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Stat balance (STR/INT/DEX)
My take:
I'm not really sure if a caster would ever want to increase STR or DEX, under the current situation there's no point unless they don't have 9 strength for fire/ice/pearl dragon armour, really. And then most people would wear mottled dragon armour anyway, or rely on artifacts to get that extra needed strength, although that's a luxury.
This topic, however was created because of a topic on Cheibriados in the Tavern. It was pretty much stated that +15 to all stats (especially the STR/DEX part) isn't enough to make up for losing the ability to use haste (and let me add, all means of improving your movement speed). Tasonir said that perhaps STR should have a bigger impact on damage or INT should be nerfed. I'm not aware of the formulas that define the damage boost that STR grants, so I don't know if increasing the benefits of STR on damage would be too much.
IF STR and DEX need a buff to their importance for everyone, I think perhaps the following could be a nice idea.
How about, depending on weapon STR-weighting, in order to get delay down you'd have to have an appropriate amount of STR or DEX respectively?
This would split weapons in two categories (or even more, using a combination of STR/DEX depending on weighting). The minimum delay of all weapons would remain unchanged, of course.
A simple example: An executioner's axe reaches minimum delay at axe skill 26. What if you also had to have a minimum of 26 strength to be able to bring it to minimum delay? (so every 2 points of one stat would bring the "effective minimum delay" down by 0.1). Meaning that a 9 STR DEFE that wants to swing around said exec axe would only be able to bring it down to 1.55 (average) from 2.0 that is the base delay. 1.55 is pretty suicidal as an attack speed, of course, so said DEFE would have to stick with a lighter weapon (DEX based, if their DEX is decent).
This would mean that low STR/DEX casters would not be able to use the best weapons as efficiently as their fellow high STR/DEX adventurers(non casters, mostly).
This would also be a buff to Chei and the STR/DEX rings, since you'd be able to hit min delay without having to invest a single point in STR/DEX in many cases.