Pretty different in terms of classes. What are you looking for when it comes to game play or future goals? Anything specific you'd like us to know when giving our opinion on which class you should start off with? If you need some advice for an Ice/Lightning Mage, here's a guide I wrote about them: http://royals.ms/forum/threads/ice-lightning-mage-guide.18154/ Also, when it comes to the build, I suggest Luk-less and here are my reasons: There's been a debate on whether going the traditional route of adding Luk to wear higher tier weapons and armors is better than going Luk-less and stick with only weapons and armors that require no Luk, but still give a sizable amount of Magic Attack and Int. I'm going to give my side of this argument, but feel free to choose one over the other for whatever reason you may have. I believe going Luk-less is the better choice between the two. Why? I'm going to prove my stance by debunking common claims: While this is true, most of them also require a bunch of Luk. Take, for example, Elemental Staves 5-8. They have extremely high Magic Attack, but with an extremely high Luk requirement to wield them. 1 Int equals 1 Magic Attack whereas 1 Luk doesn't increase Magic Attack at all so we can just subtract the Luk requirement from the Magic Attack and we'll get the actual value of the Staves itself. Of course, you will have equipment that will add Luk, but it's not going to be enough to even consider the higher level weapons. Again, true, however let's not forget that Luk-less Mages will also have a good amount of Luk from equips such as Zakum Helmets and Horntail Necklaces. With those Luk boosts, Luk-less Mages have access to lower tier Luk Mage equips that also play a role into the Godly System without having to put a single point into Luk. Weapon defense doesn't matter much when you're thinking long term. Most of the monsters hit high on you whether you have a lot of weapon defense or not. The armor pieces that arguably gives the most weapon defense are Zakum Helmets and Horntail Necklaces which both are Luk-less.
For class, let me tell you this, my first character is an NL. I went full on pure luk until the time I needed to add base dex. I was poor for days, didn't get my zk helm till lvl 100. I merch quite a bit to earn money as well but had no problem overall because I met a lot of people that helped out with Illibis and Maple Claw Eqs. Just remember, merching is important! But if you don't want to merch, best use an I/L to save money. You can go pure int all the way and slowly upgrade. Then start selling leech at 4th job/npcing items from the mobs. Merching helps too. Not sure if people really like buying leech from I/L mages though because of no HS.
