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Vigor: Increases your HP. Getting 40 Vigor early makes the early-mid game much easier. Combined with the fact you can always start the game with a +5 Somber weapon and upgraded flasks, you can be tanking and killing most enemies with little investment. It's not recommended to level past 60 due to diminishing returns.

Mind: Increases your mana bar. Most builds will be fine around 20-40 Mind depending on how many spells or weapon skills you use.

Endurance: Increases your stamina and equip load. Level based on how much stamina and equip load your armor and weapons need. You typically want to end around 40-50 Endurance.

Strength: Increases your strength and when two-handing, multiplies your strength by 50% Hold △ + R1 or Hold E + Right Click. For accurate stats, use a Weapon Calculator, select a weapon with "Heavy" as the affinity, and play with the strength stat until you see diminishing returns.

Dexterity: Increases your dexterity and spell casting speed. Use the abovementioned weapon calculator with a "Keen" affinity to find your weapons soft cap. Casting speed caps at 70 dexterity.

Intelligence: Increases your ability to cast sorceries. Use a Casting Tool Comparator to find out which staff is best for your build.

Faith: Increases your ability to cast incantations. Use the abovementioned casting tool comparator to find out which seal is best for your build.

Arcane: Increases the damage of arcane-scaling weapons and the amount of status buildup it inflicts. Additionally, leveling this stat increases your Item Discovery (1 per point, up to 99).

Build: If you know what equipment you'll use beforehand, you can min-max your stats and starting class using a Build Planner.

General recommendation:

• Reach level requirements for your desired weapon, casting tool, or spell
• Focus on vigor early. Leveling damage stats yield little value, since most weapons have bad scaling at low upgrades
• Get enough stamina to comfortably use your weapons and reach medium roll equip load with your loadout
• Level damage stats after you've upgraded your weapon a few times