Focus Dex or Str?

[Gnostic]

I am a newbie using a bow fighter and my friend told me to put in 400 dex and the rest to str, since dispite the game discription because str also increase range damage, range attack never miss if the arrow did not shoot somewhere else and range attack does not critical so offensive ability is useless.

However I think offensive ability did increase damage, I use the net which decrease the enemy defensive ability by 33% and kill monster faster. A monster that take 5 hit to die will be dead in 3 hits, 3 hit to die take 2 hits.

So what do the gurus here think? Increase more dex or str is better? let str be enough to wear armor and the rest in dex?

How much did str increase damage? 5 str = 1 damage or 1 str = 1% damage?

How about dexterity? did dexterity increase damage by percentage?

How did offensive ability increase damage? difference of offensive ability and enemy defensive ability = % of critical damage? or bonus damage?

Do int increase spell damage?

Any help is much appreciated, thank you very much.

[Galefury]

Just read the Knowledge thread, it should answer those question. I don't remember the exact values, but strength increases damage by a flat amount, and a percentage. Dex increases pierce damage by a percentage. Since piercing damage is done as a percentage of normal damage, increasing strength also raises your piercing damage, and at a certain point raising strength will actually raise your pierce damage more than raising dex would. There should be a thread about that somewhere too, or maybe it is also in the Knowledge thread.

AFAIK OA and DA do absolutely nothing for ranged attacks. You can do some testing of course, and if you uncover something interesting post it. I almost cant believe the +OA on about 50% of Legendary bows is useless.

And int increases elemental damage. Not sure about elemental burn damage though. Should also be in the Knowledge thread.

I would do what your friend says, just pump dex to about 350 or 400, rest into strength.

[Viper_Sweden]

Dex increases Piercing both by a flat value and a percentage value.

Int boosts Electrical Burn (and regular Elemental damage).

[Durus]

So the question never really got answered. Pump dex or str for bows?

[Galefury]

Originally Posted by Galefury

I would do what your friend says, just pump dex to about 350 or 400, rest into strength.

It has been answered, you're just too lazy to read.

[Durus]

I read this:

Originally Posted by Viper_Sweden

Dex increases Piercing both by a flat value and a percentage value.

Int boosts Electrical Burn (and regular Elemental damage).

Which contradicts your assumption that dex increases pierce damage by a percentage value only. This means that you need to reevaluate your argument.

[Galefury]

No. The flat amount is probably minor when compared to what you get from the percentage gain lategame. That's the way it is for strength, and there's no reason why it should be different for dex. Besides, enough people have crunched the numbers on str vs dex, which means I don't need to do it.

[Viper_Sweden]

60 DEX gives ~+2 flat Pierce and +10% Pierce.

This (and a lot more really useful) information can be found in the "Knowledge" thread...

[nzone]

What's more important in Dexterity is not the Pierce damage but the Offensive and the Defensive Ability. I pump every point into DEX as much as I could. I pump point into Strength if I want to wear armors those required strength. And I pump to Intelligence if I want to wear armors those required Intelligence.

[Viper_Sweden]

Yeah but you only get one in each for every point of DEX. 50 DEX = 50 OA, 50 DA
You get a lot more from items than from putting into DEX...