Build

This time the teacher was not someone Ryu knew. It was a thin man very tall, if he was to stand side by side with Ryu he would be one head taller, he appeared to be in his late forties years and had a tired semblance. Maybe an impression from his loose threadbare brown robes, or maybe from his thin face.

Despite the man's appearance his attitude was not lazy at all, he went to the front of the disciples presented himself as being Qin Lao and without much more he started the lecture with methodical professionalism.

The lesson today would be in stats and builds, Qin Lao began the introduction

"Some of you should be getting one level at this point, so it is time for you to start understanding the meaning behind each stat and what any of them can perform. You will have to start thinking in your future build for you to not make a mess right at the beginning and screw your role stats.

Believe me, we have seen disciples distributing stats as they pleased and they ended up getting so weak that they almost had to give up in their life as a cultivator. You may think that I am exaggerating, but these stats that you got early is very important because in a not-so-far future you will not be leveling up so quickly.

A single mistake you make here, at the bottom level, and you may find yourself weak and unable to advance when you got at medium level range. trying to correct it later will require a massive amount of work and you can very easily die in the process."

As Qin Lao finished his phrase the disciples burst into commentaries, some of them scared with the perspective of making a mistake while others in disbelief thinking that the elder teacher was just playing with them to catch attention for his lesson.

It took some time for the disciples to calm down, and elder Qin Lao could continue, he did not intervene to calm the disciples to make them quiet, he just waited for them to regain their focus by themselves.

"You think that I am joking right? But when we finish today lesson you will understand what I am talking about and why is so important for you to think in your future." elder Qin took a seat in front of the students, for some reason even seating made this man look more tired. It was almost as if he was performing a physically tiresome task just by staying seated.

"First of all let's talk about each stat individually:

Strenght is the easiest to understand, it is related to your physical power, in a sense, it means how strong you are. If you have a high strength stat you can lift heavier objects and put more power into your strikes.

Agility, some people have a hard time trying to discern this stat from dexterity, am I right? but it is completely different. Agility is basically your speed, it is how fast you can move, how fast you can react. And by the reaction I am not just talking about when you see something and make a move accordingly, there is also your body reaction, the speed at which your body and brain process information.

Dexterity, you may be wondering why have the two attributes but this is really important. With dexterity, you improve your body maneuvering it will provide body control. It is a stat that will make your moves more smooth and flexible. You can move fast with agility, but if your move is not precise you will never be able to make good use of high-level techniques.

Resistance is an attribute that can provide stamina, again, it does not matter if you are strong or if you are fast, if you got tired in a short time even a weaker opponent might be a threat. All he would have to do is defend himself until you got tired and attack you later.

But that is not all about resistance, it can also enhance your defense making you take less damage and also feeling less pain. One stab can take you down due to pain, but if you can resist the pain and continue to fight you can find a chance to prevail.

Focus can raise your concentration and keep yourself more composed it is very useful when meditating, in a first glance it may look like the weakest stat and you probably don't want to put any point here. But there is something here if you want to become an inscriptionist like me, or an alchemist or any kind of job that requires fine manipulation of the essence, putting points in this stat is essential. Do not even dream of getting any of those jobs if you are not going to put points here.

Intelligence, you don't have this stat, but others systems have and you will be fighting them in the future. If you ask me this is the most stupid stat ever, it is called intelligence but I have seen people with high stats in intelligence and you know what? They don't get smart, in fact, they continue to be just as dumb as they always were.

This stat helps them using the skills, this stat act like a mediator between the skill and the user. Someone with high intelligence can use skills quite proficiently.

Dominance, you probably don't have this stat, and probably will never have. So why I am talking about it you may wonder. It is because only a handful of people in the sect history have unlocked this stat. It is treated as a hidden stat and we don't know how to unlock it.

What we know about this stat is that it increase your control over essence. This is something that you will also achieve by leveling, but your control will never ever reach close to someone who has unlocked this stat."

When elder Qin finished his explanation a disciple asked "Elder Qin does there are other hidden stats to unlock?"

"hmmm, that is a good question. I don't know the answer. If someone have ever unlocked another stat it was not reported back to the sect, so I can't give you a definite answer. But I am pretty sure that unlocking a hidden stat is not something that can be achieved easily."

Ryu that was paying deep attention to the class was crying inside, he figured out that he has made a mistake putting his points in dexterity trying to increase his speed. He could not believe how dumb he was to make such a thing.

His comfort is that he was only level 2, in his mind he could see himself years in a hypothetical future when he had distributed many points in dexterity and have brought ruin over himself. Qin Lao has told about people doing it but Ryu Sei is the one in this class that has better understood this part.

Elder Qin Lao rummaged in his seat looking even more tired than before, he extended his hand making a cup appear in his hands. He gesticulated once again and a bottle appeared, on the other hand, he poured some liquid into the cup and slowly drank it. The students silently watched the whole process, and elder Qin didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

When he finished his drink elder Qin said, more to himself "much better now. let's continue.".

"We have to talk about builds now, all the introduction was for this moment.

You have to think about what kind of cultivator you will be in the future because your build must start now. There is some build that we have designed in the sect and I will introduce it to you, but it only works as a reference, because you will be getting different skills and facing different challenges.

The most common build is swordsman, most of the cultivator's dream is to become a fighter and use the sword as the main weapon. But to make a proper sword build you have to make a proper stats distribution, for this build strength and resistance is the primary goal.

The best configuration for your stats is strength 1.5 agility 1.3 dexterity 1.2 resistance 1.4 focus 1.1. This way you will find balance, ...

If your main weapon will be spear, strength 1.25 agility 1.45 dexterity 1.35 resistance 1.3 focus 1.15. For spear agility and dexterity is the main point ...

For axe ...

If you plan on becoming a ranged fighter using skills strength 1.20 agility 1.40 dexterity 1.25 resistance 1 focus 1.40. This will rely too much on skills so you will have to get good ones for a variety of situations...

If you think of becoming an inscriptionist or alchemist you will have to put even more in focus and...

These values are just for reference, you can become a swordsman and still want to be an inscriptionist but to do so you will have to sacrifice points in your fighter build.

Just to finish, remember that you can get stats by workout, this is a good way to make a mixed build and not spend your hard-earned point.

So, class dismissed."