Cunning or Spirit for weapon-oriented Shaman?

Hello, i am new to GDawn but i have played some PoExile and Diablo 2/3 before.

I have seen many threads/guides that suggest focusing on Physique, however i am just trying to understand how Spirit and Cunning affect the various melee/ranged weapon-related skills that Shaman has, such as:

  • Brute Force (lightning, physical, internal trauma)
  • Feral Hunger (weapon damage, bleeding)
  • Upheaval (weapon damage, lightning, bleeding)
  • Savagery (weapon damage, lightning, bleeding)
  • Storm Touched (electrocute, physical, lightning, “lightning retaliation”)
  • Primal Strike (weapon damage, physical, lightning, bleeding
  • Torrent (weapon damage, lightning damage)
  • Storm Surge (lightning, electrocute, physical, bleeding)

This gets particularly confusing when the various “damage type conversions” come into play, be they on weapons or on armor.
If anyone can please help out that would be awesome.

cunning boosts you phys/pierce/bleed damage, spirits boosts literally anything else.
so it’s kinda up to you to choose what damage type you wanna play and thus invest skill points in either cunning or spirit.
also note that some damage like bleed on PS is only thematic and shouldn’t really be taken into consideration.