ok people talking about hitting a rank 1 marmot and comparing it to something else, you should really stop, there are numerous reasons why this is often the case. point blank what i as a level 44 can do to a rank 1 marmot is totally irrelevant, because i get no exp for this. Take data based on monsters within a reasonable range of your charachter. test on things that are within 10 levels of you, or up to +15

take into account not all monsters are the same in this game, some have virtually no defense, some have a ton of defense.

The type of tests you people are talking about would also fail in FFXI btw. testing my weapons on a level 1 mob, my attack will not matter at all. testing my damage on admantoise, increasing my attack by 100 will cause a barely noticeable gain in damage per attack. if this is you guys data, your data is very poor, and it is no wonder that you can look only to dlevel because it is the simplest way to increase your damage.