You said Dex was useless but then mention the Sun Bow, which I assume is a bow & not a staff. Did you use Dex characters or not? I got to 39 battles (far from your near 100!) so any advice would be appreciated.
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So a "class" is what your dwarf will level up when recieving enough XP.
Dex is like shitty strength for melees, BUT the sun bow (a dex weapon) scales insanely well with wisdom (healer class). So usually i have a2-3 dedicated healers, one of which will be switched to archer at about round 40+ (sun bow starts to shine when against 20+ enemies.)
Sunbow has a mana cost of 120, which means you 45 wisdom to twoshot into spell/special, this is very hard without leveling wisdom
this effectively mean to get a GOOD ARCHER you need a great mediocre healer first.
The healer is mediocre because the best healers are old mages, since most healing scales both with wisdom AND intelligence.
read the guide ingame, explains most everything,
Dex is okayish lategame, but pre round 40 it is worthless IMO
you have 10 damage, what is better
1% speed
or
10% pure damage.
That is the difference we're talking round between Strength and dex for melee
sorry for rambling lol
i will say daggers can be decent, and yet they scale better with strength, no dex weapon actually benefits the most from dex imo