Does anyone know much about this?

One thing I noticed early on is that ACN/SCH/SMN have substantially higher auto-attack damage than the other mage classes/jobs (e.g. I hit for like 10-20 damage at lv50 with BLM wands, but with SMN books I hit for ~70 and crit over 100)

I hypothesized that the reason for this is that the pet's auto attacks are based on your weapon physical damage (which exists but isn't displayed for mage weapons), but i have recieved conflicting signals on this from people. Some people insist that INT and your offensive properties are the factors in pet auto attack damage. Others have said that pet auto attack is based on your STR (but I find this hard to believe, otehrwise you'd see SMN gear that has all stats on it, not just INT and VIT).

I've done a little testing on this but i don't have anywhere near enough data to come to any conclusions. Some people look at me funny when I auto attack (from behind) on SMN but then I point out to them that it isn't the same awfulness as what comes from BLM or WHM, and adds a small bit of extra damage in between Ruin IIs when fighting mobs that don't have massive circle AoEs.

anyway, possible flames aside, has anyone done any research on this? regardless of your actual opinion on SMN's auto attack damage, it's significantly higher than any other mage, so I'm wondering if there is a specific reason for it (because something about pets is based on it).