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When TO Ascend (That's what the Official Strategy Guide says)
Choosing when to undertake the quest for an Elite Role can be difficult. Elite Roles are always better than the four Basic Roles, so you might be tempted to ascend immediately. However, there are advantages to waiting. As soon as you complete the quest for the new Role you stop advancing in your old Role and begin as a first level member of your new Role. This means that you will hit levels fast and furiously until you equal your old Role's levels, and then you will slow down again. For each new level you gain in the new Role, you will get only minimal (generally one) hit points and Skill points and very seldom gain any Attribute points.
So if you switch roles at level 5, you will gain five bonus Skill and Hit Points, and then gain them normally at level 6 and above. Think about that for a moment... if you wait until level 10 to do the switch, you will get ten bonus Skill and Hit Points and have all the powers of two tenth level Roles to choose from. Sounds tempting, doesn't it? Also remember that each new level costs more experience points than the last to advance in, so going from level 9 to 10 is far harder than going from level 1 to 2. By switching Roles at a higher level, you get more chance to pick up all the spells in your books of magic, etc.
One suggestion is to ascend Warriors to Barbarians faily early in the game (at around level 5), then wait until they are level 10 to assign them to Elite fighting Roles. Keep your Wizard and Priest in their original Role until they maxed out their spell-casting abilities, and then become Warlocks (somewhere around level 10). Your Rogue could become a Bard at level 9, and then a Ninja once he reaches level 11 as a Bard. These delayed ascensions can make your party more well-rounded and better able to cope with the various situations in the world.
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