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Should you specialize on one stat? A short guide
By: Jessica Date: July 6, 2013, 2:51 am
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Sometimes people ask, whether they should specialize in a single
stat (battle, trade or intrigue) or rather spread out.
Ultimately the answer depends on how you want to play the game
and what you seek to achieve. If you plan on reincarnation, you
can freely experiment with different approaches till you find
out what suits you best. So instead of telling you what to do, I
want to compare the merits of the different approaches in
certain areas and thus help you finding out for yourself.
1. Generalists get more points overall
If you just sum up your keep stat points (which are most
important because they are added to your sword's stats for every
action), you will get more points if you don't specialize. It is
absolutely reasonable to have 150 in every stat by around Level
120. However you will have a very hard time getting 450 in a
single stat. By building every single building upgrade that adds
intrigue for instance, you only get 318 points if you don't have
the gold upgrades. Battle nets you more but it will take forever
anyway and is hideously expensive.
2. Specialists get more out of percentage boni
Many boons, talents, equipment items, some building upgrades and
most prominently, the sword sworn specialization boni give you a
+x% bonus to certain actions. The power of such boni gets ever
more important the more you advance in strength. Reincarnates
won't notice it much but the endgame may be well defined mostly
by those boni. The reason is simple - 6% of 200 is 12 whereas 6%
of 400 is 24, so you need a high base value to get much out of
it. This mechanism also alleviates your disadvantage from point
1.)
3. Extra points matter less the more powerful you get
This one is tricky. Since all success chances are calculated
based on orders of multitude, having +5 points in a stat will do
you more good when you had 100 before and be most insignificant
if you had 400 before. It also depends on the strength you are
comparing against. Getting from 400 to 405 is good if the
opposing strength is 398, but it's nothing if you go against a
100 or 800.
4. Generalists may have an easier time questing
Quests let you decide between 6 out of 9 possible approaches.
Except for some rare cases where one main stat is not
represented (the 6 are 3 intrigue and 3 trade for instance),
this is basically good news for specialists since they can
almost always apply their specialized trait. However the
opposing strength often varies greatly. If you have a 180 in
every trait you may get to apply that against a 30, 60 or 90 as
you choose. And since multitudes matter, going against the 30
with your 180 is better than facing off against the 90 with a
base strength of 400.
5. Specialists probably rule boss challenges
Boss challenges (and alliance challenges) only have 3 options
but except for some rare cases (volume 4 mostly), you usually
get one corresponding to each attribute. Since your strength in
the selected trait mainly determines, how many points you score
per action, specialists can get in more points per hit and will
rank higher than generalists of similar power and activity. It
may be that challenges weigh the actions differently (some
mechanism like in 4.)) but it is not very clear how they do it
and to what extent. I don't have much data about that issue yet
but from past observations I'd say that the specialists remain
in advantage here.
6. Specialists are good PvP attackers
Since there is a basic attack option available for every trait
(fight, swindle and steal all get you silver at your target's
expense), specialists always have a meaningful attack option,
putting their high traits to good use. As long as they don't
attack someone who specializes in the same trait, they will
always have more than 50% success rate against targets of the
same strength and can even strike fairly reliable against more
powerful players.
7. Specialists are poor PvP defenders
They should fear reprisals, though. Since every trait offers a
reasonable attack option, opponents can always strike against
their weak spots with grim reliability. Fighting specialists
will be slightly better off since they get their strong stat in
an area where there are two meaningful attacks (fight and
harass) and are also better protected against the strengths of
two different houses (Baratheon and Greyjoy respectively).
However, specialists of your weaknesses and generalists both
pose a significant threat. Intrigue specialists receive the
short end of the stick here because no house grants a bonus to
steal or sabotage attacks.
8. Generalists get more meaningful loot
Of course, you will still get the same loot anyone else gets but
you get more use out of it. If your keep stats have a fight
value of 400 and a trade value of 200, you don't get to put that
legendary +40 trade item to use. Your sworn swords that are
specialized in trade (if you have any at all since you are
spezialized in fighting) will probably still have better success
chances fighting if they can't mount more than 100 points in
trade already so adding 40 points of trade does - nothing - for
them most of the time. This will be different if you maintain
fairly balanced keep stats.
That abot sums it up. Remind you, I am only talking about
specializing your lord/lady and keep or generalizing them. Sworn
swords in my opinion should always specialize and never be
generalists. You should have so many that you can always pick
the best man or woman for the job.
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Re: Should you specialize on one stat? A short guide
By: Hopehoy Date: April 10, 2015, 3:35 am
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I quite agree with you
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Re: Should you specialize on one stat? A short guide
By: Auntapong Date: May 21, 2015, 7:41 am
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Criticism is wonderful
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Re: Should you specialize on one stat? A short guide
By: kakanew Date: January 25, 2016, 2:18 am
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And must take into account many other statistics that I have
made improvements.
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