VIT will scale with attack power, STR will scale but not as much

[Instrumentality]

The inference I got when reading the live letter was that for damage calcs VIT > STR > nothing/dex/int/mind

I did not intend to imply that dex did anything, I was looking to see what type of value STR had over an absolute baseline of 0

You'd also have to break your weapon to find that out (0 weapon damage/no stats from weapon), then.

Edit: And this would be much easier to find out by simply not wearing accessories at all since balancing determination on each set of accessories would be difficult.