Weapon Defense vs. Damage Taken

Interesting how Maple's been out this long and nobody bothered finding out the wep def formula. Most of the other formulas have been found already.

It's not an easy one to figure out from ingame tests, a lot of things affect it
- monster atk
- player defense
- player str
- player class
- player level

Only 1 of these (defense) is easy to vary without affecting the rest, and there's no stat screen showing how much damage monsters do so the only way to find out is to keep bumping the monster until you've seen the highest and lowest damage it does, which takes longer and costs more than most other ingame formulas.


The trouble is also magnitude - only the monster atk has a noticeable effect (+130 monster atk = ~3k damage for Horntail) while the rest are tiny (+200 defense = ~90 damage difference, +1000 str = ~200 damage difference, +200 levels = ~200 difference again, and the classes affect how these numbers interact - a beginner's str barely changes the damage they take.)