As someone who wants to try Achaea again, what class/city should I join?

Thrindor

I enjoyed playing Achaea a couple years ago, and then basically forgot about it. I noticed one of the many emails that was sent out proclaiming some new change or another, and figured I might give it another try. Before I start and get invested into a character, I was hoping to ask for advice. I want to play a class that has the most variety of killing people in fun ways without requiring a degree in coding. I seem to remember getting frustrated at the amount of coding, and my expertise is basically limited to creating aliases and downloading other people's work.

In tandem with this, is there a city who would be most welcoming to a character that doesn't know how everything works yet, but would like to get involved with fighting and all that jazz?

Thanks. 

Tahquil

You'll find most cities are pretty welcoming and will happily embrace genuinely clueless players.

With the addition of multiclass you can be.. multiple classes. Swap and change out to your hearts content. However, combat will unfortunately always require some degree of coding knowledge. I've heard/seen really good things with the Shield in Cyrene for teaching newbs how to start thinking and planning out combat strategically. @Aerek, @Kenway, @Kandra.

The only really thing I would watch out for would be classes in factional spheres (Occultist, Sentinel, Druid, Sylvan, Priest, Paladin, Infernal and Apostate). These classes will tie you to a specific idealogy and city. I would first go over these and see if there is any that you MUST play then pick that city. If not you're pretty much free to pick any city, lucky duck!

Tharvis

if you join hashan and need coding help or want to learn to fight as.. any class, really, hit @Kasa up.

Cynlael

Alchemist, Jester, Sentinel all have multiple ways to kill that don't really require any coding to do well with. Just a number of aliases and clever highlighting.