Currently I'm Mugwump and getting pretty involved in combat and raids. I've noticed however that mugwumps can dish out huge amounts of damage quickly, but die even quicker. Too too frail.

Most of my combat revolved around telepathy and the charisma is no good either.

I was thinking about reincarnating into Kephera (female).

Any thoughts? If not Kephera, any advice? Merian and Elfen are out of the question

go illithoid

Or stick it out and save your credits for trans resilience and an absoprtion rune. And get some circles. Mugwump is totally survivable at higher circles.

Aren't Kephera banned in Magnagora?

No they aren't, according to Revan.

Why Illithoid? the int isn't great. Good con...charisma is awful...even though they have that inner worm thing, and from what I've read Telepathy is based off max charisma. Kephera have higher int, good resistences, no magical weakness and slightly better int. I'm confused.

According to Roark, mindblast is based on max ego, and nothing else scales (that I can think of). Illithoid bashing as a telekinetic is really nice, especially for each level. I've never been a warrior before, but that's an insanely tanky mage.

You'll definitely feel the loss of the Eq balance. I made the switch from mugwump to illithoid when they first came out. I don't mind it at all, but I still notice how slow I am.

Illithoid are great for telepaths. You can get your max ego +6k easily using their special ability.

edit: and what requiem said

double edit: And personally, I prefer more con over the EQ balance any day. Assuming the balance doesn't go into the negatives.

eww it's always about speed.

I think women around the world might disagree.

That was just corny.

besides its about how the illthiod's use their worm inside than it is about how long they use it?

I'm going to say, "not particularly". From what I remember, ego only affects id balance recovery and Illithoids having that much more max ego than current ego is a "dial-up vs. broadband" comparison. BUT! some telepathic skills like MindBlast are Superstratus... so you're not really getting much more out of it aside from more ego to toss your afflicts and attacks out with before sipping. They'd make great telekinetics, though. Having that much ego + Barrier, you'll have an easier time of bashing.

I think Revan gets along just fine.

Yeah, but Revan's Revan. I'd submit he knows "Geomancer" on the same level Forren knows "Aquamancer".

EDIT: Sorry for the lack of clarity. I'm referring to the archetype in general, secondary and tertiary skills included. So yes, it was meant to imply that Revan is a good telepath and telekinetic. Actually, I'd say Revan knows more about how Dreamweaving and Runes would work with Geomancy than Forren would about the same skills with Aquamancy. Nevermind, that's sort of going off on a tangent.

Naw. I'm not talking about Geomancy. Illithoid is good for Telekinetics, but it's just as fine for telepathy. I won't argue the the pros and cons with you because the benefits are so obvious.

Id speed is actually still bugged. So the couple shots with <1 second Id balance that Roark promised is actually a series of dirty lies. Id takes about 23 seconds to recover balance when I have 6k/2k ego. I've bugged it twice and posted about it on the forums before. And by the time it finally gets fixed (or Roark recants that you're supposed to get the speed boost) I probably won't be a TK anymore.

keep bugging it. they sometimes like to blame us for stopping. But they've always got lots on their hands so just keep bugging it once a month. I think the reports last a month.