How do I increase Carrying Capacity?

[Suggin]

I am running around the game picking up items, some i leave behind because they seem useless or like junk but I find myself weighted down almost constantly. Is there a way to increase Carry Cap? Is it based off the strength stat? Does it increase naturally as I level? Yes I do use the storage system at the inns in the game and if things get truly bad I give items to my main pawn to hold. Still, I feel the carry capacity should be higher, tired of running slow and my stamina depleting too fast. Am I just screwed? Is there something I am missing here? Help me figure this out. I don't expect the carry cap to be as high as a Bethesda rpg but darn darn darn

[Asmodan]

Bigger Chars can carry more, make your Char weight 110KG for max carry capacity. If you change your Char Vocation to Warrior and bring it to level 5 you can take "SInew" to get additional carry weight.

[Q_taro]

I always use these three.

Fighter argumet :Sinew(Rank5) Increases the maximum weight and encumbrance thresholds by 20kg.

Strider argument:Leg-Strength(Rank9) Decreases the effective encumbrance rank by one.

Argument that prevents stamina from decreasing even when running
BBI LV3.novelty:Athleticism "Reduces Stamina consumed whilst running."

[Suggin]

Ah good to know. My Arisen character is a woman who was originally a Strider, but switched her to Warrior a few days ago. I shall get "Sinew" when I can, tho probably too late to change her Weight by now, eh? She is definitely not huge.

[Wizard of Woz]

So for Sinew, is it Fighter or Warrior?

[Q_taro]

Buy the Art of Metamorphosis and Secret of Metamorphosis from Jonathan at the camp.

[Q_taro]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

So for Sinew, is it Fighter or Warrior?

It can be learned at rank 5 of Fighter.
I think it's written above...

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Q_taro:

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

So for Sinew, is it Fighter or Warrior?

It can be learned at rank 5 of Fighter.
I think it's written above...

Well one person said Fighter and the other said Warrior, so just clarifying.

[Q_taro]

I think this is a mistake made by fighters, not warriors.

https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Sinew

[zmanbuilder]

Upgrading your armor lowers its weight too.

[zadymek]

Rather than [just] increasing your carrying capacity think about managing your encumbrance better:
- give excess items to Pawns (duh)
- put items you won't be using during travels (resources, excess equipment and tools, etc) to storage. You can use hired Pawns for that: hire offline Pawn, eg Rook, load it with excess stuff and toss to the sea.
- you can also use Combining to create more potent items that will suffice in lower quantities or to game the system - there are items combinations where the ingredients weight less than the end result eg
Flask of Oil 0,27kg=Oil Arrow 0,01kg + Empty Flask 0,12kg
Blast Arrow x10 2,7kg= Beech Branch 0,66kg+Throwblast 0,27kg
- regarding special arrows, there are skills that hit multiple times with a single arrow so you can carry less arrows.
- and generally you could carry less Curatives if you have resistances in place and are able to to away combat without them - use core skills to when low on Stamina, be resourceful to avoid getting hit
- you can also find lots of Curatives in the game world.on enemies so no need to carry them around, eg Saurian tail is a great Stamina curative and a common drop from severed Saurian tails.
- last but not least, you can reduce the weight of equipment by enhancing it, like the person above said.