they are seperate it's jsut the way that it's set up that sucks. it's like this:

oora affinity:
strength +3
slightly increases chance of critcast (i'm guessing is magic crit)

widu affinity:
intellect +1
resistance +1 (magic resistance)
increases resilience (evasion)
slightly increases crit strike bonus damage (i'm guessing is physical crit)

pyra affinity:
int +3
slightly increases chance of crit strike

erda affinity:
strength +1
defense +1
increases accuracy
slightly increases critcast bonus damage

as you can see things that a physical damage user and a magic damage user would want are mixed in together. you also only get 5 stat points every 5 levels and it seems that you can only put 3 points into one stat at a time. this is annoying me <_<

Yeah they are separate. That's why it's confusing. By the looks of it though... all skills are magic based. So if you're going to spamming skills it's not a bad idea to increase magic crit %? That's what I get out of it at least...

EDIT: And to even raise element that your skills use???! Agh... just even more confusing.

not all, the first rogue skill is physical, the second rogue skill is oora. i don't know if increasing affinity for a certain type also increases the damage of skills of that type more than increasing int would but since oora is also the strength stat i'm using that D:

The Shaman's first attack is physical, and the second attack is Widu. But the Healing factor is based on Intellect, so increasing Widu hasn't been a problem. I've been increasing that and Pyra.

My ranger has wood and water based skills. Yet fire is what increases intellect which seems to be what allows for more damage... looking at the weapon. It has more intellect than str. O-o

It'll take some spreadsheet magician to come along and work out "perfect" builds one way or the other, heh.

Back in RO I had a stat/gear builder Java ap I used to test out various builds for WoE/PvP and Boss Monster runs.

The Mystic's heal realllyyyyyyy annoys me >_<;; I have 480 HP and I only heal for 57.

And if no one is doing this, then this is directed at no one.

QFT!

The Shaman's heal is over time, so it's not really useful in a pitched battle. I think it's like 17HP every 2 seconds for 8 seconds or something ridiculous like that. And that's upgraded to as high as a lvl 14 can go. Meh.