Stats | Salt and Sacrifice Wiki

How do you increase Stats in Salt and Sacrifice?

Stats are primarily increased by Leveling Up. Shortly after beginning the game, you will be faced with an (almost) impossible encounter ending in your first death. You will then wake up in Pardoner's Vale, the game's main hub area. Heading to the west of the village and scaling the cliffs, you will find the Trifaul Idol, a large statue depicting a maiden with antlers and wings. Interacting with the idol will grant you access to the Level Up menu.

Leveling up requires Salt, the primary currency acquired by defeating enemies. Each level requires a certain amount of Salt and the cost increases with each subsequent level. Each level will grant you a Black Starstone which can be used to unlock nodes in the Tree of Skill, also accessible from the idol. Within the Tree of Skill, you can allocate your Starstones to acquire a point in one of your main attributes which can subsequently affect your secondary and other stats.

How do you respec your Stats in Salt and Sacrifice?

Every few levels, you will be granted a Gray Starstone which can be used at the Tree of Skill to unlearn a previously unlocked skill node. Doing so will transform the item into a Black Starstone which you can then reallocate into another skill of your choosing.

You can also purchase Gray Starstones from one of the NPCs located in the Heart of Altarstone area in exchange for 3 Sandscourge Tokens.

Salt and Sacrifice Stats Soft-Cap

 When levelling your character, there will come a time when you start getting diminishing returns, i.e. the benefit you gain from levelling a particular Stat for the first few times has a bigger impact than levelling at higher levels, say at level 25/30. This is referred to as Soft-Caps.

In Salt and Sacrifice the Soft-Cap for:

• Single stat is at level 40 (ie. Vitality, Will, Endurance, Resolve, Luck, or a Weapon that scales only with one stat);
• Duostat is at levels 25/25 (eg. a weapon based on Str/Dex, or Dex/Arc, etc);
• Triostat is at levels 20/20/20 (eg. a weapon based on Dex/Srength/Arc).

This results in a different amount of investment needed to reach the softcaps:

• Single stat needs an investment of 35 levels (since each stat at a minimum starts at 5) to reach the softcap.
• Duostat needs an investment of 40 levels to reach the softcap.
• Triostat needs an investment of 45 levels to reach the softcap.

Strength

Improves attack of strength-scaling weapons.

Dexterity

Improves attack of dexterity-scaling weapons.

Vitality

Determines your maximum hit points.

Willpower

Determines your maximum stamina.

Endurance

Determines your maximum equipment load.

Arcana

Improves attack of arcana-scaled weapons.

Conviction

Improves attack of conviction-scaled weapons.

Resolve

Determines your maximum Focus points.

Luck

Improves attack of luck-scaled weapons and increases Item find rate. 

Level

Determines maximum health.
You can level up using Salt.

Combat Stats

These stats determine your character's properties pertaining to combat.

Health

The amount of life the player has. The player will die when it reaches zero.

Stamina

This determines the amount of attacking, spell casting, rolling and blocking the player can do before letting it recharge. Depleting the player's Focus will reduce the player's maximum stamina in a roughly proportional amount, capping at an approximately 50% reduction at zero focus.

Focus

Works as a magic bar, depletes when you use spells and incantations. Unlike stamina, it does NOT replenish on its own but can be replenished with items or at a sanctuary.

Carry

This stat represents how much the player can carry before he is overburdened. Increasing Endurance will increase this value. You will begin to flop when your equip load is above 75%, "slow-roll" when your equip load is above 50%, "mid-roll" when your equip load is above 25%, and "fast-roll" when your equip load is lower than 25%.

Poise

This stat represents how much damage can be taken before the player flinches. When you take damage, your poise will fall by the amount of attack taken. When your poise falls below 0, you flinch. Flinching will cause an attack to cancel and momentum to stop. Poise will naturally regenerate while not taking damage.

Attack

The amount of damage the player will do with the equipped weapon.

Ranged

The amount of damage the player will do with the equipped weapon when performing its Ranged skills.  

Defensive Stats

These stats determine your character's damage mitigation properties.

Physical Defense

The amount of defense you have against enemies attacks.

Fire Defense

The amount of defense you have against fire damage.

Cold Defense

The amount of defense you have against cold damage.

Poison Defense

The amount of defense you have against poison damage.

Light Defense

The amount of defense you have against lightning damage.

Dark Defense

The amount of defense you have against dark damage.