Anyway, to sum up this giant battle:

LordofBones thinks INT on a weapon is *teh devil* and needs to be eliminated.
Tanist defends it by saying OS perfectly allows mage/warriors and thus it's no problem.

Then a major discussion about staves and Staff of Malgus (personally I think it could use knocking down to 3AP) including massive flames.

Now you're up to date on the last 5 pages.

PS. Dexterity increases defenses, so it makes sense for a STR-based character as well in certain configurations... despite some claim it's not.