I am questioning if we are just missing one part of the stats. In XI Str did next to nothing without the Attack to back it up, which was limited by the weapons base attack.

Sort of the str gave the dmg a maximum, the weapon gave it a ceiling, and the attack was how much dmg we actually deal.

Right now almost no one uses food and very little armor has attack on it so I question if it could just be we are missing a whole part of the equation.

The change from level 1 weapon to endgame weapon was about 50dmg on the screen. Which is an increase of 20% dmg these attacks where all without attack buffs.

What I want to see is does the weapon make a difference if you use food (attack+ food) and Attack buffs. Compared to level 1 weapons.

My archer is only 36 but I was messing around with 2 bow tonight and the dmg difference was about 20 a shot on non-leve mobs we where parting on. Dmg with ferocity II + multishot went up by about 20 a shot same level I just updated my bow from the day before averaging 290-300 a arrow from 270-290 the day before.

I have a feeling on those NMS their Def is so much higher then our attack we are almost at the bottom of the dmg curve on them.