[Trexmaster]

yeah and willpower wasn't a part of non mages elemental attack pre gr either

Skills like crystal rose and oilchain scaled off pure old stats skill and str.

Dear god I can keep looping back every positive arguement for making willpower elemental attack for mages as a reason that it shouldn't be part of the elemental attack for weapon users, this thread was made for mages, when the living hell did you turn it into a god damn veiled attempt to nerf elemental attack for non spell casters.

Non mages didn't have elemental attack pre-gr. It wasn't a thing before the GR.

Yes, they scaled on stats those classes were supposed to have for doing things their class was supposed to do anyways, and now those stats have been converted into elemental attack in those equations. There was a suggestion buried in this thread to alleviate this issue (it's on like, page 3 iirc), but, we'll see what Dev might end up doing to make this less painful for those cases, or maybe they'll just be left to suffer. Who knows. Could just have them run off the scaled stat instead, now.

As to your last paragraph and some change...Chaos originally suggested the idea for WIL to be 1/4th of where each elemental attack comes from. It solves the same issue (making WIL more desirable to mages/in general), just not in a 'it's better now' way. This way the upper limits of elemental attack remain about the same and a bit harder to achieve. Worst case scenario you'll lose like, 10-12 elemental attack, and very few skills scale any higher than 100% bar Youkai skills (but those are their own bag of worms, and summoners generally rock WIL anyways).

Ninja'd by Kam, but, yeah. I won't comment on the weapon scaling debacle aside from 'less focus on tank stats murdering people is good'.