Best way how to level up strenght and and fist fighting

[MEMERTYSKAA]

1. You need to go bernard when he is waiting close to fighting area
2. Ask him to fight with traning weapon
3. Chosse fist
4. make bernard go to close wall and then start clicking right button on mouse (it will counter attack)
5. Keep spamming it when bernard will give up start over and over
That it if u have any question just ask

[Marduc]

To level strenght I prefer to use herbalism, gives you a littler bit of money and some others bonuses too.

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

Originally posted by Marduc:

To level strenght I prefer to use herbalism, gives you a littler bit of money and some others bonuses too.

+1 also I lvl up fast enough.

i don't want to be op in the first 20 minutes like some scrubs want to be in games like skyrim. tips and tricks a la "how to break the game in 10 minutes". no, thank you.

[Echolecter]

... or find a place with a lot of cows. Punch them on the side or head.

[Bulldog]

100% you want to follow Marduc's suggestion. That is the way I have always done it - it levels both your herbalism and strength at the same time, as well as giving you loads of ingredients for potions etc (which you could also sell, but I keep them all).

You can level both incredibly quickly with that perk (Leg Day) once you get to level 10 herbalism, which you do very easily early game. I levelled to strength 20 almost entirely due to flower picking - doing so from fighting alone would take a long long time.

FYI, there are certain areas of the map that are absolutely flooding with plants of the same types, that can be picked in a few goes. St John's wart, dandelions, chamomile (daisies) and nettles are the easiest to grab in bulk the right places.

[Bulldog]

As mentioned though, you only get strength gains from picking flowers once you have that perk, so make sure you prioritise it / grab it as soon as you get to level 10 Herbalism.
Personally, the very first thing I do after escaping Skalitz / talmberg, is to pick herbs until I get to level 10 and grab that perk. For me, it's the most useful perk in the game after human dustbin - make sure you grab that as soon as you get to level 6 in vitality.

Hope you enjoy this awesome game - it still stands up incredibly well and I can't wait the sequel coming soon.

[Bulldog]

Originally posted by Echolecter:

... or find a place with a lot of cows. Punch them on the side or head.

The irony of you saying that, with the avatar you have . . . (an avatar of avatar), stating you should just punch a cow in the head - you wouldn't get on at all with your nature loving brethren . . . . ;-)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You also need to reach level 8 Herbalist (very easy to do before leaving Skalitz area) and then pick the perk that helps level up Strength. Now just picking more herbs will slowly level up strength. Even if you don't need Herbs early on, so what, pick them anyways and sell them all. It's easy money.

What helps is a couple Mods; one so that each Trader has 20K (G) every day. So traders dont run out of money. Then also a mod that removed the animations that occurs when you pick herbs.

[ShepherdOfCats]

For leveling unarmed, I do the "Do me a favor, punch me." replayable mission in Rattay. It can be kind of a pain to find the guys to challenge them to a fight on hardcore though, because of the compass range being reduced.

[Echolecter]

Originally posted by Bulldog:

Originally posted by Echolecter:

... or find a place with a lot of cows. Punch them on the side or head.

The irony of you saying that, with the avatar you have . . . (an avatar of avatar), stating you should just punch a cow in the head - you wouldn't get on at all with your nature loving brethren . . . . ;-)

Well it works very well, you'll get strength, unarmed and warfare skills. Besides that, picking flowers only gets you a little more each time you bend down. When that skill increases the bending gets less and less since you pick more flowers each time. And best of all, you can do that in Skalitz as well before you head to Kunesh and beat the hell out of him.

As for the avatar, steam asked me to add an avatar so I did. But it was a rather tough decision whether to use the male or female version.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by ShepherdOfCats:

For leveling unarmed, I do the "Do me a favor, punch me." replayable mission in Rattay. It can be kind of a pain to find the guys to challenge them to a fight on hardcore though, because of the compass range being reduced.

Honestly I think it's what it's there for. It certainly NOT for the money. Plus when I finally do take the person down I quickly rob them of all their coin. Because they will not report you if you do it quick before the recover and go to get back up, just don't be seen by another NPC doing it, and also they will have more coin later anyways.

When you do those, don't take em down right away, take the time to work on evasion and blocking. Try getting a timing down for Kicking and also the Face-to-face counter struggles as you want to help ensure you always over-power them during these. If while in the pen they keep grabbing you, press SHIFT to remove the lock-on and then run around the pen a bit.