Why I'm Liking My Bird Less and Less

[Physiologic]

Are you having problems with survivability? You may want to switch to a Swamp talon and wing if you are. AO will always be hard to any bird less than lv 45-50 because armor will always be a problem.

Not sure what you mean by ATTACK stat, elaborate?

[adwin]

Are you having problems with survivability? You may want to switch to a Swamp talon and wing if you are. AO will always be hard to any bird less than lv 45-50 because armor will always be a problem.

Not sure what you mean by ATTACK stat, elaborate?

1: I was thinking about switching to a talon, damage or even DPS would go down, but I could equip a shield to boost survivability as well as reduce pot usage.
2: I apologise, I was thinking about 2 things at the same time lol.
What I meant was this: Most ppl are making archers pure-dex, but does upping the STR stat (points from levelling up) also affect overall damage?

[Physiologic]

1: I was thinking about switching to a talon, damage or even DPS would go down, but I could equip a shield to boost survivability as well as reduce pot usage.
2: I apologise, I was thinking about 2 things at the same time lol.
What I meant was this: Most ppl are making archers pure-dex, but does upping the STR stat (points from levelling up) also affect overall damage?

It's perfectly fine switching to a talon/wing at that point; I've done it plenty of times too in the past despite the lower damage.

You can look here for a more detailed explanation of how attributes work in PL. With more STR you'll have more armor but you won't do nearly as much skill damage than a full DEX bird will do. STR will increase your base damage but it will be detrimental to your skill damage. I for one am an advocate of being a full DEX bird because you do what you do best as an archer, which is dealing out damage.