Dark Knight Mastery (resolved)

Quit comparing apples to oranges

Weapons have different ranges
Dex also has a pretty notable factor on minimum damage

A bunch of other shit that might matter here

Not a bug

 

AFAIK spears and polearms have a large damage range, and I'm assuming your crusader friend uses a sword, which has very stable damage in comparison. So methinks it's just the way spears/polearms are.

Blunt weapons and axes have unstable damage too; you might wanna check with axe and BW users to see if their damage is more unstable than the sword wielders.

 

I'm pretty sure the minimum range is irrelevant in 3rd job because it includes the lower attack multiplier (80%? idk) on spear swing/polearm stab. If that's the case, your effective minimum damage would be 1.25x higher after 3rd job.

edit: DrK also gets more mastery in 4th job iirc

 

Few things you need to realize when comparing,

1. You probably don't have the same equips and stats
2. You are comparing 2 different weapons (Different weapons have a higher/lower multiplier)
3. You are 2 different classes (DrK's in 4th job have a skill that further increases their mastery)

So no it's not a bug, don't worry!

 

No worries. I figured that certain weapons would have a larger damage range but I didn't expect the range to be this large too.

That is a very good point too that I didn't think of.

 

The link: https://ayumilovemaple.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/maplestory-formula-compilation/

This is my go-to for damage calcs; However, I'm not sure if legends uses the same formulas. (However, the formulas mirror what Merky and Hyoon were saying).

**Rumor has it -- that if this discussion get interesting enough -- Navi will show up and literally copy + paste the relavent lines of code into the discussion thread**