Very nice, thank you for doing this!

I seem to recall back on Live, where I played a ranger, that the equations for max / magic hit numbers for BOWS was essentially the same as presented here, except replace STR with DEX.

What I can't remember is if that was true from the beginning or a later change. Do you have any information on whether that is true on P99?

I'm guessing no one has looked into parsing that because bows aren't a viable source of DPS regardless

Great point, I'd love to see bow parse numbers worked out. How does DEX, STR, bow stats, Trueshot disc, and whatever else affect dps with a bow?

Hail.

A note for Bards and DEX. In addition to frequency of weapon proc and (allegedly) increasing the rate at which weapon skills increase, DEX also reduces the chances of a Bard's note being 'missed' and ending the song.

This is noted in the Wiki for Bards, where I did a simple 100-song test with and without equipment. As I explained there:

"In a test comparing 100 songs on a 60 bard with 100 base DEX, 7 notes were missed. On geared 167 total DEX, 131 songs before a single note was missed."

Hope this helps.

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you need help!

Meat, thank you so much for providing this to the community. I've been wanting a nerd to provide results like this for ages! Looking forward to any future findings, especially AC tests. If Iksar racial AC at 60 (35ac?) is adding upwards of 7%+ mitigation, that's a pretty significant bump and could really challenge the Ogre is best debates.

Just one comment.
Thank you!

Prolly safe to say CHA is a dead stat as well.

I just wanted to jump in here and point out that the PDF has a line:

Here is my parse of a cliff golem beating me off

I have so many questions.