Influence and rangers!?!?

[Morrff]

I have a friend who's getting into GS and wanted to ask me a few questions about STAT placement, he's going for long term cap growth rate so as not to worry about using a fixstat/tp's not earned throughout his career.

He will have plenty of help and any gear he needs along the way, my question is simply what would leaving a low IF stat effect?

I got all stats @ cap to 100 except I'm leaving IF low at 79, what would be my/his main concern about leaving this stat so low if any concern at all?

Thanks in advance to any helpful input given

Player of Morrff's many
and introducing one more Drastlorian family member into Elanthia

[Renian]

my question is simply what would leaving a low IF stat effect?

The first thing I can think of is trading prices. You may lose like, an additional 1% to all sales the character makes with that stat instead of 100. You'd also have to pay 1% more. It's not a huge deal, but can certainly add up.

It's still a very tankable stat, and if you're worried about the sales loss, you should have a bard/empath gimp (which actually NEED INF) training trading.

[Renian]

Actually scratch that, the ranger's probably still the better choice for all your trading needs because of 650 - Assume Aspect: Lion.

[BriarFox]

Pretty much all rangers tank INF. The trading bonus from INF doesn't even come into play until you've got a certain number of Trading ranks.

[Morrff]

Yeah I have someone that deals with all sales already with maxed trading so I didn't even take that into consideration.

Thanks