So I just noticed something interesting while doing a quick check on the JP wiki's page that lists various formulas (
https://www54.atwiki.jp/thlabyroth2/pages/177.html), regarding some spell card damage calculation. Apparently, some utilize the user's DEF and MND as part of the damage calculation, added to ATK/MAG. Spell cards that were specified as examples were the Guardian subclass' Shield Bash (DEF) and Minoriko's personal spell cards (MND). I don't recall seeing anything that suggested such a mechanic existed in the EN wiki or the spell card formula dump on the first post, so this was a bit surprising. Decided to test it with Tenshi on the Small Kedama on 1f see what kind of numbers would occur. Had Girl of Bhava-agra and Shield Bash maxed, no modifiers otherwise. Did 5 attacks for each test, not exactly thorough but enough to see some variance.
Max ATK, 10179 ATK (0% buff) + 6534 DEF (0% buff): 25779-30628
Max ATK, 10179 ATK (0% buff) + 6534 DEF (80% buff): 29143-33190
Max ATK, 10179 ATK (80% buff) + 6534 DEF (0% buff): 43926-51376
Max ATK, 10179 ATK (80% buff) + 6534 DEF (80% buff): 47853-53726
Max DEF, 5694 ATK (0% buff) + 11682 DEF (0% buff): 18918-21621
Max DEF, 5694 ATK (0% buff) + 11682 DEF (80% buff): 24409-28004
Max DEF, 5694 ATK (80% buff) + 11682 DEF (0% buff): 31554-33318
Max DEF, 5694 ATK (80% buff) + 11682 DEF (80% buff): 37170-40083
No ATK/DEF, 5694 ATK (0% buff) + 6534 DEF (0% buff): 14714-17019
Probably sufficient evidence to confirm that DEF affects Shield Bash's damage, but I'm not really keen enough to figure out how exactly it does that. It doesn't seem especially important based on how much the damage increases, but it'd be nice to know the exact formula if that's possible. There might be other spell cards that are bolstered by defensive stats too.
Was this something that was already known? Might just be late on this lol
Unrelated, but what I was checking that page for (and couldn't find) was something like a formula for calculating hit rate. Is that something available?