Knowing Your Attributes · Vanguard Archive

Knowing Your Attributes
by: -Forbin-

Attributes and their Effects:

Strength (Str): Increases melee damage (before mitigation) and weight-carrying capacity.

Constitution (Con): Increases health points and damage resistances.

Dexterity (Dex): Increases melee critical hit bonus, chance to evade attacks and spells, mitigation of melee damage, chance to defend with defensive abilities, and chance to recognize and react to enemy abilities.

Vitality (Vit): Increases healing effectiveness in-combat, health and energy regeneration, and unmounted movement speed.

Intelligence (Int): Increases spell damage, chance to identify and recognize tactics, chance to detect opponents and perceive what they're doing in combat, chance to counter opponents' spells, and chance to prevent opponents from countering your spells.

Wisdom (Wis): Increases energy pool, spell critical hit bonus, chance to identify spells and recognize tactics, chance to detect opponents and perceive what they're doing in combat, chance to counter opponents' spells.

Starting Attributes (at level 1) by Class:
Starting attributes are dependent on class only. Race has no bearing on starting attributes.

These attributes will remain the same (gear excluded) until you reach level 10. Once you reach level 10 you will begin receiving attribute points to assign.

You get 20 points per level.
a) 1 point automatically goes into each stat (6 points).
b) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your class (see chart 1-2).
c) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your race (see chart 1-3).
d) 10 points are awarded to the player to assign as he/she sees fit. Awarded 2 points at a time every 20% of the level.

Class-based Attribute Increases Per Level:
2 points are automatically assigned based on your class

Starting Attributes by Class (Chart 1-1)
Class	Str	Con	Dex	Vit	Int	Wis
Bard	40	40	45	35	25	25
Bloodmage	25	30	25	35	45	50
Cleric	35	30	25	35	35	50
Disciple	35	30	25	35	35	50
Dread Knight	35	50	40	35	25	25
Druid	30	25	20	35	50	50
Monk	40	40	45	35	25	25
Necromancer	30	25	20	35	50	50
Paladin	35	50	40	35	25	25
Psionicist	30	25	20	35	50	50
Ranger	40	40	45	35	25	25
Rogue	40	40	45	35	25	25
Shaman	30	30	25	35	40	50
Sorcerer	30	25	20	35	50	50
Warrior	35	50	40	35	25	25

Racial Attribute Increases Per Level:
2 points are automatically assigned based on your race

Automatically Assigned Points by Class (Chart 1-2)
Class	Str	Con	Dex	Vit	Int	Wis
Bard	1	1	.	.	.	.
Bloodmage	.	.	.	.	1	1
Cleric	.	1	.	.	.	1
Disciple	1	.	.	.	.	1
Dread Knight	.	1	.	1	.	.
Druid	.	.	.	.	1	1
Monk	1	.	1	.	.	.
Necromancer	.	.	.	.	1	1
Paladin	.	1	.	1	.	.
Psionicist	.	.	.	.	1	1
Ranger	1	.	1	.	.	.
Rogue	1	.	1	.	.	.
Shaman	.	1	.	.	.	1
Sorcerer	.	.	.	.	1	1
Warrior	.	1	.	1	.	.

Attribute Caps:

By default, the attribute cap is increased by 5 points per level in all attributes. Note: when spending attribute points this includes the points that are automatically spent for you. Each race has preferred attributes. On these attributes the cap is increased by one or two points. (see Chart 1-4) Each race has either three attributes that cap at 6 points per level or two attributes - one that caps at 7 points per level and another that caps at 6 points per level.

For instance, Kurashasa have a 7 point per level cap on intelligence and a 6 point per level cap on vitality. The rest of their attributes cap at 5 points per level.

Automatically Assigned Points by Race (Chart 1-3)
Class	Str	Con	Dex	Vit	Int	Wis
Dark Elf	.	.	.	.	1	1
Dwarf	.	2	.	.	.	.
Gnome	.	.	1	1	.	.
Goblin	.	1	.	.	.	1
Half Elf	.	.	.	.	.	2
Halfling	.	.	2	.	.	.
High Elf	.	.	.	.	.	2
Kojani	.	.	1	.	.	1
Kurashasa	.	.	.	1	1	.
Lesser Giant	1	1	.	.	.	.
Mordebi	.	.	1	1	.	.
Orc	1	1	.	.	.	.
Qaliathari	.	.	1	1	.	.
Raki	.	.	.	2	.	.
Thestran	.	.	.	1	.	1
Varanjar	1	1	.	.	.	.
Varanthari	1	1	.	.	.	.
Vulmane	.	.	1	.	.	1
Wood Elf	.	.	1	1	.	.

Combined Attribute Cap Increase Per Level:
For simplification I combined the standard and racial cap increases, below.

