Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Why does Marksman skills stat bonus change?

Marksman skills show the phrase "Damage is based on your basic attack and receives bonus from STAT" like other skills do.

But, depending on who you look at them with, the STAT in the tooltip changes. If you look at them with a character that has Strength higher than any other stat, the STAT in the tooltip will say "Strength". Highest Intelligence, it will say "Intelligence"; highest Finesse, it will say "Finesse".

Is this a feature, so that STR or INT based characters can use Bow/Ranged skills, or is it simply a bug and should read "Finesse" always?

It depends on your weapon type. However, you can only use most damaging marksman skills with bows/crossbows, so functionally finesse is the only stat that scales the damage, so it probably should just always say finesse.