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The low damage on auto attacks for Casters comes from the fact that during ARR it was optimal for casters to stay in melee range, since auto attacks go on even while casting spells, in order to deal more damage.
These wonky numbers are probably a result of the fix to that problem that SE didn't like.
The devs are trying ro speak to us in mysterious ways
Bludgeoning damage breaks bones.
The autos is very nice dmg in low lvl dungeons as a whm I think autos are 1/3rd or half of your stone cast dmg, if we want to talk about weird and useless things Smn heal late game is about a 1.8% heal and early game doesn't get much use either
Magic stack for books
Hittins you with them learnings
if you are actually curious why that is:
BLM's jobmod for str is the lowest in the whole game. In fact it's so low that if you put it into the level 90 damage formula, you would do negative damage. It's most likely an oversight based on how the numbers turn out, since previous expansions you didn't have the issue. So basically BLM does 1 damage only (even with crits) is because it can't do negative damage! If you wanna start doing damage, you would need at least 190 STR
Way way back when, there was actually merit to AAs on BLM for parses, it didn't scale at all post ARR, might have been a touch in HW but it was there then suddenly post stat squish the number kept going lower, why must you do this Square, I know the pen is mightier than the sword but the paper too??
Knowledge is power. And concussion.
Wait what?!
funny thing is, a lower level black mage has more auto attack damage 😀
the book does mental damage
Knowledge is power.
insert Kahdgar WoW Ball here.
submit to the forums, and see if this is intentional lol
So observant hahaha, bec the book have primals that's why.
It's because the book channels the power of our mighty summoner dongs.
Literally bible bashing
the book auto attack does enough damage to be a (small but decent) gain on 1 as SCH at level 50. art of war has the same potency as ruin at lvl 50. using art of war leaves space for the book auto, though, because its an instant cast. the book auto is quite high (relatively, of course), it does about 1/5th the damage of 1 art of war cast, so in 5 gcd's youve gained 1 gcd worth of damage. useful? no. stupid and fun? absolutely.
“KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, MF!”
—Sun Tsu, Art of Kombat
Paper cuts hurt like hell 😂
BOOK!
I used to shout “book” when running out of mana and resulting to auto attacks.