Starfield’s players can improve themselves on the five different skill trees of the game.
Depending on the nature of the player’s character, they can work on a particular skill tree.
Intimidation and Diplomacy are skills from the social skill tree of the game.
This article will compare and contrast the Intimidation vs diplomacy skills of Starfield.
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What Is The Social Skill Tree?
There are a total of five different skill trees in Starfield.
Those skills include physical, social, technology, combat and science.
You can advance in a skill tree according to your taste.
The social skill tree helps you interact with the game’s non-playable characters.
Further, it can give you the upper hand during combat and casual interaction with other players.
Skills like Intimidation, Diplomacy, and Manipulation help to trick an enemy during combat.
Also, there are a total of 17 social skills that a player can gain.
Among them, some skills are Scavenging, Negotiation, Persuasion, and Ship Command.
What Is Intimidation Skill?
Intimidation Skill is one of the most essential Social Skills in Starfield.
If you can successfully intimidate a character, you can persuade them to make an offer during a conversation.
Or, during combat, a character can attempt to run away by feeling intimidated by you.
If a character attempts to run away during combat, you can kill them quickly.
Or, you can let them go and, even better, get an enemy on your side.
In addition, Intimidation is a second-tier skill of the skill tree.
So, you must complete at least four skill points before unlocking Intimidation.
Furthermore, there are four ranks of Intimidation:
- Rank One: Players will intimidate a character of the same level or below to stop fighting.
- Rank Two: Players will intimidate a character up to ten levels higher to flee for a limited period.
- Rank Three: Players will intimidate a character up to twenty levels higher to flee for a certain period.
- Rank Four: Players will intimidate any character to flee for a significant period.
You must use special gear like a Police suit to intimidate a character better.
However, to upgrade the ranks, use the Initimiditation skill on 5, 35 and 50 characters.
Doing this increases the ranks to 2, 3, and 4.
What Is Diplomacy Skill?
Diplomacy skill is also another essential social skill of Starfield.
It can be helpful to encourage an enemy to stop fighting during combat.
Or, it can help avoid escalation of matters during interaction.
Diplomacy is also a second-tier advanced skill of the skill tree.
So, you must complete at least four skill points on the Social Skills tree before unlocking it.
Additionally, Diplomacy has four ranks in the skill hierarchy.
As you improve your diplomacy skills, you will gain higher ranks.
The ranks are:
- Rank One: A player can force a character of the same level or below to stop fighting for a limited period.
- Rank Two: A player can force a character up to ten levels higher to stop fighting for a certain period.
- Rank Three: A player can force a character up to twenty levels higher to stop fighting for a significant period.
- Rank Four: A player can force any character to stop fighting permanently.
Like the Intimidation skill, the player can upgrade the Diplomacy to Rank 2 by using it in 5 characters.
Use it on 25 and 50 characters to upgrade to ranks 3 and 4, respectively.
How To Use These Skills?
Both Intimidation and Diplomacy are skills from the Advanced tier.
So, here’s a step-by-step process to use these skills:
- During combat, open the Scanner.
- Then, select the Social option to use either Intimidation or Diplomacy skills.
- After that, use either Intimidation or Diplomacy on the character.
- If you choose Intimidation, the character will flee for a certain period.
- If you choose Diplomacy, the character will stop fighting for a certain period.
In addition, the scanner also shows the percentage of success and the time of validity of both skills.
For example, from our figure above, the Intimidation skill has a 50% success probability and 30 seconds validity.
While Diplomacy skill has 60% success probability and 30 seconds validity.
Which is better: Intimidation Vs. Diplomacy?
Choosing the Intimidation skill vs the Diplomacy skill is entirely up to you.
It depends on individual playstyle whether you use Diplomacy or choose to intimidate.
However, from online player discussions, we can say that Diplomacy is the chosen skill of many players.
Intimidation can make a matter go from better to worse, while Diplomacy has a better success probability.
A player took to Reddit to express their opinions about how useless the Intimidation skill is.
The same thing can be said about the Diplomacy skill as well.
However, players seem to have problems with the process of using the skill rather than the skill itself.
In contradiction, some players prefer the manual process.
So, if you are in a dilemma while choosing between these skills, you can see the success probability.
The Bottom Line
Intimidation and Diplomacy are both social skills of Starfield.
Intimidation can help a player flee a character for some time.
Diplomacy can help a player stop the character from fighting for a certain period.
Choosing between these skills is a personal choice.
So, choose accordingly on your next combat to get the most out of these skills.
