most important skills when creating a new character?

[Kane Jr]

I will be creating a new character soon. That means starting my skill set completely over. What are the most important skills in your opinion when starting fresh?

I have never really put anything towards boxing and handguns. It's not that difficult to find a rifle no matter the server's loot settings, so I usually put most of my marksmanship skills towards rifles and archery. I also feel engineering is probably the most skill since you need it to build, upgrade and make your own ammunition. I also will pay attention to the driving, because stalling and grinding the gears just frustrates me to no end.

[Driblus]

For me, rifle, awareness, stealth, engineering and thievery.

That will give me all I need to play how I play, and I can use the rest of the skills to get fame for lockpicking.

Rifle - because I want to be able to shoot people straight out of the box
Awareness - because its useful and time consuming to level.
Stealth - because its useful and time consuming to level.
Engineering - being able to fix anything, build anything - especially gold locks and metal boxes, is very useful. Can be grinded easily but takes time.
Thievery - because I like to be able to rob people straight out the box without extensive grinding.

Keep in mind, all these skills can be increased quite easily, but its all time consuming.

All the other skills are for me used to grind fame. The best skills to grind fame with are survival, archery, handgun, camoflage, demolition and sniping. So unless you need them at the start, they should all start at zero.

All this said though, all skills can be grinded in simple and "quick" methods (except throwing, melee and boxing - all of these skills are pretty much useless though) - so you could potentially start your character with NO skills, and just level them all. Which means that the most important part of your character creation is actually setting up your attributes.

[Ye Olde Curmudgeon]

It depends on the kind of game/server you want to play.
INT is needed for building, for istance.
STR is needed for bows and crossbow and melee fights.
If you play on a PvP server you might need to pump up weapons skills and stealth.
If you play on a PvE, you might want to pump building and running.
If you play on local (your pc without connecting to a server) well... That's mostly PvE.

I play on different servers and my characters have different settings.

So, really, it's just up to you and your game style.

[Sr. Morajsakom]

If youre playing with people, just skills that contribute to the squad. Also on servers you can just redo your character every time you wish to. So its pointless to do a character that does everything poorly. Rather just keep redoing the character for whatever you need for the day, completely free, no need to worry about skiling up.

If single play, then like you said, MEDIUM driving is a must. advanced engineering for making the better stuff. Survival i would give 0 points as its SOOO cheap to skill the thing up, today alone i skilled up 150k points into it by taking nails out of their boxes, with the crafting menu glitch/trick. :D
Melee is something that if you want that, you have to give it ADVANCED when creating the character, its the opposite of survival skill, takes forever to skill up by any means.

[JohnsonsBaby]

Buddy thats totaly relative thing. Its realy depends on your play. Second thing is if youre playing in Squad... you dont need 4 players with Thievery skill for eg. Dont need all of you to have Driving skill etc.
Me personaly, i like potato style lol all zero. That way you can easily obtain over 200 FP per day.

[Rezzy]

For solo play on a PVP server, I pretty much have the same priorities as Driblus.

Except I prefer to grind thievery since the LP board makes this easy. My extra DEX goes into driving in case i find a car.

[Galaxy]

I would go with a big ♥♥♥♥ for sure

[smokey57]

I just do singleplayer, here are my go-to's:
Main stats: STR- 4.8, CON- 4.4, DEX- 3.0, INT- 3.3

STR is very important for melee, rifles, xbows, archery, and a lot of other things for your char. I put all 3.0 points in DEX into stealth. Driving you can level easily, even if it is annoying as hell until you finally hit medium. 3.3 in INT goes to basic engineering so i can use weapon and vehicle repair kits right off the bat, the rest into sniping skill

My preferred skillset: Rifles- advanced, Melee- Medium. Xbows are much better than bows in all respects, especially aiming accuracy. And xbows are under the Rifles skill, so if you go with xbows, no reason at all to waste points in archery. CON- spread points evenly between running and stamina. Or however you like. Stealth- advanced. Sneaky is good, vewy, vewy good. Sniping- medium/advanced, engineering- basic. If you want to steal a bunch of points from the other stats to get advanced engineering for crafting bullets, that's your choice. In singleplayer, it's not even necessary. Especially if you adjust the loot drop rates from stupid to decent.

[Jaszicus]

Main stats all need to be over 3.5 so you can increase skills to max level, anything under and the sub skills will be capped. SURVIVAL is the most important skill, it allows you to craft anything and is REALLY hard to raise ingame. Anything after that is down to how you want the player to be.

[Sr. Morajsakom]

Originally posted by Jaszicus:

SURVIVAL is the most important skill, it allows you to craft anything and is REALLY hard to raise ingame.

Its not hard, cut bushes, cut everything to smallest sticks, make arrows from the smallest sticks. Also, just take nails/bolts out of their boxes, 2200 xp per full box.

[xKiCkx]

That will depend from player to player, but there is some core skills you will need if you want to build a base and have good recoil on guns for example. Engineering will provide you will ability to craft bullets and build a base and rifels skill will impact how fask you can reload, how precise you will be and lower your recoil while shoting.

[Doc]

My #1 priority is always maxing movement speed. It has saved me tons of time and my life countless times. This build is flexible enough to cover 95% of playstyles
3 con to max running skill
5 dex to boost running/jumping/vaulting ect
4.5 str to keep speed up with gear weight
3 int because this is the minimum to unlock top skills

[smokey57]

Originally posted by Doc:

My #1 priority is always maxing movement speed. It has saved me tons of time and my life countless times. This build is flexible enough to cover 95% of playstyles
3 con to max running skill
5 dex to boost running/jumping/vaulting ect
4.5 str to keep speed up with gear weight
3 int because this is the minimum to unlock top skills

Heh, a Maximum Cowardice build, lol! SMH

Not much stamina though, since you put nothing at all into that. So all of the skills and abilities that rely on a decent level of stamina will be rather weak.

[Doc]

Max cowadice build was 5 con for extra HP and max camo for hiding in bushes all day.
Speed only helps when your running around getting into trouble. While it is a bummer to lose out on stam, its an easy sacrifice when running shrinks your stam usage much more then the additional stam bar can offset. Plus stam is much faster to skill up in.

[xKiCkx]

Why not combine both of those and get the ultimate invisible runner build? :D