There aren't any really "Pure evil" guilds. Celest isn't exactly happy go lucky (Although a lot of snugglers seem to spew from there) but Magnagora is definately at the lower end of the bad spectrum. More an "End justifies the means" sort of place. Plus they love the taint. And the champions are not always the best choice, you might get Malarious. If you want to do combat, I'd suggest going bard. They are BRUTAL with illusions. Utterly, utterly brutal. Or a Tahtetso - just basic kata forms do all sorts of horrible things. A warrior requires a significant credit investment, while mages and guardians are middle of the road in terms of credit investment, from my experience. It helps to have plenty, but you can do with a small investment. Or you could try a monk, but they are "good" locations only, eg, Celest, Serenwilde. Currently, anyway.

At any rate, Magnagoran race/guilds:
Ur'guard, try Aslaran. they are some sort of knight master race. Much like what the nazis were trying to create, I suppose. Nihilist, try mugwump. Tanky as a wet paper bag, but still. That, and hexes. Bard, Mugwump. Mage, Mugwump again. Viscanti aren't really all that fabulous. Mugwump are very, very fragile, but they are terribly quick for equi based guilds.

Mob deaths cost more xp than player deaths. That'd be the difference.




There seems to be a major overhaul of how stats and damage reducing defs work right now, so that's a tricky question to answer. An organizations specialized race is always at least a decent choice for mages/druids, guardians/wiccans, and warriors. Mugwump is a favorite for caster classes because of its fast eq, but they're flimsy. Think grook, only more extreme in both directions. Most warriors are of the high strength, neutral balance variety. My personal favorite is krokani, but the warriors say they're a bad choice for reasons beyond my grasp. Taurian and orclach are a couple other very acceptable races.

Bards of any variety benefit from speed, so mugwump, merian, and furrikin all work well.

Monks seem to prefer kephera. I've never had a monk alt, so I'll let them field this.

To learn combat, I would definitely recommend you seek out the Champion in your guild, or even one in another guild within the same city/commune. It's our job to train people to fight well, and we really like when members ask questions!

Monks are still undecided, but riiight up until 2 days ago aslaran, krokani and loboshigaru all worked okay.

I am actually an Achaea transfer myself. I came here for awhile during open beta, then went back to Achaea for awhile and ended up back here again. There are a few things I like better about Lusternia:

1. Artifacts are not as godly. They do make a difference, sometimes a big difference, but you can do well in most combat situations without them.

2. The playerbase is usually very open and helpful. You are likely to be able to find someone to help you with anything you need.

3. RP is stressed more seriously, and policed by the other players. If you say something OOC, you will most likely be called out on it (usually privately). I remember slipping up and saying something about "this channel" over CT in Magnagora at one time. The Warlord called me out over CT and asked me to explain my statement, since it made no sense and he didn't like things that were confusing. I had to backpedal and try to explain ICly how 'aetherwaves' (the typical IC name for channels) were like psionics channels...it leads to a lot of fun!

4. The Envoy process goes a long way to keep all classes equal. Each envoy (classlead) submits two suggestions every month for review by the other envoys. If it passes through the other envoys, it goes on to the divine for consideration to be coded. Our skills and abilities are tweaked monthly to keep them all in line. Because of this process, we don't end up with uber classes which automatically own everyone (like my old dwarf occie).

5. Skill specializations ensure that every class is unique. In Achaea, monks in Mhaldor have the exact same skills as monks in Ashtan. Here, the bards in Serenwilde have very different skills than the bards in New Celest, or anywhere else. Tertiary choices (you get to select your third guild skill from a list of 2-3) mean that even different characters in the same guild could have different skills.

6. The outer planes, while complicated to grasp at first, add a lot to the history and depth of the game.

7. You can graduate from novicehood automatically without having to write any reports, essays, sermons, etc..

I'm sure there are more, but that's it off of the top of my head.

Faelings are decent... if you like to do a lot of running

Or you can just take furrikin and get both bonuses! Or aslaran and deal with a sip penalty. I just have irrational issues with sip penalties.

Aslaran seem gloriously tanky if you've ever been a viscanti or mugwump.

Especially an aslaran in reasonable (103/103) fullplate.

that's 2 hours for me tops.

There is NO WAY.

Bards are strong in combat. ColorBurst, MajorSecond, Tritone, PerfectFifth, MinorSixth, MinorSeventh are deadly if played right. Any race with fast eq recovery is excellent for bard. Plus, you also get the benefits of skills that are fun to tinker with (Illusions ftw.)

And I hunt with human, harmony, and whenever possible, autumn. Best Krellan can add to that is harvest, right? I agree, there's no way. Even on the Day Of Improved Bashing, I was doing a bit better than 4% per hour.

Mugwump is actually faster in practice than human because the eq allows you to rack up so many more kills on Astral, but there's still no way.

Please, please tell me how you do this. Crispy Christ, man.

the very very least I was getting per full day during my streak for titan was 6%. That was during 98. granted I haven't bashed much with the new changes, but so far, it seems like that's definately impossible now. But before these changes, I certainly was doing that. Admittedly, I had several more advantages, including catacomb blessings, which you can consider like two life blessings, or 2/3rds of a tosha blessing without the ego bonus. I'll assume you both have multiple blessings, I went war, life, intelligence, harmony. Then I tended to use Celerity and had the advantage of being a tankier class than a bard. Plus the circlet I borrowed from Aesy, her:, helped a ton