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Originally Posted by kmonster

Raising native skills is good for specialized casters like mages (thaumaturgy) and alchemists (alchemy) but not for all characters.

You're damn right, I have to alt tab out of Bane when I get good roll and review that 'FAQ by ssjlee9' (thx a bunch for that) and the advices given here.

Originally Posted by kmonster

I'd reroll the bard to get at least a roll of 15 to be able to take 16 vitality for better casting, more HP and carrying capacity, if you get an even better roll more strength won't hurt.

You accepted a bad roll for your priest and even wasted points for raising piety to 18.

Will do consider that done and done. I'd say I never added to piety but I suppose I must have, maybe it was raised by some automatic bonus points distribution? I think the game engine does that for some chars

This gaming system is hard for those of us who didn't grow with it, like I am still uncertain which is the race and which is the profession and sometimes have to stop and think hard or look it up again and again (like say Mage and Walkyrie - the first is easy to understand that it is profession but the second is very unintuitive to say the least. Under Walkyrie, I imagine some physical body like human and heroic like Joan of Arc, not something that even dwarf of lizard can do as profession, that strikes me as silly and I can't screw my mind around to get used to it).

Regarding the silly choices, I remember in that online game I mentioned above how new folks would run about with items that can't do anything for them but are only pretty baubles and they tie up the slot needed for other item proper to their class. It was like that for all or most of us when the game just came out and for most it was our first time online gaming and it was romantic for sure but one really doesn't need to do that again in some wizardry if one can avoid it

Like you say, after reading the relevant passages in that FAQ I decided to reroll most chars except maybe that mage... the reason to have like four or even five female chars makes sense and fits my play style in some ways, so I will reroll maybe even those professions that are hard to get nevermind the bonus points to top it off.