From the patch notes:
- Strength now provides 5% damage bonus and 2% Physical Armour bonus per point
- Finesse now provides 5% damage bonus and 1% Dodging per point
- Intelligence now provides 5% damage bonus and 2% Magic Armour bonus per point
Is this "5% damage" generic across all forms of damage, or are the patch notes leaving out an assumed "melee damage / ranged damage / magic damage"? As written this reminds me of the much-disliked Might stat from Pillars of Eternity in removing distinction between magic and physical attacks.
I think it's for the respective skills and weapons the attribute correspond to.
Regarding the might stat, I thought it was brilliant, as was the entire POE stat system for the most part. There was an issue with might being used for physical intimidation dialog lines, which didn't fit very well thematically with wizards with high might, but I liked the concept of might being more a measure of personal power, whether it be physical or magical.
I personally think a more open-ended attribute system like POE would fit amazingly well for D:OS, something like this:
Strength would add range for all non-melee skills (including grenades, bows, and spells) and adds melee damage and reduces armor movement penalties
Dexterity increases hit chance for all weapons, initiative, movespeed, and dodge
Intelligence increases AOE area of all AOE skills, and the damage inflicted by elemental spells (including all status effects except bleeding, even if caused by a weapon)
Memory and con could stay as is, where wits would probably need some kind of change, like increasing crit chance and crit multiplier
Melee characters would have to balance between strength and dexterity for hit chance and melee damage, and would also benefit from int if they applied lots of statuses or used lots of AOE abilities. Mages would benefit from strength to add range on their skills, and dexterity if they use wands or staves or want more survivability.
These kind of radical changes aren't going to happen at this point, but I can still hope for them.
