The Basics of Attribute Points
In Conqueror's Blade, Attribute Points play a pivotal role in your success as a player. Many players will recommend players be full strength or full toughness and while that might swing you one way or another, it very often accentuates your weakness. The first thing you should do is understand what it is each attribute does.
- Strength: Each point of Strength increases your hero's piercing armour penetration, slashing damage and blunt damage by 6 points.
- Agility: Each point of Agility increases your hero's piercing damage, slashing armour penetration and blunt armour penetration by 6 points.
- Armour: Each point of Armour increases your hero's protection against piercing, slashing, and blunt armour penetration by 3 points.
- Toughness: Each point of Toughness increases your hero's maximum health by 100.
There are a few safeguards I recommend to any new player. First never go below 30 Armour or Toughness. By having both of those above 30 you will not be one shot by other players and actually have a chance to fight.
Foghladha's Jack-of-all-Trades Build
Every new player I come across I recommend one simple build that helps them get their feet firmly planted.
- 45 Strength
- 35 Agility
- 30 Toughness
- 30 Armor
This is the setup I use that allows me to effectively play every weapon without respecing. While people will criticize this build and say there's not enough this or that to survive, I assure you, there's plenty. Here's a clip of me using this build in a siege where I took on 5 players at the same time and still managed survive 2 minutes and kill an enemy player. It is an effective build that gives you the damage you need to end the fight, and the resistance you need to stay in the fight.
Explore Various Weapons
New players often come into the game with the idea that one weapon is for them, only to learn that they enjoy another.
I started with a longbow and then went to dual blades, spear, short sword, and longsword before I finally gave poleaxe a try. The Poleaxe, by far, is my favorite but I would have never expected that out of the gate. I recommend everyone learn Longsword for its fundraising potential. Being able to heal your troops in the field makes life so much easier in bandit raids, expeditions and training battles.
The key is that you provide yourself with the option of trying more than one weapon. Being the game is rock-paper-scissors based you might want to change your weapon if you have to defeat your weapon’s nemesis. You can do this during battle by visiting the supply point. Be warned you can only swap to weapons acceptable by your armor class. No heavy armored dual blades here.
You do have one free respec every week available for you to experiment with so feel free to play with your build and see what works for you.
