Core Stats & Scaling

Core Stats & Scaling

Core Stats

Current direction:

Strength

• Governs physical damage base numbers.
• Influences physical weapon scaling.
• Important for heavy weapons and melee builds.

Agility

• Governs Speed.
• Governs dodge chance.
• Determines turn order.
• Important for light armor, evasion, and fast builds.

Dexterity

• Governs physical accuracy.
• Governs physical critical chance.
• Used as Speed tie fallback when Speed is equal.
• Important for precision physical builds.

Vitality

• Governs maximum HP.
• Influences heavy armor suitability in starting equipment generation.
• Important for durable builds.

Intellect

• Governs magic damage scaling.
• Governs magic damage critical chance.
• Governs maximum mana pool.
• Important for destructive spellcasting builds.

Wisdom

• Governs mana regeneration.
• Governs magical accuracy.
• Governs healing scaling.
• Important for support, healing, and sustained casting builds.

No Luck Stat Currently

Current direction:

• No Luck stat is planned right now.
• Critical behavior is split between Dexterity for physical crit and Intellect for magic crit.
• Magic find or loot rarity bonuses will come from Hub upgrades.

Weapon Scaling

Current direction:

All weapons will have stat scaling splits.

The common default is:

• 70% primary stat
• 30% secondary stat

Special weapons may use different splits.

Default Weapon Scaling Table

Weapon Type	Primary Stat	Secondary Stat	Default Split
Sword	Dexterity	Strength	70/30
Axe	Strength	Vitality	70/30
Dagger	Dexterity	Agility	70/30
Bow	Dexterity	Agility	70/30
Staff	Intellect	Wisdom	70/30
Book	Wisdom	Intellect	70/30

Open questions:

• Exact damage formula.
• How base weapon damage combines with stat scaling.
• Whether critical hits multiply final damage or only part of the formula.
• Whether spells use weapon scaling or skill-specific scaling.
• Whether healing spells scale from Wisdom alone or Wisdom plus weapon stats.

Starting Equipment Generation Rules

When generating characters, starting gear is determined by weighted stat profiles:

• High Strength character receives a Strength-scaling weapon.
• Vitality meaningfully higher than Agility gives heavy armor.
• Vitality close to Agility, within about 2 points, gives medium armor.
• Agility meaningfully higher than Vitality gives light armor.
• Accessories, cloak, helmet, and gloves start empty.

Open questions:

• Exact threshold for “meaningfully higher.”
• Whether threshold changes based on generated stat spread.
• Whether starting weapons can be randomly chosen from a pool or are fixed by highest relevant stat.

Related pages:

• Combat System
• Progression System
• Party Generation & Characters
• Architecture & Data Flow