Archetypes

Your archetype is chosen at character creation and defines your attribute identity. There is no manual point allocation — archetypes replace it entirely. Your four attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Constitution) are fully derived from your archetype and level:

attribute = 10 + growth × (level − 1), rounded

Every archetype starts at 10 / 10 / 10 / 10 at level 1, and every archetype’s per-level growth row sums to the same 5 points per level — the archetypes only differ in where those points go. Your choice can be changed later with a respec.

Growth per level

Archetype	STR / lvl	DEX / lvl	VIT / lvl	CON / lvl	Playstyle
Vanguard	1.25	1.15	1.65	0.95	Balanced and versatile, with no weapon preference.
Berserker	2.10	0.70	1.65	0.55	Strong and brutal, focusing on raw damage.
Duelist	0.65	2.00	1.55	0.80	Fast and elegant, focusing on swiftness.
Sentinel	1.00	0.60	1.95	1.45	Heavy tank, focusing on survivability.

At level 99

The derived totals each archetype reaches at the level cap:

Archetype	STR	DEX	VIT	CON
Vanguard	133	123	172	103
Berserker	216	79	172	64
Duelist	74	206	162	88
Sentinel	108	69	201	152

Weapon-speed passive

Each archetype also grants a ±20% damage passive that keys off the kind of weapon (or shield) you wield. A weapon’s speed class comes from its base attack interval: very-fast (≤1.0s, e.g. knives), fast (≤1.5s, e.g. scimitars and daggers), normal (≤2.0s, e.g. swords and hatchets), slow (≤2.5s, e.g. axes and maces), and very-slow (>2.5s, e.g. hammers). “Fast” below covers both fast and very-fast; “Slow” covers both slow and very-slow.

Archetype	Passive
Vanguard	Neutral — wields any weapon or shield at full damage.
Berserker	+20% damage with Slow weapons, −20% with Fast weapons; Normal weapons and shields neutral.
Duelist	+20% damage with Fast weapons, −20% with Slow weapons; Normal weapons and shields neutral.
Sentinel	+20% damage with Shields, −20% with any off-style (Fast or Slow) weapon; Normal weapons neutral.

The magnitude is a single constant (ARCHETYPE_PASSIVE_MAGNITUDE = 0.2), so the three multipliers are ×1.2 / ×1.0 / ×0.8. The passive multiplies each weapon/shield’s damage individually, and the same calculation drives both the combat engine and the item tooltip so the two can’t drift apart.