Current Events > In Dark Souls, does your class/face/hair colour matter?

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The descriptions about how certain things are "common to specific regions" or "looked down upon" make it seem like people will react to them and affect your playthrough, like how in Elder Scrolls people will discriminate depending on your race, but I've never seen anyone discuss that.

I picked a Bandit Delta Farmer with dark red hair because she looked best.
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Naw. Appearances don't matter but your class does on base stats. You can reset stats but you can't reset what the bases are
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I can't remember a time where your race has significant ramifications on a quest in TES
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Class can make a difference if you're optimizing builds for PVP, but it doesn't matter much for casual players outside of having the starting gear you want.
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Race is meaningless

Class is mostly unimportant
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appearance has no affect, not even the 'body type'.
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Touch posted...

You can reset stats but you can't reset what the bases are

You cannot reset stats in Dark Souls 1.
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if you get the bigger body size you get a slight boost towards defense and HP, but a slight decrease in action speed and endurance
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catboy0_0 posted...

if you get the bigger body size you get a slight boost towards defense and HP, but a slight decrease in action speed and endurance

Nope, body size changes nothing but appearance.
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Touch posted...

Naw. Appearances don't matter but your class does on base stats. You can reset stats but you can't reset what the bases are

Only in Dark Souls 2 and 3. You can't in Dark Souls 1 (or Remastered), Demon's Souls, or Bloodborne.

Rikiaz posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

if you get the bigger body size you get a slight boost towards defense and HP, but a slight decrease in action speed and endurance

Nope, body size changes nothing but appearance.

you're wrong. user darklord536 proved that there is a very slight delay in action speed and a slight variable defense against physical stats, but sometimes doesn't affect because it's a really small window of difference
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Appearance doesn't matter at all, and class only matters at the very beginning of the game
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Vertania posted...

Touch posted...

Naw. Appearances don't matter but your class does on base stats. You can reset stats but you can't reset what the bases are

Only in Dark Souls 2 and 3. You can't in Dark Souls 1 (or Remastered), Demon's Souls, or Bloodborne.

Thanks for clarifying. It's been a while since I played 1 and Bloodborne
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Doe posted...

I can't remember a time where your race has significant ramifications on a quest in TES

It should. If theyre going to use the same engine for TES6 they should work on the immersion a bit.
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Doe posted...

I can't remember a time where your race has significant ramifications on a quest in TES

Significant ramifications, no, however in Oblivion, Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Arena your race does affect starting disposition toward your character. So you start as an Altmer and Nords will dislike you more etc.
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catboy0_0 posted...

Rikiaz posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

if you get the bigger body size you get a slight boost towards defense and HP, but a slight decrease in action speed and endurance

Nope, body size changes nothing but appearance.

you're wrong. user darklord536 proved that there is a very slight delay in action speed and a slight variable defense against physical stats, but sometimes doesn't affect because it's a really small window of difference

Yeah Ive done about 30 minutes of searching and have found nothing of the sort, got a source for it? Im genuinely curious. The speed running guides dont say anything about it either, which if a smaller build have you faster running speed, even by a few frames, they would do so.
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lol sorry I was just jackin ya
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just pick the class with the lowest magic related stats in those games. think about it. Also, there's another screen to the character creation that I didn't even notice the first time where you can really work on the details. The races are just kind of templates. It doesn't affect the game BUT your skin color affects your Hollow skin color and some of them are cool. Like there's a purple one, a bright red one, a blue one, and a pitch black one. That's what I think about since I never used humanity or whatever

***The pitch black one actually sucks and you probably have it if you picked catarina lol. You can't see shit
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Pyromancer best class
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Pick Knight for that metrosexual armor