Wow, trolling has already made its way over here to the official forums. Or being clueless...or both...heck, they are not mutually exclusive sometimes.

I guess I will feed some flame to the potential troll fire, and ask exactly how race and subjob affect the calculations in this matter. The benefits that both provide can be broken down into stats. For example, dark knights attack bonus. As well as variants in basic stats.

As far as a statistical viewpoint is concerned, at least one side of the argument has posed numbers that may be tested for validity once the servers come back up. Even without a parser, it is not too hard to, if one is really dedicated, to actually read back through unfiltered chat logs and...put in damage into an excel file...via writing down by hand back before the official windowed mode, and window by window after it was released.

At the end of the day though this thread has provided a great deal of entertainment to me, and I have enjoyed reading it immensely. I will continue to do so.