Underkeep Stats: Read Requirements Before Upgrading

Use the character and item tooltips together when planning an upgrade. A class’s main attribute is a useful starting point, but equipment and secondary effects can make another requirement important.

Start with the job

The current player guide associates Strength with Warrior and Paladin, Dexterity with Thief and Ranger, Wisdom with Wizard and Voidcaller, and Endurance with Blood Mage. These associations do not mean that every other attribute is useless.

Read what the installed character panel says the attribute affects. A damage increase, defensive benefit and equipment threshold are separate reasons to invest.

Check an upgrade in context

1. Inspect the item or skill you want to use.
2. Read its requirement and identify what the hero currently lacks.
3. Compare the requirement with the next available character upgrade.
4. Check whether meeting it improves the role this party actually needs.
5. Recheck the final equipped result rather than assuming that an inventory item is already active.

The player guide notes that Paladin and Blood Mage equipment can have Wisdom requirements. This is a reason to inspect gear; it does not justify investing toward a made-up future drop.

Do not confuse chance with certainty

Accuracy, evasion, resistance and critical chance affect different parts of an outcome. A missed attack is not enough to infer a broken stat, and a single high hit is not enough to prove a build’s average damage.

Why there is no formula sheet here

Exact hit-chance and damage formulas in community material are attributed to game data. We have not independently inspected that code or reproduced its calculations. This guide therefore explains how to use the current UI rather than publishing numerical formulas as verified facts.