Originally Posted by Laiv
As a warrior, you need to combine warrior skills with skills from other categories. Also there are some choices u absolutely have to make.

U have to pick lockpick up to 5. (gradually)

Forget mindreading, and forget wisdom. U get some trinkets as well that can boost and enable these skills when u have to. (Later on u may even be able to liberate 1 point in mindreading to use it elsewhere, and mindread with the help of a trinket that u put on when u have to). Same goes for wisdom, but u really don't need it if u play through the side quests. Also, at later stages, you won't be able to go much more than level 35 if at all. There are few people u need to mindread in the game, the reductions in xp cost are puny, and u get more than enough xp, etc. If u get too high level, the enemies cant hurt u at all! not even one hitpoint, and they only need to be a couple opf levels below you.

Forget encumbrance, just sell ur stuff, don't be a hoarder.

WIth the skillpoints u get from mindreading and quests u might gt in total 40-45.

This means u have only space for 4 skills to the maximum of 10 (incraesed from 5 later on in the game), and if u wanna hurt a highlevel character u have to do with it a powerful skill.

Must start by maxing out dual wield or one-handed. A must. Dual wield is rally for mages, so go for one-handed - fancier weapons.

At first invent a point in hideinshadows to sneak up on enemy and polymorph to turn enemies into butterflies (very useful against bosses), but u may as well wait for trinkets that do that.

In the middle of the game u will have a chance to rearrange ur skillpoints. So u have some freedom.

Regenerate - automatic health recovery. As a warrior u will be stuck a lot of times waiting for your health to regenerate, either speed it up or endure it. Ur choice.

At first u will have to invest in the lower warrior skills (in the skills treee) but later, u will need to reassign all the points u have into the highest skills - such as thousand strikes and battle rage.

To be honest, warrior skills are a bit of a mess, only whirlwind and battle rage, and thousand strikes and regenerate make any sense really.

If things get tough, get backup from ur creature. But (not sure) I think creatures and summoned ones steal your experience.

Overall, as a warrior, it's going to be tough.

For more guidance - game maps, walkthrough, faq - http://guides.gamepressure.com/divinityiiegodraconis/guide.asp?ID=8297.

If u r still stuck - use the forum.

I dont know where you get the impression of dual wield is for mage and warrior using 1 handed weapon. For max damage output, majority warrior will go either dual wield or 2 handed weapon, as 1 handed or weapon with shield damage is relatively low compare to dual wield or 2 handed. Dual wield provided a very stable damage output, even though not as high as compare 2 handed weapon. 2 handed weapon had a lower min damage but higher max damage, so the damage output might be very inconsistent. Dual wield also provide the advantages for enchantment and charm slot, which prove very useful in the late game. Gears drop by baal had 3 enchantment slots, with 2 of it, you get total of 6 enchantment slots.

As for skills, I will encourage the use of skills which convenient to one play style. But skill investment in warrior majority will go over to passive skill over active skill, which from my own experience.

Divinegamer: For your current level, actually not much advice on stats points investment. Upgrade the stats accordingly to use the best weapon/armor you can find for now. As for stamina and spirit, only invest on them if you feel that you always running out of mana or die alot in fight due to low hp. During my early days, I usually pull mobs out slowly instead of charging in a big group blindly to get slaughtered. In later games, you can scout for accessories like rings and etc to increase your hp and mana pool. If you lucky you can get +200 mana/hp accessories from merchant later. Do remember that, skill points can be reseted later once you obtain battle tower, but not stats point. So invest your points wisely according to your play style. And to ease your battle, try get your necromancer pet as soon as possible, cause the pet really help a lot compare to spell summons.