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 === Cow ===
-One option to consider is Cow form. Once you are level 15 or so in combat and you've progressed to the point where you have access to the Crystal Cavern, you should be able get to a mad cow named Maronessa deep in the cave. She's been the result of some nasty Davos experiments, and can dish out some serious damage for an early boss. If you turn and run away after she hits you a few times, you will notice you have a debuff that will eventually turn you into Cow form after about two minutes.
+One option to consider is Cow form. Once you are level 15 or so in combat and you've progressed to the point where you have access to the Crystal Cavern, you should be able get to a mad cow named Maronessa deep in the cave. She's been the result of some nasty Davos experiments, and can dish out some serious damage for an early boss. If you turn and run away after she hits you a few times, you will notice you have a debuff that will eventually turn you into Cow form after about two minutes. Since the first 40 levels of any Combat skill can be done relatively easily, you can make it to level 20 and then go back into the cave to defeat Maronessa to turn back into a human relatively easily.
 === Pig ===
-Pig form doesn't have an easy way to become one, but you can buy Ruggedizer potions from Charles Thompson or sometimes find Pig Potions on either Charles, Marna, or Mushroom Jack (Buy Used or Consignment). If you have the money, Ruggedizer has a very small chance to turn you into a Pig, but after about 20 of them, you might find you become one.
+Pig form doesn't have an easy way to become one, but you can buy Ruggedizer potions from Charles Thompson or sometimes find Pig Potions on either Charles, Marna, or Mushroom Jack (Buy Used or Consignment). If you have the money, Ruggedizer has a very small chance to turn you into a Pig, but after about 20 of them, you might find you become one. It's not as easy as Cow to turn back into a human, however as there isn't a mob you can beat to do it.
 === Reverting back to Human ===
-For Cow, there are only three options for returning to human form that I know of. One is to get your Cow and either Psychology or Unarmed combat skills high enough that you can take out Maronessa. While Maronessa is certainly tough, it's even tougher to deal with the poisonous slugs along the way. If you have the ability to make Poison Resistance potions, they are a lifesaver here.
+For Cow, there are three options for returning to human form that I know of. One is to get your Cow and either Psychology or Unarmed combat skills high enough that you can take out Maronessa. While Maronessa is certainly tough, it's even tougher to deal with the poisonous slugs along the way, in my opinion. If you have the ability to make Poison Resistance potions, they are a lifesaver here.
-The second way for Cow is to talk to Harry the Wolf who will give you a way to undo Cow for 30 Grass, 5 Milks, and a whopping 50 mushrooms. This might be a one-time quest, I'm not sure.
+The second way to undo Cow is to talk to Harry the Wolf who will give you a way to undo Cow for 30 Grass, 5 Milks, and a whopping 50 mushrooms. This might be a one-time quest, however, I'm not sure.
-For Pig, there are really only two options, but only one of them is relatively easy and cheap. The other harder one is the UnPig potion which you can get from killing Pigs. After about 100 of them, you should find a potion to "Unpig".
+For Pig, there are really only two options, but only one of them is relatively easy and cheap. The other harder one is the UnPig potion which you can get from killing Pigs. After killing about 100 of them, you should find a potion to "Unpig". While this does take a while to do, it is very much possible to do, so it's another reason why I'd recommend Pig as being "viable" for a demo player, even if it is hard.
 For both Cow and Pig, there is yet another way to undo your animal forms, and it's probably the easiest. You can use a Word of Power (Word of Power 0 for Cow, Word of Power 3 for Pig) that you should get as an ability from the Lore skill.
-For Cow, you can get this skill just by looking at books and things in the house Marna is in. It is important to note that while this is easy and cheap to do, it's still pretty damn rare to get a SPECIFIC word of power, so be prepared to go through quite a bit of Crab Meat trying. You can get the ability to remove meat from the Crabs from Fainor for only 80 councils, but in order for him to talk to you, he might want you to do something or give him more money at first.
+For Cow, you can get this skill just by looking at books and things in the house Marna is in to get the Lore XP. It is important to note that while this is easy and cheap to do, it's still pretty damn rare to get a SPECIFIC word of power, so be prepared to go through quite a bit of Crab Meat trying. You can get the ability to remove meat from the Crabs from Fainor for only 80 councils, but in order for him to talk to you, he might want you to do something or give him more money at first.
 For Pig, the Word of Power 3 skill requires a pretty rare item called Evil Grass and two other rare/expensive items to find. These items as a whole are so difficult to get it is probably easier to find or purchase an UnPig potion.
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 === Strange Pig and Bunny Event ===
-It is worth noting that there is a Strange Pig event in the game that lets you easily test the waters as other animal forms as well. On the north side of Serbule Keep, just across the bridge, an NPC named Norbert from Animal Town will sometimes come visit to let players easily turn back and forth between different animal forms. This is another way to test playing as an animal without making a hard commit. There's also a Bunny event that works similarly, but this only happens about once per year around Easter time.
+It is worth noting that there is a Strange Pig event (these happen throughout the year) in the game that lets you easily test the waters as other animal forms as well. On the north side of Serbule Keep, just across the bridge, an NPC named Norbert from Animal Town will sometimes come visit to let players easily turn back and forth between different animal forms. This is another way to test playing as an animal without making a hard commit. There's also a Bunny event that works similarly, but this only happens about once per year around Easter time.
 ==== Playing as a Cow ====
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 Pig can be a really good class to play if you have a Cow Tank friend who is playing Project Gorgon with you or a group of friends that want to have a good buffing support class around. It does somewhat limit you to focus as a healer only as a first-time player, so you will have difficulties trying to solo as this class. Lastly, Pigs do get an ability to sniff out mushrooms every few minutes that match the zone they are in. This can be very powerful in high level zones where it would otherwise be difficult to do such tasks.
-Pig is one of the few animal forms that can use Battle Chemistry as a secondary skill with the right set of gear. This does make them pretty viable as a solo class, IMHO, but I'd still primarily recommend Pig/Priest even with these changes.
+Pig is one of the few animal forms that can use Battle Chemistry as a secondary skill with the right set of gear. This does make them pretty viable as a solo class, IMHO, but I'd still primarily recommend going Pig for Pig/Priest even with these changes. Pig/BC can tank and dish out AoE damage with some amazing mitigation capabilities, however.
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