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What exactly is the purpose of investing a few more points in INT when making a strength hybrid for a glaive/bow character? ... Getting a few more dmg from an imbue?
First we speak about Bow not glavie ... JM made the bow hybird weapon already .. it's Phy attack = mag attack .. but oh .. you will not understand that .. you need a chart :
let's take an example of npc degree 8 weapons and see ...
BOW : phy attack = 559 , mag = 894
Blade : phy = 551 , mag = 813
Glavie : phy = 616 , mag = 896
Sword : phy = 508 , mag = 882
spear : phy = 560 , mag = 986
so it's as following :
phy attack : Glavie > Spear >
Bow > Blade > Sword
Mag attack : Spear > Glavie >
Bow > Sowrd > Blade
That's what means the bow is a hybird weapon ... it's phy attack not too much and mag attack not too much ... but both are good .. that's why we increase both INT and STR ...
We all know already that mag attack is higher than phy attack .. so if you did a pure INT Bow you will deal much more damge by ( a bow skill + imbue ) than pure str ... but your mag damge isn't high enough to kill your enemies as spear .. and don't have shield as sword .. so both Pure int and pure str will kill you easily ...
So we do 80:80 bow to have decent amount of HP and phy def and also MP and mag def (means you can use snow shield without big problem) ..
and for the damge you deal as 80:80 bow will be so good your strong bow with fire imbue will destory everything ... in lvl 80 you can crit with 10 k or more damge on lvl 80 glavier !!! that's mean you will kill him soon .. remember that pure str Bow can't kill glavier as glavier do more damge than pure str bow and have more HP too ...
Is that clear or you need more explaination ?