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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talislan" data-source="post: 4118400" data-attributes="member: 56858">Them's some good links from Thanee.Just to give you a personal perspective, I have tried to get characters right in this game for as long as it has been out, and character optimisation is certainly difficult straight 'out of the gate so to speak.The most important piece of advice I can give is actually in the manual. When you get to the end of the intro section, you have to pass through a gate. At this point you get the chance to revise your options in full. This is the most important saved game you will make. the initial section is just long enough that if you have to replay it too many times it becomes a bit of a drag. Also in getting to the end of the intro, no matter how many times you do it the development of your abilities tends to be always pretty much the same in my experience. (It is a set pattern of events after all)It is for this reason I have always played the intro through with a fairly strong(tough) race physically. This allows me to get through it reasonably quickly whilst practicing whichever skills/abilities I want to get a head start with in relative safety.Now if you are a power gamer this is the way to go, if not you can really play any race through the intro because the range of activities are fairly general and give you opportunity to utilise a fairly wide set of skills if you want to.Moving on, the key to optimising your character through the game is quite simple, though not so simple to maintain focus on. It comes down to training and how you play. The power game key is to get the most improvement points for your abilities when you level up. A warrior with a sword who fights constantly with a sword and trains in the sword and nothing else will in one way maximise his strength score if fighting with a sword is one of his character preferences. Problem is he will level up fairly quickly without as much bonus to some of his other abilities.So, think about this when you play. save your preferred way of fighting for when you need it. Got a rat to kill and you're a sword fighter? use an axe, or your fist. these skills are still linked to strength and while they don't develope as fast or develope that ability as much (if they're not a preffered skill that is) they also don't push you towards a new level if they are not in your chosen skill set. however when you do reach a new level you should get greater ability gains.If you get this tactic right it makes the difference between levelling up adding 3 points to 3 abilities and levelling up adding only 1 point to three abilities. It's not easy to accomplish but it will give your character a wider breadth of choices later in the game.Alternatively to this advice there is the Focus on one thing and one thing only tactic. This will level you up pretty quickly and probably jog through the main game, but it will limit some of the things you are able to do or achieve.The one exception is skill in the bow. this requires a certain dedication from the player IMX because when the bad guys come running in close it is all too easy to give in and go for a sword or axe etc. this means you sometimes get one or two shots before they get to you and start clobbering. Bowman, be prepared to run around a lot, particularly early on.These are just a few thoughts from my xp playing. The final one i'd leave you with is go out and do a few quests before you decide what you want to play. I've restarted charcter conceptions hundreds of times from that first save at the sewer gate, just to tweak them. but I only found out they needed tweaking because of how I ended up playing through different quests with any given skill set.I'm not sure I've helped much but hey-ho. I hope you enjoy whatever happens.T.watch which quests you leave to higher levels. a couple of them can be a real pain in the proverbial if you try them later at the wrong level.</blockquote>

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