help with stats

[simlon]

Hi, everyone

I'm new to the game after around 10 years of not playing and could use some help. I'm at around 28 or 29 days, so I rerolled with the help of the stat predictor. Here are my original level 10 stats - it was mostly not too hard to kill things around my level or a little higher (Shelfae & Burrow Orcs, not Greater):

Statistic Bonus
Constitution (CON) : 80 ... 15
Dexterity (DEX) : 68 ... 19
Discipline (DIS) : 72 ... 6
Logic (LOG) : 68 ... 9
Intuition (INT) : 76 ... 13
Strength (STR) : 72 ... 11
Agility (AGL) : 80 ... 20
Influence (INF) : 35 ... -7
Wisdom (WIS) : 76 ... 13
Aura (AUR) : 73 ... 16

I wanted to try to max out everything except Inf by 100 (that IS cap, isn't it?) Here's what I got:


Statistic Bonus
Constitution (CON) : 79 ... 14
Dexterity (DEX) : 40 ... 5
Discipline (DIS) : 83 ... 11
Logic (LOG) : 83 ... 16
Intuition (INT) : 67 ... 8
Strength (STR) : 73 ... 11
Agility (AGL) : 66 ... 13
Influence (INF) : 60 ... 5
Wisdom (WIS) : 68 ... 9
Aura (AUR) : 79 ... 19

I couldn't get everything to 100 by 100 - I think Dis, Agility & Log are 99 until 102, everything else except INF by 99 or 100.

My lower AgiDex is going to change my fighting style a bit, and my AS is about 10 lower (103 instead of 113 with Phoen's Strength). I'm irritated that I'm suddenly losing a lot more arrows, or they're not hitting more often. Also, I have to be even more careful stance dancing - even kappas are hitting me some if I'm above guarded. I'm afraid to go back to Shelfae chiefs (I was hunting them with decent success at 9, occasionally getting killed, though). Do I just need to stick with it, or am I planning this wrong? I do plan on keeping this character long term, I was having a lot of fun, a little less now, but I can tolerate some pain…

My training is pretty standard sniping ranger:
2x ranged, S/H & percept.
1x armor, amb., phys. fit., dodge (like this! but it may be worse now with my dexterity?), harness power
10 trains first aid/surivival
5x climb/swim
little bit of spirit lore - bless, CM (3 ranks), arcane sym., trading
10 Ranger spells/light blues (I trained level 0 also)

Tangleweed is fun, but it's a lot of mana for me currently. Haven't tried camouflage; I was still getting spotted frequently in Shelfae, like I said I'm currently afraid to go back there…

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[BriarFox]

Hi, everyone

I'm new to the game after around 10 years of not playing and could use some help. I'm at around 28 or 29 days, so I rerolled with the help of the stat predictor. Here are my original level 10 stats - it was mostly not too hard to kill things around my level or a little higher (Shelfae & Burrow Orcs, not Greater):

Statistic Bonus
Constitution (CON) : 80 ... 15
Dexterity (DEX) : 68 ... 19
Discipline (DIS) : 72 ... 6
Logic (LOG) : 68 ... 9
Intuition (INT) : 76 ... 13
Strength (STR) : 72 ... 11
Agility (AGL) : 80 ... 20
Influence (INF) : 35 ... -7
Wisdom (WIS) : 76 ... 13
Aura (AUR) : 73 ... 16

I wanted to try to max out everything except Inf by 100 (that IS cap, isn't it?) Here's what I got:


Statistic Bonus
Constitution (CON) : 79 ... 14
Dexterity (DEX) : 40 ... 5
Discipline (DIS) : 83 ... 11
Logic (LOG) : 83 ... 16
Intuition (INT) : 67 ... 8
Strength (STR) : 73 ... 11
Agility (AGL) : 66 ... 13
Influence (INF) : 60 ... 5
Wisdom (WIS) : 68 ... 9
Aura (AUR) : 79 ... 19

I couldn't get everything to 100 by 100 - I think Dis, Agility & Log are 99 until 102, everything else except INF by 99 or 100.

My lower AgiDex is going to change my fighting style a bit, and my AS is about 10 lower (103 instead of 113 with Phoen's Strength). I'm irritated that I'm suddenly losing a lot more arrows, or they're not hitting more often. Also, I have to be even more careful stance dancing - even kappas are hitting me some if I'm above guarded. I'm afraid to go back to Shelfae chiefs (I was hunting them with decent success at 9, occasionally getting killed, though). Do I just need to stick with it, or am I planning this wrong? I do plan on keeping this character long term, I was having a lot of fun, a little less now, but I can tolerate some pain…

My training is pretty standard sniping ranger:
2x ranged, S/H & percept.
1x armor, amb., phys. fit., dodge (like this! but it may be worse now with my dexterity?), harness power
10 trains first aid/surivival
5x climb/swim
little bit of spirit lore - bless, CM (3 ranks), arcane sym., trading
10 Ranger spells/light blues (I trained level 0 also)

Tangleweed is fun, but it's a lot of mana for me currently. Haven't tried camouflage; I was still getting spotted frequently in Shelfae, like I said I'm currently afraid to go back there…

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Looks pretty good, but setting for cap is a bit painful at first. To help with hiding, you might try to put some points in CM and get some shadow mastery. 617 will help a lot when you get that, too.

[simlon]

thanks for the quick reply, Briar Fox. Is Cap 100? It doesn't seem like it would be possible to have every stat at 100 by then, so just leave INF lower, but within shouting distance.

Tangleweed helped a lot (fun!), but obviously mana will be an issue for a bit. I will be doing more group hunting, I guess.

Appreciate your taking a look!

[BriarFox]

thanks for the quick reply, Briar Fox. Is Cap 100? It doesn't seem like it would be possible to have every stat at 100 by then, so just leave INF lower, but within shouting distance.

Tangleweed helped a lot (fun!), but obviously mana will be an issue for a bit. I will be doing more group hunting, I guess.

Appreciate your taking a look!

Yep, cap's 100, and INF is the typical choice for a ranger to tank.