Quote Originally Posted by Noxifer View Post
Still don't see why DRK would use Int. Does NIN use Int for their Mudras? Those count as magic attacks. No, they still draw their damage off of Dex. Using Int to base greatsword damage off of is... well, slightly ridiculous, IMO, so I see absolutely no reason why their magic attacks (provided their Power of Darkness attacks count as magic damage) wouldn't scale off of Str as well.
Well, one could also say that it made no sense that Ninja ended up using Dexterity in the first place when it was a melee class and melee classes all used Strength. They could pull the same move and say Dark Knight uses Intelligence for little more reason than "they felt like it." I would say the main point going against Dark Knight using Intelligence is the fact that Strength, as it stands right now, also affects parry. If they didn't use Strength they would probably want to change the text for Intelligence to state that it affects parry specifically for Dark Knight similar to how they changed the text for Dexterity, but again, it wouldn't be anything they haven't done once already.