Strength Skills/Attributes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Give them debuff utility

After Boomstick reaches level 5, any time the player shoots an enemy in the legs with a shotgun, that enemy will experience a 30% movement speed debuff which lasts several seconds. This works both on zombies and other players in PvP.

Answer: The next swing is empowered

The amount of hits required is reduced from levels 3 to 5, going from needing 5 hits in 2 seconds, to 3 hits in 2 seconds. Once recording the requisite hits, the very next time the player swings a club, the swing will do double the damage.

Answer: Knock down nearby enemies

When specifically using a power attack on a Sledgehammer, any zombies standing within 2 meters will be knocked to the ground, flung and rag-dolled. Only the zombie struck by the Sledgehammer will actually take damage, but the simple act of knocking down nearby stragglers makes it much less risky for the player to use a Sledgehammer against multiple enemies.

Answer: Rag-doll enemies when using a sprint attack

If delivering a sprint attack using a Strength perk, such as a Club or a Sledgehammer, this perk can activate. Rag-dolling an enemy involves sending them flying far in the direction the player attacked them in.

This perk is a bit unwieldy, because Strength weapons cost lots of stamina to use and are slow. Landing sprint attacks is harder than you might think, and the reward of a rag-doll is a little questionable for the investment.

Answer: Attack speed

This is a 5-level perk, and a boost of 5% to attack speed is given with each level up. While the idea makes lots of sense, the nomination of 5% per level up is absolutely pitiful. Even after maxing this perk out, the difference in attack speed is subtle at best.

Answer: Encumbered

From the start of the game, exactly half of the player's inventory has an icon over it, reflecting that if the slot is filled, the player will be afflicted with the Encumbered status. Encumbered makes the player move and act more and more slowly for each of these slots that gets filled.

Pack Mule is basically a quality of life perk. Not investing in it doesn't actually prevent the player from doing anything, and their inventory size doesn't grow from investing in it on paper. In practice, being Encumbered really sucks, and starts to suck more and more as the game develops and the player progresses. Nipping this in the bud early makes loot runs and quests far, far less of a chore to engage with.

Answer: Chance to salvage brass when harvesting ore

Brass is a general use resource players will want to accumulate. Harvesting ore is something players will just do naturally regardless of their building. The possibility to harvest brass when striking ore is quite useful for anyone, making Strength Mastery level 2 a recommended investment even for non-Strength builds.

Answer: Harvesting tools

Harvesting tools is an incredibly large array of different tools such as Pickaxes, Shovels and Axes. This game is very much a game where mining takes place a lot and these tools see major use. Miner 69er improves basically everything about them you could possibly think of, between block damage and reduced stamina consumption when using them.

Answer: A tree

Bee hives yield wood, so they should technically be impacted by Mother Lode. However, they yield a static amount of wood along with a chance to spawn both Honey and an angry bee swarm that will chase after the player.

If the entity in question can be struck and produces Wood, Stone, Iron or anything myriad of natural resources, Mother Lode will make that entity simply produce more. Trees produce wood, so with Mother Lode, more wood will be received when the player chops one down.

Answer: A curtain

Doors of all kind produce wood or iron, so they would be impacted by Mother Lode and not Junk Miner. A curtain is considered 'junk' and produces Cloth when struck. Junk Miner will increase the gain of Cloth in the process.