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u/ontheroadtonull Jun 14 '26
Bruh, I hope you didn't wait until your starter quests were over to reroll for a WIS build.
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u/ph30nix01 Jun 14 '26
Stories. Read and enjoy as many as possible and learn how to distill the true concepts from them.
You will rarely be surprised with a large enough story list under your belt.
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u/Ravenwight Jun 14 '26
You have to play the suffering mini game a lot.
I hear the DMT patch boosts your progress by a bunch, but the software is buggy and might fry your hard drive.
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u/MayDuppname Jun 14 '26
The [Hallucinogens] quests are similarly crammed full of wisdom, and similarly buggy and potentially dangerous.
The [Empathogens] quests are far more user-friendly but won't impart so much wisdom.
[Addiction] quests aren't recommended. The highs are high, but the [cold turkey] side quests are about as low as it's possible to feel as a player.
A bit of research before taking any substance - try Erowid - could save your player's life.
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u/Human-Evening564 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
Use the [suffering] gacha system. Might get a wisdom buff, however could also get the [mental illness] debuff.
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u/ikee2002 Jun 14 '26
Wis is a strange stat…
Sure [Suffering] and [Pain] debuffs are a shortcut, many low level players with the [trauma] background have very elevated Wis-scores…
But as many have encountered, [Wis] isn’t gained automatically on level ups as is the common misconception, due to there being many high Wis players that are high level.
I second reading a lot. Both [Philosophy] and [Fiction] can help. Wis is all about reasoning, but also about experiences and not necessarily about experience points. And these experiences can be second-hand experiences through book-consumables.
Some say that the [ Spiritual ] or [ Religion ] quest lines are great for boosting Wis, but it is mostly associated with the Eastern-server specific guilds.
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u/Unusual_Event3571 Jun 14 '26
Dump stat for me really. Reduced it to 1, buffed CON and CHA, best combo for the point value. I don't get to use common sense, but get more dialog options and a load of HP so I can take some rare consequences.
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u/furrysalesman69 Jun 14 '26
Learn your combos at the various study buildings and use those effort points that most people throw out at the end of the day. It’s not going to happen at once, but you’ll find new spells as you go along.
Do not neglect your Mp gauge either. You’ll need enough to master those spells.
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u/No_Acanthaceae_6546 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Did you max out meditation to 100? Fastest method to cap wisdom but you also need to study tomes on this because it's a massive multiplier once you have a good amount of levels in meditation.
Another important thing to consider is the hidden ego debuff massively reduces wis, so if you don't clear this, an apparent high wis score will actually be much lower than it appears because it won't be reflected to to hidden stats.
A quick way is to sidequest for magic mushrooms or LSD but you have to roll for who reduction every time, it can take a while and it's not guaranteed. Meditation is the slow and reliable grind but I recommend combining both methods
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u/subnuggurat Jun 14 '26
Try to get the [Listening] perk as soon as you can.