[1.2.361] Level 140 Items

The secondary stats added are useless, the primary ones can be given through potential. Only thing the set is going for is the 45 attack yet you lose more than you gain with it.

Um... learn to math?

Let's say you have 1000 (for easier mathz) base of your primary statl.
Now let's say you reset 166 into your secondary stat just to equip these. That would put you at 834 STR or 83.4% of your original STR (you lost 16.6%).
We'll pretend that Dex is totally moot (which it isn't) which means that, due to the purely multiplicative nature of the damage formula, you lost 16.6% of your damage.

Now let's say you somehow have 200 w.att from all your equipment. We'll ignore the extra attack that the equips give and focus only on the set bonus, so we'll pretend that these have the same stats as your old stuff.
45/200 = 0.225. You're getting 22.5% stronger purely from the set bonus.

Now to throw these into the actual damage formula. Since you're a Dark Knight, I'll use the spear/polearm multiplier.
Pure STR
1.49 * 4 * 1000 * 200 / 100 = 11920

140 Equipper
1.49 * 4 * 834 * 245 / 100 = 12178

Overall, you're getting a 2.165% boost.
Again, this is making a couple of assumptions in favor of the dexless route.
It's assuming you have no equipment that gives Dex and that you have 200 W.Att.

YAY FOR UNJUSTIFIED CONCLUSIONS!!! MY FAVORITE!!!
Can you stop whining now?

So the way i see it, nexon should make another massive update requiring all weapons and armors have secondary stat requirements... that way poeple will stop complaining about the high 2ndary requirements and force statless characters to go with the program. the black magician places a curse on everybody making them weaker requiring everybody to pump their secondary stats to equip armor and weapons >.> some crappy story to just overhaul the whole stats issue

This! For the love of Cygnus, this!

I've been saying this for a while. All they need to do is throw everyone a full AP Reset.
Will people still be pissed off? Definitely.
There are always people pissed at something in this game; screw them. Their anger will be worth it if it means this game is finally consistent.

According to your logic we should revamp the damage formula as well because at the moment primary stat has 4 times the impact of secondary stat.

Actually, we should.

I've said before that it should be 3 * primary + 2 * secondary.
Of course, this would mean that they need to remove the second secondary stats from Thieves, but 'tis all good otherwise.

Speaking of wild (but totally doable) ideas, they should divvy up the warrior weapons better.
- Make Spearmen (get this) spear-only.
- Make Fighters use 2H Weapons (including Blunt Weapons) and bump up the multiplier
- Make Pages use 1H weapons (including Axes)