Intelligence and Idiot Savant

[Pure Mind Games]

When people say you get less EXP the higher your INT are they talking on average? Like with INT of 2 Idiot Savant triggers lets say 3 out 10 times but with INT 4 it might trigger only 1 out of 10 times, meaning if you're save scumming for Speech Checks and turning in Quests then it's a non-issue.

[Bored Peon]

No. Higher INT means less chance of Idiot Savant happening.

If you want extra xp to level faster (some do not) then Idiot Savant always pays for itself, even without save scumming.

[Pure Mind Games]

That's how I figured it worked, I guess they were talking 'on average' with higher INT = Less Idiot Savant.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Pure Mind Games:

That's how I figured it worked, I guess they were talking 'on average' with higher INT = Less Idiot Savant.

Well it certainly procs less, but the amount gained is higher,

[Pure Mind Games]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by Pure Mind Games:

That's how I figured it worked, I guess they were talking 'on average' with higher INT = Less Idiot Savant.

Well it certainly procs less, but the amount gained is higher,

Exactly, even though the EXP is higher it happens less often meaning if say you turn in 10 quests with higher INT on average you'd gain less than with a low INT, that'll be what they were referring to.

[Louplex]

the mod "idiot slut (s.l.u.t)" is nice, since it is possible to remove the annoying sound and comes with a cute alt icon. i dont activate the moan that comes with it since i like it less vulgar. and it's possible to revert the effect and is so called "intellectual slut" :)

[Pure Mind Games]

The sound effect doesn't bother me, I actually like it.

[red255]

depends how much INT you have.

generally speaking if you want XP and Caps you want to use the crafting system.

you go out and explore half your XP comes from kills half from crafting with the junk you get back.

you have 12 INT you can boost INT to get more XP.

if you have less than that you can lower your int to boost idiot savant chance of rolling.

I generally go with a starting INT of 10 drink a beer read the book get 11 INT get a 12th int from the bobblehead and switch to INT gear while crafting if I want to seriously grab XP.

Idiot Savant is a thing that makes low INT builds Viable. and thats fine. but theres also drugs that give +5 INT and outfits that give +INT so we can take our 12 base INT and raise it up to like 25, just for crafting, and at that point get more XP from our INT than we would from idiot savant.

experience really isn't much of an issue after level 30 or so. and I find INT 12 gets me to 30 easier than idiot savant.