2008-08-31, 10:49 PM
Putting points into base dex is the easier/cheaper way to advance your character stats. For knowing less about stats and spending less on gear you get lower damage. For putting more work/being more knowledgable about stat builds, you get more damage. Characters with more than 25 base dex, which would be capped at a precise value to equip their claw with dex from equips, and a lot of funding can catch up AND get ahead of their dexless equivalents if they know what they're doing as others have pointed out.
The theif class suffers less from this(if you could call it suffering). Warriors don't really need any base dex at all(again if they know what they're doing and have sufficient funds) and warriors weapons that allow dex warriors to catch up are rare and expensive. If anyone can complain about -less characters it's mages. At the momment, no mage has any reason to put raise their base luk with the 130 lukless wands with more base matk than any other wand/staff luk or not(ignoring the 16x staves which require an unreasonable ammmount of luk/level). Once they're actually implemented correctly it's still much easier and cheaper and cheaper to have 4 base luk and use lukless weapons than using luk equips.
The theif class suffers less from this(if you could call it suffering). Warriors don't really need any base dex at all(again if they know what they're doing and have sufficient funds) and warriors weapons that allow dex warriors to catch up are rare and expensive. If anyone can complain about -less characters it's mages. At the momment, no mage has any reason to put raise their base luk with the 130 lukless wands with more base matk than any other wand/staff luk or not(ignoring the 16x staves which require an unreasonable ammmount of luk/level). Once they're actually implemented correctly it's still much easier and cheaper and cheaper to have 4 base luk and use lukless weapons than using luk equips.