Advice on Changing City and House

Caide

Hello,

I've been playing a fair bit now, my Paladin is up to level 67 now, but I'm beginning to feel that my choice for city and house might not have been the best choice for me given my play style and personal interests.

I joined Targossas and the Harbingers of Redemption.  I love the city and the people, but the requirements to rise in my house require a lot of research and reading in the city library, even just to the 2nd house rank.  I think it makes sense given the mission of the Harbingers as teachers and preachers of the light... I just don't have the interest to do that much reading and studying.

I also don't want to get heavy into PvP either, at least not at this stage, so not sure if the Dawnblade is a good choice either.  Truthfully, I don't know a whole lot about the different cities and houses at all at this stage. 

I enjoy the PvE aspect of things, and light role play.  I am not interested in evil alignment based houses.  Based on that, what might be better choices in terms of cities and houses?  If I leave the Harbingers and Targossas, what kind of repercussions am I going to face both IC and OOC?  What is the process to do so, if that is the route I go down?  Am I better off just rolling a new character?

Cheers all and all the best,

Caide Delancis

Aralaya

If you leave the house there won't be any punishment. You don't need to join a house in the city. If you leave the city, and are older than 25, you'll be enemied and declared an oath breaker, and will likely have someone duel you for your bounty. You'll also lose devotion, which is key to being a paladin. Other than that I can't think of any consequences. If you do have problems with the Harbinger requirements though, I'd advise talking to a full house member about it, as they will be able to help you make it a lot easier than it looks.

Farrah

Couple things about Targossas:

(1) you don't need to join a House, so if you'd rather not work on any requirements for now, you could go that route

(2) you don't need to advance at any particular rate, especially in, say, the Dawnblade. Hunting is part of becoming a pvper because you really should be a Dragon eventually if serious about PvP. So if you want to eventually PvP but just hunt for now, you'd be fine in the Dawnblade (though you won't get higher than HR2 until you start pvping, if that matters to you).

You can leave without repercussions as long as your character is below a certain age or hasn't sworn oaths (you probably haven't). You should talk to someone IG before leaving to be sure you don't get bothered.

You might like the Shield in Cyrene. I've no idea what their requirements are like though. I don't think there are really any bashing-centered houses.

Caide

Thanks Aralaya.  I do like the city itself both for its concept and the people there.  Just having a very hard time motivating myself to do all that reading.

Aralaya

@Caide talk to me or Talamond ig, we can probably help speed up the process. Otherwise you could leave the Harbingers and stay in the city with no repercussions

Shayde

Targossas has a third house called the Luminai which I don't think you mentioned. I am uncertain if it is still very active, but you could definitely look into it. From what I understand it isn't too heavy on pk or theology aspects... More of a dissemination house.

http://wiki.achaea.com/The_Luminai

Caide

Thanks all.  Going to take Aralaya's advice, but I appreciate the info from everyone.