well, my mage uses mainly spells so, he uses fire nova, ice nova and cataclysm (mostly cataclysm lol) a lot. started a fighter, and raised all the stats except for vit to 70, left vit at 10, which gave me 60 life, and still couldn't hit anything. i was wearing deathlord armor and using the demon blade of charrus. i started him over, fortunately, i saved as soon as i started the char, and only upped str so i could wear my armor and weapons. killin like a madman now..lol. i think it's not any one specific stat, but a combination of all that adjusts the monsters capabilities. why would they make it like that? lol.. even at high levels when your stats would be up that high, you still wouldn't be able to kill anything without those awesome uber-spells..lol.. either way, this game is great. i especially like the cataclysm spell. if there's no monsters around you, you can see explosions off in the distance where monsters are. and in spots like the hidden rooms in ulm dungeon, below the mansion, where monsters respawn in the same location, if the spell is still in effect as the next is spawning, they die too..
