Learning points guide

Spend learning points on your main weapon mastery tier first, then your primary attribute (Strength for melee, Dexterity for ranged), then one survival skill that fits your build. Hold a few points in reserve until you've talked to every teacher in your faction.

Learning point priority

Priority	Why
1. Weapon mastery: Untrained to Trained	Biggest single combat upgrade. Changes animations, recovery speed, and blocking. A Trained fighter with middling stats beats an Untrained one who dumped every LP into raw attributes. Do this in chapter 1
2. Primary attribute to a weapon threshold	Push Strength or Dexterity to unlock the next tier of weapon you want to equip. See the breakpoint tables below for exact targets
3. Weapon mastery: Trained to Master	Combos open up. Worthwhile once your LP income is stable in mid-game
4. One survival skill	Alchemy for healing potions, blacksmithing for weapons. Pick one and commit
5. Secondary attribute or magic circle	Only once your primary build is comfortable. Spreading LP too early leaves you undercooked everywhere

Teachers gate everything. You can't just allocate LP from a menu -- you spend them at NPCs who teach specific things, and some teachers are locked behind faction membership.

Weapon thresholds

The real reason to push Strength or Dexterity: equipping better weapons. Each weapon has a hard stat requirement. If you don't meet it, you can't use it. Plan your attribute spending around the weapon you actually want, not a round number.

Strength breakpoints

Requirement	Weapon	Damage	Notes
STR 5	Club, Pickaxe, Sickle	7-8	Starter tools. You begin with enough Strength for these
STR 8	Shortsword	12	First real sword. Small investment, noticeable step up
STR 10	Blue Handle Axe	20	Early upgrade if you find one
STR 15	Lurker's Bite	21	Monster drop. Worth equipping if it lands
STR 20	Judgment Sword	30	Solid early-to-mid target. Big jump from starter weapons
STR 27	Mace	35	First serious blunt weapon. Relevant for skeleton fights
STR 30	Longsword / Strange Sword (2H)	40 / 90	Major breakpoint. Longsword is the reliable 1H pick, Strange Sword is a powerful 2H option
STR 43	Warhammer, Skullcleaver	51-53	Heavy hitters. The Warhammer is blunt, relevant against armored enemies
STR 45	Broadsword	55	Strong 1H sword. Minor push past the Warhammer threshold
STR 51	Butcher	64	Top craftable one-handed weapon. See the blacksmithing guide
STR 55	Kalom's Sword	70	Named weapon from the Swamp Camp
STR 66	Two-Hander	81	Baseline endgame two-handed sword
STR 71	Heavy Two-Hander	86	Top craftable two-handed weapon
STR 81	Warrior's Voice	96	Top craftable two-handed axe
STR 95	Claw of Beliar	110	Endgame legendary. The highest melee damage in the Colony

For melee builds, STR 30 is the first target worth planning around -- it unlocks the Longsword and the Strange Sword. From there, push toward STR 51 for the Butcher (craftable) or STR 55 for Kalom's Sword. Beyond that, you're in endgame territory.

For how weapon mastery changes what these numbers mean in practice, see the combat guide. For crafting your own weapons at the higher thresholds, see blacksmithing.

Dexterity breakpoints

Requirement	Weapon	Damage	Notes
DEX 10	Small Bow 01	20	Starter bow. Enough to get by early
DEX 25	Bow Wolf	35	Solid early-to-mid option
DEX 30	Crossbow 01	60	Crossbows scale differently -- 60 damage at DEX 30 is a huge jump
DEX 55	Bow Diego	70	The iconic named bow. Strong pick for dedicated archers
DEX 65	Crossbow 02	102	Triple-digit damage. Crossbow builds come online hard here
DEX 73	War Bow 05	88	Top bow in the Colony
DEX 80	Crossbow 04	120	Highest ranged damage in the game. The endgame crossbow

Bows and crossbows both scale from Dexterity. The crossbow damage curve is steeper -- fewer models, but much higher per-shot output. Pure bow builds should target DEX 55 for Bow Diego, then DEX 73 for the War Bow. Crossbow builds want DEX 30 early for the 60-damage jump, then DEX 80 for the endgame.

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Faction teachers

Your faction determines which teachers you can access. Choose wrong and you're locked out of an entire progression path. Visit all three camps before committing.

• Old Camp. Melee teachers (Whistler, Scar) and the Circle of Fire. Corristo teaches fire magic -- the highest raw damage school in the Colony. Strong crossbow access. Basic alchemy through Cronos. Best LP economy for pure melee or fire mage builds.

• New Camp. Bow teachers and the Circle of Water. Saturas teaches water magic -- ice damage and healing. Mercenary rank runs in parallel with mage training, making this the hybrid camp. Decent strength teachers. Best for bow builds or melee-plus-magic hybrids.

• Swamp Camp. Gurus teach psionic magic -- crowd control that bypasses physical armor. Caps at Circle 4, so your damage ceiling is lower than a full fire or water mage. Cheapest alchemy access in the Colony through Cor Kalom and Baal Cadar. Templar melee path. Best for psionic mage and alchemist builds.

Every camp locks out two of the three magic schools. If magic matters to your build, faction choice is magic choice. See the faction comparison for the full breakdown.

Skills from teachers

Beyond attributes and magic, teachers also unlock crafting skills:

• Alchemy -- a single skill that unlocks potion crafting at alchemy labs

• Blacksmithing -- three tiers (Untrained, Trained, Master) that determine what you can forge

• Inscription -- lets you create rune stones for spellcasting

Common learning point mistakes

• Spending LP at every teacher you meet. You will run out of LP before you have a working build. Stick to your plan.

• Maxing Strength before training mastery. A STR 40 untrained sword swing loses to a STR 20 trained swing. Mastery first.

• Splitting between magic and heavy melee. Mage robes don't have the physical protection for heavy melee, and the LP cost to do both well is more than most playthroughs can afford.

• Saving every LP for "later." Hoarding indefinitely means you never get the Trained-tier animation boost. Spend on mastery early.

• Overshooting attribute targets. Every LP past the weapon threshold you need is a point that could have gone to mastery, survival, or magic. Plan around specific weapons, not round numbers.

If you spent points poorly

Build around what you can do now. Crafting and armor cover some mistakes. If you spread LP across three weapons, pick the one with the highest mastery tier and play it through. The campaign is beatable from most LP states, but specific late-game encounters get harder when your mastery tier is low.

If you want to test a different build without restarting, Wand's Add Skill Points customization lets you reshuffle your allocation on the current save.