For str archer the best is garment, because to kill a same lvl str is hard and with bow U cant break off nukers, they can nuke U continually and once u will die....
The best element for str is fire i think... Passive skill gives +phy damage %, flame body series also give 7% if maxed, u can become cold immun with fire shield, fire protection series give 91 mag def on lvl 7 hard fire protection, etc... but u can increase other elements for buffs, ex: at light piercing fore series, and the most important wind walk series(u r sloow without it), concentration series and passive.. at cold: only passive and frost guard series... But if u will increase all of elements and a weapon mastery, u will need a lot of sp..
Good luck.
edit: gap: with lower mastery u got more sp and lower exp, with higher mastery u got more exp and lower sp, sometimes u will to keep high gap to get a lot of sp, max gap is 9
This post was edited by Stalin[ATAD] on Apr 8 2007 05:51pm