Help with my Concentration Barb
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Short answer: depends a great deal on your equipment.

Longer answer:

There are three reasons for a melee character to invest in dexterity: blocking, defence, and AR. The first one is meaningless if you're going with the IK set, unless you plan on using a mace/shield combo while leveling up. Assuming you'll be using a two handed maul all the way through, you can ignore dexterity for the purpose of blocking.

Secondly, adding to defence. While dexterity adds a fairly pathetic ammount of defence (1 DR point per 4 points in dex, IIRC), the bonus is not insignificant. This is particularly true if your barb uses a decent combination of iron skin, shout, and concentration, since all three significantly boost your defence. Overall, however, points spent in dexterity for the sole purpose of increasing defence would be far better spent investing in strength or vitality. So that leaves us with the last (and most important) dex boosted stat: attack rating.

So that brings us straight to the short answer. If your gear happens to include +10 000 AR and a further +90% AR boost, then no, you don't need to pump dexterity to hit things.

You mentioned 89 dexterity after items, but not your level or how well you already hit things. ANd frankly, that last bit will tell you all on its own whether or not you should increase your dexterity. Concentrate is uninterruptable, however, it only strikes one enemy at a time. For that reason, you want to make every hit count. A to hit % in the 80's (or low 90's if you can get it there in hell) will help your character a great deal. Spent points in dexterity if it will help you reach a better to-hit %. Just keep in mind -- every point spent in dexterity is a point taken away from vitality. You might consider saving 20-30 stat points if possible, particularly if you haven't yet reached the level where you can wear your "end-game" gear. Once you see just how well you do in hell, you'll know if you need those saved points in dexterity or vitality.

gekko
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Help with my Concentration Barb - by gekko - 08-27-2004, 01:32 AM

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