Actually, I fought a capped pure-DEX fighter in fbz1 one day. It was CRAZY. I was running around in 50 armor with my +9 50 axe and she was also using 50 gears, though I knew she was capped or near cap. So we went at it and I missed a ridiculous amount of times. So I switched over to my BK and regular gears, which are STR/END/DEX and still was missing a surprising amount for using a BK. So I would say DEX is not a complete loss. Though I suppose if you calculate the advantages of a DEX build against a BK vs a different build... the overall evade isn't great enough to make up for the opportunity cost of putting the free stat into DEX.
Oh yeah, and now that I have a new, high-END hat, my HP crept up to ~4.3k, yay
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