I was in a room with seasoned guys, they told me dexterity does not impact crits.
Now, I fully understand the Damage effect of dexterity for different weapons (i think its plainly 1 dex is worth 1 str if its an axe, if its a club 1 str = 10dex)

What I do not understand is if there is an optimum ratio for critical strike

But i did a little test

with 89 dex i did 7% of the time critical dmg
with 132 dex i did 15% of the time critical dmg

and this was tested on a barb with a club!
I took a sample size of 400 hits for each test. Given that, ratio has nothing to do with crits, but is only dmg modifier and that tells me dex still has crit impact regardless of weapon

This post was edited by culum on Jan 14 2011 01:48pm

Your tests are inconclusive.

You need to test the club with low dex high str ratio first off.

You need to do the test on both sides of the coin.

Then you need to set up a control scenario where you use a different ratio from the other 2 to see how those results pan out.

l2scientific method.

well i dont see your point.
i kept everything fixed and increased dex only and it resulted in more crits.
does this not say dex increases crits?

both wrong... str and dex are influencing crits according to the weapon ratio. thats at least what is stated. maybe they only influence dmg according to the ratios but crits the same way. so if u put balanced points u would get the most crits.

This is correct. Both poll choices are incorrect. Both stats have inverse effects on damage, and the lower stats affects critical strike chance (with exception of the axe, which uses both stats).

good to know

i guess the poll is useless now
but I am happy we got this clarification.

thanks for clearing this. now i know surely what i need to tell newcomers

would u mind editing the stat description a bit to make it more clear there?

dex= more but weak crits
str= less but high crits
imo

This post was edited by Tibor on Jan 14 2011 01:53pm

The high crits with str is because Clubs and Swords has wide range.

I think

This post was edited by Svartermetalisk on Jan 14 2011 01:58pm