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Hey all, so it's been some time since my playthrough just after release and I have decided it is time to dive back into the game.

Planning out my character builds, I have some reminder questions, which I haven't been able to quite find answers to when searching. So here they are hoping the community can help out:

1) Am I correct in calculating that you end up with a base of +15 attribute points, +49 ability points, and +7 talents at level 20? (disregarding the extra you get in the game through the skill books). I am trying to calculate just how viable multiclass characters are, since I went with pure mage and ranger/witch last time, and i would like a setup of 2 elemental schools + 1 combat school on each main character

2) Does anyone know if Tenebrium weapon ability stacks with ability points in e.g. 2-handed weapon, s e.g. +20% damage in 2-handed stacks with 10% in Tenebrium for a total of 30%. Or does it use the max or the one depending on which type of weapon you use?

Looking forward to rediscovering the adventures.

1) That sounds right.

2) Tenebrium overrides weapon ability at the moment, but apparently a fix is in the works to make them stack.

1) That sounds right.

2) They don't stack. A tenebrium weapon uses the Tenebrium skill and that's it, no matter how high your other abilities are.

If you can wait, they're probably going to be releasing a big patch pretty soon, hopefully containing the hardcore mode (a new difficulty mode which will seriously change almost every combat encounter in the game) and a whole slew of other balance changes. They will also probably change how the Tenebrium skills works. I've been wanting to replay the game for a while, but I want to see the biggest number of changes before I dive in again so the experience feels somewhat new again.

Edit: ninja'd hard!

Cheers for the helping answers guys. Sounds like it might be a good idea to wait for the patch, should give me time to finish my latest world conquest in Crusader Kings II anyways ;-)