Hello, I am getting DAoC in a couple of days and I would like to know some things before I start it up. First of all, I am trying to find a good server to play on. I want to be Albion and have a scout, infil, and minstril. First of all, I heard some things about minstrils 50 instrument being good for the new server. Is there a difference between the new server and old server? I was planning on Gareth because it is so huge. Also, do I really need 50 instrument? I have seen some debating on whether 50 instrument is really usefull or not. Also, what level stealth should I get? I would love to be doing alot of stealth, but I think some thrust skill would be usefull to. I was looking around for what a good level of stealth is and I saw 31 wouldn't be too bad. So how is:
50 Instrument
31 Stealth
29 Thrust
Anyways, I can't decide on which stats to bring up at the start. I was thinking Qui +10, Cha +10, Con +10.. But apparantly dex and str are usefull to me..? Now for the scout, I was thinking of:
50 Bow
35 Stealth
23 Shield
39 Thrust
Now, I played DAoC previusly and was wondering. Do I really need to use thrust and shield? Like can't I just use bow the entire time? What is the point of useing thrust and shield if I can just use bow the entire time? Like is it better in close combat or something? If it is better to keep thrust and shield, then is it really a big difference to get to 50 bow? Why don't I just bring it to 45 bow and then bring up thrust or shield, and if I do bring up shield and thrust, then what should I bring them to? And also, keeping thrust and shield, which stat should I bring up? I saw a formula somewhere (Str + Dex)/2 .. If that is true for combat related stuff, then why don't I just not bother with strength and only bring up dex & qui? Next is the infil. Now I heard you can just bring stealth to 35 and with realm points get it up to 50 right after. Actually I was wondering if I could do the same with my minstril and scout since I want to be doing alot of stealthing with all 3 of my characters. Also, how is this for a spec with the infil?
35 Stealth
39 Critical Strike
50 Thrust
27 Dual Wield
35 Envenom
And lastly, if I don't spec in stealth and simply autotrain it, how many points am I gaining out of it? Because if I only gain 1 or 2 points in stealth then I don't see the point of missing out on the low level bg's, however if I can get an extra say 10 points from autotraining stealth then I could simply PvE until 50 and then start RvRing with the infil.
Please if anyone can help me with any of the questions I asked here, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.