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Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:25 pm
by Papi
Well I decided to just for grins try an experiment my current stats are
STR 5
Vit 100
Focus 10
Dex (everything else)
Offhand golden fire sword
using Fists only.
Max Poison
Max Reflexes
I dont use any other skills
I am impressed.
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:52 pm
by Caliban
Ad mainhand Knux when you can. I am not using mine at present if you want to borrow them.
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:35 pm
by Chopsaw
How much have you noticed your damage decrease? I have thought about going heavier on dex, but haven't spend the gold on books to play with builds.
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:42 pm
by Papi
OK STR increases your damage as a percentage of your weapon. So if you have enough STR to double your weapon damage a 20 damage langsax will only do 20 extra damage with STR. So I'm thinking lots of STR only makes sense with a huge weapon. But huge weapons are slow so why not get 10 hits in with the +205 offhand and fist rather than 5 hits with the 300 offhand and Spear and all the extra STR that could be used to increase DEX and avoid half the attacks. And the dex adds to Poison. I am doing just as much damage as before auto because of the extra hits. A little less because I dont have any points in Sneaky or Quick. But its as if I doubled my HP because I dodge half the hits. Still get hit by skills but thats what HP are for. Going against a mob with no skills I will commonly have no HP loss at all that my amulet cant make up.
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:28 pm
by Chopsaw
Have you figured out the strength percentage yet? In your opinion would this be worth a try for a 132 with a poison frozen dagger? Not that I would go 5 strength, but just wondering what your answer would be

Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:40 pm
by Papi
Have you figured out the strength percentage yet? In your opinion would this be worth a try for a 132 with a poison frozen dagger? Not that I would go 5 strength, but just wondering what your answer would be

OK your damage has 3 factors
STR piece + ability piece + base weapon damage
short answer your damage is a function of the square root of your strength so if you want to double the STR piece of your damage you need to increase your STR by a factor of 4.
This will only double the STR piece not the entire damage.
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:41 am
by Savaged1982
Anyone else find that damned confusing??
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:07 pm
by Caliban
Re: Experimenting with a dex build
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:35 pm
by Savaged1982
Haha you're making me post on another thread? Lmao