Increasing attributes question

[nub]

Which attributes should I focus to increase the most? And what does agility do?

[The Everlasting Stillness ☯]

Depends on how you play. Are you tanking on easy? Vitality and defense.
Are you parrying a lot? Luck and Agility.
Agility lets you take turns more often, sometimes before the enemies can return fire.

[Some Rando]

Agility makes turns come sooner for the character. It's a great attribute to have, though remember that weapons will scale with different attributes (the icons with the sword and letters next to them.)

Don't worry about messing up too much, because odds are, you'll be using recoats in the late game to get the best result.

[nub]

What are recoats?

[Some Rando]

Originally posted by nub:

What are recoats?

They're items that let you redo attributes or skill trees entirely. You hold triangle (or whatever button for Xbox or PC) on the menu to use them.

[Faded]

The primary & secondary stats of the weapon that you're using. I usually have about 20 points in luck for most characters eventually to reach 100% with pictos.

The caveat is that you should be a bit stingy about swapping weapons too many times because recoats aren't plentiful until Act 3 and it will take a tad bit of grind to get them easily.

Don't fret too much though. Early game I avoided investing a ton of attribute/lumina points and weapon upgrades because FOMO but it was still pretty feasible on normal mode.

[Some Rando]

Originally posted by Faded:

The caveat is that you should be a bit stingy about swapping weapons too many times because recoats aren't plentiful until Act 3 and it will take a tad bit of grind to get them easily.

Also good advice. Very true.

[nub]

Whats the benefit of picking the attributes based on the weapon stats?

[MakitaRotSprout]

Originally posted by nub:

Whats the benefit of picking the attributes based on the weapon stats?

Higher damage output.