I'm thinking about making a rogue influencer. Just someone to run around, make esteem, and see how I do. Once I get money, I can parley or whatever for people/ Nothing I have to buy mass credits to get into. So, I want advice on a few things.

I may post something here that isn't correct. If so, correct me.

First off, race. I'm obviously going with faeling. The ego is a must, plus I want to be able to go anywhere. I can't be a merian influencer in Nil for demons, viscanti on Celestia, and so on.


I'm pondering either Harbinger, for the racial upgrade to charisma (+1) or Shadowdancers, with Garb once I hit Night. Shadowdancer would also give me totems, I think, which give me forage (less money spent on food) and the totem that helps regen ego (sun?). Also would give me those mushroom circles, and I can take alchemy, for making my own bromides. I'm not sure if I would have to take lowmagic for that, if not, I would take highmagic to netzach.

Or, harbingers to their music upgrade, so I can get the racial. Plus, milestones to mark a spot, roulade for ego, bardic presence for the charisma.

Either of those, or maybe a guardian. Populus for the charisma, waterwalk to get around, probably sacraments ( I think) for the bonus to parleying for people. Tarot for hermit.

Any thoughts?

I'd say you've posted this to the wrong forum...

If a mod sees this, can you move it to an appropriate spot, please?

SS has an ego song, while Harbinger has the highest base cha in the game (17). You should also note that once you get to 17 or 18 charisma, there's a large gap where you can buff it as much as you want, but you influence at the same speed. The real deciding factor about influencing is charismaticaura. Makes a massive difference.

If you are looking for mobility, you can't beat a guardian with tarot. Hermit+catacombs. Then again, you could go SS ecology for max charisma buffage and they have that nifty perma catacombs from domoths.

Alchemy is lowmagic only, so no netzach.

Throne +2, bardicpresence +2, Beauty +2. harbinger would have 20 buffed charisma. Pretty sick.

edit: fix'd

Add penumbra to that (if you are a nightwraith) for ego regeneration and a +2 weighted buff

Yeah, but if I go rogue after making the guy, I can't keep my nightwraith, can I?

Nope.

I'm going to throw around Tae'dae as another good influence race. It's really, really fun.

Also, once you have 18 charisma, extra points don't matter that much anymore. CharismaticAura and SuperEgo will help a lot. When you do Trans influence, make sure to switch across the styles (Begging, Supplication, Wheedling; etc.) for minimal ego loss.

Also, if you're bard (roulade) or guardian (puella, I think), you can actually function completely without bromides/mana vials. Just RUB PERFECTION, and then influence away. Every time you finish influencing a mob, puella/roulade back to max. Rinse, repeat. For me, at least, this works well.