I want to stop playing Summoner.... But I cant

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BLM - Flare - Astral 3 ~ 364 Potency
SMN - B2MB @ 9 Seconds 330 Potency + M2 Potency 50 Potency - Total 380 Potency (@ 18s it's potentially 660 + 70 - 730 Potency - So 2 Flares @ AS3)

I don't want to get in the middle of the "SMN sucks now bawww" and "no you suck" argument flying back and forth here, but I did want to jump in for this point.

Astral Fire III boosts damage by 80%, boosting the 260 potency of Flare to 468 on a single target. 364 potency would be Flare under Astral Fire I (40% boost), and it would be 416 under Astral Fire II (60% boost).

Edit: Ha, I got beat to the punch by Shinryu, probably while I was mathing the AFI and AFII numbers.

Flare in AF3 (+80%) is 468 potency. In 9s, without Convert, Mega Ether, or even Swiftcast a BLM could do 828 potency per target. It's not like Flare is a BLM's only spell.

And even if Flare was BLM's only spell, getting 3 of them off in 9 seconds is child's play with the use of Convert, some type of Ether, and Swiftcast. That's 1404 potency per target in 9 seconds without even being tricky with the timing.