Paths of power

Upon selecting your primary guild (see help primary guild) you will be
allowed to advance level 20 in that guild. After you reach level 14 in a
primary guild, you are allowed access to a secondary guild (help secondary
guild), although finishing your primary guild first is highly recommended.
You may wish to look into taking a secondary guild that is involved in what
is called a 'path of power.' Mages may join guilds to enhance certain
elemental damage types; Abjurers, enhanced protection spell categories;
Bards, a path to enhance the magic of their music; Templars and Cultists,
paths to help their resurrection spells; and Psionicists, a defensive and
offensive path to hone their skills of the mind. In addition to these
Primary-specific guild paths, there are also weapon specialization paths
(see help weapon paths) that can be joined by various secondary guilds.

For example, upon reaching level 20 in the Mage guild, Pyrexia, the mage
who enjoys using his fire based spells, may wish to start down the path of
the Pyromancer. He could then take the Pyromancer guild as his 'secondary'
which would provide, in addition to its own benefits, a whole path of
tertiary guilds for him to take that would further enhance his flame-based
and magical powers.

For more information on the possible secondary and tertiary guilds you can
join, look at the 'choices' command (help choices) and the 'paths' command
(help paths) to plan your future. You can gain further insight by typing
'info' in the joining rooms of any guilds or looking them up under the
'Guilds' section of the RetroMUD website (www.retromud.org). You may also
wish not to take secondary guilds with paths for your primary guild. For
instance, Merlin, the mage, may wish to join 'Telemancer' for its
beneficial spells instead of an Elemental secondary guild. His future
choices will be more limited, but the telemancer guild is quite helpful
already. If Merlin later decides that he also wants to take the path of the
Pyromancer, he may want to look into a 'double secondary' wish (help
wishes, help full wishes) as a possibility. Before you choose a path, be
sure to look far into the tertiary guilds you will be joining, so you can
be sure you will be happy with what you will receive.

SEE ALSO: help wished pathing