Constitution

Constitution is one of the six basic stats of DDO.

Constitution (CON)

Constitution represents your Player Character’s health and stamina. A Constitution bonus increases a character’s hit points, so the ability is important for all classes.

You apply your character’s Constitution modifier to:

• The number of Hit points you get each level.
• Fortitude saving throws, for resisting poison and similar threats.
• Concentration checks. Concentration is a skill, important to spell casters, that has Constitution as its key ability.
  • A monk's stable ki level is also equal to his or her total Concentration skill.

If a character’s Constitution score changes enough to alter his or her Constitution modifier, the character’s hit points also increase or decrease accordingly.

Raising Constitution Scores

You can raise your Constitution score from different sources, among them:

• Base
  • During character creation, you can add up to 10 points to your basic Constitution score, which means:
    • A Dwarf or Warforged character can start with a Constitution of up to 20
    • A Halfling, Half-Elf, Half-Orc or Human can start with a Constitution of up to 18
    • A Drow or an Elf character can have a Constitution of up to 16.
  • At the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 20th and 24th levels, you are allowed to raise a single ability by 1 point. If invested in Constitution and the ability score moves to the even number, this will result in an increase in character HP.

• Inherent bonus - A Manual of Bodily Health will raise the Constitution score by the appropriate value. For more information, refer to Tomes.

• Feat Bonus
  • Class Enhancements
    • A Barbarian can increase its Constitution score (by up to +3) through Barbarian Constitution
    • Any Half-Elf with Barbarian Dilettante feat can increase its Constitution by one (counts as a class increase)
  • Racial Enhancements - Four races allow to raise the Constitution score via enhancements:
    • Warforged and Dwarf characters can increase their Constitution by two
    • Human and Half-Elf characters can increase their Constitution by one (Human Racial Enhancements, Half-elf Racial Human Enhancements)
  • Completionist feat - bonus +2 to all abilities.

• Enchanted Bonus - Unless noted otherwise, bonuses within a single category do not stack.
  • Item Enhancement - Items may come with the enchanted bonus of +1 - +8.
  • Exceptional Constitution - Some rare items may come with a +1 Exceptional Constitution bonus. (+2 Exceptional bonuses were changed to insightful bonus in Update 14.)
  • Insightful Constitution - Other rare items may come with a +2 or +3 Insightful bonus.
  • Guild Airship buff shrines - Provides a +1 or +2 Artifact bonus.
  • Yugo Pot bonus - The Yugoloth mercenary potion, Essences of Desire, adds a +2 bonus to constitution for 15 minutes).
  • Potion of Health - The House Deneith Collector, Zolar Drexxian, may provide a Potion of Health +1 - +3 alchemical bonus, in exchange for particular collectables.