Raze, I suggest going mage. It's so much funnier <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. As a fighter you can use axes and warhammers (if you want), as a mage you can use spells (and the spells is much cooler than the axes/warhammers imho).
And about lvls, after level 17, the only thing you improve as a figher is hp (and that's three points/level). And stats, I think. Oh, and possibly extra profidency slots to learn.
I usually try to styart with 16 in conc (extra starting hitpoints (nice), and +2 hp/level (and now I know you can't get more as a wizard). That means you start with something like 30 hp, and gets 6 hp/level up to level 10, after that you get 1 lousy hp/level), 16 in int (int is important for a mage, adjusts spells you can learn, and your maximum lvl spell) and 16 in wis. Then I try to boost my charisma to 16 (I don't want higher, my brother had 25, and when he asked the finall boss to 'give up' the final boss said 'ok'. My brother had some new cool lvl 9 spells he wanted to molest the final boss with) and my wis and int to 20 (I think bonuses boosts it up to 25. You get loads of bonuses on these two, at least if you're a mage). Since I don't fight much with meleeweponds (tries to use the profidencyslots I learned in my first figherlevels to boost my knifeskill), I don't need much strenght, and magus guard take care of base AC, so I don't need much dex either. But I can allways boost these when the other ones is where I told you I tried to get them (then I boost dex first). But that's me as a mage <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />...
Anyway, I don't think levels are that important. It's a lousy level-up system anyway, and trying to get that perfect roll with everyone when they level up (especially the multi-classers are a pain...) is enought to prevent me to exp like h... very much to get that max level. It is some extra statpoints (which can be crucial as a warrior though...) but not much more. Especially not after level 17...
And about wisdom itself, you need high wisdom or high int (and as a warrior int is useless) to get those conversation options. And recovering memories is allways nice, especially for the plot (and sometimes you get a bonus too. But who cares about character development in Ps:T? It's all about the story, really). Take the exp bonus as just that: a bonus <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.
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