Too much STR not enough ATK?

[Macht]

Originally posted by KamaAina
Macht I think the other RNG may have missed a few arrows =P

I know how barrage works, I was stating that at their max damage they only achieved 300 with Barrage. Wereas my max reached 700, otherwise the average barrage was them doing around 200 and mine at 500.

Even the shots that were obvious that only 1 of the set fired hit the damage difference was still noticable an 80 vs. 100.

EDIT:

You can REALLY see how Attack and STR affects you when you are under lv. 30 and use foods and have around +7 or more in STR.

Without food or use of Berserk my average attack and WS did the same amount of damage. When you pile a massive amount of attack on the WS ends up tripling or even quadrupling in damage.

Doing WAR/NIN without food, the two axes hit on average for 20s. My WS would go from 18-30 at 100% TP. Now use Berserk and eat mithkabob, attack per hit went only to 30s (Makes sense since food give +5 STR) my WSs however would hit for 100 - 140.

That I remember well because every party I got in always seemed shock to see a lv. 20 getting out 100+ damage and not being a Mage or RNG.

EDIT AGAIN:

So to my logic I just it far more beneficial to a MNK to pump STR up and for boosts to his WSs the use of Boost/Berserk (if /WAR)/Mithkabobs seemed to be a much better route. Unless, of course, the MNK is attack with WSs right when he gets them and not focused to much on skillchains then pumping Attack could be of better use to them.

Or the MNK could carry two sets ones to boost STR very high for their normal damage and one to boost Attack very high for their WS.

[KamaAina]

Well unfortunatley there is not alot of ATK gear for monk or I would do this.

I mean other then ATK earings, and amenit mantle, is there any other good attack gear? There is Ochiodo's Kote but pallas are so much better in my opinion and if you have AF macro'ed into boost you get same attack on your ws's.

I mean am I missing something? I just don't see anywhere else that I could get attack. I would really like to especially now that I have dragon kick.. and its alot weaker then I expected (500-600 sometimes 700 on IT's.. just not as mind blowing as I thought it would be and there is no way I am going to sub THF and miss out on all the great things war offers, its a good sub but SATA w/ one fist is kinda weak, weapon skill damage is better but you do more damage w/ war sub, only reason I would sub it is for hate control but one of the reasons I love monk so much is we can take the hits w/ counterstance, dodge, high evasion and guard so I don't have to watch myself as much like w/ RNG /WAR)

[KamaAina]

Well unfortunatley there is not alot of ATK gear for monk or I would do this.

I mean other then ATK earings, and amenit mantle, republic subligar, is there any other attack gear? There is Ochiodo's Kote but pallas are so much better in my opinion and if you have AF macro'ed into boost you get same attack on your ws's.

I mean am I missing something? I just don't see anywhere else that I could get attack. I would really like to especially now that I have dragon kick.. and its alot weaker then I expected (500-600 sometimes 700 on IT's.. just not as mind blowing as I thought it would be and there is no way I am going to sub THF and miss out on all the great things war offers, its a good sub but SATA w/ one fist is kinda weak, weapon skill damage is better but you do more damage w/ war sub, only reason I would sub it is for hate control but one of the reasons I love monk so much is we can take the hits w/ counterstance, dodge, high evasion and guard so I don't have to watch myself as much like w/ RNG /WAR)