First. No other race is built like Illithoid. None. It's not like they take a hit to influencing to be better at combat. They royally suck at influencing. Their charisma is the the lowest stat in the game. Illdrain takes constant effort to maintain and a sizeable time dedication to inflate. Illithoids can be shattered with ease.

Humans pretty much prosper in any class they choose. Aslaran is useful in numerous guilds. Kephera go both ways(monk, not warrior) and their ego isn't total crap. There are more than "just illithoids" than can go both caster and warrior. And for the record, Illithoid is generally crap for dreamweaving (magic weakness), and telepathy (really bad ego and there are better int races out there). Yeah illithoid would do fine as warrior or caster...but there are much better choices for both. Female Kephera, for one, is a great mage choice.

Don't downplay bards either. Every org has them and they are the single most damaging archetype in this game (the exceptions being artied warriors and maybe high end geomancers). Anyone with a magic weakness is at a severe disadvantage. Not to mention they aren't the only ones that do magic damage. Wiccans and Guardians too. It's a very dominant damage source in Lusternia.

In my opinion, our weighted system makes more sense and is much more easy to balance than artifically assigning a "level" or "category" of buff to every skill that gives you one.

First off, whoever said that they took a hit to influencing to be better at combat? I noted down that they're viable as both a caster and melee class without being a spec race and making it so that they are better at influencing would just push them further out than they already are now.

Next, Humans evolve their stats depending on the class they are, so they change as spec races do to tailor themselves into something for the class that they are. I never wrote down that it'll be 'just illithoid' that can go either caster or warrior, but they're most likely the only one who can accomplish both without changing through evolution or specialization.

Lastly, what's that about downplaying? I noted down what I thought would logically be..that since bards are one of the five archetypes of the game, there would be, at most, 1/5 of the population being bards...still leaving 4/5 who aren't. Unless, of course, everyone went bard, then that could change, but since I doubt that, I'd say 1/5 at max but most likely less currently.

I don't understand why they don't just do it like Aetolia did when we redid races there..

We got a full month of free reincarnations without XP loss and we could reincarnate an infinite number of times a day... for this XP loss crap

Are there any other cameo owners who would mind if they put cameos back to working again?

If most warriors can get 20+ str, then most warriors arn't really getting a 60% boost, since 12 str damage, is not the norm....

However, it is important that the 10 str faeling with lvl 3 bonus, isn't always a better option than the 18 str tae'dae with level 3 penalty. And I believe even with current changes, that is still the case.

The scaling has to be done such that both are equally viable.

The problem seems to be... if we don't weigh stats, people can reach insane levels of damage, etc. But if we do weigh them, races with extreme stats who are heavily penalized in other areas to compensate for them end up being useless.

Hummm.

I'm all about more people being happy with different races, so fixing the strength thing seems like a good idea to me, but I do wonder (and maybe someone would be kind enough to explain this to me), do people want big igasho and Tae and such to have the same overall offense as, say, a faeling, or other races that aren't as tough?