#Flexible rogue legacy plus

Either strength or vitality really should have been used for healing. Int just does far more in general and it really isn't balanced well.

#Flexible rogue legacy plus

Intelligence affects spell damage, talent damage, healing amount and soulsteal runes, plus the damage of some of the best relics in the game. As per the wiki, though I think it's in the game, too: Strength only adds to weapon damage, the weaker part of spin kick damage (scales more off int later) and helps lifesteal runes. Str is certainly nice for your basic hits, as almost all weapons are based on strength (even the magic-ish ones). IMO, Intelligence is far better than strength and has been for a while, at least at the relatively lower NG+ levels.

Whether build diversity is worth overpowering weapon spam remains to be seen.Īrmor, Rune Weight, and Resolve remain useful regardless. Or you could just keep boosting your main build stat. Because it will take you 5 entire threads just to make them even since you can only get 800 soul gems each new thread. It's hard to catch up at that point if you have, say 25 points in Absolute Strength, and still only 10 in Infinite knowledge. Once you open up the Soul gem cap much later. The bottle neck later on becomes soul gems. And its nice to see single spells clearing rooms and Status effects being effective again. I'm only just starting a new profile to see what INT focused stat spread looks like (NG+2).

A lot more relic combinations or relic stacking becomes possible. INT builds on the other hand, still need some STR to work, but can give interesting synergy if you get the right relics. Most all relic builds revolve around hoping to find War Drums. But spell, skill and Int based damage (posion fire) fall way behind, and MP/Spell based relics become useless. Much later (NG+15) you can one shot most normal enemies and face trade with bosses. STR builds work even without INT, and really take off when you get Dex, Passive Crit chance, Crit moddifier, and Super Crits (top left of castle, Crit based runes). You can't really see the benefits of a 'build' until you get NG+3 and higher.