Okay so, I was messing around with my mage and ea's gear, figured my mage had more atk level engraves (3 atk more than my ea) but in the character menu (letter C screen pop up...thingie) my mage has only 1 atk level more than my ea, so I took off the gear of both. Without any gear my ea has 11 atk level while my mage only has 9..Later I used an eye of observation on Zhake, another mage, gear wise he has only 1 atk more than me but according to the eye he has 2 atk more. So Im really confused about what affects the base atk level we have and how to increase it or if it's random
TL; DR Why is my atk level gearless lower compared to others and how to modify it