Decided to start ~ Your quick opinion about it.

[jpkryst]

I have chosen three templates to start with and I expect it'll be hard. I would grateful if you could
give me a quick opinion about this plan.

1st Template ~ Thief

Stealing
Stealth
Hiding
Detect Hidden
Tracking
Snooping
Magery

My intention is to focus purely on stealing. I was using a similar template on other servers and
was getting along quite good. I usually used Arms Lore and Wrestling for disarm and stealing weaps, but since there
is no disarm on this server I decided to go with magery (only for recalling) and tracking (only for tracking
hidden people).

2nd Template ~ Tank/Mage

Magery
Eval Int
Meditation
Sword
Tac
Wrestling
Resist

My main character. I usually do pvp all the time and use my thief to loot regs, pots and steal
weaps for this character, so I don't need to use so much time for hunting - which is considered only
as plan b, if this one is not working. As you can see, I am mostly concerned on pvp.

3rd Template ~ Tamer/Mage

Taming
Lore
Magery
Eval
Medi
Vet
Hiding

I have no intention to fight, only to make money. I will have my hunting spots and will act fast for pks
(gating). Usually had no probs with that and as I mentioned before, this char is only there if I cannot
loot enough stuff from other players, which usually worked most of the time.

It is a long time ago when I played on a T2A based server, I am more used to hybrid, but since
there is not a lot of action on it (even though there seem to be a lot of players) and has a bad community,
I decided to change the server and I hope that this place will be much more fun - but I am a little worried, too. I usually
don't like spending too much time building up chars but I read that it takes sometimes a lot of time to build
up a char, especially when you don't have any money.

Could you tell me how much money and time it takes to build each of these characters?

Is there a chance to get supported by players or guilds, or to borrow money and pay them back later or is there no
trust at all?

Thx alot in advance!

[Arkosh Kovasz]

Just a few comments.

Just a recent change to the way snooping/stealth works. Snooping while stealthed will unhide you. Meaning you have to use hiding, right before you snoop a pack to remain hidden.

Tamer will take you the most amount of time to make (Way more than most other character types)unless you have friends that can help out. So this should probably be started after you have a couple of characters already and a good source of Income.

Tank mage isn't hard to make, resist being the worst thing to raise.

I'd suggest making a Provo bard first for raising money. While your macroing him, gather wool, chop wood, mine, kill skeletons all sorts of stuff to make money. There are plenty of guides on the forums that give examples on how to get started here.

There are a few guilds that help new players. Hop in IRC and you can probably find someone willing to help you out. There's also quite a few players who offer free housing to rent. Just do a forums search.

Welcome to UOSA

[yossarian]

Yeah, the recent stealth/snoop changes made stealth thief fairly useless unless your target is sitting at the bank or somthing for extended periods of time. I would drop tracking to 50 or less and maybe get some Item ID so you dont waste your time stealing crap.

[jpkryst]

that's really bad news ( Looks like the thief has lost its whole value that way. Do you think it could change some day or will it stay like that forever?

[Populus]

that's really bad news ( Looks like the thief has lost its whole value that way. Do you think it could change some day or will it stay like that forever?

Most likely forever.

[yossarian]

Instead of Hide,Stealth,Snoop you now have to Hide,stealth,hide,snoop otherwise the act of snooping reveals you. Adds an extra 11 seconds to the process.

[Mikel123]

Drop Eval for Wrestling on the tamer too, or you'll die a lot to solo dexer PKs, even if you have a couple dragons guarding you. You need 3 or more to guard you from just one competent dexer PK, without wrestling.