Hello everyone,
Thanks for stopping by to read and review this. This is my opinion of what I have found to be core perks for every tree. This is not a guide for the best knightly knight or for the sneakiest thief. This is going to be a run down of what I think to be core perks all of us should utilize. You can change things up anyway you want to fit your game play style.
I welcome all feedback as long as it follows the KDC forum guidelines. Now lets get started!!
Main Level
- First aid (max)
- Burgher as most npc’s will be in town.
Strength
- Mule (max)
- Heavy swing
- Tight grip (Stamin management)
Agility
I will need feed back as I dont play agility based characters.
Vitality
- Thick Blooded
- Last Gasp
- Blood Rush
- Revenant
Speech
- Silver tongue
- Final offer
Defense
- Well worn
Warfare
- Sadist
- Furious
- Chain attack
- Against all odds
Alchemy
- Trail and error
- Routine (max)
- Venomous blade
Drinking
- Top shelf
- Safe passage
Herbalism
- Leg day
- Flower power
- Resistance (pick 100 nettle)
Horsemanship
- Jockey
- Strong thighs
Hunting
- Salty
- Steak tartare
Lockpicking
- Master thief
- Lasting Lockpicks
Maintenance
- Well groomed
- Blacksmiths son
- Fragrance
Pick pocketing
- Secret pockets
- Hidden pockets
- Pocket sight (max)
Reading
- Art connoisseur
- Cartographer
- Magistrate (max)
Stealth
- Stealth kill
- Dog person
Now to explain why I recommend taking furious, chain attack and heavy swing. These perks all directly correlate into each other.
Let us start with Heavy Swing : Your attacks cause 20% greater damage, but cost you 10% more Stamina. Applies only to weapons that require Strength in order to wield. This applies only to any weapon that has a strength check. If you plan on only using agility based weapons avoid this perk.
Moving onto Furious : The less your maximum Stamina, the greater injury you cause. This ties into how heavy swing increases you stamin cost therefore increasing the damage of each swing until it maxes out when out of stamina (oos). Which now rewards you for hitting opponents while you have that opening but are oos until they recover, if at all.
Lastly we look at Chain Strike : Each blow in an uninterrupted chain will hurt your opponent more than the previous one. Any interruption will cancel the bonus. This also adds to what we just discussed about how each strike draining your stamina increases the damage done, however Chain Strike will also stack with thay bonus while continuing to increase your damage aslong asyou keep striking with no interruptions.
So how does this look? You attack and stagger your opponent at some point and can now really lay into him, each hit does more damage as you run out of stamina and then the chain strike modifier stacks for each continuous swing. So instead of you maxing out your damage at a value of X when you are oos. Instead that value will still continue to grow with every swing until you either kill the opponent, are interrupted (damn archers!) or switch targets.
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