Which stats to upgrade first in Palworld

In Palworld, when you manage to gain enough experience to level up, you're allowed to increase one of your stats. However, not all stats are equally valuable, thus, there is nuance to which stats you should be upgrading first.

Best stats to upgrade first in Palworld

Palworld can be a very difficult game if you don't upgrade the right stats enough. When you level up, there are five stats you can choose to improve using the point you're given.

• HP - This stat increases your maximum health pool and dictates how much punishment you can take before dying.
• Stamina - This increases your action bar, allowing you to sprint for longer and use physical maneuvers (such as rolling) more often.
• Attack - This stat increases your maximum attack damage. This does not affect your Pals.
• Work Speed - This improves how fast your character can perform building tasks. This also does not affect your Pals.
• Weight - This governs how much you can carry in terms of heaviness.

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The sixth stat, Defense, cannot be improved when leveling up. Of these five stats, however, HP and Weight are by far the most important. HP boosts your health, meaning every point spent provides a large boost to your survivability. The HP stat, when invested in, will allow you to rival, or even exceed, the health of your Pals. I highly recommend investing in this stat first.

Palworld is a survival game at its core, and since every single item in the game has a weight parameter, it is important to be able to carry what you need, when you need it. As such, putting points in the Weight stat lets you carry heavier things, which is incredibly important for gathering, something you'll be doing throughout your entire playtime in Palworld. I highly recommend investing in this stat second.

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The other three stats, Stamina, Attack, and Work Speed, do not provide a significant enough boost to your character to make them worth investing in. If you must put points into one of these three stats, then they should all go toward Stamina. More Stamina means you can perform more actions more often. This is undeniably useful, but once you get used to the default Stamina amount, you'll realize that it is more than enough to avoid everything in the game. Stamina is the third most important stat, though it is not nearly as valuable as the first two mentioned ones.

Work Speed and Attack are completely dead stats due to their terrible scaling and limited use cases. Work Speed boosts how fast you can build things, but this isn't important in a game where most of your building is coming from your Pals anyway.

Attack doesn't offer enough of a damage boost to be worth investing any points into. Compared to all the others, Attack is by far the most useless due to the gains being far too small.

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