Questions Nexon has never answered

There's a lot of outdated crap from Beta that Nexon never bothered weeding out. When they first designed the game, they probably imagined daggers being an option for Warriors and STR mages being a legitimate, useful build. They had the whole die rolling thing that gave the impression that all four stats were useful to all characters, which was quickly dropped. A lot of early game balances don't quite make sense at higher levels, either. Axes have 3 more attack than Swords, which was probably a big deal at lower levels, so they thought it was fair.