Does STR affect bow damage?

[Gorgowned]

I just wanted to check before I make my Ogre archer.

[Lurgort/Sseri]

DEX = archery damage

[Gorgowned]

Was it patched recently? All the (old) threads I can find say STR determines damage, and DEX determines crit chance.

[Adron]

strength, guaranteed.

[Lurgort/Sseri]

Originally Posted by Adron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

strength, guaranteed.

The Wiki's wrong as usual then, and TIL.

[Videri]

The wiki, the guides, and conventional RPG wisdom says Archery and thrown weapons should use Dexterity. That way, there's build diversity: some players go Str and use melee weapons, some players go Dex and focus on ranged weapons.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Please see Pockete's thread "Archery uses STR instead of DEX!"
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=242638

Originally Posted by Ivory [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hope you are sitting down...because this is bad news....

Today me and another archer were hunting together....and we discovered the biggest Norrath shattering bug in the world!!!

Archery....is using STR as a modifier....instead of DEX!!!!

All this time I have been maximizing my DEX!! Because archery SHOULD use dex like melee weapons use STR.....but it doesn't!!

We discovered it when we were both archering, and I noticed him hitting way more than me. Surely this was impossible, since my DEX is 226 unbuffed...and his is only 100 or so. BUT he had 225+ str!! and mine is only 99!!

So we stripped him naked and had him archery with low str...and it was true!!! Archering is using the wrong stat!!! Crazy? I agree!! Super crazy!!

Please can you fix this ASAP? This is probably the biggest most important bug ever to have been discovered!!

[tsuchang]

OK strength for damage but is dex for hitting more often?

[Jimjam]

Dex just improves the rate of skill ups, proc chance and melee (maybe bow too) crit chance. It's not actually involved directly in any accuracy check, from my understanding.

[Kirdan]

I believe dex affects bow crit chance.

[Trexller]

From the P99 wiki statistics page:

Brad McQuaid: "DEX: how quickly you learn weapon skills; how often weapon will proc; how quickly you learn rogue skills; how hard you hit with bows"[6]

On Red server Dexterity affects PVP hit rate. It does this by comparing your dexterity to your opponent's agility.