Levelling up and points?

[NightStar76]

So I've been bouncing along as an archer. Struggling a lot, too. And I was looking around the forums, and I saw something about allocating points. Now, I've never allocated points. I'm not sure how to do so. Wait, no. I have no idea how to allocate whatever points these may or may not be. Is this something that was removed in the current edition of the game? And if not, then how do I use this function?

[Estellios]

It was a feature that was in the game before the current patch. You had a class level and an overall character level. The overall level would go up as you did anything and would give you points to spread around to your attributes how you saw fit. This created major issues because you couldn't specialize your stats easily if you wanted to play multiple classes and for balance reasons meant that stats made a negligible difference, if they made a difference at all.

The last patch eliminated physical level and gave each class its own stats, so you don't have to worry about putting points into the wrong stats and messing up your character. So far it is planned to bring the point allocation function back sometime later, where you'd be able to customize your stats on a class-by-class basis and presumably with some limitations to avoid horribly imbalanced characters.

[smokymcweed]

i hope not the whole point system was flawed to the point of hilarity

[TunaTime]

Sadly you can't choose what stat to boost anymore...

If you are struggling alot try lvl'ing cjn / thm to get access to heals, protect, shell and stoneskin. Helps alot!

Just started lvl'ing PUG to get some the DoW guild traits and at lvl 15 I can kill 3 mobs at the same time without them breaking my stoneskin II.

[VydarrTyr]

Estellios is right. And Tuna Time has some good tips.

To echo what Tuna Time said, I'd just suggest that leveling other classes is extremely helpful. Taking every class to level 10 gives you some pretty wonderful abilities that you'll want to use on all classes. Get Second Wind from Pugilist and Bloodbath from Marauder, which are like heals that don't use MP. Get Invigorate from Lancer, which will increase your TP gain so you can do more Weaponskills. And I have Cure and Sacrifice on every single class I play so I can cast heals whenever I need to.