3) I hero'd an elven forester/hunter without serious issues. I had no chance at pk because I am not that good at it. I should say that I had a dozen chances at cheap kills and passed them up. That is just my style. But from a survivability stand point elf forest/hunter is exceptional. Post 35 go underwater.

2) Each has pluses and minuses. I think each are doable with the right build and cabal set up. Just avoid lightning axes, iron axes, or axes in general. Did I say AXES? Someone out there has the solution for this but I don't.

3) Losing axe is miserable. Simply painful. Iron axe wielding devils from hell.

I think the bottom line is that good talent in this game would rap a role/cabal/religion around any of these, exploit the advantages and minimize the weaknesses.