[Draft] Dexterity and Thieves

Ironically, the secondary stat is far more important than the primary stat. Why? Since the primary stat is the one that contributes the most to damage, any stat that is not in the primary stat means your one-inch maple character is doing slightly lower damage.

This doesn't make sense. Read it, change it, and know what it means next time =P

how does it not make sense?

primary stat = luk
secondary stat = dex
the stat that contributes more to damage = luk

any stat that is NOT in luk (meaning its in str, dex or int) means that that stat isnt increasing your damage as much as luk does.

as a thief, str and dex does increase your damage (except for lucky 7 and triple throw) by a very very small amount. int does nothing except give you more mp though.

That took some thinking really. The logic that you went to say that "LUK has the most influence in determining damage" has been done as follows:

--"...the secondary stat is far more important than the primary stat [LUK]."
--"Why" is the secondary stat far more important?
--Because "Any stat that is not in the primary means that [you'll do] slightly lower damage".

Now honestly, that doesn't sound like it's "important" to me. You could have been saying that DEX is important because it contributes less to damage compared to LUK. That, to me, sounds like "hell no that's not good." You even said that LUK is better than DEX before you even said why DEX was supposedly important. That's a pretty bad break. I'm assuming your audience is for the wide masses of MapleStory and those good fellows of sp.net, which will almost certainly include (in the near future) ESL people. (if the target audience for this guide isn't what I assumed, then did I miss something in the event rules?) I myself have rather poor language skills for w/e reason at age 19, and if this got me for a while, then it might do worse for the less fortunate. It's no mistake that Fiel said that good clarity counts.

My suggestion is that you should be more direct, and say that LUK is the important skill rather than DEX being important. I understand what you really meant to say, and it would probably be most appropriate if you said "pay special attention to your secondary stat" instead of saying it's "important". Heck, you could probably get away with saying DEX is "important" while saying LUK is "even more important" (not recommended).


TL;DR, the connotation is way off in this little bit. You should try rewording it so it makes much more sense.