ninja gears

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It's not really all that complicated. They wanted it to be dex, but they didn't want to make a ton of new gear, so they had it share with Monk up to the 2.4 gear added. Basically Ninja is a dexterity based melee. Umm.. So basically bear with me here. When you are a DRG or a MNK, The game says AP = STR, and takes the AP amount and puts it into the damage formula, For BRD it instead says DEX = AP and so that is used instead, it will be the same for Ninja. So while they will have STR on the 2.3- gear it wont be used for damage purposes. Damage formula takes AP which is determined by main stat. Main stat is just a number with a description that has secondary uses.

Not sure if I can simplify it anymore. x.x

It doesn't even have to be this complicated. Lets assume for a moment that SE created a special weapon type for Ninja, the "Dual Wield Attack." This weapon type works in a similar fashion to "Physical Attack" and "Ranged Attack", but is modified by DEX. This solves the problem of not needing to modify DEX at it's core, especially if it's an arbitrary modifier for Ranged Attacks. They then simply add DEX to all gear that Monk uses between 2.0 and 2.3 so that the team cuts down on how much work they would need to do in actually creating new sets of gear. Of course, STR as a stat would be meaningless as DEX is the main modifier. It's elementary, really.

I'm like 90% sure this is the solution they came up with, at the end of the day.