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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 3907390" data-attributes="member: 39394">Okay, let's look at this one by one.  All stats cost 2 points for every +1 from them.Strength - Your strength affects several things.  Damage, strength-based skills, grappling, carrying capacity, and trip checks.  (Grappling is a killer in M&M.)  If all you care about is damage, then it is mechanically efficient to buy the Strike power and not buy any strength.  If all your attacks are via a ranged power, you might not care about strength much.If you want to be a muscle-bound character good at doing damage with punching, grappling, and feats of strength... you'll want some strength.Dexterity - Dexterity affects Reflex saves and dex-based skills.  There are a lot of dex-based skills.  Saves are one-for-one and skill points are bought at 4/1, so if there are at least 4 dex-based skills you think you're going to use semi-regularly, you might as well buy dexterity.Consitution - Consitution adds to to saves, Fortitude and Toughness.  Generally speaking, it will cost at least 1 point per 1 to increase your toughness save.  Constitution is generally a good buy.Intelligence - Er....  Applies to skills and a few feats.  If you want to be a super-genius inventor/tactician, then you should buy up your intelligence and take the proper feats.  if not, leave it at a 10.  (Like most comic heroes.  You're either a genius or average joe.)Wisdom - Applies to some very useful skills (perception, concentration) and your Will save.  Not a must-have, but can be useful.Charisma - If you care about charisma based skills and want to use the feats that work off of charisma, it's a good buy.  If not, leave it at 10.</blockquote>

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