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Take out the fact that theCURB will change how valuable a mind hit is now.....On the current system alone.

Ok so everyone is well aware with the current system the popular stat migrate is everything to mind. However I'd liek to discuss it here. My first few inital stat migrations varied. In the begining before buffs it was to wear as much armor as I could. After buffs I tweaked here and there giving myself a rounded stat pool. When the battle of minds came into play with rifleman and uber dot mind poison weapons, I bought into "all to mind." I must say recently I changed back to a more rounded template.

Given the action & healthcost of Pistols specials I found my template junk if I were ever to be unbuffed. Not only that but with all of the mind foods and mind buffs availible now I "seemed" to be taking a bigger hit in other stats on occasion. SO I find myself happier with my action cranked a bit out front but other stats still well rounded. We know how PvP works you can't live forever and if you clone, you're done. WIth stats all to mind it left me, after dying, useless unless I walked the walk to another doctor many times missing out on the rest of the battle. I really have to stress, I'm alot happier rounded off versus all to mind. If I get into trouble unbuffed I have a better shot.Also it catches the enemy way off guard if you come out of the cloner and still tough enough to plug a few slugs vs the one shot and down.

/shrug

Insight? Discussion?

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I think the best stat migration depends on at least5 things: (1) whether you usually fight PvP or PvE, (2) whether you usually fight buffed or unbuffed, (3) what your template is, (4) what your species is, and (5) how heavily you want to rely on foods.

Speaking only for myself, I am a human Master Pistoleer/BH Pistols/Scout/Medic. Medic is the important part for me with respect to my stat migration... Since I can instantly regen my Health and Action to 100%, whereas I can't heal my mind (except in a limited way using foods), I put most of my points into Mind and Willpower. I don't do PvP, so I don't tend to take a lot of Mind damage (except from Nightsisters and an occasional Tusken ambush), so my high Mind stats are mainly to give me a pool from whichtodraw my stimpacks (and to a lesser extent,also to mitigate the cost of using my pistol specials). Because I usually fight unbuffed lately, and because Action takes a big hit using pistol specials, I also put a fair number of points into Quickness to reduce the cost of using my specials (and compensate further with foods). If I were a Zabrak, I could rely on equilibrium, and other species have naturally stronger stats than others, but I find this works well for me as a human.

My alt, who is basically a non-fighter with novice TKA for self-defense, and no medic skills, has a much more rounded stat migration, with my secondaries all roughly equal, and more points in Mind than in Health or Action (but with all my primaries fairly low). That toon does just fine in hand-to-hand combat against low/mid level mobs, but if I tried to use that migration with my Pistoleer character, I think I would be seriously hurting.

I'm not sure how much I contributed to your discussion, considering that I'm a non-PvPer, but hopefully that provides a bit of insight.

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Yeah when i did my PvP thing i had all to mind as when i buffed with Brandy and Dancer/Musician my mind barely kept up with the Doc enhanced action and health pools, but now im over that and i hunt and have nov medic back for the 500 heal stim B's i have M/F/W all set to minimum levels and the rest as high as possible cause when i take my brandy out hunting medium mobs its all i need.

So i guess its all up to what you do, PvP all to mind, PvE as low M/F/W as possible

P.S. I allways make my action 100 - 200 more than health cause pistoleer chews thru it at a mad rate

All I have had to worry about is action, action, and more action. I just chug some brandy for my mind bar. But my action drains so fast. And my health is rarely ever affected in battles.

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