I hope youre right, if that is bard gear i'd cry, I hate playing bard but its so cute so I'd have to get it
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It's nothing but a variable on the class or weapon to choose which stat it uses for attack power, only the the tooltip needs to be changed, which is incorrect anyway. If DEX was purely ranged damage stat, melee class ranged abilities would do horrible damage, yet, these ranged attacks use STR.
yah that would be awesome, if drg needed dex, just to make piercing talon, do any damage.
you THROW a spear...that requires str, not dex.
dex doesn't have anything to do with damage, typing quickly on your keyboard, or managing multiple skill-bars, etc, is dex. it's body coordination. it would affect parry/block and accuracy/crit.
so if you want dex to affect damage, then dex->acc->crit (but in XIV, they aren't related) Actually dex shouldnt affect bow damage either, but dex is usually for ranged attacks, because you're more reliant on accuracy, to hit from far away, and also to differentiate gear, so not everyone share str gear.
duno why ppl are making such a fuss about preparing rogue gear :)
we're lv 50 with ilv110 gear; 10ilv doesn't do all that much. You can just FATE spam, and buy GC gear. or go with foehunter until 32, and use infantry set until 45, and AF to 50.
or i guess you can prepare mats, and craft gear to SB, while you lv rogue.
either way, gear doesn't do much, prior to 50. you'll get all you need from class/job quest.
Can forget this debate, DEX confirmed, suck it up.
I wouldn't say it was quite split down the middle. The STR or DEX debate was due to those of us knowing how the stats work with skills in spite of their given descriptions and those that were going strictly by the current descriptions.
Those of us that figured it to be DEX based on its trope and assumed an incoming change to the description of DEX came out on top. I say this because NIN will only be sharing gear with MNK (which will have DEX added to its gear) up until the gear added in 2.3. All future gear will have a NIN version using DEX separate from MNK's pure STR set.