There are weaknesses to your approach, Melinda. For instance, as a cleric, sure you can use giant strength to compensate for your str being low. Until weaken, poison, and plague not only overpower giant strength but drop you even lower, making it very unlikely that you're still holding that weapon/shield. Personally, I don't like getting into a slugging match where the winner is ending the fight with 20 hp. I don't trust it, because a single slip-up at that point or a single good move by your opponent will kill you. If I drop below 200 hp and my opponent isn't doing far worse, I don't stay in the fight. So that 90hp doesn't cut it for me. I prefer not relying on eq for stats, but instead using it to boost against stat-draining abilities. +6 str from eq/spells is awesome when you've got 20 base, because it stops that weaken from dropping you below 20. It doesn't help that much when you've got 14 base.
Wis Int Stats
I started on fire giants, so like, training=not a damn thing
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shudders I can't stand low int/wis races.
bet you started with a high int/wis race?
My first fully trained char was an fg war with the 2.0 training system, mastered all weapons, trip, bash, warcry, berserk, disarm, shield disarm, focused bash etc etc.
how did he fare?
I rolll them up maxing int/wis, 2 less than max con, 2 less than max dex, and teh rest into str
Then I get the rings of life from the newbie hall, and there is also a certain dagger in a certain cave that adds 2 to dex to start, that way I roll out with max stats when I go a-wassailing
don't give out bad advice
How is this bad advice?
duhhh we had like a three page debate on it
He's saying there's a pair of rings you can get to get con up those two points. Which there is. Why not use those two points into dex/str and then you can use trains to get con maxed without items before you move onto onyx/opal/whatever.
I guess I didn't remember what he was exactly saying. You are right on that, I was thinking you were talking about what we were discussing before.
I max int wis and con. I pump the rest into str and lastly dex.
They should allow creation points to carry over, then id roll up a gnome invoker, keep all stats at 8, level with eq and add my 54 trains to hp 
I'm sure my gains would be fine as each rank is somewhat regulated by your class and doesnt always depend solely on con/int/wis.
haha all gains are dependant on you con/int much moreso than your class
They should allow creation points to carry over, then id roll up a gnome invoker, keep all stats at 8, level with eq and add my 54 trains to hp
I'm sure my gains would be fine as each rank is somewhat regulated by your class and doesnt always depend solely on con/int/wis.
I wanted that to happen to, I don't think they'd let you though. Might be easy to max some stats without trains than others though, and some people trying to get that extra 540hp wouldn't because they wouldn't know where to begin looking for some of that.