

Necessary for everyone.Ĭombat Tactics: Increases the number of instructions an AI character will follow. Useful, but you only really need one person in the party to know this.Ĭombat Training: Unlocks combat talents (aka special moves), and gives some passive combat bonuses. Survival: Enemies show up on your mini-map, and you get a bonus to nature damage resistance. Traps can make many hard battles trivial if you've got the patience to set them up beforehand. Trap-Making: Let's you craft traps, and you can also detect them from further away. Why would anyone bother with this? Convince me, thread. There are only a handful of people with valuable kit to steal in the entire game. Stealing: Lets you pickpocket NPC's loose change. If you have ever played an RPG before then you'll know how critical the make people like me button is. From top to bottom, they are:Ĭoercion: The diplomacy skill, which unlocks new dialogue options. There are 8 Skills, each with 4 levels of effectiveness. Increases HP.Īs an archer rogue, Bianca's going to rely heavily on Dexterity and Cunning.Īlso on this screen are Specialisations, which give us enhanced powers and stat boosts, but aren't going to be unlocked for a loooong time. Irrelevant for non-mages.Ĭunning increases the power of our skills (see below), and high cunning is required to unlock higher skill levels.Ĭonstitution makes us strong like ox. Stamina is what we burn to use our combat talents. A lot of armor has a minimum strength requirement.ĭexterity increases our accuracy, our chance to dodge attacks, and increases our damage with piercing weapons, like bows or daggers. Strength increases weapons damage and slightly boosts our resistance to physical damage.


[Our first level up of the game! We get three points to spend on our Attributes, which makes this an ideal opportunity to explain what they all mean. Or it could be the darkspawn who are right in front of us, Captain Observation. Sure hope her treacherous brother doesn't try anything! Previously posted: Bianca has successfully recovered the Shield of Aeducan, so it's time to head home.
