[Kameron8]

What if we looked back a bit on old formulas and made STR add additional numbers to the SWA for basic attacks only, rather than roll back to a bug?

I am hesitantly supportive of this. Originally I had hoped to just see all applicable weapons have their scaling shifted to use Strength, but it seems extremely unlikely a change of that scale will be introduced now. I like the idea of making Strength more useful for damage, and think this is probably a good way to increase the number of viable weapons that can be used, but have some concerns.

There are so many different ways to pad stats, that many people who have 50 or more Strength also already have their defenses covered. In that regard, this change rewards people for piling on as many raw stats as they can -- a situation I think is already too prevalent. People with some combination of Hands of the Giant, Death Knighting, Vampire passives, Verglas, Ki Awoken, and Fugu Katsu can get pretty much anything they want, and soft cap almost every stat. I also believe that's a different problem entirely that should be addressed, but the concern is there.

The only other topic of contention from me is Excel Weapons. Assuming the power bonus is a 1:1 Strength to Power ratio, an excel weapon could gain hundreds of damage from this.