Busy days, sorry for the late reply, especially since you took your time on giving me a fairly comprehensive answer.

I'm going with Mana as a client and on the TMW server then for a comfortable start, thank you ;)

Aside from that, I think a simply landing page with the information from your post ...

:?: Hi,

I'm interested in playing the game, yet, I feel rather lost.

First, is there a page somewhere that explains the differences between the clients? Screenshots, comparisons?

The description on the download page is a bit lacking. From what I can glance, there is
Manaverse, which is the ...