Anyone have the damage parameters down to a science??

[Holy_Diver]

Also, if you do like me and use one of the first three attack types, keep in mind that the physical/magical defense slider for monsters basically just adds to the first 3 / last 5 affinities uniformly. So most likely you want to stop relying on that, and just make sure those stay equal. In other words, they don't actually discriminate between whether you're attacking with a weapon or magic, so really the wording can be a little misleading if you don't pay attention to the weird polygon graph.

I really don't think SoM has enough going on in the pierce dept to make it a worthwhile affinity. But if you're doing a game in the classic KF vein, then might as well stick with that I guess.