War- Str vs Vit?

[Ysarel]

I've gone full STR, continued throughout the coils as full STR, and swapped 6 points into DEX after clearing turn 5 merely to ease my concern about missing a butcher's block once.

DEX doesn't increase accuracy.

Has anyone actually checked this? The only "evidence" I've seen that the mitigation contributions are incremental integer gains are the floating combat text, which show only whole numbers. It's entirely possible that the game tracks the smaller gains but the FCT just rounds it off and no one notices because the variability of damage is greater than even the 1% incremental gains that we see. Unless a dev explicitly said that it works in 1% gains and that there are no incremental gains in between or there is a *massive* amount of *highly* controlled data, there's no real way to *prove* that there are no mitigation gains outside of the tiers.

This would be difficult to test, but doesn't necessarily require a massive sample size. We know that damage varies within a fixed range. We can use that knowledge to compare parry damage taken to unparried damage taken. You'd still want a decent sample size per test point to be sure, true, but we're talking 500-1000 samples instead of 50000. Such a test is not without complications of its own however, as you'd likely run into resolution issues on monsters that deal low enough damage to be otherwise ideal test fodder. Such a test would require the use of a monster that hits fairly hard, ideally at least several hundred damage per unparried hit. You might need a second individual, you'd have to pay more attention, and rate of data gathering is slowed.