Character Card System

They don't, I had S+S and S+A warrior sets and both only gave the S bonus.

Base HP is a pain in the butt to figure out now because it can come from a lot of sources. My Dark Knight has around 9800-10000 base and ~26k total with HB. On the characters I know the base HP of, the warrior set bonus does seem to use it. I suppose I can check how it goes on my Battle Mage.

Testing the Paladin bonus would be easiest using something with a bad damage range, +220 onto my 30k range is not going to show up and at this point passive buffs mean even a crappy weapon gives me a 10k range. Are there any thief/bowman/mage weapons a Warrior can use that don't use the str+dex formula? (last time I checked, 4 years ago, wands on a warrior are effectively stab-only axes)

ok, i tested this with the bucc card, speaking of, @takebacker: i recommend you find a chair and sit, what comes isn't pretty.

for starters, bucc set effect is your level multiplied by the rank, mine was B, so 2*195.
if you have done the empress might quest, this counts as 10 extra levels, so i was actually gaining 410 (2*205) instead of 390
the bucc bonus displays in your range window as added to your range, so a class with 0% mastery and 0-1000 range would look like this: 410-1410
here comes the worst part, your damage is calculated from your REGULAR range, not the BUCC'D range, so any skills and whatnot are actually running from the 0-1000 range
once your damage has been calculated, THEN the bucc bonus is added on top of it, example:

class with range "410-1410" (without bucc 0-1000"
has a skill which is 200% damage and ignores all pdr, also has 1.5 min&max crit multiplier

(0*2)+410 = min damage possible
(1000*2)+410= max damage possible
(0*2*1.5)+410= min critical damage
(1000*2*1.5)+410= max critical damage.

so this means...
...that a level 200 bucc would, at the BEST scenario possible, be an increase of 1050 points of damage

conclusion: buccs character deck effect SUCKS, and paladin's/I/L is probably the same, but even worse
conclusion #2: nexon hates pirates and pallies, I/L too i guess.

edit: apparently, the increase in damage from pallies DOES get multiplied by skills (follows the same rule of the empress might thing), it's:

rounded down, then added to your range, and from then on the new ranges are used for calculation, so comparing a level 200 pally vs a level 200 bucc, the pally wins if after skills, crits and whatnot, your multiplier is 5x or more (they still suck hard though)