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Actually, the way shadow partner works, it'll make this:

Damage from total -> 50%. That 50% x200% will become 100%, making Shadow partner effectively hit the same as you do.

There's proof ingame right now, too. With advanced star mastery, avenger gets an increase of 25% damage, right? Well, the shadow partner hits with avenger turn out to be... 62.5% out of your total damage, already increased by that 25%.

That means you hit 125% from the total, plus a 62.5% from shadow partner OFF THAT 125%, adding to a total of 203.125, out of the normal 150% it'd be. Only on avenger, Drain, and the skills it affects.

With the x2 damage thing, what's going on is that you effectively hit 200% out of the normal attacks, only to make that become 100%
out of that on your SP. That means you hit 200%, your shadow partner hits 200% too... Making it a total of 400% out of the original 150% with shadow partner... In fact, adding that to avenger makes Shadow partner hit MORE than you. Now add more buffs as needed, to make shadow partner hit more than you everywhere.

Thank you!
I think I got it now. Thanks, I mean it.

I guess it makes sense from the perspective that it balances out their damage (although in a rather complicated way).
Goes to show you, though, that the game wasn't designed with rebirthing in mind since their numbers only accounted for a single buff.

Sorry that I don't "Elitist Jerks" a VIDEO GAME like MapleStory? If I wanted to do math, I'd take a math course.
I mean I'm all for "Number Crunching" and all, but for this game, I just can't come to cope with it.
Also I've had Bob on my BL for years now and I'm still confused on his choice of words lol

EDIT: Ninja edit

Knowing whether or not Blast adds minimum critical damage has absolutely nothing to do with doing math.
I also fail to see how I'm being an "elitist jerk". Jerk, yeah, probably. Elitist? No.
If I thought I were special, I wouldn't have expected you to know that about Blast.

Your first sentence is quite ironic though.
I guess it's harder to be a class elitist when everyone and their mother is making one. Then again, I've seen people figure out how to do it.
And pointing out that Maplestory is a video game doesn't change the fact that most everyone on this forum devotes an enormous amount of time towards it in one way or another.

As for Bob, I used to be a big fan, but that was before I started taking occasional peaks into Nexon's forums.