Assuming that you have an abundant amount of ranged accuracy, so adding AGI will not help much more with regards to your ranged hit rate – number of arrows hit \/ total number of arrows fired. Also assuming the increases in STR and AGI can be equivalently found from the same slot of armor, just different pieces.<\/p>\n
Considering normal ranged attack:<\/strong><\/p>\n Only STR will change the value of fSTR2 and pDiF, while AGI will not do anything for your damage here, so STR will obviously benefit more.<\/p>\n Considering weapon skill for Archery:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 STR vs 1 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n If adding 1 STR, fSTR2 and WSC will change by either 0 or 1 depending on truncation problem of the total_STR and fSTR2 calculation, also pDiF may change by 1\/mob’s defense if total_STR is odd. If adding 1 AGI, WSC will change by either 0 or 1, depending on truncation problem of total_AGI.<\/p>\n So, adding 1 STR will change Damage by anywhere from 0 to 10 x (pDiF + 1\/mob’s defense), while adding 1 STR will change Damage by anywhere from 0 to 5 pDiF. The comparison thus can be ambiguous in general. Specific conclusion must be based on specific STR and AGI.<\/p>\n 2 STR vs 2 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Adding 2 AGI will change WSC by either 0 or 1. Adding 2 STR will change WSC by either 0 or 1, but will definitely change fSTR2 by 1 approximately, and also change pDiF by 1\/mob’s defense.<\/p>\n So at most, adding 2 AGI can change Damage by at most 5 x pDiF, while adding 2 STR can change Damage by at least 5.0 x (pDiF + 1\/mob’s defense), which is clearly higher. Therefore, adding 2 STR will always win here.<\/p>\n >2 STR vs >2 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The minimum amount of AGI needed to increase WSC by 1 in general is : 1 = floor(0.25 x AGI x 0.83) -> AGI = 4.82 ~ 5<\/p>\n So one needs at least 6 AGI increase to put WSC by 2 assuming that total_AGI is short of only 1 AGI to increase WSC by 1 after truncation. Total increase in Damage is 10 x pDiF.<\/p>\n An increase of 6 STR will increase fSTR2 by 3, while pushing pDiF up by 3\/mob’s defense. Total increase in Damage is 15 x (pDiF + 3\/mob’s defense).<\/p>\n Therefore, an increase of equivalent amount (>2) STR will always be better than AGI.<\/p>\n Considering weapon skill for Markmanship:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 STR vs 1 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n If adding 1 STR, fSTR2 will change by either 0 or 1, also pDiF may change by 1\/mob’s defense if total_STR is odd. If adding 1 AGI, WSC will change by either 0 or 1.<\/p>\n So, adding 1 STR will change Damage by anywhere from 0 to 5 x (pDiF + 1\/mob’s defense), while adding 1 STR will change Damage by anywhere from 0 to 5 x pDiF. The comparison thus can be ambiguous in general. Specific conclusion must be based on specific STR and AGI.<\/p>\n 2 STR vs 2 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Adding 2 AGI will change WSC by either 0 or 1. Adding 2 STR will change fSTR2 by 1 approximately, and also change pDiF by 1\/mob’s defense.<\/p>\n So at most, adding 2 AGI can change Damage by at most 5 x pDiF, while adding 2 STR can change Damage by at least 5.0 x (pDiF + 1\/mob’s defense), which is clearly higher. Therefore, adding 2 STR will always win here.<\/p>\n >2 STR vs >2 AGI<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The minimum amount of AGI needed to increase WSC by 1 in general is : 1 = floor(0.3 x AGI x 0.83) -> AGI = 4.01 ~ 5 (round up to smallest integer that is higher than the calculation).<\/p>\n So one needs at least 6 AGI increase to put WSC by 2 assuming that total_AGI is short of only 1 AGI to increase WSC by 1 after truncation. Total increase in Damage is 10 x pDiF.<\/p>\n An increase of 6 STR will increase fSTR2 by 3, while pushing pDiF up by 3\/mob’s defense. Total increase in Damage is 15 x (pDiF + 3\/mob’s defense).<\/p>\n Therefore, an increase of equivalent amount (>2) STR will always be better than AGI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assuming that you have an abundant amount of ranged accuracy, so adding AGI will not help much more with regards to your ranged hit rate – number of arrows hit \/ total number of arrows fired. Also assuming the increases in STR and AGI can be equivalently found from the same slot of armor, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1497],"tags":[1281],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-fantasy-xi","category-ashiya-blog","tag-ashiya"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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