How do stats work, especially with classes?

[Indigo Jack]

For example, does the Bandit class really only need Dex and vitality, with a little magic and can forgo all strength? Does the mystic class only need magic and vitality and could do without strength or dex? The warrior class seems like it still needs a little of everything since magic also governs how much mana you have.

You can respec your points with a book from the shop but your base stats (the ones you select when you create your character) can't be changed, so if you mess up, you have to delete your character and start over.

[Veri]

Would like to correct that you technically CAN respec your stats from when you made your character.

[scown]

rocking 40 magic/vitality on my mystic. my vomit bell from colossal kills all.

[Lesserred]

Primary stat > Vit until scaling cap hit then Vit > Str or Int

Dex currently only benefits bandits, as the crit benefits are VERY minor compared to what you can get from gear.

[Indigo Jack]

Originally posted by Veri:

Would like to correct that you technically CAN respec your stats from when you made your character.

Are you sure about that? I ask because I made a character and spread the stats evenly (I think every stat was three? Something like that). So when I used the book, Atk didn't revert to 1 but back to three. It reverted my stats to whatever I choose after creating my character, not back to absolute 1 on everything like it does on the character creation screen.

[Wonder]

Don't even need mind on Bandit tbh, I guess maybe if you're exclusively using bow skills? I do 15 vit and the rest goes into dex.

Originally posted by Indigo Jack:

Originally posted by Veri:

Would like to correct that you technically CAN respec your stats from when you made your character.

Are you sure about that? I ask because I made a character and spread the stats evenly (I think every stat was three? Something like that). So when I used the book, Atk didn't revert to 1 but back to three. It reverted my stats to whatever I choose after creating my character, not back to absolute 1 on everything like it does on the character creation screen.

Mine have always gone back down to 1 when resetting them

[ImNotFine]

you can go into dex to try and bank on magic crits but yeah the most effective way to build magic is to go full mind with low health (around 9 points) and make all your gear boost magical power or mana count (i find magical power is better because you get to a point where you have too much mana to use but none of the spells do an awful lot even with how long they take. if you're going to take long casting and waiting for cooldowns, may as well make it worthwhile by making it do a crap ton of damage)

[Anon]

Realistically I imagine Kiseff's going to buff dex crit stats at some point because if you were to absolutely stat dump every point into dex you get like 2% more crits and it's a fairly common complaint.

But yeah, OP's stat examples are fine, warriors don't need dex though. The only class that "needs" dex is the thief class unless you're a total RNGesus devout who prays every day and decides to make a dex-based fighter, somehow having enough of those dex consumables to enchant all your weapons to scale off dex.

Really though, I think I'm like 10 hours into the game now and I've only seen one of those enhancement items.
The dev has always gotten his willy damp for RNG for some reason, it's infuriating, I still remember when the ONLY way to get any decent equipment was to farm them off enemies, so the only way to gear up is just to fight OP enemies for hours in the hopes something drops.
Every character I ever had up until the shop change was lugging around equipment an average of ten levels under my character level. TEN.