Character Creation/Statistic Rerolling

Determine Class-Based Significant Statistics

When you have determined which class or classes you'd like to play, look at the in-game help page for your specific class.   Let's take the CLERIC class as an example.

> help cleric 

provides the following information

Cleric

The cleric is a member of a religious order, but he is no mere priest. While he may not have as much fighting skill as a warrior, he is far from a noncombatant. The clerics of JediMUD, however, adhere to a strict religious belief that forbids them from wielding edged weapons such as swords. Most of the cleric's power lies in his faith in his deity, who grants him spells which do everything from healing his allies to smiting down his foes with holy flames. The primary statistic? for a cleric is WISDOM. Having a high wisdom will help to increase the effectiveness of his spells. Having a high STRENGTH and CONSTITUTION are also definite pluses for a cleric. A cleric can be of any alignment.

Free Re-Rolls

To create a new cleric, you'll want your  INTELLIGENCE and WISDOM to be optimally 18s.  When you create a new character, you won't be able to see your base WIS and INT stats until you reach level 5. (This was done to prevent players from using triggers to create low-to-perf characters automatically.) Upon reaching level 5, examine your stats, and if you don't have 18s in your prime stats categories (INT and WIS) reroll your cleric at the Phrenologist (located in a shop in each of the main cites of Midgaard, New Thalos and Skara Brae.)  You get five free rerolls.

Paid Re-Rolls

If you still don't have 18s in INT and WIS, you can buy rerolls  at 250K gold per re-roll, or, if you're a new player without lots of gold, delete the character and re-create, duplicating the process above.

Start With 18s

It's important to start with 18 INT/18 WIS due to the additional spell bonus you'll get when spell-casting, as well as a 12% mana regen bonus.  If you're new to the game, you typically won't have high value equipment that provides sufficient mana regen bonus and you'll have to rely on your native INT/WIS stats to begin. 

High constitution (18 CON) will provide more hit point gain per level, too, so it is advisable to try to roll and re-roll for 18 CON as well (if you have either the gold or the patience).

Starting a Cleric as a Paladin or Anti-Paladin

Some players have discovered that starting your mortal career as either a Paladin or Anti-Paladin, will give you higher STR, CON and WIS attributes to start, with a relatively lower INT stat.  If you can get STR at 18/50+, an 18 CON and an 18 WIS as a Paladin/Anti-Paladin, upon remort, you can add up to 3 stat points to your INT category to compensate.  Though this requires a remort to Cleric (40m xp + 150 SAC), you will get a much higher starting stat base for less gold and time! (You can start as a Warrior class, but warrior remorts require 60m xp in addition to the 150 SAC points.)

A Spreadsheet Example

	STR	WIS	INT	DEX	CON	CHA	TO PERF	FORMULAS
MAX	28	18	18	18	18	18	0.0
TEST	15	18	16	16	9	13	10.3	=(($B$2-$B3)+($C$2-$C3)+($D$2-$D3)+($E$2-$E3)+($F$2-$F3)+($G$2-$G3))/3
						118.0 (max)	87.0	=(($B3)+($C3)+($D3)+($E3)+($F3)+($G3))

Replace the divisor "3" above with "4" if you are planning to keep a remort class (B or R) intact throughout their perfect stat journey.