What Stats Determine MP and MP Growth?

[MightyMidgit]

I am doing a music-based build, and music damage is determined mainly by the difference in MP. I cannot find anywhere where it says what stat increases MP and which determines MP growth. The intelligence tooltip states that the lower the intelligence, the more your initial MP (which seems backwards to what you would expect), but there is nothing else explained.

I see enemies who are completely muscle-brains ten levels below me with twice my MP. Bosses have upwards of 2-3k MP. I am lvl 48 right now (first playthrough, but my MP is only 855, and that is WITH an artifact that gives me an extra 230 max mp.

What am I missing?

[darkshintos]

You don't get more MP from leveling up or increasing a stat.

You get MP solely from Internal Skills and equipment. Legendary Internals give around 500 Mp and Yin Type Internals give about 800.

Every Point of Int will lower your Base Mp by 35, down to a minimum of 100 Base MP, This does not affect the MP you get from Internal Skills.

[FunkyWeirdo]

darkshintos is right.

My memory is fuzzy but you can also use:

1) consume Lingzi (medicine)

2) the punishment room in Taoist sect

3) the ice bed in ice prison

[titanopteryx]

Get your herb gathering skill up and gather from legendary herb spots. Legendary herbs can raise your max hp and or max mp when eaten.

[Prademotriste]

Originally posted by darkshintos:

You don't get more MP from leveling up or increasing a stat.

You get MP solely from Internal Skills and equipment. Legendary Internals give around 500 Mp and Yin Type Internals give about 800.

Every Point of Int will lower your Base Mp by 35, down to a minimum of 100 Base MP, This does not affect the MP you get from Internal Skills.

Why would int reduce it????

[dq_177]

It seems weird that INT comes with debuffs, none of the other stats seem to.

[markelphoenix]

Originally posted by Fracassado:

Originally posted by darkshintos:

You don't get more MP from leveling up or increasing a stat.

You get MP solely from Internal Skills and equipment. Legendary Internals give around 500 Mp and Yin Type Internals give about 800.

Every Point of Int will lower your Base Mp by 35, down to a minimum of 100 Base MP, This does not affect the MP you get from Internal Skills.

Why would int reduce it????

Gameplay Wise: Balance. Int is incredibly powerful because it's a direct Attack and Defense boost.

Lore Wise?: Maybe it represents MP representing something more intuitive or zen, less intellectual or logical.

So, Int makes you more logical in your approach (where to strike, how to defend, etc.), but trade off is less of a reserve of energy to tap into the more fantastical or mystical aspects of Kung Fu.

[darkshintos]

Int affects how efficient you are in training/learning Martial Arts. If you are more efficient you spend less time training your body and Qi.
Thats my idea of the reasoning anyway.

Tale of Wuxia did something similar. More Int made you master the Internals Faster so you got less HP and MP out of it.