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Originally Posted by Faranox
In real life strength determines the maximum draw weight of a bow you can use. Dexterity would determine your skill with it (aiming, hand positioning, etc).
So I don't know that Strength should be the most important thing.
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I would say, if you are firing a bow with maybe a 50 lbs draw weight or less then Dexterity is probably more important than Strength but the more powerful your bow the more important Strength gets. I don't agree that Dex is your skill level, as you say. Your skill level is your skill level (Archery/Ranged Combat). Dex would mostly factor into how fluid your draw is, probably how smoothly you knock and hold the arrow to the string and your hand eye coordination. Important, but not nearly as important as the necessary ability of being able to pull back the string. Good luck killing anything but a deer that is moving or wearing armor with a 50 lbs pull bow.
I agree that Dex should factor. I also agree that Strength is more important. I'm sick of seeing a million Legolas clones in every high-fantasy game because "strength is for melee, dex is for ranged." Personally, depending on the weapon, I think melee takes significantly more dexterity than archery.