On Blue an ebon mace is like 1-1.5k. At some point around 30 I’d get a 2h since even good ratio 1h’s don’t really keep up when soloing. They are still great when tanking for bashing casters and interrupting their spells.
Humans and Erudite SK’s are actually quite easy to play. You will be KoS in some places and some guilds but in general you can navigate a lot of good and evil towns without issue. For example in Rivervale you are probably fine but the druids will kill you. DE will need serious faction to be friendly there.
I don’t believe the Regen will ever make up for the xp penalty. It doesn’t really scale until later (2 standing instead of 1 for 1-50; 3 standing instead of 10 from 56-59) and at that point you likely will be soloing one or two spawns and waiting for them to repop. Not crawling and killing non-stop. Mana would be a limitation over hps, even with an epic or Greenmist. It’s a nice perk if you want to grind it out, like frontal bash immunity with ogres but mainly if you want to be one anyways.
For a casual player the race pick is more flavor than anything. If you are a min-maxer but not a raider an ogre will swing about 70 stam over a small race which is about 360hps. Strength is higher for ease of carrying gear and extra attack lower (str capping isn’t easy). Stam capping an erudite without starting stats pumped isn’t easy. If you care about having a large mana pool though the littles have that going for them. They also don’t need shrinks or shroud of undeath (15-20k spell) to get around in HK or dungeons.
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