strength requirement for spears

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MortucusInvictus#1306 wrote:

Shows how little you know bleed procs rely on str for their damage and as my Huntress is pure melee i only stack dex for evasion

Not everyone is playing bleed. It is about allowing more build diversity by cutting unncessary requirement. No worries, you could still invest in STR for your build.

Actually the best solution is to reduce the dex requirement of spear skills and add str requirement. If you actually want build diversity...

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sonemere#3406 wrote:

Actually the best solution is to reduce the dex requirement of spear skills and add str requirement. If you actually want build diversity...

No it is absolutely not because that is the spot of the mercenary and the duelist that will come at some point.

huh? str doesnt effect bleeds? am i missing something?

Weapons are independent of classes. The OP assumption that huntress doesn't follow the design pattern is wrong, scepters need strength and is more associated to witch.

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SpinHall#6044 wrote:

Weapons are independent of classes. The OP assumption that huntress doesn't follow the design pattern is wrong, scepters need strength and is more associated to witch.

Sceptres are indeed a special case to be discussed but it does not make me wrong.

As it was pointed out already the skills for the spear have no strength requirement at all but very high dex. So they may be "indepedentent" of classes but not of the skills which is a weird design in this case.

Sceptres are not the weapon of the witch, because that is the wand. And also there are no skills you can only use while wielding a sceptre which makes it also different. Whether or not it makes sense they have a STR requirement, i actually dont want to discuss here because it is another topic.

For spears it definitely makes no sense at all and there is no argument yet for it.

INT = Wands, Staves
INT/DEX = Daggers, Quarterstaves
DEX = Bows, Spears
DEX/STR = Crossbows, Swords
STR = Maces, Axes
STR/INT = Flails, Claws

I watch a video by Lolipop the speed runner today. He put all Huntress Attribute points to strength as it has huge impact on the damage from the spear.

Doing that he did an Act 1 speed run in 35min.

My huntress is Lvl 15 but will look at what this may do for my current build.

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TrebligNairb#2645 wrote:

I watch a video by Lolipop the speed runner today. He put all Huntress Attribute points to strength as it has huge impact on the damage from the spear.

Doing that he did an Act 1 speed run in 35min.

My huntress is Lvl 15 but will look at what this may do for my current build.

he is most likely using rake with stomping ground support which scales with STR. Has nothing to do with spears.

https://poe2db.tw/us/Stomping_Ground