Lots of fighters have ---STR.... I dont get why people think lowering STR is such a sin.
Look at high level tanks... most have --STR and +++ CON or DEX.
Alot of Daggers have -- STR, and ++ Dex.
What you have for PvP and PvE is the same... people arnt wipping takes on and off.
Tanks dont have to do damage, so it doesnt matter if they lower there STR. There real strength comes from being able to take a lot of hits, were others cant.
Daggers dont need to have high STR, they just need to crit alot. Thats were there damage in PvE comes from. In PvP all of a daggers damage comes from there specials attacks, which is influenced by how much DEX they have. For certain classes, STR is important, but for others its really overrated.
What you have for PvP and PvE is the same... people arnt wipping takes on and off.
Tanks dont have to do damage, so it doesnt matter if they lower there STR. There real strength comes from being able to take a lot of hits, were others cant.
Daggers dont need to have high STR, they just need to crit alot. Thats were there damage in PvE comes from. In PvP all of a daggers damage comes from there specials attacks, which is influenced by how much DEX they have. For certain classes, STR is important, but for others its really overrated.
>>Daggers dont need to have high STR, they just need to crit alot. Thats were there damage in PvE comes from.
This is simply not true. Str affect base dmg that gets multiplied by critical power buffs. While -str dagger will outdamage a blunt weilding dwarf I believe daggers are supposed to me melee pve kings...
The damage daggers do in PvE regardless of Tats is through their criticals, you really cant argue that. Now would you want to crit several times at a slightly reduced power, or crit at a much lower rate for slightly more damage? Because a critical does 3 or 4 times the damage of a regular hit, a dagger class with +++ DEx and --- STR will crit much more often and do damage equivilant to many more hits then actually occured. Even if the damage is slightly reduced because of the ---STR, the extra critical attacks that occur make up for this loss and more.
Dude, +5DEX on PW (well any LE) is 4.3% base increase of critical that doesnt affect weapon SA focus at all.
+5DEX on a TH (any human - 30dex) is 4.5%...
+5Str on TH (any 40base str) is 19.1% increase of pattack excluding masteries (around 120 at max lvl).
So the question is: will you prefer to hit much hard on normal hits and criticals or get less than 4% increase of critical rate (that could be like 15critical after all buffs/passives...)
Once again: TH will hit max critical rate (500) w/o any DEX boost when fully buffed.