I reccomend ac-web hybrid mangos, as it has talents working(how you can use a core without i am not sure thats half the game), and mounts working in azeroth as ascent has this problem. i am actually pondering why arcemu aspire and mangos can't use the same db structure to have a wonderfull choice of things to have. i am currently looking for an Aspire core that works with 3.1.3. that way i can use the db i want as it uses the same structure as mangos but also supports lua which is what everyone drools over. as for another i am not sure why all these people code the damn gear by hand when someone could write a script to rip every item from your select source (wowhead etc) and make it so much easier to import them into a DB. seems wastefull to do it by hand although most do.
but my suggestion is find a Aspire core that supports your client and combine the ability to have whatever db you want and be able to execute lua scripts so that you have the best of both worlds
