Stat Advice

[Nosh]

Looking for advice since I'm coming up on level 20.

I recognize i'll have to get a fixstat at some point, but feel like this is a good balance between getting max RT reduction early for a slower race and growth for earlier levels.

I chose to tank intuition because of my low influence bonus and the impact on warcries. It doesn't seem like intuition really impacts that much aside from dodging and maneuvers, but I assume that will be of minimal impact as a warrior in plate who can't dodge for shit anyway.

Thanks in advance.

Dwarf Warrior

STR P 50
CON S 50
DEX 85
AGL 85
DIS 60
AUR M 80
LOG 80
INT 30
WIS M 70
INF 70

[Maerit]

Mind telling us what kind of weapon you're using? You only need a 23 AGIDEX bonus to swing a maul in 5 seconds. If you can lower your AGI/DEX stats and still achieve that, I would recommend the inexpensive route of using an easier to handle weapon, or enhancives. Fix stats potions are usually pretty pricey. Using low-end enhancives or altering your weapon option for a short time is usually much less expensive in the long run.

[Nosh]

I'm using a maul, yes. So I only need 23, but the extra gives me some buffer for encumbrance and ambushing.

[hamsquatch]

I would personally lose my mind with those stats. Is you your INF high for war cries? Below is what I went with for to get 100's in the top four by 50. I'll fixstat again. With those low prime requisites I think you may find you want more TPs to work with. If you can get your AGIDEX above 38 you can swing a claidh at 5 seconds, I believe.

Strength (STR): 76
Constitution (CON): 80
Dexterity (DEX): 87
Agility (AGI): 87
Discipline (DIS): 80
Aura (AUR): 55
Logic (LOG): 85
Intuition (INT): 40
Wisdom (WIS): 50
Influence (INF): 20

[Roiken]

Level 0 Stats Dwarf Warrior

Strength (STR): 60
Constitution (CON): 60
Dexterity (DEX): 65
Agility (AGI): 63
Discipline (DIS): 48
Aura (AUR): 70
Logic (LOG): 94
Intuition (INT): 44
Wisdom (WIS): 84
Influence (INF): 72

Far from perfect but those are my warriors stats from info start.. as a Dwarf your influence bonus is gonna suck no matter what you do... But yelling seems to care more about just ranking up in warcries more than is weighted by influence , just in my experience

[Maerit]

I'm using a maul, yes. So I only need 23, but the extra gives me some buffer for encumbrance and ambushing.

I don't think this is actually true. Having a higher AGIDEX shouldn't improve your ability to reduce RT when encumbered? Is that a thing? I was under the impression that AGIDEX only reduces the base swing time of a weapon. You'd want STR/CON to help with encumbrance from my experience, but I could be wrong.

[Nosh]

I don't think this is actually true. Having a higher AGIDEX shouldn't improve your ability to reduce RT when encumbered? Is that a thing? I was under the impression that AGIDEX only reduces the base swing time of a weapon. You'd want STR/CON to help with encumbrance from my experience, but I could be wrong.

It decreases the swing time of the weapon, yes, but only down to the base time. So a -3 agidex gets me from a 7 second maul to a 4 second maul, which cannot have RT lower than 5 so it swings in 5.

However, I believe that when encumbrance is taken into account you gain back that extra -1 against the encumbrance formula. So if my "real" RT is 7 (base) - 3 (AGIDEX) = 4 actualswing time is 5...and if I add one second of encumbrance it's still 5 because my swing speed is really 4 but the weapon cannot be swung in less than 5.

I don't know that this is absolutely the truth, but based on anecdotal experience playing my rogue i'm almost 100% sure it is.

[Jeril]

It decreases the swing time of the weapon, yes, but only down to the base time. So a -3 agidex gets me from a 7 second maul to a 4 second maul, which cannot have RT lower than 5 so it swings in 5.

However, I believe that when encumbrance is taken into account you gain back that extra -1 against the encumbrance formula. So if my "real" RT is 7 (base) - 3 (AGIDEX) = 4 actualswing time is 5...and if I add one second of encumbrance it's still 5 because my swing speed is really 4 but the weapon cannot be swung in less than 5.

I don't know that this is absolutely the truth, but based on anecdotal experience playing my rogue i'm almost 100% sure it is.

It is true, any extra agi/dex bonus will help reduce your rt when encumbered. It can be nice but when you've got a lot of extra you have to watch your encumbrance more carefully or in some areas you can end up dead rather quickly.

[Riltus]

There is no RT adder penalty up to 4% encumbrance. Above 4% the penalty is +1 second RT adder for each 5% encumbered body weight.

Example: 200 lb. character

>0 to 8 lbs encumbrance: 0 RT adder (>0% to 4% encumbrance)
>8 lbs to 18 lbs: +1 sec RT adder (>4% to 9% encumbrance)
>18 lbs to 28 lbs: +2 sec RT adder (>9% to 14% encumbrance)
>28 lbs to 38 lbs: +3 sec RT adder (>14% to 19% encumbrance)
etc.

Mark