Paracelsus Wrote:What if each class itself has an unseen 'Natural Defense'?
They do, it's just easier to relate it to player level.
As you level up, your "natural defense" goes down, resulting in 6 damage at level 5 becoming 15-16 damage for magicians, 25 for a thief.
Since Blue Snails do so little damage anyway, the effect is smaller - on something like Bains the class gap is upwards of 100. It costs more to demonstrate that though, and low levels can't even take a hit.
The same formula applies to monster atk/m.atk in every test I've done, there's no reason to believe they're different. I figured out the original formula by estimating from the Crimson Balrog's magic and physical attacks. It's just less common for the m.atk of each spell a monster uses to be listed, most sites only list the monster's matk which is not even linked to an attack in every case.