Quote Originally Posted by Ryaz View Post
So, looking at the newest vids about Samurai changes, looks like all our potencies were nerfed HARD. Haven't looked at the other jobs yet, so I'm assuming it's the same for them. It's definitely painful to see, even if it was expected.
They covered physical Potencies in the last Live Letter. To quote from the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVI Digest (9/30/2021):

Another adjustment has been made not only to tank jobs, but all physical damage jobs in general. Thus far, FFXIV has used separate battle calculation formulas for physical and magical attacks. Between the two, magical attacks were given a higher base value to compensate for more intricate calculations, but these values will be unified in Patch 6.0. Because the base value of physical attacks will be raised to the same value of magical attacks, action potencies will become smaller. Note that this is simply due to raising the base value used in calculations, so the actual power of the actions won’t be any different from before.