New items, strange stats

[Laughlyn]

I'm not sure if anyone's taken a close look at the bonuses given by some of the new NM drops but some of them seem a little strange.

Let's take Bow of Owls for instance.

Archer required
+2 strength, nothing strange there
+2 piety, why is this here?

Frostbite

Gladiator required
+1 Vit
+1 Dex
+1 Piety (?)

Howling Talons

Pugilist required
+2 Dex
+1 Eva
+2 Mind (?)

It was my understanding that mind, int and piety had no effect on damage or accuracy. This leads me to believe either we have no idea what all the stats do or they're changing how stats affect our damage, accuracy, etc...

idk about anyone elese (didnt bother reading everyone elses posts)

But mnd for pug... is goooood. (Second Wind)

Piety for GLD i'd guess would be good to actually bosst the Accuracy of the "Magic" based weapons skills.

Im not sure about archer thou, i havent played it much but im sure it also have some kinda of Fire-based weaponskill.
(in wich Piety would be usefull i guess)

Just because the weaponskill lands & does damage dosent mean the added "Magic" effect will 100% land
too just cuz you have insane dex. (or well thats just my opinion)

[Arcell]

But mnd for pug... is goooood. (Second Wind)

I was always told MND didn't do anything for Second Wind. Mind effects healing spells, Second Wind is a skill and as such not affected. I mean I've got decent MND on my Pug and Second Wind is great but all my other stats are also up there.

Its common for SE to do this. It also happens in existing gearz.

Actually it doesn't happen on existing gear, which is why I found it strange. All previous weapons don't give these kinds of bonuses at all for whatever reason.

The reasoning as far as Mdef/Mres seems somewhat sound but you can get outright additions for that on all your gear. I guess a slight bit may help, possibly more so after the battle adjustments.