How does stats directly benefit skills/combat?

hi all

I get a bit confused on stats and how they interact with skills, therefor I have a few questions related to this, hope some gentle soul can help

Strenght: Hoover over this tells you that it increases physical damage, but does that also count for bows? I see bow has a low strength tag, others non, what does this mean? Is strenght useful for a archer, aside from carry capacity and hit points. Any range combat skills that directly benefit from more strenght?

Many air spells says their damage and effect is increased by dexterity. But I don't see any change in their damage (tooltip) when I increase my dexterity, I tried to check having 30 dexterity and the with 65, no damage increase on tooltip. But if I just cast my intelligence buff (+10 for me) the damage increase quit a bit... I'm confused?

Anyone who can shed some light on this? I would really appreciate it!

Thanks in advanced!

 

During a Very early Release did all weapons had a properity SSD = strength damage divisor (now it instead says low, medium or high and such words)
Then i believes Bows had a SSD of 500 meaning you gained +1 damage for every 500 strength.

 

So I need 500 str to do one more damage, wow, that's useless I've not even seen anyone have more than 170ish of a single stat..

 

Can it really be that noone has any idea about my questions?

 

From what I have been told, every +3 STR = 1% damage increase.

It is also nice to have the extra HP and carry capacity.

Although you may want to train ranged combat first and then draw strength to increase damage since ranged combat is a 1.2 M skill to GM and Draw Strength is a 4.8 M skill to GM.

Also the attack glyphs like Aimed Shot have a 10% damage increase every 20 levels and is also a 1.2 M skill to GM.

The stats like STR, DEX and INT take the most XP to increase with 12.1 M to GM.

 

Still trying to figure out myself. I am working on getting my character to 80 in everything (STR, INT, DEX). After that, I will focus on Dex because I am an archer.

 

"Strength Bonus: Very Low" = STR/50, so every 50 strength gives you an extra point of damage.

 

Bows actually get a bigger bonus from dex than other weapons do. Crit damage or crit chance

 

If I stack Air's Embrace then I get +18.4 dex and I don't notice any difference.

 

I know dex gives crit chance, didn't know it gave crit damage?

For range combat dex is 1/1000 meaning (I believe) that 10 dex is 0.01 which equals 1% extra crit chance. 63 dex is 0.063 = 6.3% (correct me if I'm wrong)

Anyone know why dex does not increase damage on air spells when it says it should, but instead int does??

 

Intelligence raises Focus Magic damage and critical chance.

 

Can anyone confirm this?? I assume some weapons get more effect from str than other like blunt vs bow.

Thanks for the guides on skills, but am really seeking an understanding on how str,dex affects my skills

 

Yes it does, but try read a damage skill in air "damage and effect us increased by char dex" it says but dex does not change damage on tooltip but int does... strange when it says dex should for air spell .. same for earth, just its str there.

 

If I understand the dex correctly you should get at 1.8% crit chance, which is hard to notice but it's there - there is a post telling how to calculate your crit somewhere where a GM says dex is dex/1000 for range dex/2000 for melee.

18.4/1000 = 0.0184 the to get percentage multiply with 100, 0.0184 * 100 = 1.84 which is 1.84% crit chance.

 

Depends of how high your dex is. The dex bonus should have a diminishing return

 

Also regarding bows, Strength only has a small effect on longbows, no effect on crossbows. But the crossbow has a huge crit damage multiplier.

 

As said above changing my dex from 30 to 64 an increase of more than 100% didn't add anything to air damage spells tooltip while adding just 5 int is having an impact damage raise in tooltip ...

 

Uhh something I didn't know - what is the multiplier vs a normal bow? Good info thx

 

Maybe its bugged or removed, if its not showing a change in stun chance or anything. Something to bug report.

I dunno, i dont pay attention to numbers. I Just remember what devs say or see the effects in game. In this case the devs said it, and you can see it.

The 2-handed pole arms has both a high strength damage modifier AND a high crit multiplier, making it the most potentially damaging melee weapon. But i believe it also has the smallest base crit chance.

 

Hello @Morph,

maybe this thread I posted days before, could help also:
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...ills-are-connected-to-others-to-lvl-up.96947/