Darren Grey wrote:
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> > I just restarted playing this game after not having played it for a
> > while, and I've been playing under the assumption that when training
> > stats, what matters is what the stat currently is regardless of the
> > base value. For example, I'm playing a hurthling healer right now who
> > started with a strength of six (yuck) and have been training it up by
> > burdening myself. I got a surge of power in the Big Room and the
> > artifact was Skullcrusher, which raises strength by 4. Right now my
> > base strength is 12, and I know that Burdened will only train strength
> > up to 15. So, basically, I want to know if I am right in not wielding
> > Skullcrusher while I train my strength, since holding it would boost
> > me up to 16, or if for the purposes of the training, it doesn't care
> > about anything but the base value.
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> You are correct - it's only the current value that affects training, not
the
> base value. Thus Skullcrusher will get in the way of your strength
training
> a bit. Likewise you can abuse sickness and starvation to train stats
> higher.
I've always been a-scared of doing that. I got strength up to 13 from
being burdened, then got three more strength increases from ogres in
the Big Room, so now I'm 20 (16+4) using Skullcrusher as my main
weapon. On the upside, I got my Dexterity up unusually high using moss
while wearing boots (wondered for a while where the -2 to dex was
coming from, lol). My dex is 27, naturally 29.
> But starting strength of 6? Ugh... I guess getting Skullcrusher was
the
> RNG's way of saying sorry. I'd recommend trying to get the ogre quest
ASAP,
> since the corpses will train your strength much faster than walking
around
> Burdened all the time.
I'm on my way, but going to get crowned first, since there is a stable
stoma herb patch in the Big Room. This will actually be my first time
getting crowned by sacrificing stomafilia, if all goes well (I relied
on live sacrifice until I found out how much easier and less
(game-)time consuming it is.
I'll have to remember to remove Skullcrusher before every ogre meal. :)
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