Deleveling

Summary:

In what order do the stats decrease?

Deleveling

bt92130 19 May 2010 01:46

Hey forum,

I recently decided to redo my stats as I have become more accustomed to the uchigatana. However, I had been going for a strength build and now I'm heading for a dex build. With my stats for strength leveled up significantly more than dex, and wanting to maintain a lower soul level, I am going to be invading and suiciding (only method of deleveling that is available to me…I think…please leave other methods :D). What I noticed (I've never done this before so excuse what may be obvious to you, but not to me x]) was that it started from my highest stat which was Endurance and then once it got down below my next highest stat; strength; it randomly picked stats to decrease.

So my point in this is, is there a certain way that you delevel? Or could it be random?

Thanks!

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Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 04:04

Is that you who has been harasing me with the meat cleaver the past few eveningsin 4-1 ? If it is you GG's ^_^

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Re: Deleveling

bt92130 20 May 2010 06:35

Hahaha afraid not, I use an uchigatana and will not be using a MC ever x] don't like big weapons xP my character's name is "PeNgUiN_KiLlEr" so maybe i'll see you around :D

Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 06:41

Ok sounds good looking forward to seeing you around ^_^

Re: Deleveling

BeanInABottle 19 May 2010 11:26

To my knowledge, your highest stat is always loweled. So yes what ur doing will take a long time. I'd check with someone else to be sure though.

Re: Deleveling

StefanieTN 19 May 2010 15:14

Well, it doesn't work exactly that way. I have a SL 19 character with a Will (Intelligence) of 18 and a Strength of 16. I invaded 2-1 and got into it with a Blue Phantom at the top of Ed's elevator, and we knocked each other off a cliff while the Host was healing. lol Anyway, I lost a Soul Level, of course (for dying via the environment), but my Strength went from 16 to 15, while my Will stayed at 18.

Generally speaking, you do lose points from the higher stats, but not always the highest one. So, if you're looking to restructure a character's skills, you'll have to do a broad deleveling, because you can't control which stats are altered on the way down (and Vitality never goes down).

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Re: Deleveling

TheGuardianPigeon 20 May 2010 03:07

Every single time I loose a soul level, it sucks my endurance. I'm on Ng++++++++ and it still only sucks my endurance. IDK if this is a glitch or not

Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 03:22

Im not exactly sure how it chooses what stat to de-level but generally the highest goes down first, Vitality cannot be de-leveled and once your endurance gets down to close of what your other stats are, it will start to pick other stats to de-level. If you are trying to remove one of your lowest stats you will probably have to de-level back to the basic starting stats or close to it. The game is not glitched, this is normal when it comes to de-leveling.

Re: Deleveling

GunNslinger 20 May 2010 04:00

I am not sure but I thought I remembered something about it lowering the stat that is furthest away from your characters base stats. So, for example, if you started as a Royal and both your strength and dexterity were at thirty, your strength would go down first since its started at 9 and dex started at 12.

Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 04:03

Could very well be the case, I for one would be interested to hear if anybody actually knows how the stats are chosen.

Re: Deleveling

Stilgarz 20 May 2010 13:54

Can you delevel underneath a starting stat amount?

Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 14:04

You might be able to if you remove the game patches, But then you couldn't play online so….. I don't think it is possible.

Re: Deleveling

GunNslinger 20 May 2010 14:08

I don't think you can. I would think that someone would have made a build with 0 luck by now if that were possible lol. And plus there are about 80 points already put into the stats at SL 1, and I don't think you can have negative souls levels. But like I said before, I am not 100% sure.

Re: Deleveling

bLaCkShAd0w 20 May 2010 14:15

I read somewhere that you used to be able to do it, And then they patched it out. Although that might have been on the asain version of the game.

Re: Deleveling

bt92130 20 May 2010 15:11

Thank you all for your help :] Much appreciated!

BT

Re: Deleveling

Ilkar 20 May 2010 17:53

What GunNslinger said above is correct, the stat you have increased most from its base level is deleveled first, excluding Vitality, which cannot be deleveled.
The thing about having 0 Luck is only partly true. Pre-patch on the Asian version it was possible to Soulsuck stats into negative levels with the aid of a glitch. Therefore, you could have a perfect SL 120 PvP build with -99 Luck, meaning you could invade people who were around SL 40-50 and you would have the stats of a perfectly tuned SL 120. The same applied for people who were able to fight at SL 120 pvp but instead have 99 more stat points than anyone else due to the -99 Luck.

EDIT: Forgot to say that you can't unpatch the US version to achieve a similar effect, as the game comes with the patch pre-added.

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