That effectively cuts your hit points in half. However, I have personally found that there is more benefit to not dumping Constitution or Resolve.ĭumping Constitution, at higher levels, will cost you 300-400 hit points. I know a lot of guides for various classes (including some Cipher guides) will recommend it. I do not recommend stat-dumping for a Cipher. Perception is the 4th, but it is lower priority. Might, Dexterity and Intelligence are your three most important attributes. Human is, therefor, unquestionably the worst of these racial choices for a melee-Cipher, but it is a better choice than just about any other race not on this list. These are nice bonuses, but again, like the abilities of Nature and Fire Godlike, they require us to lose half our health in order to kick in and since we don't want to get hit in the first place these are not great abilities. The racial bonus, Fighting Spirit, grants you increased accuracy and damage when Endurance falls below 50%. The +1 MIGHT is not as much as an Aumaua gets but hey, every little bit counts. The +1 Resolve you can subtract to add to something else you need, like Dexterity. Any time you get a racial bonus that is in effect all the time that's a win. They also gain +10 damage reduction to burn and freeze, which are active at all times. They get +1 to DEX and PERCEPTION, both of which are useful to a melee-Cipher. Put together, Aumaua is one of the better choices you can make (and in my opinion, the best race choice). Last but not least, Aumaua, unlike Godlike, can wear helmets. These are great resists to have for a melee class and they are always active. Coastal Aumaua also get +20 resist to Prone and Stun. So, like the Nature Godlike race, this abilty will rarely come into play if we are playing our character correctly.Īmaua get +2 to MIGHT which is good for a Cipher.
The damage numbers are small, however, and as a melee-Cipher we're going to be working on our defense and positioning so we optimally do not get hit in the first place.
When their Endurance drops below 50% they gain damage reduction to fire and do some fire damage back to enemies. These are great bonuses to have, but we don't want to get hit in the first place, so if you're playing the class well these bonuses won't often come into play, if ever. When their Endurance drops below 50% they gain +3 to Might and +2 to CON and DEX. Because you're going to be in melee and swinging a weapon, this ability will always come into play, making it the best racial ability for a Cipher among the Godlike races. They do additional damage to enemies with low endurance.
The only drawback to Godlike is that they cannot wear a helmet and there are a couple nice helmets with decent stats in the game that you may want to wear. Godlike characters get a +1 bonus to DEX and INT which are two of the three most important attributes for a Cipher. These races make the best melee-Cipher builds. So after playing this class through the game twice (on Normal and Hard difficulty) I decided to create this guide for other players who might want to play something closer to the traditional D&D Fighter/Mage. But when I wanted to start building a melee Cipher I found very few resources.
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Many guides and message-board posts exist that describe, in great detail, how to build a ranged Cipher. This guide does not cover PoTD (because I have not tested this on that difficulty yet) or Solo-play. This guide covers how to build and play a pure melee Cipher. It is a class that I consider a must-have in any party. In short, it is a very powerful and versatile class. This class will have you wearing light armor, wielding a heavy Greatsword and Pike, and casting powerful spells to control and destroy your enemies. It also provides buffing and Crowd Control spells that can tip most encounters in your favor. Built properly and played well it will do significant melee and spell damage. A melee-Cipher class is basically Pillars of Eternity's answer to the classic D&D archtype Fighter/Mage class.
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