Since, for release Larian is apparently removing stat bonuses from races, and just putting them into classes, does anyone know how that will work?
Take a CHA based class for example... currently if I make a Half Elf Bard, I get 17 CHA... if I choose a different race, I might only get 15 or 16.
So, with the change, I pick any race, select Bard, how much CHA will I have? 17, so sort of buffing other races, or 15 or 16, thus nerfing Half Elf Bards/Sorcs/Warlocks?
Hopefully someone knows this answer... though probably not until release.
Thank you.
Take care.
I've heard, though that is far from any kind of confirmation and I have no way of knowing who knows what, that the +2/+1 is really a +1/+1/+1 but you can put 2 of the "+1s" in a single attribute. Assuming that's the case, you can achieve almost all the same bonuses as you could in EA because odd values don't give you any more bonus than a next-lower even score. Specifically, a +2 can get you at most a +3 to an attribute bonus (with a 17), the same as a +1 (with a 16). If that's the case, your Half-Elf Bard will have the same bonus in EA as in launch at least until 4th Level.
That said, by far the most number of people talking about it are not mentioning the +1/+1/+1 so it could easily be wrong.
It seems like it would have been easier to just bump the point buy to 32 or something (and make a 16 or 17 cost 3 points).
