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[Nebo]

Actually, our craptastic damage makes fSTR not quite as important on many things (especially inside Abyssea), since low weapon rank makes it cap a lot lower than a two-handed weapon's fSTR.

Inside Abyssea its kind of moot (and why I switched to DEX for a while) . fSTR is going to be capped.

Outside, THF is going to have a harder time capping fSTR. The reason people say it's relatively more valuable to us (up to the cap) is because of the fact that our weapons have a lower base DMG rating, but swing faster. Which is just to say that improvements in fSTR are a larger percent increase for daggers than they are for 2 handed weapons with much higher base damage/delay values.

[Alaik]

Inside Abyssea its kind of moot (and why I switched to DEX for a while) . fSTR is going to be capped.

Outside, THF is going to have a harder time capping fSTR. The reason people say it's relatively more valuable to us (up to the cap) is because of the fact that our weapons have a lower base DMG rating, but swing faster. Which is just to say that improvements in fSTR are a larger percent increase for daggers than they are for 2 handed weapons with much higher base damage/delay values.

^

DEX is still better, even though we debatedly "get the most from fSTR", SA's mod being DEX and our WS being DEX mods make that important. But it's still true, we do get the most from fSTR, even if it's only because our base is so crappy to start with.