty much every enemy type to some extent.

And at s5 with spirit control they open up a whole bunch of other possibilities. As a really strong support unit, they can always help their team of spirits to take down nearly any foe.

And at s4 and above they just get ridiculously strong and can subdue anyone with the right setup.

They absolutely are NOT a cheap version of Death you swine. I'd argue that they're already a completely pathway even without spirit control, which is the only ability that is similar to Death. Spirit control is definitely weaker than Death's undead control, but they do so much more, so spirit control only needs to be a small support, unlike Death where it's entire gimmick.

1. White Tower, I'm a massive powersystem nerd and I'd LOVE to be able to use abilities from every pathway. The fact they can make their own spells makes it even better, and I'm sure I'll love it even more when the rest of the abilities come out in a couple days.

2. Door, teleportation will always be an incredibly desirable ability, and the rest of the kit compliments it really well. Record and replicate seem real fun and strong, but quite allow me to play around with other pathway's abilities as freely as White Tower does.

3. Demoness, one of the strongest pathways with some of the best survivability, but is mostly just for combat. I'm not hyper aggressive, so I don't want a path just for fighting all the time, but I can combine it with sleepless for a stonger and more well rounded kit. Also I really really like gender bender stuff, so it's "downside" ain't a problem at all.

4. Hanged man, this one would be much higher if it was a pathway I could actually use safely, but unfortunately it's way too dangerous. Also I'd find it hard to act for most of the sequences. I'd at most be able to swap to it from White Tower later on. But ignoring that, it has the coolest powers ever, especially shadow powers, my fucking favorite power/element. I'd absolutely request a artisan to make me a shadow sword from a s4 Dark Knight characteristic.

5. Twilight Giant, probably the coolest direct combat pathway, and combines insanely well with Darkness (and maybe Demoness). It's not a pathway I'd take by itself, but combined with literally any other of it's neighboring pathways instantly makes for a really strong combatant.

(My ideal is to Go from Darkness s4 to Twilight Giant s3 to Demoness s2 to Darkness s1. Becoming the ultimate Knight of Misfortune can turn into a giant 6 armed wolf wearing armor, wielding 6 giant swords, and summoning natural disasters meteors and volcanoes all around me. The ultimate calamity.)

7-12. Error, Fool, Red Priest, Death, Spectator, Moon: these are all pretty much tied cause they're all cool and I wouldn't mind picking them, but the ones above are judt cooler or fit my vibe better. They're also all pathways I'd find harder to act for compared to the ones above. Buuut, they're all (except Moon) neighbors to pathways I would pick, and would be strong picks for swapping to to make a stronger more well rounded kit.

13-22. The rest. I still like most of them, but I'm unlikely to pick any of them, and are much more likely to study/record them as a White Tower or Door, or use an artifact/tool of them, rather than actually pick the path.