Dexterity
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A player's dexterity stat determines how nimble that character is.
Direct effects
- Dexterity directly affects a player's ability to hit things with weapons.
- Dexterity directly affects the trip command.
Defense/Burden effects
With a higher dexterity value you can have a higher burden before getting disadvantage combat messages.
- With your dexterity <15 the message "You are slightly disadvantaged in your defensive effectiveness by your current burden" is starting with 15% burden.
- With your dexterity >=15 you can have 19% burden before getting these messages.
Skill relationships
- Dexterity features prominently in the covert skill tree, heavily affecting all skills there.
- It plays a significant role in the crafts, magic, fighting and adventuring skill trees.
- It is not used very much in the people or faith skill trees.
Guild reliance
- Thieves and assassins require very high levels of dexterity to perform their covert commands well.
- Witches and wizards often have fairly high levels of dexterity due to its relevance in the important magic.methods.physical skill subtree.
- Warriors also often have high levels of dexterity as many weapon and defensive skills require it.
- Priests are the only guild without a strong reliance on dexterity.