Elwro said:But if you don't use this ring, you will most likely use another one, which will also increase something you'd have to pay skill points for (like Axe or Sword). What's the big deal?
I see your point about resistances, but notice that this one can be turned around: there is similar incentive for training in acrobatics and freeing a slot for your +1 Axe ring. (In fact, this is what I did in my playthrough, I think (using swords).)Coyote said:So even if your axe-fighting skill is at 9 and you have a ring that bumps it up to 10, there's still some incentive to train axe-fighting one more level and free up a ring slot.
I'd disagree. In case of melee skills, that measly +1 might be a qualitative difference, namely, it might allow you to perform a new movement in combat! This was what happened in my case with the sword skill; I'm not sure whether it was the counterattacking or something else, but one +1 increase changed the game from very hard to medium for me :DNim said:There isn't really a choice between wearing a +1 Axe ring and a +8 resistances ring, the resistances win every time.
For a short time till you get the LPs to skill it naturally. It's not as if we're starving for LPs in Risen would you agree ?that measly +1 might be a qualitative difference
Well, I really did hit this problem. I guess that due to my own incompetence I was struggling with all combat encounters I could find, and it took me a very long time to finally get these few LPs to increase the sword skill... after which I found that all these encounters were maybe not very easy, but definitely doable. If I had the +1 ring by then this would've made a big differrence...Nim said:For a short time till you get the LPs to skill it naturally. It's not as if we're starving for LPs in Risen would you agree ?that measly +1 might be a qualitative difference
Yup, I think that was it!Nim said:Point taken. Sword level 7 I presume ? That power attack does indeed make things quite a bit easier.
Raghar said:When you are mage you have too few LP.
Raghar said:You can't have all crystal magic, and you need alchemy. If you are roleplaying, mage is LP starved.
Elwro said:I see your point about resistances, but notice that this one can be turned around: there is similar incentive for training in acrobatics and freeing a slot for your +1 Axe ring. (In fact, this is what I did in my playthrough, I think (using swords).)Coyote said:So even if your axe-fighting skill is at 9 and you have a ring that bumps it up to 10, there's still some incentive to train axe-fighting one more level and free up a ring slot.