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[Xyphon]

Just to touch on the STR and attack power scaling, your total STR = your attack power. So if you increase str, you're obviously also increasing your attack power.

@karateorangutang - I know the old formula you are referring to, and I think its really outdated. Most of it was done during phase 3 of beta testing for ARR lol. If you want the source I can link it.

From my own testing, I found that somehow weapon damage also effects flashes threat generation. Which is why its much harder to hold threat as pld spamming flash with a lower ilvl weapon vs dps with higher ilvl. The old formula used to have x 0.8 damage penalty from ShO, which also was found to be the same as using overpower with defiance.

There was some testing done a while back that showed even though flash doesn't actually deal damage, there's still factors of damage involved in how the threat is calculated.

[karateorangutang]

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Yeah I assumed the formula no longer works, but I'm assuming the remnant base approach is the same. Seems like it would scale off of attack and not STR. I honestly have never checked, but does equipping a weapon with higher attack affect the attack stat directly? If it does that would makes sense as to why weapon damage is factored heavily into the formula.