Your skills and abilities are not independent of each other. Raising your base abilities will have a profound impact on the rest of your skill set. As such, if you plan ahead, you can save IPs by strategically raising those base abilities that will then propagate advances to many skills that you’d like to raise. To spend your IPs as efficiently as possible, refer to the following table whenever you level up.

Abilities

Body

Melee

Thrown

Ranged

Speed

Trade/Repair

Nano/Aiding

Spying

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