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Originally posted by sultan:
have you considered that, given your opinion of the weak contribution of piety to the game, perhaps the dwarf's strength is simply not that valuable?
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Yep.
One expert player on the VN boards, Lanastashia, did a party of all casters where she raised both Intelligence and Piety to 100. I think she had a couple Dwarves (Priests) in that party. Yes:
http://vnboards.ign.com/message.asp?...start=50775198
She found that when all of them had Iron Will it was very effective. Vitality helped also (IIRC). There are a few innovative uses of Dwarves, but overall I agree with your assessment.
By the way, I did a table of starting Attribute points. something like yours. Your numbers look correct, but be aware that the manual is not entirely correct. To check to make certain you have the right numbers, use the character creation screen, leave profession alone, and scroll through races to see what the game actually gives you. You may have already done this. I found three instances where the numbers were different than the manual. I think the Flamestryke site is correct, I submitted the corrections there and the site either was or will be updated for them.
It is only when there is a particular Attribute, such as Piety, that you don't happen to care about for a particular character, that some of the other races give a gain in other attributes. I agree that very few special race abilities matter as much as any significant number of attribute points.
[ 09-08-2003, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: EEWorzelle ]