stat caps - specifically str, autoattack, and /weaponstat

[Tyr]

<div></div>So a couple of weeks ago, I looked at my stats and after raid buffs, I had 750 str... and I was like cool!  I watched the fairly large orange numbers jump over the mobs head and thought wow... that makes alot of difference. So I heard about a cap on stats, searched the forums, and found a post that said str is capped for combat arts, but not autoattack... so I thought cool... that's awesome.Now, I've been paying more attention and I'm not sure it was the str... and I think it was a dps bonus from someone in my group from the raid more than the str I had.  So today I just started searching for more info to back up the idea that the cap only affects combat arts...I found:http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=34&message.id=12025&query.id=349000#M12025And<a href="../view_profile?user.id=66381" target="_blank"><span></span></a> EskelEQ2 posted: "STR over cap still go to your auto attack"This seems to be the only thing I can find regarding this, yet there's no proof to back this up.  I know I have seen it elsewhere too tho.So the other day, I swapped between two weapons between pulls, one with str and one without (I had about 575 str group buffed).. and did a /weaponstat and nothing changed.Has anyone checked for this and been able to confirm?  I am planning on testing this tonight in game to see what I can find... but while at work, thought it would be interesting to see if anyone else has tried this before.Thanks!

[Shagg]

I think the difference is that beyond the STR cap your Attack Rating can still increase. This affects your hit percentage, not the total damage dealt per hit. It probably gives diminishing returns over the cap but returns none the less. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Rokjin]

I looked into this.. at STR cap of 490, my auto-attack with /weapon stats was about 100-300, with ~540 str or 530, it was about 1-2 points of damage higher on max/min. So, yes, it still goes up, however it's a fairly tiny amount, at the largest being about 10-20 str per 1 point of auto-attack damage. (I'm massively overestimating since from my testing it seemed more like 40 str per 1 point)

[Luk]

<div><blockquote><hr>Rokjin wrote:<div></div>I looked into this.. at STR cap of 490, my auto-attack with /weapon stats was about 100-300, with ~540 str or 530, it was about 1-2 points of damage higher on max/min. So, yes, it still goes up, however it's a fairly tiny amount, at the largest being about 10-20 str per 1 point of auto-attack damage. (I'm massively overestimating since from my testing it seemed more like 40 str per 1 point)<hr></blockquote>just one thing to point out here, the return you see going from 490 to 530 is probably the because the cap for stats is 7 x level plus 20, so 510 at level 70.</div>