Why are INT characters always more powerful in RPGs...

Why are INT characters always more powerful in RPGs? STR or DEX based characters struggle to beat late game bosses while INT builds simply one-shot them with their stupid magic. Is there some sort of conspiracy going on in the gaming industry? Do the devs really favour magic over physical?

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STR - DEX for games with actual combat

INT for RPG where its mostly just stats and effects your worried about

INT characters seem to be dominating 'actual combat' too
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magic is for bitch niggas
real men use their own physical ability

falsely labeled as anything past +6 doesn't increase difficulty

int usually benefits from a wide arrange of shit while str and ex just make you hit harder. there are of course exceptions of course like in a couple of megaten games, physical skills dominate magical skills.

melee characters are usually the default easy mode characters so they have average effectiveness, magic characters usually have more advanced mechanics to take advantage of.

Gwyn is easy as shit no matter what. STR and DEX both dominate in PvE and PvP making it superior to INT

Pretty much /thread. OP next time you have a question, try not asking it in the absolute most autistic way possible.

That damage output tho. 8.5k is enough to rape anything in the game.

I think the idea is that mages are weak early and mid game and strong late game, while warriors are balanced for each stage and knights would be strongest early etc

>Is there some sort of conspiracy going on in the gaming industry? Do the devs really favour magic over physical?
Are you 12? It's like that in literally every genre and with good reason.
>Imma swing my sword on this ancient city destroying monster that'll do the trick!

*every medium

>Intelligence awards more EXP and Skill Points in Fallout

Who are you quoting?

>376856451
The problem with this is unless the gameplay is designed in such a way to make physical combat interesting over a long period, pure melee characters become boring in 30 minutes whereas INT mages generally have more flexibility and can do not only direct damage but utility and other misc actions thus being more interesting.

Fuck off with this meme, wojack in canonly much smarter then pepe. STICK TO THE ESTABLISHED LORE OR FUCK OFF

I like how even for pictures where he's shown in a positive light, the INT build is still getting carried.

Umm, Wojak has *never* had an advantage over Pepe in the official canon.

LUCK is clearly the best choice

Knights>>>Mages

Str makes you more capable of taking abuse while Dex is usually status effect related. Int makes you able to hit multiple enemies at once or buff others.

Doesn't matter really because at the end of the day youre just going to be using your strongest spell over and over again. Then get hit and die like a bitch because you wear gay robes.

>game has magic
>elemental magic damage only does more or less damage based on elemental resistances

way to fuck up

Every time I play a game with ice magic that doesn't freeze or even slow enemies I roll my eyes

What game lets me be a romantic warrior?

It's a Revenge of the Nerds sort of deal, where a nerd can fulfill the fantasy of overcoming all obstacles through their supposed intellect while ignoring other traits they lack to make a whole person

No, because of spells such as levitation, telekenisis, charm spells and more there are a lot more options.

I prefer melee characters but it's quite easy to make a pure melee experience boring.

Not true, Wojak is like 7 years into a STEM degree while pepe is some neet

STR > DEX

sallet helm is underrated in games

these are stupid as fuck, 80% of the time one insect is just trying to escape but doesn't know its impossible

u reek of envy

>advanced mechanics
>lightning bolts and other archery bullshit

pisses me off. if they weren't insects people would be freaking out. it's still cruel and unnecessary. then again, chicks aren't exactly the most animal friendly race are they now.

>Enemies have elemental weaknesses
>Die in either two hits from neutral damage or also two hits from super effective damage
>Lategame foes who take some more time to kill are immune to most elements, no weaknesses
>Can't ever guess what element foes are weak to because of arbitrary choices like a regular wolf being fire

>376856772

>spamming Ice Barrage in one spot is hard

...

>wojack in canonly much smarter then pepe.

there's just something manly as fuck about a scorpion holding off a spider with its arms while stinging it to death

this problem can be traced back to DnD, where playing a caster that doesn't deal weapons-grade butthurt is boring as shit.

The older editions especially.

>inna lvl 1
>have 1 (ONE) spell you can only use once per rest

Scorpions are just naturally and heavily masculine creatures.

>not doing INT+STR
Manus catalyst all day nigga

To be fair, STR/INT is the most powerful of stat combinations IRL and In-Game, and most people are talking about one stat vs another rather than a combination of stats.

