[SixOfSpades]

While a Kensai, skip the easiest stuff: Copper Coronet, Druid Grove, etc., and do middle-difficulty things like the Umar Hills. Then, when your Mage is so low-level as to be essentially helpless, go send Korgan in to mop up the easy stuff for you and earn the party loads of cheap EXP.

There are good Kensai->Mages and cheap Kensai->Mages. I just get tired of the same old cookie-cutter Kensages Dualed at Level 13 with maxed-out STR, DEX, and CON, and Grandmastery in Dual-wielded Katanas. The worst I ever heard of was a guy whose party was Korgan, Edwin, Viconia, Jan....and a Lawful Good Kensai->Mage.

I am actually playing my very first Kensai right now....her proficiencies are in Staves, Spears, and 2-Handed Weapons, and she'll dual to a Druid whenever she happens to enter the Druid Grove--which I'd like to be at Level 15, but we'll see how it goes. She's romancing Anomen, a Kensai->Druid and a Berserker->Cleric would have a lot of common ground, but also enough differences to make things interesting.

[ADD] Oh yeah, to augment my 'holier-than-thou' attitude (the last thing I need), I should point out that I like to give my characters natural rolls: When in Character Creation, I'll hit Reroll until the cows come home, but I won't move points from one stat into another. My Kensai->Druid rolled 16/18/8/11/16/16, which after the Tome of Retroactive Convenience becomes 17/19/9/12/19/17, a legal Dual. [/ADD]

[ 06-02-2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]