Racial Prefered Attribute Cap Increases Per Level (Chart 1-4)
Class	Str	Con	Dex	Vit	Int	Wis
Dark Elf	.	.	.	.	1	2
Dwarf	.	2	.	.	.	1
Gnome	.	.	1	1	1	.
Goblin	.	1	.	.	1	1
Half Elf	.	.	.	.	1	2
Halfling	.	1	2	.	.	.
High Elf	.	.	.	.	1	2
Kojani	.	1	.	1	.	1
Kurashasa	.	.	.	1	2	.
Lesser Giant	1	2	.	.	.	.
Mordebi	.	.	1	1	.	1
Orc	2	1	.	.	.	.
Qaliathari	.	.	1	1	.	1
Raki	.	.	.	2	1	.
Thestran	.	.	1	1	.	1
Varanjar	.	.	1	1	.	1
Varanthari	2	1	.	.	.	.
Vulmane	.	.	1	1	.	1

Reallocating Attribute Points

After Attribute Points have been allocated you must spend Refund Points to reclaim used Attribute Points. Every one Refund Point will allow you to decrement one Attribute Point from any one attribute, thus increasing your available Attribute Points pool by one.

Refund points are granted to the player as they earn adventuring experience. Thus, Refund Points will accumulate faster as you increase in level. Refund Points can only be used to reclaim Attribute Points that were allocated manually.

I’ll run you through a couple examples to help clarify and show why race will play an important role.

Example 1: 1st we’ll make a Dark Elf Sorcerer. Level 1: Str:30 Con:25 Dex:20 Vit:35 Int:50 Wis:50 (level 1-9 race makes no difference).

At level 10 we begin to get our cap increases and points to assign and racials show a small difference. And being a Sorcerer we’ll want to max out Int, Wis, and put the rest in Vit for in combat regeneration. Number in [ ] will be potential cap.

a) 1 point automatically goes into each stat (6 points).
b) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your class (+1int, +1wis).
c) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your race (+1int, +1wis).
d) 10 points are awarded to the player to assign as he/she sees fit. Awarded 2 points at a time every 20% of the level.

Level 10:
Str: 30 +1 (+5cap, 4 left for allocation)
Dex: 25 +1 (+5 cap, 4 left for allocation)
Con: 25 +1 (+5 cap, 4 left for allocation)
Vit: 35 +1 (+5 cap, 4 left for allocation)
Int: 50 +1 +1+1 (+6 cap, 3 left for allocation)
Wis: 50 +1 +1 +1 (+7 cap, 4 left for allocation)

So now at 10.8 you could have these stats. (10 points to manually allocate)
Str: 31 (35 max)
Dex: 26 (30 max)
Con: 21 (25 max)
Vit: 39 (40 max)
Int: 56 (56 max)
Wis: 57 (57 max)

Because of the way racials are working we can cap out Int & Wis and almost cap out Vit.

At level 50 (410 points to spend) this will be your base stats w/o gear: Level 50: Str:71[235] Con:66[230] Dex:61[225] Vit:199[240] Int:296[296] Wis:337[337]

Example 2: Ok now to show why racial choice may be important lets make a Qualia Human Sorcerer.

a) 1 point automatically goes into each stat (6 points).
b) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your class (+1int, +1wis).
c) 2 points are automatically assigned based on your race (+1dex, +1wis).
d) 10 points are awarded to the player to assign as he/she sees fit. Awarded 2 points at a time every 20% of the level.

Level 1-9: Str:30 Con:25 Dex:20 Vit:35 Int:50 Wis:50 (no difference)

Level 10: Str:31[35] Con:26[30] Dex:22[26] Vit:40[41] Int:55[55] Wis:56[56] Can’t quite cap the same 3 out and you have 1 point less int, 1 points less wis. Small difference the 1st level.

Level 50: Str:71[233] Con:66[230] Dex:102[266] Vit:199[281] Int:255[255] Wis:296[296]

Now lets compare the two at level 50 to see the difference.

DE: Str:71[235] Con:66[230] Dex: 61[225] Vit:240[240] Int:296[296] Wis:337[337]
QH: Str:71[233] Con:66[230] Dex:102[266] Vit:199[281] Int:255[255] Wis:296[296]

0 0 +41 0 -40 -41

Of the two most important stats for the Sorcerer at level 50 the Qalian Human is going to have 40 less Int and, 41 less Wis. That’s approximately 8 levels difference stat wise.

Combined Attribute Cap Increase Per Level (Chart 1-5)
Class	Str	Con	Dex	Vit	Int	Wis
Dark Elf	5	5	5	5	6	7
Dwarf	5	7	5	5	5	6
Gnome	5	5	6	6	6	5
Goblin	5	6	5	5	6	6
Half Elf	5	5	5	5	6	7
Halfling	5	6	7	5	5	5
High Elf	5	5	5	5	6	7
Kojani	5	6	5	6	5	6
Kurashasa	5	5	5	6	7	5
Lesser Giant	6	7	5	5	5	5
Mordebi	5	5	6	6	5	6
Orc	7	6	5	5	5	5
Qaliathari	5	5	6	6	5	6
Raki	5	5	5	7	6	5
Thestran	5	5	6	6	5	6
Varanjar	5	5	6	6	5	6
Varanthari	7	6	5	5	5	5
Vulmane	5	5	6	6	5	5
Wood Elf	5	5	6	7	5	5