Asheron's Call/Character templates

This is a list of templates you can use to build a character in Asheron's Call.

General Tank
You could choose to spec something like Magic D or healing instead of taking the other skills, it's entirely optional.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * Weapon
 * Melee Defence
 * Trained:
 * Healing
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Missile Defence
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic
 * Leadership (Optional)
 * Lockpick (Optional)

Grief Tank Unarmed Combat (Build for PvP)
Built for the highest life possible, attempts to balance off the low innate foc/self by speccing magic d, supposedly quite effective.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * Unarmed Combat
 * Magic Defence
 * Melee Defence
 * Healing
 * Run
 * Trained:
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic

Life UA
A fairly good self sufficient character, can self buff quite well and while it does not resist more than a grief or evade more than a tank it can do both competently, pretty good for the self sustained melee type.
 * Skills
 * Specialized:
 * Unarmed Combat
 * Life Magic
 * Magic Defence
 * Trained:
 * Healing
 * Melee Defence
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Missile Defence
 * Leadership (optional)
 * Lockpick (optional)

Tank Bow
Effective in all situations, can cast very competently and self buffs with ease, a very easy character to play in all situations, suffers from low hp and burden issues due to low innate str/end.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * Bow
 * Melee Defence
 * Trained:
 * Healing
 * Fletching
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Enchantment
 * Life Magic
 * Missile Defence
 * Leadership (Optional)

Grief Bow
Absolutely unstoppable to most mid-range magic intensive creatures, you'll love the resists and the ability to debuff very effectively with this character
 * Skills
 * Specialized:
 * Bow
 * Magic Defence
 * Trained:
 * Melee Defence
 * Healing
 * Fletching
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic
 * Missile Defence
 * Leadership (Optional)

Life Archer
A very strong solo character, able to self buff at very low levels and kills very effectively, good for the lone wolf type of player, tanks very well due to mid range innate endurance.
 * Skills
 * Specialized:
 * Bow
 * Life Magic
 * Trained:
 * Healing
 * Fletching
 * Magic Defence
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic
 * Missile Defence

Battle Mage
Pretty much the cookie-cutter mage, good at everything and weak at nothing, except melee mobs.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * War Magic
 * Life Magic
 * Trained:
 * Magic Defence
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic

Mana Mage
Good at managing mana, this mage can pretty much cast non-stop for long periods of time, excels at pretty much everything due to high resists, some minor notice in vulning abilities but the hardiness of the template makes up for it.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * War Magic
 * Magic Defence
 * Mana Conversion
 * Trained:
 * Life Magic
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic

Grief Mage
Mage to piss people off, this mage can heal with kits, has specced defence for the best resist and missile d just so archers can't machine gun, a total pain to take down with a ton of health.
 * Skills:
 * Specialized:
 * War Magic
 * Magic Defence
 * Healing
 * Trained:
 * Item Enchantment
 * Arcane Lore
 * Mana Conversion
 * Creature Magic
 * Life Magic
 * Missile Defence