The way I’ve been doing my stat distribution right now is 2 dex for every 1 strength with the occasional point in spirit. In terms of maximizing DPS I’m not sure if I should be putting more points into strength or just keep doing what I’m doing. All help is appreciated.
Dex doesn’t increase your damage, strength does. I keep my dex at half of my str and its working pretty well. I still dodge and crit now and then, but strength will increase your damage with EVERY auto attack and EVERY skill, and increase your crit dmg. I can’t recall ever missing an auto attack or skill on a mob either. I’m only a lvl 25 archer/ranger. (Barrage is awesome if you decide to go ranger haha)
As jakermt90 said str increase phys attack and crit attack. Dex increases crit rate. A critical hit does 1.5x normal dmg (from str +skill + weapon) + the crit attack. So at low levels str will boost your dmg quite a bit. But later in the game, (say lvl 100+) when you use high dps skills and high dmg weapons you’ll do more dmg based on how often you crit (based on dex) because at that point the phys attack component from str will be lower. There is no perfect ratio afaik. I’m going to add a bit of str in the beginning lvls and then pretty much focus on dex mostly and some con and spr.
Hi guys, Here I am a Archer C2, Hunter C1 (for now) lvl 43/3 and after many stats resets, I finally got into max Dex hunter 
Here why: With maxing Dex you get a high critical rate, and I put dex to get around 70 critical rate and with some items I’ve got 77 critical rate. And with Swift Step attribute I have 92 critical rate, I always crit, which is very nice, :)) and to be honest it is very sad not to crit 
Moreover, as I know and read in forums, Archer is the only class which can use critical dmg well, so GO ON, get DEX and crit those mobs :)))
If you crit a lot, you obviously make more dmg than if you were full strength Archer (tested it with stats resets) 
and for futur levelup I wont max DEX anymore, unless I want a 100 critical rate but I rather prefer to max my Strength now :))
And dont forget, this stuff is viable because of my Iron Bow 
(+78 Critical Attack) so I can DPS very well and be efficient
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