Quote Originally Posted by Shayuki View Post
How exactly do you gather this, especially by using this logic? Red Mage's spells would be in the 240-300 potency range per GCD, a bit over 280 on average. Fire IV with Enochian is a 491 potency spell, for example. And Foul is 682.5 potency, every 30 seconds. Red Mage can on avarage melee after 17 GCDs(41s with 2.4s GCD) of build up or so, far less often than Black Mage can cast Foul. So I don'treally see how Red Mage's DPS is looking "incredibly high", or higher than BLM's. I would even go as far as to say that outside of Red Mage's melee combo, their DPS will be closer to Black Mage in Umbral Ice than Astral Fire.
Mostly because Red Mage is Dual Casting them, while I admit none of us really know the specifics of Red Mage and how this plays out in game, but they will reach about a similar level as BLM.

I am not denying Enochian potency or arguing with you over the Fire 4s, they are nasty... and even at the nerfed 260 potency with 3 stacks of fire for 80% damage they are impressive... so the nerf is not going to make a difference at all unlike the Nerfs to Summoner which kill it in places.

But you also have to dip out of Fire stacks as a BLM and go back to Ice Magic. So you only get that part time.

That's why I said the Red Mage will likely come out on top.

I didn't say BLM was going to suck or anything so I think you have me wrong on that one.