Dexterity
| Dexterity | |
|---|---|
| Effect | Adds to damage defence |
| Requires | Armour worn, or the bonus is zero |
| Published example | 12 dexterity adds 0.24 |
| Starting value | 5 |
| Training cost | ((current - 4) squared) x 2 gold |
Dexterity is one of the five attributes bought with gold at the merchant, and it is the one that raises damage defence. Damage defence is taken straight off the damage an opponent deals, so each point makes every blow that lands a little cheaper.
It is also the only one of the five with a condition attached: what it scales is worn armour, so a knight wearing none gets nothing from it at all.
What a point of dexterity buys
The source will not say. It reports that a formula probably sits behind the bonus and cannot be read off the screen, then offers one worked example in place of a rate: a dexterity of 12 adds 0.24 to damage defence. A knight whose armour and shield give a base defence of 1.00 to 3.00 fights on 1.24 to 3.24 instead, and that whole figure comes off each hit that connects. Levelling raises the bonus as well.
No armour, no bonus
A two-handed weapon fills both hands, so no shield can be held, armour skill largely stops earning its keep, and dexterity goes out of the build alongside them.
The source stops short of never, though. Its advice to a two-handed knight preparing to switch is to buy dexterity before the reset begins, and it warns that switching that way costs more than the reverse, because one-handed carriers train dexterity too.
Where the gear moves it
Every weapon, shield, ring and amulet in the tables carries a dexterity figure, and body armour carries none. One-handed weapons and jewellery mostly add, to a maximum of +16 on a weapon, +30 on a ring and +23 on an amulet. Not one shield or two-handed weapon adds any, and the worst take -17 and -28. The shield supplying the base defence is therefore paying part of the bill for the attribute that scales it.
The cost of a point
Dexterity sits on the expensive of the two training curves, the one it shares with strength and stamina, at twice what fighting ability or parry cost at the same value. The full price table belongs to skill points. Skill points can be reset, and the five attributes cannot, so dexterity trained for a one-handed knight goes on counting towards combat potential after a switch to a two-hander, long after it has stopped reducing anything.
Training Cost Per Point
Every attribute starts at 5, and the price of the next point follows from the value you already hold and nothing else. Dexterity sits on the expensive curve: ((current - 4) x (current - 4)) x 2, twice what fighting ability and parry are charged. The second column is the running total, the gold a knight has spent in all to reach that value from the starting 5.
Both columns are computed from the two published formulas rather than copied from the source's printed table, which disagrees with itself on three rows. The full comparison is on skill points.
| Current Value | Cost Of The Next Point | Total Spent To Reach It |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 gold | 0 gold |
| 6 | 8 gold | 2 gold |
| 7 | 18 gold | 10 gold |
| 8 | 32 gold | 28 gold |
| 9 | 50 gold | 60 gold |
| 10 | 72 gold | 110 gold |
| 11 | 98 gold | 182 gold |
| 12 | 128 gold | 280 gold |
| 13 | 162 gold | 408 gold |
| 14 | 200 gold | 570 gold |
| 15 | 242 gold | 770 gold |
| 16 | 288 gold | 1,012 gold |
| 17 | 338 gold | 1,300 gold |
| 18 | 392 gold | 1,638 gold |
| 19 | 450 gold | 2,030 gold |
| 20 | 512 gold | 2,480 gold |
| 21 | 578 gold | 2,992 gold |
| 22 | 648 gold | 3,570 gold |
| 23 | 722 gold | 4,218 gold |
| 24 | 800 gold | 4,940 gold |
| 25 | 882 gold | 5,740 gold |
| 26 | 968 gold | 6,622 gold |
| 27 | 1,058 gold | 7,590 gold |
| 28 | 1,152 gold | 8,648 gold |
| 29 | 1,250 gold | 9,800 gold |
| 30 | 1,352 gold | 11,050 gold |
| 31 | 1,458 gold | 12,402 gold |
| 32 | 1,568 gold | 13,860 gold |
| 33 | 1,682 gold | 15,428 gold |
| 34 | 1,800 gold | 17,110 gold |
| 35 | 1,922 gold | 18,910 gold |
| 36 | 2,048 gold | 20,832 gold |
| 37 | 2,178 gold | 22,880 gold |
| 38 | 2,312 gold | 25,058 gold |
| 39 | 2,450 gold | 27,370 gold |
| 40 | 2,592 gold | 29,820 gold |
| 41 | 2,738 gold | 32,412 gold |
| 42 | 2,888 gold | 35,150 gold |
| 43 | 3,042 gold | 38,038 gold |
| 44 | 3,200 gold | 41,080 gold |
| 45 | 3,362 gold | 44,280 gold |
| 46 | 3,528 gold | 47,642 gold |
| 47 | 3,698 gold | 51,170 gold |
| 48 | 3,872 gold | 54,868 gold |
| 49 | 4,050 gold | 58,740 gold |
| 50 | 4,232 gold | 62,790 gold |
| 51 | 4,418 gold | 67,022 gold |
| 52 | 4,608 gold | 71,440 gold |
| 53 | 4,802 gold | 76,048 gold |
| 54 | 5,000 gold | 80,850 gold |
| 55 | 5,202 gold | 85,850 gold |
| 56 | 5,408 gold | 91,052 gold |
| 57 | 5,618 gold | 96,460 gold |
| 58 | 5,832 gold | 102,078 gold |
| 59 | 6,050 gold | 107,910 gold |
| 60 | 6,272 gold | 113,960 gold |
| 61 | 6,498 gold | 120,232 gold |
| 62 | 6,728 gold | 126,730 gold |
| 63 | 6,962 gold | 133,458 gold |
| 64 | 7,200 gold | 140,420 gold |
| 65 | 7,442 gold | 147,620 gold |
| 66 | 7,688 gold | 155,062 gold |
| 67 | 7,938 gold | 162,750 gold |
| 68 | 8,192 gold | 170,688 gold |
| 69 | 8,450 gold | 178,880 gold |
| 70 | 8,712 gold | 187,330 gold |
| 71 | 8,978 gold | 196,042 gold |
| 72 | 9,248 gold | 205,020 gold |
| 73 | 9,522 gold | 214,268 gold |
| 74 | 9,800 gold | 223,790 gold |
| 75 | 10,082 gold | 233,590 gold |
| 76 | 10,368 gold | 243,672 gold |
| 77 | 10,658 gold | 254,040 gold |
| 78 | 10,952 gold | 264,698 gold |
| 79 | 11,250 gold | 275,650 gold |
| 80 | 11,552 gold | 286,900 gold |
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|---|---|
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| Progression | Levels, experience, and the skill points that decide which equipment the merchant will sell. |
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