Originally Posted by Veligan
Originally Posted by geala
Wits is a very important attribute. Starting first is a huge help in winning fights.

No it's not. It's a secondary attribute. You want to have your max in either finesse, strengh, intelligence depending on your character. But wits, no one will ever max it.
And since you can't put more than 30 points in one attribute, in the end, elf rogue will have 42 finesse where human can only have 40. That's 10% dmg lose.

And by saying :
Originally Posted by geala
I have Ifan as "Knight" and Lohse as "Ranger" and they are absolutely fine.

You're missing the point. Maybe they're ok, but another race will do better. That's why the race are not balanced.


At 40 finesse, 2 extra makes virtually no difference. Even though it 'seems' to add 10% damage, you're already adding it to the +150% damage from +30 finesse, thus you're comparing 250% damage to 260% damage which is about a 4% difference overall. On the flipside, having an extra 5% crit chance can be good for a longer battle as you can crit more consistantly and if we assume you have 30% crit on both, 30% to 35% is a much bigger difference not including the benefit of added initiative. Basically, later into the game, stat bonuses become negligible and your better of being well rounded than dumping all of your attribute points into 1 attribute.

That being said, Flesh sacrifice is really good and the loss of constitution hardly compensates for that in my opinion.