Name: Shiroe (changed with nametag)
Role: (Second Wave) Front-Liner Support Magecraft Specialist.
Circuit Count (using the good man Gudman's system): 22 circuits, 19 quality, totalling 418 prana units
Element: Ether (I got shafted by the dice)
Origin: Mind(?)
Points Spread: Full AGI, 4:1 in the first 20 levels mostly for boosting carrying capacity.
Strategy: would not set foot out of safe zones at first. Would focus on learning all there is to know about magecraft first and rely on the vast amounts of Spell Research I'd be doing for XP in the beginning, as my commitment to mage-craft would be full-time (everyone knows fighters are linears and wizards are quadratic).
Equipment: Due to not running quests above the bare minimum, I wouldn't have the Col for consistently good equipment, and since I'd be an AGI character meant for running away, wouldn't rely on heavy armor either. Probably a white cloak over light armor. Would carry a naginata, and have a dagger tied to my left forearm with a long piece of rope, which I'd use like a compass to draw formalcraft circles.
Magecraft:
I'd be a PC Magecraft Tutor and Archive. From the very start of the game, I'd focus on Mental Interference and other mind-related magecrafts. First, on self-hypnosis, and then, on using hypnosis on others, mainly as a way of reinforcing positive traits, like [you are calm], [you are focused], or [you will not hesitate in combat]. I'd research using [reinforcement] on the brain-functions, like [memory], [speed] or [focus], both mine and, eventually, other people's. As soon as the quests to unlock Mystic Eyes were available, I'd do whatever was necessary to obtain [Mystic Eyes of Whisper], which CAN be given to a person, like the [Mystic Eyes of Binding]. As soon as I got that running, I'd start using hypnosis and magical suggestion to improve morale and productivity on Aincrad, particularly amongst the Front-Liners and the suicidal. At this point, I would have few to none useful combat skills, so I'd learn healing magic to make myself useful as a support.
Then, I would research Flowing and Transfering of Power Magecraft, which deals with both transferring energy and information, particularly the information aspect. With access to hypnosis, brain reinforcement, and information transferring, I'd gather all [thaumaturgical knowledge] available, even knowledge on the elements I could not use, like an [Argo's Guide] for spells. I'd probably cheat and use suggestion to force tutor NPCs to teach me spells above my level, and info-dump them into the minds of players which COULD use them, without the need for everyone doing the annoying quest. Also, I would use hypnosis and suggestion to make other people's thaumaturgy more efficient, like [artificially downloading High-Speed Incantation as a skill into people's brains], or [installing synthetic arias]. If Atlas-style thought acceleration and memory partition were at all available, I'd learn that. I'd train up my formalcraft, so I could actually USE all the spells I downloaded into my brain. I would then train [projection] for [projecting formalcraft spell formulas], which I'd use to perfectly print formalcraft circles for some of the spells I knew. If I had memory partition, I'd think up the circles on the fly. If I didn't, I'd painstakingly formulate the circles for some of the more useful spells beforehand and use my improved recall to memorise them and then perfectly reproduce them with [projection]. So, casting spells using mana while minimally using my own meager prana reserves merely as a catalyst. I would use the energy transfer aspect of Flowing and Transfering to recharge other players, particularly the heavy hitters, with the prana I did not use.
Long term goals would be to use a combination of memory partition, thought acceleration, structural grasping, and numerology to give myself an HUD so I could instantly understand and control the flow of battle.
For Weapons, I'd carry a naginata and a little dagger, because if I completely ran out of prana, I could manually carve formalcraft circles into stuff. Also, to kill stuff so weak it didn't justify the prana cost even to start up the formalcraft circle. However, I would avoid meelee combat, always being in the rear-lines of fights, using magecraft for support and ranged damage. My Sword Arts would be absolute crap, given I hadn't dedicated any time to training them.
As somebody in this thread already said, the mind is our greatest weapon. I'd just optimize mine and everyone else's for the best results.