Detective Template?

[Atma]

Wanting to Make a Detective.

But whats a good Template? and what should the starting Stats/Skills be to make it a little easier?

And last question, how old does a char have to be before joining the Detective's Guild?

[bblaze]

Forensic Evaluation and Detecting Hidden are the "detective skills". You only need the former, so far. Detecting Hidden is fairly useless but since I suspect that the staff is going to do something about that soon enough.

Beyond that, do what you want really.

Personally I don't like to play multiple characters, so my detective is also my PvE character. It's a detective first though:

Forensic Evaluation
Detecting Hidden
Hiding (I like to lurk and stake out locations some murderous individuals are known to frequent.)
Magery
Meditation
Evaluating Intelligence
Resisting Spells

I went with 30str 10dex 40int.

The magicstuffs related skills are around 70-80(real) now and if a murderer happens to be returning to the crime scene I manage to defend myself usually. Forensic Evaluation and DH are at ~75 as well.

It's been a blast so far. If you're more of a powergamer with 3 chars that make you self-sufficient, as most are on this shard (which is cool), you might not want to have a jack of all (well, two) trades like this though, in which case very little of this applies to you, really.

[Atma]

Thanks for the tips!

EDIT: Oh, and is there a character age for joining the detective's guild? like how there is for the thief's guild?

[bblaze]

Yeah, but I don't know how long. Might be a week.

[Atma]

Bummer. I worked to get my new char above 60 Forensic, Hate that I have to wait a week now!!!

[Friday]

48 hours old ingame. Just macro him for 2 days and you should be able to join. Bring 500g with you also.

[Tenebrion]

I've been thinking about rolling a detective build for fun. This is what I'm thinking :

100str/25int/100dex
Forensics Eval
Detect Hidden
Macing
Archery
Tactics
Anatomy
Healing

It's not exactly an optimal build, but I think it might be a fun thief-killer.

[Atma]

For the record, I have more than 48hrs in game, and my char is 5 days old, still says he's "too young to join"

I'm guessing it has to be a week old char.

[redHusaria]

I believe the char must be 7 days old and have 40-48 hours in game time logged. I don't remember where I read it but I will try to find the info for you.

Edit: I can't seem to find a link to confirm that. Maybe I saw it in game when I attempted to join with my Detective and was rejected. Maybe someone else can confirm?

[Atma]

When I try I don't get any guidelines, just "You are too young to join my guild..." or whatever it is exactly.

EDIT: Is there anyway to see how many Hours your character currently has in game?