i use this earring with my samurai, is pretty great, yes you may use sushi to loose the loss compared to a trumph earring 6lvls later but no dought this earing is 1337 for those who have to use Dex+str for their WS's and dont got alot of gil to toss around, this helps with Crit dmg too, i sub /rng and the dex gives me a lil kick i like, people can say the earring is crap if tehy wish but for me its pretty darn good for all dmg classes in hte melee department, because Dex effects Ranged Acc more then normal Melee attackers,
so +2 dex is 4.7% acc melee boost and ranged attackers score teh whole 5.0% though the earring gives only +1 dex so i am getting 2.5% of that Ranged attack bonus to my stats
in notes towards STR effects Attack dmg cap limit, as it is shown if you do lets say +2 str to stats
thats +1 attack point, and improves your dmg limit by some,
a earring like this works great with a Samurai, Gekko if you **** +25 STR you will see good results unlike what str i have now which is +42 so far and +47 Str with sushi, if i may i would suggest to use harvest earring(for the MND) if your samurai when you get Kasha, because what i seen with my suzzy boots my dmg increased dematicly, from +39 str i got when i dont use my Rutter Sabatons to using my suzarku boots i see a great increase of dmg, breaking the 1k mark with Kasha,
the +3 acc from minuet is like +6 dex if you think about it, but only effects melee, and isnt visiable to the eye, so totally you get +7 Dex and +1 str ,
this is my research and i am sticking to it, if you are a samurai try to get a pair of Suzarku boots and see what i mean