Non-Combatant Skill Combinations

[Morality Games]

Any recommendations? For example, other than lore, what kind of skills should a Loremaster have?

 

[Helton]

Loremaster has to join another guild pretty much immediately after vignette. So what skills you pick will be tied intimately to which questline you pursue. Talky for merchant, thiefy or comabty for thieves, also options for a Praetor I think.

Expect to get a little physical though, for most of the more interesting lore areas. 4 in physical stats is probably a bad idea. Disguise, Streetwise, Persuasion, and a bit of combat ability all are (or can be) important.

 

[GlutenBurger]

Yeah, the Loremaster seems to require some combat ability and definitely hardiness in order to really get the full benefit of his class. My first Loremaster was undermined by the mistake of not doing so. It's probably best to think of him as an Indiana Jones style of archaeologist when designing him. For non-combat, the Grifter is a better choice.

Incidentally, is it possible for thread titles in this section to automatically be given an "AoD" prefix? It's momentarily disorienting when clicking through from the front page. I'm going to fail my Wisdom check on one of these threads eventually.

 

[Morality Games]

Alright, what kind of combat? The Ranged kind or the close combat kind?

 

[Andkat]

Actually, it should be possible to access most of the Loremaster content with a 0-combat diplomancer build. You need quite a lot of Streetwise and Persuasion and a little bit of Disguise to be able to talk around every encounter you need to talk around, and getting access to the correct number of powered tubes as a non-combat character is very difficult with the game's current state (you basically either need to waste points in Str/Dex and have a high lockpick, join the Legion late in Teron and somehow survive the one mandatory fight plus have a lot of money, or deliberately game your Lore skill progression so that you fail the mine lore check), and money tends to be pretty tight due to the Arena and a few lucrative quests being barred to you (plus having to pay tolls to various brigands and not being able to loot corpses).