i must say that later on, going with 120 dex for example can be a perfect solution for early game hunting and so on in swordsman, and also help with the misses on those archers and can give more damage, but right now is not true, first because swordsman and doppel itself have many multhi hits skills and because of that is hard for him to reach the damage limit where dex allows for more damage than str, and going with dex it will only become more difficult to reach that mark. simple because the bonus % per rank, helps a lot for us to swords to achieve the 500 stats mark on str, allowing us to gain 2 str per 1 stat and by stat would be 2,6 atk -2 block penetration and 2 critical atk and this makes a HUGE difference right now in the game play.
later on when we have weapons with more atk, equips with more critical rate-critical atk and so on, those 100 dex points that would result is more or less 250-300 str (since i’m talking later on llv 500-600) is simple something that as swordsman we can accept to have, since the effect of 300 str is great but is something we can replace with set once we reach lvl 500 or 600 for example.
but right now, this is not possible, those 100 points in dex that you are talking about, using the same example as before the swordsman will have ONLY: 340 str 70 con 128 dex without any equips.
this result is less 213 points in str, that by the new formula would give 213 block penetration and 277 atk, , and let’s not forget that this atk will also grow with DOV since we are talking about DOPPEL here, this would be 552 atk on DOV lvl 10.
and let’s not forget that this will only grow as rank 8 and doppel 3 come out with dov lvl 15.
and even more, with the 553 str from before, let’s say if you equip a max peta and a vubbe gloves since you are talking about str stats with equips and this is is basic pve set for aoe atk ratio and the best amulet, would be 24 str, but since we are already at the 500mark it would give 48 str, and with the “100 dex build” 24 str would only gives 31 str and so on if we use equips with str the difference will only grow more.
like i said before “TODAY” if you want more damage and you are not fencer3 the only answer is “STR” but if you want the defense stats that dex can give, please go for it, but saying that dex will give more damage is a lie.
i will not even explore more on the topic about the 400 str with 100 dex, because i believe that if you focus all of you equips in str it may be possible, but you will lose a lot of critical rate and this would only decrease your damage even more if you are using a dex build, now if you say to me that they can go from 340 str to 400 with a set of equips that focus on critical rate, since this 60 points in str maintaining the critical rate in both builds would result in far more strength in the build that i have wrote before,and both set would give “the same critical rate value” but because of 500 status mark, every time you add 1 extra point in str it would become 2 and in the 300status mark you would need 3 to become 1, so the grow would only increase, so by this alone 60 str would become 120 str on my previous build against 85 str from your build and once we apply the bonus from the rank’s the difference would be 35x1,7=59 str that would only increase even more the damage from equips, since 59 “extra” str would become 154 “extra” atk with DOV10 on, that have a 100% up time.
and let’s not forget, since with equips alone any swordsman can pass the critical resistance from mob, we are talking here about a flat “value%” of critical rate given by those 128 dex, that would be :
128x42/280=19,2%
so by the end of it a swordsman with 100 DEX status point like you said would “ONLY” have 19.2% more chance of landing a critical hit , where with str we would gain , the huge bonus from DOV that the difference alone for both builds would be more or less 553 atk, that is the same as equipping another 2hand sword +8 i believe. .
i will not even enter in the math that this 19,2% critical change would give in DPS, if we compare with 553 atk, taking different scenarios of of refinement in weapon and so on because this would be more or less the same as when we go up in the chain of levels and equips and by that i can agree with you, that we may be able to replace those 100 points in str and add in dex, for a better damage, but right now with the current cap and let’s say, realist refinement on weapon (+10-+15), i do not think so.
* again, those 19,2% critical rate value could overcome the damage given by STR if we are talking here about a DRAGOON or a FENCER for example, since he does not have DOV, so the damage lost by taking DEX would be half of the damage LOST in Doppel case and this is “only” with the current lvl 10 DOV , but still i do not believe so, and i will not make the math to explain as well since the topic is about DOPPEL , but the main point about the other two choices of dps is the difference that they use to increase their damage, dragoon would have spear lunge and the new 100% buff and fencer the new critical damage formula it seems by the preview but for DOPPEL it is DOV, and if you want to have damage with doppel you must use your tools together with DOV to increase his damage, and by taking dex you would simple cripple your DOV and by that your DOPPEL.
tl;dr: simple saying is that DOPPEL tool kit is different than the other types of swordsman, so if you want to have the best damage with him , you must be full STR with CON, and this with doppel2 already, let’s not forget that doppel 3 is just around the corner, so the effect of DOV and STR will only grow.
