Character

Information

When you start Ashes of Phoenix - you will be greeted with a login screen, where you will take your first steps into creating a character. Just simply picking the Register Button will let you create a character, where you can assign some base-line stats, before jumping into action.

Character Creation

A Player's Character is compromised of a variety of Stats, the most important ones are the Specials, Perks, Traits and Skills. Upon creating your character, you can influence some, but not all of them.

The most important decision you will have to make is what Specials to take. Those include Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. You have a total of 40 points. And no Stat can be lower then 1, or higher then 10.

The second thing you will have to worry about, is taking 2, 1 or 0 Traits. Those can influence your gameplay immensively, so special care should be taken here as well. They are, as mentioned, optional. Since each of them comes with a drawback, it might be adviseable to not use all available Trait-Slots. However, for example. Playing a Medic greatly benefits from the Drug Dealer trait.

The last thing you will adjust are your tagged Skills. From a list of 4 primary skills, 6 secondary skills and 4 support skills, you can tag 1 primary skill, as well as 2 secondary skills. Tagged Skills have the advantage of using up only half your skill-points when leveling them up, so you should tag skills you intend on using primarily.

Specials

Every character, even NPC's, have a distribution of Special Points. Each Special Point modifies a variety of stats, as well as the starting-value of Skills (Though the latter effect is very minor and usually only needed when min-maxing a character).

List of Specials

Strength	Perception	Endurance	Charisma	Intelligence	Agility	Luck
Starting Hit Points	Sight Range	Hit Points gain per Level	Leadership Boosts	Skill Points per Level	AP+ Regeneration	Example
Healing Rate	Base Critical Chance	Healing Rate		Base Critical Chance	Healing Rate	Base Critical Chance
Melee Damage	Aimed Shots	Knockout Duration			Armor Class	Armor Class
Carry Weight	Hit Chance Modifiers					Aimed Crit Chance
Throwing Range						Armor Bypass severity
Bleed Resistance		Bleed Resistance			Bleed Resistance	Bleed Resistance
Critical Strength	Critical Perception	Critical Endurance	Suppression Resistance		Critical Agility	Critical Resistance

Traits

Every character can have up to 2 Traits. As they are optional, it is also possible to just take 1, or none at all. All Traits have positive, as well as negative effects.

List of Traits

Name	Positive	Negative
Fast Metabolism	+5 Healing Rate	-4.0 Bleed Resistance
Bruiser	+2 Strength	-2.25 AP+ Regen
Small Frame	+1 Agility	+10% chance to be knocked down
Finesse	+10% Base Critical Chance	Only Half additional damage from Crits
Heavy Handed	+20 Melee Damage	-1 Agility
Fast Shot	-10% AP per Attack	-5% Hit Chance
Dead Man Walking	+100 Bleed Out HP (Alive until -200HP)	-10 Maximum HP
Lizard Limbs	40% chance of curing a random limb every 10 seconds	-5 Healing Rate
Skilled	+8 Skill Points per Level	Perk every 4 level instead of every 3 level (6 total Perks instead of 8)
Drug Dealer	+50% Effectivity of Healing Drugs	Double AP Cost of Healing Drugs if used on yourself
Four Eyes	+2 Perception to determine Sight Range	Increased Tunnel Vision (Less View of Side / Back)
Blind Luck	-3 to traps detection range	50% chance of avoiding effects of any trap (including damage)
Gifted	+1 to every Special Stat	No tagged skills (Each SPECIAL stats must be 2 or more)
Kamikaze	+5 Charisma to determine Suppression Resistance	No Armor Class Benefits at all

Skills

Every character has a distribution of Skillpoints in the 14 skills. 3 of them will usually be tagged, allowing cheaper point-allocation in those skills. Primary Skills can go up to 250%. Secondary Skills can go up to 200%. Support Skills can not be leveled by allocating Skill Points into them, instead they are leveled up by utilizing them. They also go up to 200%.

Primary Skills (Can tag 1 of those)

Name	Effect
Small Guns	Modifies Chance to hit with small guns as well as unlocked weapon perks.
Big Guns	Modifies Chance to hit with big guns as well as unlocked weapon perks.
Energy Weapons	Modifies Chance to hit with energy weapons as well as unlocked weapon perks.
Hand-to-Hand Combat	Modifies Chance to hit with close combat weapons as well as unlocked weapon perks.

Secondary Skills (Can tag 2 of those)

Name	Effect
Throwing	Modifies range with throwables as well as unlocked weapon perks,
Traps	Modifies (cost less AP) to arm and disarm traps, it improves the distance at which you spot them, it gives you a higher chance to successfully disarm the trap.
First Aid	Modifies amount of HP healed by using First Aid as well as unlocked item perks
Doctor	Modifies AP cost of Doctor, Success chance of revive, bleed healed when using Doctor Skill as well as unlocked item perks
Sneak	Modifies range at which you stay unnoticed.
Leadership	Modifies shared leadership boost when a squad leader or a Fireteam leader

Support Skills (Leveled up by using the respective skill)

Name	Effect
Persuation	Currently unused
Outdoorsman	Modifies loot gained from various outdoorsman usages like skinning, mining, woodcutting, farming.
Science	Increases amount of resources you get when decrafting items.
Engineering	Unlocks higher tier crafting as well as condition of crafted items.