Talk:Character Weight/@comment-5949212-20180328170147

Did a little bit of testing on my own... not extensive by any stretch of the imagination, but thought I'd share it. I compared my lvl 69 male ranger at 200cm and 111kg, to the same character after starting NG+ and going through the character creator again who was then a lvl 72 female sorceress at 174cm and 65 kg. Both characters were at their respective light encumbrance levels. I ran from Cassardis to the encampment and back, straight down the middle of the path, timing each one way trip. My timings for there and back were within half a second of eachother, so seems pretty accurate to me.

The male jogged one way in 0m59, sprinted one way in 0m43.

The female jogged one way in 1m07, sprinted one way in 0m32.

This explains why sprinting didn't seem worth it to me as a big oaf of a guy, while the small nimble girl seemed blazingly fast by comparison. The difference between jogging and sprinting is much bigger for the smaller female character.

I also checked how long they could sprint, which was virtually the same... suggesting weight class doesn't actually affect stamina usage for sprinting.

I have little desire to spend the huge amount of time required to actually figure this all out... but "Run speed is only affected by encumbrance" is definitely false.