Auto Attack only doing 1 DMG

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Date & Time: Oct 24th 2024, 2pm Central
Frequency: Constant
World name: Lamia
Character name: (Effected Characters) Lillia Fellbloom, Blade Akuma
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Class/Level: Lillia: Whitemage, Blade: Redmage lvl 100 & Pictomancer
Party or solo: Party
In-game time: 5pm
Area and coordinates: Lavenderbeds Housing district
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Steps:
1. Attacking lvl 70 Striking dummy at FC House
2. Noticed Auto Attack was only doing 1 DMG even when Critical Hitting
3. Tested other classes and other players of the same class. It was only Blade's RDM (Not anyone else's RDM) that was only doing 1 auto attack damage.
4. Then we discovered his Pictomancer also had the issue, and our friend Lillia Fellbloom's Whitemage had it too.

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This is well known and it's because mages are not meant to auto-attack and are scaled to account for this fact.

Auto-attack scales off Attack Power, which scales off Strength. There is no Strength on your mage gear, so the only Strength is your basic class/job amount and race amount.

Because stats dilute and get weaker as you level, you eventually reach 1 damage or even get into negative territory as you level. But of course, you aren't going to do less than 1 damage.

Normally, stats diluting isn't a problem because we gain more of the stat to make up for it, but there is no Strength on mage gear.

My understanding is that there is a hidden physical damage stat on their weapon but it's not going far without any Strength. There is known to be a lot less base Strength on those jobs you mentioned.