Attack
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[edit] General Informaiton
Attack, or ATK, is the stat that dictates how hard you hit; more specifically, higher Attack means you'll hit closer to max damage more often. It weights the DI roll of your attacks in favor of higher damage. Its opposing stat is AC, which weights incoming attacks' DI rolls in favor of lower damage.
[edit] Gaining Attack
There are several ways to increase one's Attack statistic. Having a higher level skill for your mainhand weapon will increase Attack. Increasing Strength will also increase Attack. There are also items and buffs that have raw +Attack (originally the old Vengeance I, Vengeance X, etc effects).
+Attack on items is hard capped at 250, with a series of AAs (Enhanced Aggression) that increase the cap by 10 per level. This AA has five ranks from Depths of Darkhollow, when it was introduced, and five ranks from The Serpent's Spine.Secrets of Faydwer introduced another 5 ranks.
