Damage calculator

[Holy_Diver]

For the physical affinities using grades it would still appear powerless. No Slash/Smash/Stab or whatever, but the Raw power would be the sum of the magical or material affinities, so you could conclude that the power does not take the form of one of the physical affinities, which would actually be the case. In other words it would be a "vorpal" sword of some kind, or more likely a magic spell...

I think one approach to dealing with this could be to just not award mastery for the Void physical affinity. Since it would be an innate power in the weapon. No amount of swinging practice would make a difference. And since how you apply the weapon would have no relation to the stat then it wouldn't be clear how each swing relates to the effectiveness of the damage output. Could make these kinds of weapons popular with wizard players because they would be just as effective with or without mastery.

I reckon magic spells could work the same way too. So that if they don't have any physical affinities, then there is no benefit from mastery. Actually the power of the spell should probably just be a function of the Magic stat. Where mastery only awards modest benefits. Probably you would want to go up to 150%, so that anything over 100% is S. That way if the weapon/swing is a 50% F with complete mastery of the swing you could get a 100% A hit.