>Gwyn is easy as shit
I didn't think he was easy. I never learned how to party in Dark Souls though. I got the timing down in Bloodborne but I couldn't figure out DS.

>max out STR/INT
>also max out CON/VIT/WIS/CHA

>roll poorly for IRL stats
>end up with moderate INT and low everything else
I wish God went with a point-buy system

I wish God made everyone monstergirl futas, but we can't have everything we want.

>When a stat is used for both DEF and DEX

The only acceptable mages are spellswords.

>not including fist-wizards
You know nothing

Yea and he's STILL a wagecuck

Because most rpg creators are nerds and having your character become exponentially better over time compared to those brute muscle bullies of their youth is kind of a power fantasy.

>not using magic to enhance your physical prowess, weapons and armor

>When you can make delicious pasta all day every day

>That single sting to the brain

god damn, that scorpion doesn't mess around

usually it's because magic can do everything str and dex can do plus more
also it's viewed as "boring" by a lot of people to play a non-mage since it's too much like real life
personally I'm an intfag but it's all good in the hood nigga. a properly balanced party needs a little bit of everything

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Scorpions just don't mess around.

this is the poison based stealth vs regular knight.

>Not using strength as your casting stat

It's like you're trying to be a pleb.

Magic is impossible to balance without making all the classes very similar, because they have damage + battlefield control + possibly magic defenses as well
So you either need to strip magic down to just be recolored archery or give everyone similar abilities

But bard is the most fun DnD class and it mostly just has subtle magic.

These are stupid since scorpions are literally the predator of spiders. It's like pitting sheep vs wolf

What are some games with INT+LCK builds?

Because the industry is nu-beta cucks and get triggered by a real STR alpha

Because the alternative is making them weak as fuck and not worth playing.

DDS. The usual SMT "Magic is better than anything", and luck heavily determines both drop rates and evasion rates in a press turn system.

Because INT is the one true strat. Someone with 300 IQ is infenetely supperior to some dumb monkey with 300 STR.

check out FFIII
probably the remake desu
Ninjas are fucking OP

wojak has never defeated pepe

>infenetely
It's sad you possess neither the 300 IQ you desire nor the 300 STR of a monkey.

Those aren't insects.

The trick is to get your stats from feasting on the dead, user. Cannibals figured this stuff out ages ago, you should try it.

In the dragonball arc he did.

>there's an official frogposting canon

Welp I had a good run

Is it just me that I just love the pepe vs wojak pics?

They seem to be the modern form of Tom and Jerry.

They're alright.

>INT character
>that has 99 in STR and INT

I mean...

>hahaha he made a spelling mistake hahahaha I`m so supperior hahahahahaha

Wojak has always been smarter than Pepe but he lacks talent and skill.

Intelligence includes being able to type basic words correctly, like superior and infinitely for example, and not typing shit like "supperior" and "infenetely" in place of them.

>still using dead memes

Fuck off back to your containment board.

If you're so smart, then why didn't you see this coming?

Kill yourself.

Mage/INT is always easy mode in old school RPGs.
It was nerd wish fulfillment.

Where did his other hand go?

>mountain blade
>str/dex build
>you hack at some I guess
>int build
>living god

Gigantic moralfag here, is that really wrong? I mean I thought that arthropods (at least arachnids and insects) don't even have pain receptors

Though maybe they still feel fear in some way but I can't imagine it's anything like what we feel

>he doesn't know the lore

the-eis.com/data/literature/Scorpions as model vehicles to advance theories of population and community ecology.pdf
When will Spiderlets and DEXfags learn?

the difference here is that the str and dex guys don't explode on impact when they get hit.

>dex
>not exploding when they get hit

Spiders can feel pain.

Ben Kenobi vs Maul on Tatooine.webm

>spiders can feel pain
... I have done bad things

Pfft

A properly made Str/dex character can slaughter enemies by the hundreds. 10 party skill in everything is enough anyway, 14 party skill is good but not the only way to play.

>str
>I like to use the same blunt edge club/big buster sword with a different skin on it x10
>dex
>i like to use different weapons

>implying INTfags haven't used buffs to make themselves stronger and more durable than STR and DEXfags

>he missed the shonen saga

>Pepe stealing Wojak's intelligence meme
IT ISN'T FAIR