? Stout is completely viable, It's much better than being fit. You only lose like 2 speed going stout but gain a noticeable amount of HP and a 1-2% damage bonus. Pretty much every race goes between like 419-421 in combat when you're stout. The only exception being Ogh is a few speed slower than normal, Thur Khurite goes 422 stout, and pure Khurite goes 425 stout. Aside from that Alvarin goes like 441-444 stout but they also have way worse health and damage than other races.For thursar balancing Im changing my opininon to make the +2 dex gift to include +1 max dex aswell.
Stout should be -4 dex and most likely +4 str instead of 5. Stout thursar builds are very bad right now due to the ms making you unsurvivable. Humans similarly avoid stout for foot builds because of this.
You move much faster in this game than you did in MO1, and the races have much closer speeds which makes the small speed loss not a huge deal. It will take someone a while to get any gap on you unless you're using like a 1h weapon. If you have a spear or any other long weapon you will probably kill them before they can get gap, otherwise you just shoot them in the back with a huge longbow and dunk them. Same for running away, unless you're an Alvarin your chance of getting gap before you take substantial damage is almost non existent stout or not.
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