[Paulie]

I can't recall if casting automatically unequipped or if I am just remembering a third party program doing that for me..
I really don't remember orbs either, except for crafting a couple things.

Besides that, Stats are already as you stated and lockable, so you won't have to always balance them out like you did on IN. The skill gain will be easy for combat and tough for crafts. As Eru said, this rewards the players who wish to sink the time into it plus it helps stabilize an economy. If crafts are too easy players will just make what they need themselves and never interact with others for goods, thus phasing out players who enjoy crafting and such.

When you create a character you will be able to pick 4 skills with fixed bonuses. For instance, if you pick a combat related skill, you will get 90-100 in that skill, if you pick a craft you will get 55-80, harvesting skill would be around 60-85, and other skills range from 65-100. You will be able to pick whichever 4 skills you wish, so if you are just into pvp you could pick swords, mage, healing, tactics and be almost all set to go. On top of that, there is a great training ground to start out in that will really help character development.

Shade you would automatically disarm when you casted on IN1. You would have to re equip after casting thats what u needed ur macro for also a disarm macro for when you were being paraylzed. I remember pretty much everything from the pvp on IN1 sadly 7 years later but I do. Just message me if you need help with anything else you cant remember