Dexterity Vs. Charisma?

hiddenfate

I'm a little confounded on this one, Dexterity is the major attribute for Rogues but if you look at the bonuses it gives it's only good for people focusing on critical chance. If you're looking for a straight damage buff strength is more your thing and if you're looking for higher deflection then charisma is more your thing.

My question is thus, which is better to put points into? Strength and Dexterity or Strength and Charisma (assuming I'm not a perma stealth rogue in which case the best place is obviously Intelligence and Dexterity/Charisma)

angrysprite

I'm not a min-maxer, but I've always understood that regarding Rogues the dexterity will help with direct survivability when directly attacked (more 'stamina' for maneuverability) where Charisma affect your effect on encounters, useless in solo play, but helpful in group play (think: you draw less agro).

But I genuinely suspect the actual differences in these stats are not enough to greatly sway your play experience by much. And you always can balance yourself out with your ability points as you level up.

I apologize if my comment isn;t that helpful.

fondlez

Maximum damage: 18/13/13 roll, put any points into DEX/STR.

Critical Chance (not the stat rating, but the underlying stat) adds more damage than flat damage bonus from STR with higher ranks of Vorpal and other Critical Severity bonuses on a TR.

Combat Advantage bonuses from CHA are multiplicative not additive, making the ability score far worse than either DEX or STR.

So, unless you are making a specialist PvP alt, bonus to CHA are not recommended.

hiddenfate

fondlez wrote: »

Maximum damage: 18/13/13 roll, put any points into DEX/STR.

Critical Chance (not the stat rating, but the underlying stat) adds more damage than flat damage bonus from STR with higher ranks of Vorpal and other Critical Severity bonuses on a TR.

Combat Advantage bonuses from CHA are multiplicative not additive, making the ability score far worse than either DEX or STR.

So, unless you are making a specialist PvP alt, bonus to CHA are not recommended.

Theoretically if you went dex/cha you could stack deflection fairly high. In which case I wonder how fey thistle would play out... Though I don't think there's anything to raise deflection severity and I'm not crazy enough to grind up a rogue just to test that little bit out.

ortzhy

hiddenfate wrote: »

Theoretically if you went dex/cha you could stack deflection fairly high. In which case I wonder how fey thistle would play out... Though I don't think there's anything to raise deflection severity and I'm not crazy enough to grind up a rogue just to test that little bit out.

at 20% deflect as a tank fey thistle does around 1% of the dmg... 80k-90k dmg from 8-9 mil in a VT 1/2 run as my last parse is showing.

shinjzin

@ortzhy how is it possible to suffer only 1% of the damage? I thought deflection only soaks 75% of the damage inflicted.

Anyways, I'm a dex/char rogue.

The stat bonuses really captivated my attention. It basically allows me to have high crit and deflect chance. So, obviously i went for crit/deflect gear to further enhance these attributes. Why would you add on strength? It adds 5% pure damage only as opposed to 6% combat advantage while we're in stealth. Also, alot of our skills allows us to take advantage in the field being stealth where we dish Combat advantage.

ottoarc

Darn man what does combat advantage mean? Does it mean my damage get higher in pvp 1 v 1 or what? I'm a strictly for PvP should I put str/dex or dex/cha pls help

ottoarc

And I'm gonna put greater vorp in my weapon to dish out more crit DMG so if I'm among for much higher crit than normal ppl can dish out which I should aim for str/dex. Or dex/cha

ortzhy

shinjzin wrote: »

@ortzhy how is it possible to suffer only 1% of the damage? I thought deflection only soaks 75% of the damage inflicted.

My answer was for Fey Thistle boon.