Why dex doesnt increase as and int spell damage?

As of now building pure strength is advantageous because not only it gives hp but of all stats also increases dps.

... really?... did you actually know what dex increases?... it increases TWO things... TWO things is like the number of things int and str increases.

You get bonus to evasion so you get more survivability.
You get bonus to accuracy so you hit more often and increase your damage output in some way.

So what more do you want?

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SuperMotte wrote:

... really?... did you actually know what dex increases?... it increases TWO things... TWO things is like the number of things int and str increases.

You get bonus to evasion so you get more survivability.
You get bonus to accuracy so you hit more often and increase your damage output in some way.

So what more do you want?

He said that str is superior to dex because of HP (trumps acc or evasion) and physical damage (trumps acc or evasion). He obviously feel that those are two weak things to get buffed.

My friend told me the same like OP did anyway imo current state of stats is fine.

You shouldn't underestimate accuracy, especially if you got a crit build.

The general theme going is 'primary defense stat and offense-related bonus' so we got:
DEX - percentage evasion and base accuracy
STR - base life and percentage melee phys damage
INT - percentage ES and base mana

So the only thing off is actually STR, it should be 'base armor' instead of 'base life', and considering we got similar amounts of life on left and right side of the tree I see no justification for the current state of affairs.

Changing STR to base armor would mean less reliance on gear in what is actually a pretty sensitive progression, and also IR+grace combo would become a bit less impactful for a STR char.

While accuracy is indeed an offensive stat, max mana isnt because it doesnt affect your dps directly. Also accuracy vs as goes against "strength speed power" trinity.

Solution would be to increase n of atts stats grant to 3 adding %armor to STR, %as to DEX and %spell dmg to INT.

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imo current state of stats is fine

Indeed. Stop all patches and expansions, current state is fine.

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paShadoWn wrote:

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imo current state of stats is fine

Indeed. Stop all patches and expansions, current state is fine.

Dude, there is a huge gap between "the state of stats is fine" (which that guy said) and "the state of the game is 100% fine and perfect, no more patches". First, he didn't say what you want him to say. Second, patches and expansions are not only about fixing things, in an hypothetical perfect game you could still see patches and expansions. Those forums...

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paShadoWn wrote:

While accuracy is indeed an offensive stat, max mana isnt because it doesnt affect your dps directly. Also accuracy vs as goes against "strength speed power" trinity.

Yeah, that's why I said 'offense-related', they can't really give us 1% of spell damage bonus per 5 points of intellect like they did with strength, it would be too broad. Accuracy and melee physical damage are fairly narrow bonuses.

Huh? Do you mean that number of builds running damaging spells is significantly greater and more powerful than those using weapon damage? I dont think so.

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in an hypothetical perfect game you could still see patches and expansions.

Since when someone patched chess? I think last one was a few centuries ago.

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paShadoWn wrote:

Huh? Do you mean that number of builds running only spells is significantly greater and more powerful than those using weapon damage? I dont think so.

In current meta, yes, but that wasn't my point, those things shift a lot.

Accuracy isn't useful for all attackers, some use RT.
Melee physical damage isn't useful for all attackers either, some don't do melee damage and some don't do physical damage.

Spell damage would be useful for almost any caster that isn't a summoner and cast speed would be good for any that isn't a trapper. Either of those types take a significantly smaller portion of overall caster population than RT or ele/ranged attackers, compared to spell damage or cast speed melee physical damage seems like a total niche.

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paShadoWn wrote:

Since when someone patched chess? I think last one was a few centuries ago.

You can spend a lifetime mastering chess, its so complex it doesn't need to evolve. Tetris is a more apt comparison, it's to simple to occupy you for extended periods of time and it has no room to grow.