The best of each guild?

I liked Deke, even though he was not a 52864 played burglar.  He probably lasted 30-40days, and was a good example of a bottom feeding dirtbag.   I cant think of another burglar who I've seen survive this long, though.

Can anyone point to a psion they liked?

Albie. Really made the game fun and engaging for my newb ass when I started playing. Albie was like, badass. Timotheo is my current favorite noble. I'll second on Agron, he was a fucking blast to play with. There's other very well done characters out there who make the game fun, but I didn't know enough about most of them to comment.

Pretty sure Albie was a ranger, I'm not sure if Agron was warrior or ranger. Maybe not the best, but pretty damn good recent characters.

EDIT: Rumor has it Agron was a merchant, if I read this thread correctly, but having sparred with him and seen him in action in the field, I'm pretty sure he just had a craftng subguild.

Pearl was the most notorious character of guild_dick_receptacle of her day. She received more than a little staff protection, her own noble house, and resurrection from one of the two times she was successfully killed her due entirely to favoritism. She was one of the earliest characters I know of to clue the playerbase in to the folly of letting the staff know in advance that you're going to whack a PC.

When Kurac decided to put her down for good, they had a Nilazi drop a group of... what was it, six seasoned killers? ... on her while she was in her office. If memory serves me correctly they carried off her head to prevent another, "Oh, she wasnt dead for realsies lol" from the staff.

Her "success" is on par with any successful business that excessively abuses government connections IRL to get ahead. There was nothing to be jealous about, only preferential treatment to hold in contempt.

I'd like to hear stories of good thieves/the best sneaks that don't involve backstab with poison silt worm daggers

It's so funny how no one on the gdb can admit what was flawed about the pearl character. It should be obvious to anyone who played at the time. And that's even if you put aside the ridiculous resurrection she was afforded, which so many other people who had died the same way got denied. Her pkill was declared a bug. Yet no one else who had died to the same "bug" were ever given a rez and in fact nessalin even told one player who died from it that it's not a bug and to kindly fuck off. Delirium missed that point in her post. But yes, even if we put that point aside....

She was spoonfed her every success. While it's impressive that in her latter years she was basically a char who used zero skills and focused largely on social and political type rp, it needs to be understood that she did not win anything based on the merits of her hard work and effort. She was simply given everything, things which any other player at the time would have been refused, particularly if they had a different type of genitals than her. Sanvean was quick to empower her and went to unreasonable lengths to protect her. I had a char once speaking ill of her to another guy in the gaj and an imm suddenly sent to me: "Can you please explain where this aggression your character has for Pearl is coming from?" I was literally interrupted from playing the game to be asked why my char expressed a strong disliking for her in a world based on murder, corruption, and betrayal.

Before anyone here or on the gdb praises pearl for her successes, they need to first ask themselves if any other player (particularly a male one at the time) could have accomplished the same things. I'm not even badmouthing the player or the character herself, simply the ridiculous level of pampering she received. Her death was even given a world echo instructing everyone to ignore her death, where anyone else given a rez would be dead and stay dead until all the necessary red tape is processed.