Spending xp

[California]

I have put all my xp into intelligence so my skill costs will be cheaper when i start spending points in them..Im lvl 3-5 now...If anyone is taking the same approach to the game; 'Have you found it worthwhile'..?

[cheifcrazycorn]

no its ok to have some intelligence but when your that low of a level you want it on skills, vitallity, strength and dexterity those are the best to put your xp on til your lvl 7- 9

[Lin]

you only need to level up skills to use items without penalty, otherwise advance your main attributes.

[Gaal Dornik]

I have done same. However, im having second thoughts about its effectiveness now since these are absolute and relative values mixed up. It is cheap to increase attributes (any attributes) if they are low, regardless of game state. This "cheap" however is relative to the exp gained, and this depends from how far are we in the game.

So imagine we have apples, and it costs 5 apples to get 30% points gain. (Note that this is equivalent to having INT of 70)

At the beginning we get 10 apples, spending 5 to INT is a 50% loss, very high cost. Which turns the remaining 5 into 6,5 which means we actually lost points. Later we get 1000 apples, spending 5 to INT is a 0,5% loss, basically nothing. which turns the remaining 995 into 1293 and we got a win.

There is probably a breakpoint somewhere. This is even worse since points are also spent increasing attributes and these are not affected to INT discount. Further, skills get big discounts anyway, by taking appropriate classes, and attributes not. Which effectively makes the INT bonus 4 times smaller.

Bottom line, it appears its not worth investing in INT, unless you are a mage, who doesnt need attributes anymore, or a pure diehard fighter, desperately wanting to get that arcane magic modifier to 10.