First Character help

[Irakaz]

Ok Ive had a look at the classes and if Ive got it right I think I found a path that suited me but I wasn't sure if I could do it.

I wanted to go fighter > mage > samurai > shugenja > Hatamoto

Im not sure how progression works so any help is much appreciated.

I wanted a melee character that could chuck out a few spells now and then. The only thing I really want to keep is the samurai class if changes are needed. Going to be human if that makes a difference at all. And its the collectors edition.

Thanks

[Claudius]

That sounds cool, but the problem is you can only join the eastern track on one of fighter or mage. So if you are a samuraia you can't be a shugenja and vice versa.

Hatamoto/sorceror or Hatomoto/battlemage is the possibility you might want?

Samuraia/Wizard would be good. I played Marauder/Wizard and I had enough fighting to conserve spells for the optimal situation but say if I got surrounded by 20 ninjas I could just smoke them all with one blast nova since: arcane learning bonuses + spellfire = 1 shot blast nova (on typical enemies)

[Irakaz]

Now that Ive had a look again Hatamoto/Battlemage sounds like the best option for me.

Am I right in thinking that after I get into fargrove I join the mages guild only and then can do either the samurai or battlemage quests whenever I want too?

[Claudius]

You join the guilds first. Be careful you don't join the adepts or thieves guild because you can only have 2. Then they will give you a quest like bring an item somewhere. Once you do that you can ask if you have the requirements to do a second tier quest. You need str int and things like that. After completing the quest you get the second tier.