Magic Attack adjustment to Wyverns based on Item Level not working
Platform: PC
ISP: Verizon fios
Type of Internet Connection: Cable
Internet Connection Speed: 10 Mb
Date & Time: 10/8/13 5:51PM EST
Frequency: Always
Character Name: Seraphus
Race: Male Hume
World: Cerberus
Main Job: Dragoon
Support Job: Samurai
Area and Coordinates: Ceizak Battlegrounds
Party or Solo: Solp
NPC Name:Hien(my Wyvern)
Monster Name: Blanched Mandragora
Steps:
1) Call Wyvern
2) Use Spirit Link twice so that the Wyvern has a maximum parameter boost(or gain 1000 EXP)
3) Unequip everything except Upukirex, Glassblower Belt, Wyrm Armet+2, and Lancer's Torque.
4) Make certain the Wyvern is at 100% HP and use Smiting Breath.
The damage should be 444 which is the same value as before this update.
Alternatively:
Follow the same steps but for 3) also equip: Wyvern Mail, Ostreger Mitts, Wyrm Greaves+2, Drachen brais+1, Lancer's Earring and Updraft Mantle.
5) Make sure Wyvern has no TP.
Now use a Healing Breath from low HP, notice it heals for 1244, which is 10HP more than it healed before this update.
It is known that breath potency is based on the wyvern's HP statistic. Magic Attack does not bolster a Wyvern's breath whatsoever(this is evident by when you copy a "Magic Attack Boost" effect to your wyvern with a Wizard's Roll or Ascetic's Tonic, using Spirit Link with an Empathy trait merited. Since Magic Attack does not boost a Wyvern's breath potency, why was this added in the October 7th update?
It seems as if breath potency was largely unchanged(if any change is there it's nigh unnoticeable). Were wyvern's given a 'Magic Attack boost' with the erroneous intent to boost breath damage? Or was 'Magic Attack' a colloquial way to say the underlying statistic which governs breath damage? In either case, the other bonuses to Wyverns seem to be working (Attack/Accuracy/Defense) but the Magic Attack seems wonky. It literally seems like my Elemental Breaths received 0 damage bonus and Healing Breaths are relatively the same compared to previously noted values from pre-update.