Agility or Strength

[Katsu]

At the beginning of the game, does the 2 points in strength or 2 points in agility or 1 point in both make you better at archery? which option is best?

[Biggus_Dikkus]

you need both for archery

[Xenomorph]

In the beginning of te game nothing makes much difference. But id say its a good rule to go for strength

[Katsu]

Originally posted by Biggus_Dikkus:

you need both for archery

so its best to put 1 point in both in the tutorial?

[Kommissar K]

Honestly your main concern should just be to hit the minimum requirements.

The most basic bow does require 2 strength, so you should definitely put a point in there. Don't just double down on agility.

Honestly, as bows use both stats, both are useful. I assume strength is more for damage/range, and agility is more for accuracy.

I would guess your secondary thought should be for minimum reqs for melee weapons. Do you want to use strength based melee weapons or agility based?

Honestly, the 2 points at the start are so minimal, I would just pick whatever dialog option sounds good than think too much about it. Personally I prefer 1 strength and 1 speech.

[Zombo]

Both effect archery. At the start, one in each is probably best.

[joxertm22]

Put both in Speech.

Then go pick flowers and get Strength improving perk = profit.
Then sneak and KO from befind a guard with bow and shoot all sheep and cows for Agility = profit.

Why? Because the hardest attribute/skill to improve is Speech.

[Lightning]

I put both in Str on my 2nd playthrough, even though I think the speech was best imo

[Kommissar K]

Originally posted by joxertm22:

Put both in Speech.

Then go pick flowers and get Strength improving perk = profit.
Then sneak and KO from befind a guard with bow and shoot all sheep and cows for Agility = profit.

Why? Because the hardest attribute/skill to improve is Speech.

Honestly this is the best solution.

One thing to add, is that during sword training, skip doing thrusts during training and just keep swinging at the guy, will level various skills.

[Elysion]

Originally posted by joxertm22:

Put both in Speech.

This. The others are easier to level up than speech. Strenght can be leveld very easily through sword practice. Agility is harder since archery contests dont raise it, but you can go around poaching and killing rabbits, raising archery levels agility well. You can get 1 agility requirement bows so its no big deal. Also if you grind strength some right after the tutorial (sword practice) it will raise agility some as well, enough to use better bows anyway.

But speech, the best way to raise it is haggling and its exp gain is based on how much success you have at haggling, and so the better it is, the more exp you earn with it. This means starting with 3 speech is optimal.

If you really dont want to then agility is the next best choice since it is the hardest to level up early on.

To level vitality fast just sprint and jump while traveling around, jumping gives you good vitality exp

[Drunetovich]

Pick 2 speech, this is the only stat in the game you can't really train\grind efficiently.

[Zombo]

Originally posted by joxertm22:

Put both in Speech.

Then go pick flowers and get Strength improving perk = profit.
Then sneak and KO from befind a guard with bow and shoot all sheep and cows for Agility = profit.

Why? Because the hardest attribute/skill to improve is Speech.

Agreed. Leveling weapon skills is pretty easy. Go bow hunting for game and you will be leveled up in no time. Practice melee combat with Captain Bernard and you are wiping bandit camps with ease. Speech skill can only be raised by doing dialogues with NPCs.

[CH13F]

i gave all to speech personally. getting strenght and agility exp both before skill lv10 s very easy anyway. on the other hand speech helped me lot at start.

your choice.

[joxertm22]

Originally posted by Zombo:

Speech skill can only be raised by doing dialogues with NPCs.

And three skillbooks (one is obtainable at Rattay Inn). ;)

[Lightning]

Originally posted by joxertm22:

Originally posted by Zombo:

Speech skill can only be raised by doing dialogues with NPCs.

And three skillbooks (one is obtainable at Rattay Inn). ;)

Or by training in speech as well, Level 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 etc.

[joxertm22]

Originally posted by Lightning:

Originally posted by joxertm22:

And three skillbooks (one is obtainable at Rattay Inn). ;)

Or by training in speech as well, Level 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 etc.

You can't do that.