Attributes

**Attributes** are the five main characteristics of characters, they have influence over the combat abilities of the characters through their basic effect and their interactions with passives and skills.

## Basic effects

Effects are indicated per point.

* **Constitution**: +2 Max HP per level, +1.5 defense per level.
* **Intelligence**: +1 attack/defense per level, -35 Max MP, -2% Combo.
* **Luck**: +0.5% Critical/Combo/Evasion/Parry, +0.25 Counter. Evasion is on even points, Crit/Combo/Parry on odd points.
* **Dexterity**: +0.5 Qinggong/level, +0.5 Action Speed, +0.5% Eva. Eva and action speed are on even points.
* **Strength**: +1.5 attack per level, +0.5% Critical strike chance.

Unrelated but worth mentioning, there's also 0.2% Combo per level.

## Base and Free points

You can get up to 10 Base attributes from the initial points attribution and acquired experience while in-game. No other factors affect those 10 base attributes. You can acquire extra free points from traits, pills, levels and extra events.

For example, if you start with 9 intelligence points, 7 being from attribution and 2 from the Talented Beauty trait, and acquire 3 more from level ups and pills, you still have 7 Base attributes points and can acquire 3 more from Intelligence EXP.

The points required to raise attributes only depend on the current base points. While attribute experience is still acquired after 10 base attributes, it does nothing. It is not possible to see the currently obtained EXP towards the next point.

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## Base points experience

You acquire attribute points experience doing the following:

### **Constitution**

* eating Rare (R) or better Food-type items: 1 EXP for Rare (R), 3 EXP for Epic (E), 5 EXP for Legendary (L). Not all consumables raising Stamina are Food-type, dishes made by  Cooking are.
* Take baths with Fu Yaoqin, which is available when siding with Melody House and after completing the "Visit Old Friends" quest: 250 EXP? per bath
* Defeating your inner demon in the Waterfall Pond: 20 EXP.

### **Intelligence**

* Pray at the Confucius statue in the Confucius Temple: 50 EXP once per day.
* Use incense on altars (once per altar per day):
	+ 5 EXP for  Normal incense (N),
	+ 10 EXP for  Rare incense (R),
	+ 25 EXP for  Epic incense (E),
	+ 50 EXP for  Legendary incense (L).
* Pray on small altars: 5 EXP per altar per day.
* Read some of the Confucius Saint books: 250 EXP per valid book.

### **Luck**

* Pray at the Chuxiang City statue after obtaining  Big stone sword (E): +20 EXP per prayer, unlimited prayers.
* Appraising Rare (R) or better "Appraise item"-type items:
	+ 1 EXP for Rare (R),
	+ 3 EXP for Epic (E),
	+ 5 EXP for Legendary (L).
* Take baths with Fu Yaoqin: 250 EXP? per bath.

### **Dexterity**

* Walk around: 10 EXP per day,
* Pet the Monkey in Daliang City for 5k Wen (Coins): 100 EXP, can be done up to 5 times.

* Defeating your inner demon in the Waterfall Pond: 20 EXP.

### **Strength**

* obtaining any item using a gathering Skill. This is regardless of the actual resource collected and only depends on the gathering location's rarity itself:
	+ 1 EXP for Normal (N) gathering location,
	+ 2 for Rare (R),
	+ 3 for Epic (E),
	+ 4 for Legendary (L).
* Take baths with Fu Yaoqin: 250 EXP? per bath.
* Defeating your inner demon in the Waterfall Pond: 20 EXP.

## Free points sources

* 1 per 10 level
* Variable number from initial traits
* +2 Luck from the Nitwit trait, acquired during a playthrough by having -100 Wisdom.
* +2 Int from the Clever trait, acquired during a playthrough by having +100 Wisdom.
* +3 Luck from the Heart of Benevolent trait, acquired during a playthrough by helping Hua Qingqing defend the children as part of her recruitment. This requires being in Nest of Swallow, but the trait stays for the whole playthrough.

### Pills

You can obtain up to 5 points from pills:

* 5  Heaven pill (L) (any, random) from winning the Heaven tournament (30,000  Coin entrance) in Daliang City. It is possible to quick save/load to change results.
* 1  Tiger pill (L) (strength) from giving 1,000  Coin to Zhang Lata in Chuxiang City
* 1  Smart pill (L) (intelligence) by trading with Zhong Yangzi in Taoist Sect
* 2  Lucky pill (L) (luck) from:
	+ winning the Marriage tournament in Daliang City and paying the 20,000  Coin bethrotal gift.
	+ killing Hua Yan in Shifa Temple.

### Cross Hill Event

* The Bandit Camp can't have been eradicated
* During the day, visit Cross Hill. You'll be faced with a prompt allowing you to raise any of your attribute by 1, depending on the option chosen:
	+ Strength: (Don't show weakness, act tough and they'll be scared off.)
	+ Luck: (Stay silent, if I'm not noticed, I won't get into trouble.)
	+ Dexterity: (Slip away quietly when no one is looking.)
	+ Constitution: (Act pitiful, they won't have the heart to bully me.)
	+ Intelligence: (Show admiration, they won't give me a hard time when they're happy.)

### Hui Yuan's Enlightenment

You can obtain 1 Intelligence from  Hui Yuan's enlightenment.

* You need to be sectless, have strictly less than 10 total intelligence (9-) and 80 or more Benevolence
* Go to Shifa Temple and open the dialogue options to join it (Sect Leader > Join).
* Choose the "Please enlighten me, master." option.
* You'll obtain +1 Intelligence (or 5,000 experience if your total intelligence is 10 or more).
* It is not necessary to join Shifa Temple afterwards.

### Miao Caidie's poison testing

You can obtain up to 20 points from Miao Caidie's poison testing. This can only happen while she's back in the Jiuli Tribe (3 days after meeting her in Lin'an).

* (optional) When initially meeting her, scare her to avoid getting 25 Toxicology
* If you side with the Jiuli Tribe, just meet her in the tribe and do her poison testing as normal until you Toxicology reaches 100.
* Otherwise, to be able to side with Melody House and still do it:
	+ Do not pick a side in Deserted Courtyard
	+ Start a fight by pressing the attack button (not by talking to guards) at the entrance of the Jiuli Tribe, do not fight anyone but walk past the guards, then stop the fight.
	+ (optional) Raise your relationship with the Jiuli Tribe with gifts to bypass the step above in subsequent visits
	+ Do the Miao Caidie poison tests as normal
	+ To enter Melody House the first time, start a fight and retreat past the trigger like you did for the Jiuli Tribe.