Quote Originally Posted by Palladiamors View Post
I'm not trying to be rude here, but its almost like you aren't aware that they adjusted the stats garnered from armor to make up for the lack of a main weapon, on top of having a 50% main and mend. So no, a level 5 black mage weapon would not be a good comparison. Not even close. But without actually knowing the coefficients we can't make a good comparison.
No I am pretty aware of the "higher INT scaling" and the 3 Maim and Mend traits instead of 2. The scaling is still terrible. Your 120 potency spells are still hitting like wet noodles at 50. At level 50 1 weapon damage was worth 7~11 of the main stat. The comparison was using a level 1 weapon where you only have 1 WD vs a level 5 weapon where you have 2 to see how visible the difference is. BLU does have a pretty bad scaling issue compared to the other jobs.