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every str does 1% armor penetration which works awesome on high AL enemies so not havin str isnt a good idea if u want high damage Strength only does anything when you hit with attack skills, which won't be the majority of your hits. It only effects the damage done by the weapon portion of the hit, not the bonus damage. Finnaly, the armor penatration has a minimal effect. Never sacrifice points in weapon mastery for str, unless you want to do less damage, or inless you need str skills on a PvE war.

Armor penetration reduces the enemy target's armor by a certain percentage. Say you have 10% AP and you hit a 100 Armor target. You reduce 100 Armor by 10% so now the enemy has 90 Armor when you hit. Therefore showing how ineffective of a mod it is.

Armor Penetration

Armor Penetration is incredibly straightforward - it simply allows you to ignore the listed percentage of the target's total defense. If a given attack has 10% armor penetration and the target has an armor level of 100, he will only have an armor rating of 90 for the purposes of defending against this attack. Thus the armor penetration equation:

[Armor Rating] = [Armor Level] × (1 - [Armor Penetration] / 100)


To give you an idea of how this works, here's a piece of the armor effectiveness table, adjusted for various levels of Armor Penetration:

Effect of Armor PenetrationArmor Level 0% Penetration 5% Penetration 10% Penetration 25% Penetration 50% Penetration
40 141% 146% 152% 168% 200%
50 119% 124% 130% 148% 183%
60 100% 105% 111% 130% 168%
70 84.1% 89.3% 94.9% 114% 154%
80 70.7% 75.8% 81.2% 100% 141%
90 59.5% 64.3% 69.5% 87.8% 130%
100 50% 54.5% 59.5% 77.1% 119%


So while our 30 damage attack from the previous examples dealt a paltry 11.6 damage to a well-defended Warrior, that same attack with 50% armor penetration would deal:

30 × 2(( 60 - (80 + 20 + 15) × (1 - (50 / 100)) ) / 40) = 31.3 damage


An attack with 50% armor penetration cuts through Knight's Armor as though it were nothing more than Master's Robes. If you're having trouble taking down a target with an exceptional armor rating, attacks with armor penetration are exactly what you're looking for. Answer on armor penatration.