Stats just straight up don't work as expected?

[Delfofthebla]

Started a run with Riel, who has +25% adaptive attack. I chose several of the skill tree things that grant a few things, such as 25% elemental power, and +25 freeze attack.

Riel also starts with +1 magic damage and I started with a magical stick that does +2 magic damage.

There are several ways all of this could math out, and none of them seem correct or even to be working properly.

1) Only your highest attack stat is used. This kinda sucks but alright. That means that my +25 freeze attack is greater than my +3 total magic damage, meaning I hit (and should use calculations for) with the freeze attack.

2) Elemental power does not appear to be modifying this at all. My 25% elemental power should increase the freeze attack by 6.25, but it does absolutely nothing. Here's my stat sheet showing this:

https://i.imgur.com/uGdmXLr.png

https://i.imgur.com/7m21LXZ.png

3) "Adaptive" attack isn't adaptive at all. Riel gets a 25% boost to this, and my assumption is that this would be a sort of "global" multiplier to all attack damage of any kind. Nope. It appears to only give damage to the "adaptive attack" number, of which only one weapon in the entire game exists of. Since that set isn't very strong and this character already starts with it, there is zero use to this stat. It's worthless. It will never scale up to anything meaningful, and it won't apply to any number that actually matters.

I'm sure there's more problems than just this. This is the second character I've tried and it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess.

[MrGoldenTom]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm also having issues with the math. I just want to figure out how power works. from the tooltip: "multiplies all attack damage". but power is usually given as +30%. multiply vs add vs percentage. what?? currently playing Kinno. her attack damage listed is Magic 1.23K. If you mouse over it, I get: +251 Magic Attack, +23% penetration, +523 Wisdom, +2 total Attacks, +30% Power. I've tried a few equations to come up with 1.23K from those numbers, but to no avail. it would be nice if there were some transparency, or perhaps bug fixes in math or wording. having said all that, the game is great. I'm enjoying it. I just wish it weren't so cryptic.