KCD 2

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Main and hardcore perks

Strength enhances weapon control, melee and unarmed damage, carrying capacity, full bow draws, and movement in heavy armor.

Experience is primarily gained through combat, with greater rewards for using high-power weapons.

Agility reduces melee stamina cost, speeds up attacks and bow draws, improves movement, reduces fall damage, enhances sneaking, eases heavy armor use, and makes dodges more effective but harder to counter.

Experience is earned through sneaking and combat, especially with dexterity-based weapons and dodging.

Vitality increases stamina, its regeneration rate, and endurance in combat, allowing for longer fights, frequent attacks, and better resilience. It also slows rest depletion.

Experience comes from fighting, executing advanced techniques, and training through running and overcoming obstacles.

Speech improves persuasion in conversations, increasing skillcheck success, saving time, securing better rewards, and aiding in bargaining.

Experience is gained through conversations, skillchecks, and reading books, which enhance vocabulary and rhetorical skills.

Warfare increases attack speed, makes attacks harder to predict and parry, and reduces weapon wear in combat.

Experience grows with proficiency in individual weapons and unarmed combat.

Blacksmithing improves weapon sharpening, forging, and equipment maintenance, reducing resource use for repairs and cleaning.

Experience is gained by practicing blacksmithing, sharpening, repairing, and washing equipment.

Horsemanship reduces stamina loss at high speeds, makes the horse less skittish, and increases resistance to being unseated in combat.

Experience comes from regular riding over long distances and mounted combat, but not fast travel.

Dog Handling strengthens the bond with your dog, enhancing obedience, combat effectiveness, endurance, and granting new command perks.

Experience is earned through interactions, combat, hunting, feeding, and caring for the dog, ensuring loyalty and obedience.

Literacy enables reading, speeds up comprehension, and aids in various conversations and situations.

Experience is gained by reading, applying knowledge in discussions, and learning about the world.

Stealth reduces noise, makes you harder to detect, and improves evasion during fast travel.

Experience is gained by picking pockets, locks, stealth kills, and sneaking near enemies.

Lockpicking and Pickpocketing become easier with higher skill, allowing success with complex locks and unnoticed thefts.

Experience increases with lock difficulty and the value of stolen items.

Improves success with wild game, meat yield, herb gathering, and fast travel evasion.

Experience is gained through hunting, herb gathering, processing game, discovering locations, and avoiding dangers.

Alchemy requires precise cooking times, with greater skill allowing more tolerance and mastery of potent potions.

Experience comes from brewing potions, with accuracy boosting gains.

Drinking increases alcohol tolerance, reduces intoxication speed, weakens hangovers, and lowers addiction risk—though never fully eliminating it.

Experience is gained by consuming alcohol or alcohol-based potions.

Swords skill enhances attack speed, damage, and difficulty for opponents to block.

Experience grows through combat with swords, including hunting and longswords.

Heavy Weapons (clubs, maces, axes, war hammers) increase attack speed, damage, and difficulty for opponents to defend against.

Experience is earned through combat with these weapons.

Archery steadies aim, making targeting easier and more accurate.

Experience is gained through shooting in combat, hunting, or competitions.

Polearms include spears, glaives, morning stars, and knightly axes, increasing attack power and speed with skill.

Experience is earned through combat with these weapons.

Unarmed Combat increases attack power, speed, and difficulty for opponents to defend.

Experience is gained by fighting without weapons.