I'm a young hatchling (just moving into the 20s), and I find myself a bit confused about our statistics, skills, spells and abilities, as regards placing Training Points; I've looked through this Forum, as well as the wealth of information in the Wiki and the newly re-opened Crimson Dawn pages, but still a bit baffled.
At this point, it seems that almost all of my "weapons" are Primal Skills, so, logically (I think?) it seems like I should put a goodly number of TP in Primal. I find this definition/description of the Primal Skill:
Adds to spell damage dealt and also is a requirement for casting and scribing dragon spells.
Then, I read the description of the Power Statistic:
Increases amount of damage dealt with magical combat hits and mental crafts.
Is "spell damage" the same as "damage dealt with magical combat hits," and, do Primal and Power both boost damage to something like an Improved Prime Bolt, for example?
And, then, I read the description of the Focus stat:
Increases chances to hit with magical combat and to avoid magical attacks. Also adds a bonus to mental crafts.
Does Focus improve accuracy on everything, or, just on whatever "magical combat" happens to be? (magical combat and spells sound very much like the same thing, to me)
Oh, and I'm not ignoring melee attacks, as I've been trying to put points into Strength and Tooth/Claw (I'm assuming that one and/or both of these affect "Ravage," as well as the Silver and Gold Strikes?).
Finally....does Dexterity directly affect Speed? I find, especially at my low levels, that being able to *quickly* run away is often as important as being able to smack something with a damaging blow....
Thanks for any information, advice, suggestions.....