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So I'm not the best at these games but I wanted for my second run to play a Human Rogue. I did some searching of this forum and others and a lot of people say a Rogue goes for either DPS or Tanking. Also a lot of disagreements on which stats are most important for them. The description of Rogue and my idea of them is they are basically about afflictions, debuffs, etc.. That's what I wanted to do. For example, Wounding damage apparently is linked to Might so I wanted to make sure my Might was decently high. But nobody really talks about Intellect with Rogues but it determines debuff length so it should be decently high as well. I wanted to do melee, never liked playing a ranged melee fighter. So I'd appreciate any advice you all can give

So this is my first time playing Deadfire and I'm no expert at these type of games, much as I love them. I'm just playing on normal. I wanted to try Ascendant Cipher (I don't wanna be pure melee so no Soul Blade.) + some type of Barbarian but not sure which. I just don't know which stats I can afford to dump. Some builds I have found say you can dump CON but I dunno about that. Maybe pro players can but I am afraid. Do I need Perception or can I at least lower it to 7 or 8? I know everyone dumps Resolve but I consider stats to be important for roleplaying. Low Resolve doesn't fit my ideas for my character. I suppose I could just come up with a different character idea. And so I'm just kinda lost. Maxing Dexterity or Intellect seem like the way to go but after that...I got nothing. Any help would be appreciated.