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Originally Posted by Shiftin
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Pretty sure it's whichever is higher.
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I know this was posted a while ago, and there are many sources that say dex decides archery damage, but my own experiments suggest that Shiftin is correct.
I used to carry some dex equipment which I would switch to when I was bow kiting, at the expense of str. I decided to run an experiment to see if that was worth doing. I bow kited several mobs in DL, keeping track of number of hits, crits, average damage, and some other stuff, both with my str equipment and then with my dex equipment. Raising dex didn't seem to do anything. My regular dex and my max dex were below my str in both cases. So I concluded that it was my str that was deciding my archery damage and got rid of my dex equipment.
But maybe I'm missing something. Has anyone actually tried to determine this other than just reading some stuff? I'd like to know what actually contributes to archery damage. I suspect that the official guides say that dex helps archery damage because they had to say *something* about dex, and that it may be true if your dex is higher than your strength.