What are karma, sharing, and balance?
All these are explained in the tutorial hut in the OOC fairgrounds, and in more detail in Braveheart’s Guide (see 1.5). Briefly, karma is a reflection of what people think of each other; you can give good karma to someone who helps you, or bad karma to someone who is rude or evil (see 2.12 and 2.13). Sharing or spirit linking is a way for characters to cooperate and share experience with others. Sharing with a healer makes it much easier and faster for the healer to heal you, and sharing with a mystic is rumored to have benefits for both of you. Balance is the middle bar on your screen, and describes how easily beasts hit you and how often you can swing at them.
