Bandit Class Stat Advice

what I did was play a dex-less sin until I maxed savage blow around lv 43, where I then switched to a scrolled maple wagner. At lv 64 you can try to get a good scrolled maple dark mate or maple asura (both dexless). You can stay dexless and calculate the amount of dex+str you'd need to add to reach the requirement for 60str and 120dex for a khanjar at lv 80, factoring in other items such as a zhelmet, scrolled clothes and deputy star.

If you train purely using meso explosion (which you should) and don't care for your other forms of damage, you can stay low dex/str using lv 80 items until lv 120 where you need 75str and 150dex for your dragon khanjar and kanzir.

Be careful about adding too much str/dex, as you only need enough to cover what you want to equip.

 

For end game you want to be low STR and low DEX to wear a Dragon Khanjar and Kanzir. Before that you can be completely DEXless/STRless. You should start adding into DEX and STR somewhere during 3rd job. When you do that depends on how much STR and DEX you get through equips, but as long as you got 75 STR and 150 DEX by lvl 120 you're good. Before 120 there should be enough available daggers that have low or no stat requirements e.g. korean fan, maple weapons, diamond dagger, fan, kebob. On top of that your 3rd job skill meso explosion doesn't even take into account your w.att, so if you're mainly grinding using that your weapon won't even matter until 4th job. Hope this is helpful, if you got any more questions hmu!~

 

Something to watch out for when trying to get str equipment is that the only things you can scroll for str are Capes, Overalls, and Topwear. Shields too, but that hardly matters since it doesn't help when trying to equip a (d)khanjar. Because of this, items which give base str or +all stat are really valuable for bandits.

Some equips which give base STR/all stat I'd recommend trying to get are:
-Squishy Shoes(kpq)/Fonla's Slippers(Floating Market quest)
-Broken Glasses(lpq)
-Glittering Altaire Earrings(epq)
-Red Work Gloves
-Ellin Savior's Ring (Ellin Forest quests)
-Goblin Cape (Korean Folk Town quests)
-Deputy Star (NLC quests)
-Zakum Helmet/Scarlion Helmet (STR)
-Monster Book Ring (get on grinding those monster cards!)

About the dep star, not much point in buying one at 50 because you won't really need the stat boost it gives until 80. For the quests, you'll need someone to help you with bigfoot, but the rest can all be done by yourself at 80 thanks to meso bomb.

One other thing to note is that if you have 35 str by 65, you can opt for a Fan over a Dark Mate. This is especially nice if you're short on cash because Dark Mates are fairly expensive meanwhile Fans are quite cheap. If you really want to equip a Fan but you're a few str short you can try scrolling stolen fence for str. If you're unable to get a zhelm by that point, you can also use a Blue Bamboo Hat which gives 3 str.