Best Backgrounds for a new player? (deluxe included)

[Atropos]

My class gonna be armsmaster btw

[Wlerin]

Most of them just provide a +1 bonus to two skills. If those two skills happen to be ones you want on your character then great, pick that one.

The exceptions are:
Acolyte, gives +5 Attunement (i.e. mana)
Ex-Legionary, +30 lbs carrying capacity.
Fortune's Fool, +50% Loot Bonus
Savant, +10% XP
Scout, +1 Movement
Sellsword, +1 Athletics, +3 Vitality
Street Rat, +2 Intiative, +1 Thievery
Thug, +1 Club Damage bonus

(Most of these are from the DLC but I don't remember which exactly.)

Of these the best mechanical benefit for an Armsmaster is probably either Street Rat or Scout.

[Atropos]

Originally posted by Wlerin:

Most of them just provide a +1 bonus to two skills. If those two skills happen to be ones you want on your character then great, pick that one.

The exceptions are:
Acolyte, gives +5 Attunement (i.e. mana)
Ex-Legionary, +30 lbs carrying capacity.
Fortune's Fool, +50% Loot Bonus
Savant, +10% XP
Scout, +1 Movement
Sellsword, +1 Athletics, +3 Vitality
Street Rat, +2 Intiative, +1 Thievery
Thug, +1 Club Damage bonus

(Most of these are from the DLC but I don't remember which exactly.)

Of these the best mechanical benefit for an Armsmaster is probably either Street Rat or Scout.

thanks!

[Ghoul Hunter]

I'm a firm believer in street rat. +2 initiative is a huge bonus. 100% poison resist can be nice for a warrior, though.