What good is Dexterity for Barbs?

[Drogar]

As title says, what is the boost of dex. for barbs exactly? It must have smth to do cos at slashing and piercing weapons trees, dex. is there as passive. I dont have any item that boost dex. for test but i think -from the description of dex- it increases hit chance, is it true?
Thanks in advance.

[CumeriTarenes]

Dex increases evade chance for every class.

For archers it is the main attribute that influences the base damage. (main attribut for warriors ist STR and for mages INT)

It is said that the main attributes influnce spell focus too.

[Drogar]

I switched from slashing weapons to blunt, that means my dex. is less than before now and i mentioned my speed is also reduced,almost sure about it. Maybe dex. is also somehow related to speed or am i mistaken?

[Znurre]

Nope it gives no speed.

[Drogar]

Hmm OK. Thanks all for answers. Also special thanks to Znurre for demonstration in pozo and general help&patience for my endless questions :thumb_up: ;)

[octopus]

My warlock has some +5 Dex mage gloves. Wearing them increases evade by 1 point.

[Froste]

I switched from slashing weapons to blunt, that means my dex. is less than before now and i mentioned my speed is also reduced,almost sure about it. Maybe dex. is also somehow related to speed or am i mistaken?

If you mean attack speed, you might have used a medium or slow slashing weapon and ended up with a very slow blunt one.

[fluffy_muffin]

My warlock has some +5 Dex mage gloves. Wearing them increases evade by 1 point.
There are tunics with +4, +5 evasion points, and we have amulet with evasion points :]

[Signatus]

My warlock has some +5 Dex mage gloves. Wearing them increases evade by 1 point.

Are u sure, because I believe it should give you between 2 or 3 points depending of you lvl.

[misaccc]

Are u sure, because I believe it should give you between 2 or 3 points depending of you lvl.

i had leggings +5 dex and they also got me only 1 evade point...

[Signatus]

i had leggings +5 dex and they also got me only 1 evade point...

Interesting! Back to testing then :wiggle14: .

[Vroek]

Yes going for lvl 1 (5 dex) passive dex to lvl 5 (15 dex) adds 2 or 3 evasion or something in between.
If you max both piercing and slashing passive i think you can increase it with 5 points but you would be wasting 8 power points. :/

Increasing effect of evasion from dex would be madness but its fairly usless now.
I think adding a slight weapon speed increase for warriors and mages would be a great idea.
Archer would need some bonus from str to make it equal maybe some damage reduction or a small increase of health.

[ncvr]

I heard somewhere that wood elves have a racial advantage in terms of evasion and dexterity(they get more evasion per point of dexterity)

[Signatus]

I heard somewhere that wood elves have a racial advantage in terms of evasion and dexterity(they get more evasion per point of dexterity)

I KNEW IT!! :superpusso:

The same happens with moloks, each 2 points of dex gives 1 evade point (tested with a lvl 35 char). That is their racial bonus, on the other hand they may not have the same increase on hit chance then dark elves, because it's their penalty (got to check that).

Need to test on skelics, but I'll do it later. I'm gessing that skelics have const penalty... but int advantage... gah, so much to learn yet :dance: .