I have recently bought a lvl 45, 55 strength chain mail, I am on samy which starts with 45 strength and 50 dexterity, I understand the sword is 75/25 or 3:1 ratio
that would mean since i start with 50 dex, I'd need 150 strength, my current pass/fail rate on this sammy is 1/6 so at level 1 I have 14 stat points not 10
if I add all strength to level 45, putting on my 55 strength armor and using my 43 strength charm that gives me 201 strength and 50 dexterity, curious as to fix this problem
while maintaining the correct ratio for my sword, should I not worry about it, and just go all pure strength or something else, iso some info please, ty.

Try it out for yourself. Some like to keep the ratio, claiming you crit more, some like to pump all strength on swords. Try one climb each way and see which you do more average on.

well if I use the charm/armor/beginning stats and don't put any more while i level in strength i'll have 151 strength and 50 dex, so 1 over on strength, but while I climb where would I put my points? since I can't add dex or str
just go a mix of int/vit for more def/life on my armor? not sure how that works actually, if I want to keep the 150/50 where do I put my leveling points?

Probably in vitality.


Honestly, I think it would probably be better to just pump strength but I have not tested it myself so you should just try both

i would suggest one climb statting pure str, and one climb statting dex every time it fixes the ratio.
Imo this are the 2 ways to go as sammy, as you dont want to "waste" any more points to vit.

If i was to test this, i would play lvl ~69-71 solo running black with both stattings and compare the avg-damage.

If you do this, I'd be glad to hear about the results

E: also compare the damage taken and divide it by hits taken each run. It would be interesting as well if the added dex reduces the avg. damage taken.

This post was edited by Harpel on Nov 15 2011 12:58am

first test results

69-71 my average damage was 993 with a high crit using powerstrike of 21,500 || Gear is 174ee lvl 50 sword, 55 str armor, 43 str charm, 100% statted strength || at lvl 71 I had 221 strength

I am glad you are actually making the tests! But I should have mentioned "without skilluse", my fault.

still, if you use the same skills with your Dexbuild, we will know wich is better.

currently lvl 45 on my sammy which has the str/dex of 200/50 if my math is correct my dex needs to be 66 by level 55 to have 3:1 correct? so I just add dex to level 56 wich would give me 200/66
I hate doubting myself but i'm not 100% sure on this, let me know please before I go any further and mess it up http://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?c=3&i=819140&p=437727
I beleive 201/67 would be perfect 3:1 ratio so that's what I'll do

This post was edited by Herodotus on Nov 15 2011 11:21am

taking a long time to complete this next test, finally just reached lvl 62, now have 201 str / 67 dex for the perfect 3:1 ratio, had to solo the whole time, no one is playing catas anymore
soon will have results, then can compare the two, and on a side note, it's kind of sucks to see no games up, 2 months ago there were games everywhere, now in 2 days I haven't seen 1

alright well test #2 is finally done, there is a rather big difference in avg damage and crit following the ratio, I am convinced it's much worse
69-71 my average damage was 714 with a high crit of 10.728 using powerstrike || gear is the same as before, 201str / 67dex ( 75/25 )
I shall from now on stat 100% str