Taking decisions before learning the game

My first character in Everquest ended up getting deleted and being replaced by another character of the same class. I don't know if the game still works like that, but at the time there were two factors here: Different races were not the same in stats, so certain races were better at certain classes than others. And on character creation you had to distribute some bonus stat points. So what happened was that the first character I created I wasn't aware of what the optimum race and stats for tha

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