I'll post my actual stats when I get home and can get them, but let me speak to the "stats dont mean much"...Yah, I think they do.

I was in a straight up melee fight last night, me in with archery at 100 and all sub skills in the 80's, polearms at 73 ish, in scale, food and pot, my opponent also in scale and 2h sword only..damn good fight, damn good guy, my health line was about 1/4 or so left and his appeared that I just needed to land one or two good blows and he was down...he pulled a special and whammo..Im flat on my back.

We talked, as I said good guy (Im trying to see if he wants a better home)...his weap skill was slightly better than mine, around 80, which means he has some mastery, but the kicker was his stats I think. I dont know exact numbers (as I said) but my strength is somewhere around 43 ish, vitality the same and quick in the low 50's...his str, vit are in the 80's and quick was at 89 I think...combination of slightly better weapons skill but lower damage dealing weapon against my r40 polearm and lower stats spelled defeat for me.

Basically Kay, I started NA-1 2 weeks after it opened, my stats are mostly in the 40's, with wisdom and quickness in the 50's and Int, which is in mid 20's cause I hate freakin magic, and my weaps skills range from 50's or so for 1h swords, to the 73 for my polearm and of course archery which is 100 plus sub skills all in the 80's. Those stats far outweigh my EU character who I played from opening day to NA-1 start (missing the last 2 weeks for work travel). These skills and stats are from an almost completely solo game experience since I started, which was somewhere around July 27th or so, I can give you that exact date also. I missed an entire week in mid September for travel as well, so, with guildmates and resource advantages, along with available friends to work up parry and such, imagine what those skills could be like now. If your skills and stats are already in the mid 70's or more, then yes, you will be nightmarishly viable right now and max out in no time. Come back today and get re-acquainted so that you can transfer in a few days.

Last edited by Vuldan; 10/01/09 11:20 AM.

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