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Belomar
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Well, since my Cabalist is now going to be best off defending and sieging keeps in the future, I, too, have decided to roll a FotM mercenary. I currently have a Highlander one at level 24 or so, but now I started thinking about whether slash is the best choice and which starting race to choose.
It has been pretty much established that thrust mercenaries are the new FotM, and the reason to choose thrust is that the prevalent Mid support classes are vulnerable to thrust. I looked around a bit, and found that the governing attributes for 1h thrust is 50% strength and 50% dexterity (as opposed to 75% strength and 25% dexterity for 2H thrust -- a figure which seems unconfirmed -- and 100% strength for both 1H and 2H slash and crush). Now, this puts me in a bit of a quandary, since it seems to me that a level 50 Highlander or even Briton would be worse off than a level 50 Saracen for a thrust merc (speaking purely of weaponskill). Given 10 points into str/dex/con at creation, we get the following at level 50:
Highlander: 125 str, 83 dex => 104 avg.
Briton: 115 str, 93 dex => 104 avg.
Saracen: 105 str, 113 dex => 109 avg.
Granted, the difference is not huge, and Highlanders and Britons have more con and thus more constitution, but there is a difference. It does show, however, that a Briton and a Highlander thrust merc should have the same weaponskill.
Anyway, any experts to give their opinion on this? What is the way to go in this matter?
It has been pretty much established that thrust mercenaries are the new FotM, and the reason to choose thrust is that the prevalent Mid support classes are vulnerable to thrust. I looked around a bit, and found that the governing attributes for 1h thrust is 50% strength and 50% dexterity (as opposed to 75% strength and 25% dexterity for 2H thrust -- a figure which seems unconfirmed -- and 100% strength for both 1H and 2H slash and crush). Now, this puts me in a bit of a quandary, since it seems to me that a level 50 Highlander or even Briton would be worse off than a level 50 Saracen for a thrust merc (speaking purely of weaponskill). Given 10 points into str/dex/con at creation, we get the following at level 50:
Highlander: 125 str, 83 dex => 104 avg.
Briton: 115 str, 93 dex => 104 avg.
Saracen: 105 str, 113 dex => 109 avg.
Granted, the difference is not huge, and Highlanders and Britons have more con and thus more constitution, but there is a difference. It does show, however, that a Briton and a Highlander thrust merc should have the same weaponskill.
Anyway, any experts to give their opinion on this? What is the way to go in this matter?
Though I will need chain crown and an unhooded cloak to show off my ubah do (red-headed, of course 
Ahh, I'll do it anyway, it wasn't much of a difference.