Which passive to choose: STR or MIGHT? (bow user)

[Mirtishius]

So, at 30lvl I have 3 skill points to spend and one more coming when I reach 31lvl.
So stands the question - which passive to boost, STR or Damage?
I see this as a dilema "a bit more survivability vs more damage dealt (especially on skills and crits)".

Primary weapon: BOW

Current stats without pet:

STR 6
Health 1774

DEX 358
Bonus DMG 279%
Dodge 30.27%
Critical 13.68%
Damage 250.4%

INT 103
Mana 1155

DPS 300.5
Armor 791

Current skill set:
AS 5/5
Noxious 4/5
SP 3/5
Veil 4/5
DEX passive 5/5
INT passive 5/5

Thanks in advance for all the advices and suggestions!

[Zuzeq]

Might will help you more than 5% of DmG. If you want more DmG, get a pet with +DmG pet.

[FluffNStuff]

I finally went over to putting 5/5 in damage since I am seeing it skills. Not much, but it is there. And I do LOVE damage.

LOL!

[Asahetek]

Hmm, what gear and weapon are you using?

Im using
31 bonechill of tactics helm
31 bonechill of force
31 colbat warfare ring and
30 gelphir
31 bonechill bow of brutality

Stats unbuffed and no pet

77 str
2325
370dex
285% bonus damage
28.75% dodge
16.42% crit
248.5 damage
865mana
298.2 dps
1016 armor


Skill set
Noxious bolt 5/5
Aimed shot 5/5
Shadow storm 5/5
Shadow piercer 3/5

Passive
Dex 5/5
Int 4/5
Str 2/5

20-200-40 with passives

Personally i didn't really notice a big difference when having higher mana since skills eat to much of it, in between 7-14+% with mana in between 700-1k+, but does raise critical and dps

[Mirtishius]

Quite a budget gear. I like how it works though:

Bonechill Bow of Potency (30)
Red Beard's Cap of Tactics (26)
Shipmasters' Doublet of Savvy (26)
Full Circuit of Potency (30)
Bling Bouble of Potency (29)

And the result again (lvl 30):

STR 6
Health 1774

DEX 358
Bonus DMG 279%
Dodge 30.27%
Critical 13.68%
Damage 250.4%

INT 103
Mana 1155

DPS 300.5
Armor 791

Current skill set:
AS 5/5
Noxious 4/5
SP 3/5
Veil 4/5
DEX passive 5/5
INT passive 5/5

[Zuzeq]

Got to still say Might over Dmg passive. Can't do DmG while you're walking back to the fight from dying...lol.

[FluffNStuff]

Got to still say Might over Dmg passive. Can't do DmG while you're walking back to the fight from dying...lol.

I ~should~ do more elites but right now I have been sooo busy and regular Silver chests are selling HIGHER then elite silver chests. Anyway, seems to be the reason we keep differing on these threads is you are grinding out kills in Elite while I am tearing through paper mobs like a Tornado in regular with little to no chance of dying since they rarely get off a shot. Should get a good block of time to play this weekend, and yeah, if I am doing a lot of elites, I probably will go back to Strength over Damage.

[Lissidoll]

str or might( bow user) hmmm dont put neither. saw ur stats, overall its good...dont u think its about time u put some in crits.btw ur a rouge nt a tank ;p

[Mirtishius]

str or might( bow user) hmmm dont put neither. saw ur stats, overall its good...dont u think its about time u put some in crits.btw ur a rouge nt a tank ;p

Well on "paper" mobs I crit for 2k+ dmg sometimes .. It's sweet, but it also sucks being one-shoted by bosses sometimes :)))
Thought about going for crit passive for a while, too. But that would be trading some guaranteed dmg or health points for a couple of % of sheer luck, isn't it?

[Zuzeq]

Who needs crit in stats when you're spaming Aim Shot?@ Lissidoll. I do more than make than make up for not having DmG passive by slaping on a Mythic Helm, other top gear and equiping a DmG pet thank you very much.

[Asahetek]

I wouldn't put any points in the critical passive since it doesn't seem to help much so i dropped it in favor of 4/5 int passive which raise your critical and dps and my critical isn't that much lower than when i had 3 in the critical only around 1.6% and dropped veil for piercer for pvp.