Talk:Parameter Bonus/@comment-90.145.11.77-20161123151250

Because it can't be said enough: TotalAttackRating isn't actually used in-game for anything except being shown in the menu. It's a useless number.

For example a weapon with a PhysicalRating of 330 and no magic, fire or lightning attack will probably do about 170 damage to an enemy with 250 physical and magic defense, while a weapon with 200 PhysicalRating and 200 MagicRating for a TotalAttackRating of 200+200=400, will only do around 110 damage to the same enemy.

That's because the PhysicalRating and MagicRating are actually used separately to calculate the damage, and lower attack gets cut by defense much more badly than higher attack.