Quote Originally Posted by MartaDemireux View Post
Yes, it's as ispano said.

It's also simply that DEX doesn't affect ranged damage in this game even though the says it does. There are plenty of weapons in the history of video games that would classify as using DEX as well that they could add to this game. To make them use STR just doesn't sit well with me. And then you have all the possible ranged attacks they could add to our melee classes and jobs but they won't be using DEX as the tool-tip suggests they would. It's messy this way. It's much neater and accurate for the tool-tip to just specify the weapon type that the stat gives AP to.
To be fair though, in things like D&D and such, you didn't get damage bonuses from DEX. Only chance to hit and such. Even with bows, your chance to hit was based on DEX. But not your damage. Certain bows allowed you to add your STR bonus, to a point, to damage, but not DEX. Even Rogues didn't get bonus damage to melee weapons from DEX, but since they had an innate sneak attack, it didn't matter if their STR was low.