Dialogues and reputation | Hints on making a good start Sword Coast Legends Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Dialogues in Sword Coast Legends are inseparable element of the gameplay. During the dialogues with characters you will learn many useful facts related to tasks and side quests. In most cases, the dialogues will have assigned lines that allow you to use persuasion or intimidation. It is very important to develop at least one of these two for your character. Persuasion is related to charisma statistic in which mostly rogues, wizards and clerics should invest. The further in the game, the more charisma you will need when using persuasion. Intimidation is related to strength statistic, which should be developed by warriors and paladins. This division is natural for all characters. As a wizard, you should avoid investing in many strength points, which would be useful only for intimidation. Except for resistance to abilities related to strength, wizard will have no use for this statistic when dealing damage.

Charisma is required for using persuasion. It's the most important factor when talking with characters met in the game world. Thanks to persuasion, many times you can avoid fighting and receive large profits. With this statistic you can also bargain with questgivers, increasing the rewards for completing the missions. Sometimes you can even twice the basic size of reward. During quests, you can also obtain very valuable information related to missions. Without persuasion, that information would have been skipped.

Strength is required for intimidation. In difference to persuasion, using intimidation sometimes leads to a fight. In some cases, thanks to intimidation you can save some gold during quests or obtain parts of legendary equipment from the corpses of defeated enemies (for example, during The Blood Debt side quest). In most cases, intimidation has the same effect as persuasion. The only difference is in the attitude of characters and the dialogue line.

The strength and charisma are required for successfully talking with characters met in the game. In Sword Coast Legends you will also face many other factors when other character's statistics will become useful. First one is intelligence. Intelligence is not only related to the basic statistics of wizards, but to the way the character sees many secrets and surprises as well. During the exploration, many times you will find a secret that requires intelligence to be revealed. The best way to find it is switching the character to the wizard who has the most intelligence of all characters (or at least, he should have). It's ineffective to assign one statistic to each character. The whole team should supplement each other and be trained for specific parts of quests. Another statistic is wisdom. Wisdom is needed to locate the hidden secrets. It increases your perception when finding hidden passages or chests.