Mazuo

I've only been testing a ranger in the starting area, but I'd like an answer about this too. It seems very strange that animal companions have a health value and then it seemingly doesn't ever take a hit.

Yes, it's seeming to me that some of their less powerful spells should have been made per encounter and the better ones perhaps amplified slightly but restricted to per rest.

The stats make no cohesive sense. Strength and Constitution and the abilities they affect like carry weight and toughness from older systems are understandable in relation to the human body. I pump my 'Might' in the beta and suddenly I'm just better at everything. Are these muscles bulking up allowing me to swing my weapon harder? No, because spells cast suddenly hit harder. Is my mind being enhanced to process arcane spell information faster? No, because that has nothing to do with poking the enemy with a blade. They're essentially meaningless constructs to do X better. The flavor is gone and the mechanics are bland. That's exacerbated with how pumping a dozen points in something doesn't feel like you've really done anything at all. I fully support avoiding a situation again where you set Charisma to 3 because it simply doesn't matter to a lot of characters. I just think that could be a lot more easily done than to make the whole damn system obtuse and unreasonable.

I'm not certain about scaling costs either, but presently there isn't any real feeling of impact when choosing your beginning stats. For trying to avoid the concept of dump attributes, I still find myself maxing 3 I really want and spreading the rest as I can. A mild percentage difference just doesn't come across as very meaningful. Dexterity for example tells me I'm getting some flat value to accuracy, but it's really difficult to conceptualize how much of a bonus it really is at different levels. Probably need some more time using it as well with the confusing aspects of might affecting all damage, etc.

Sounds great. Looking forward to it!

Still can't pay the difference for my order placed 2 days ago. No response from my support ticket either.