Losing charisma

[CondorDrake]

Since I started the game, I keep losing charisma and I wonder what this is related to?
Like at the start you begin with 7 charisma for the first dialogs, and from there it drops relatively quickly down to 1 and I don't know why. I haven't found a way to raise it back up either.

Any clues?

[Rastem]

Do you bathe regularly?

[k4Qu]

Stats and such are explained in the ingame Codex. You will find your answers there. Also go wash and repair.

[CondorDrake]

Oh, good point. So it is related to washing and clothes I suppose? No other way to level it up?

[TactiCat]

When you get dirty, your charisma drops. (Use a water bin or visit the baths)
When your clothes and armor are very worn, your charisma drops. (Keep in good repair)
When you are very tired or too drunk, your charisma drops. (Sleep regularly and don't overdrink.)

Ways to boost:
- Nicer clothes
- Being slightly drunk (Or the perk Loose Tongue in Drinking)
- Herbalism perk (Flower Power) when you're carrying flowers

[Kithsakhai]

diry/ripped clothes affect it GREATLY I've seen.. also, as it states in the loading screen tips, if a nice shiny piece of armor that has really good charisma stats is covered by anything like a hood or tabbard that stat from the armor underneath (like fancy shiny polish breastplate for example) cant be seen and doesnt contribute to the charisma total.

[Laiders72]

Wash yourself and repair your garments or armour. You can do both at bathhouses. Metal armour has to be repaired and polished by you or an armourer. You can have quick washes in water tubs that you can find scattered about any populated area and tailors can also repair clothes. You can learn to maintain your own garments, arms and armour with the relevant skill and repair kits. Oddly enough if you stink and are dressed in rags people are more likely to take you for a begger than a knight!

To raise your charisma further, you will need to take certain perks and buy better gear. All gear has a charisma stat that contributes to calculating your overall charisma. The highest charisma is achieved by wearing the most expensive noble clothes but acceptable charisma for the later game can be achieved by wearing well-maintained high quality armour.

[Goodly Iguana]

Charisma is the impression you have when people see you (your armor)
Plate armor is the best for it, because people will see your shiny armor and mistake you for a noble knight (I have a charisma of 17 with my armor) plus there are perks 'In shining armor' that give you like.. +4 bonus or something when its sunny and you're in plate armor.

[Rdizz]

It may actually be bugged I bought a noble hat charisma 12 or something. My current charisma was 14 i was wearing no hat. I put it on and no change at all. Brand new hat. Pretty sure charisma stats are bugged to ushitz

[morph113]

Be aware that the charisma (and some other numbers like visibility) are the average values of the items you have equipped. So to make it easy, if you have only 2 items equipped, one with 10 charisma and one with 5 charisma, that means you have roughly 7-8 charisma on average.

When your clothes and weapons get damaged and dirty then the charisma value of that item drops lower and lower so your total average charisma value drops as well. Best possible charisma would be to wear some noble clothes or otherwise high charisma clothing in 100% condition and fully cleaned after visiting a bathing house.

[k4Qu]

You all should really consider taking a look at ingame explanations of system and mechanics in the games you play. If they offer such, like this game, they are sure full of useful information to help you understand how the game works. Then it wouldnt be such a mystery how things work and why hats dont change charisma.

[morph113]

Originally posted by Rdizz:

It may actually be bugged I bought a noble hat charisma 12 or something. My current charisma was 14 i was wearing no hat. I put it on and no change at all. Brand new hat. Pretty sure charisma stats are bugged to ushitz

Because charisma is the average charisma of all your equipped items. So it's quite normal that if you equip a new item which has a value roughly of your current charisma, that it won't increase or decrease.

[Rdizz]

Originally posted by morph113:

Originally posted by Rdizz:

It may actually be bugged I bought a noble hat charisma 12 or something. My current charisma was 14 i was wearing no hat. I put it on and no change at all. Brand new hat. Pretty sure charisma stats are bugged to ushitz

Because charisma is the average charisma of all your equipped items. So it's quite normal that if you equip a new item which has a value roughly of your current charisma, that it won't increase or decrease.

Hmmm well then this makes sense.

[Deathstalker580]

Originally posted by Equinox:

Since I started the game, I keep losing charisma and I wonder what this is related to?
Like at the start you begin with 7 charisma for the first dialogs, and from there it drops relatively quickly down to 1 and I don't know why. I haven't found a way to raise it back up either.

Any clues?

what i noticed was if you have a dark or black waffenfrock or hood
charisma goes down a lot

[morph113]

It even says so in the tooltip for charisma :) Also it's the average of all VISIBLE items of clothing to be precise, so underclothing doesn't count. Only what is visible on your character, so what other people can see on you. So wearing a fancy shirt under your chainmail armor will not impress them more since they can't see that shirt, so it doesn't count towards your average charisma score.