AST proposal: An idea revisited

[Shurrikhan]

I probably should have been clearer ya. My thoughts were more akin to ffxi en spells. A flat potency hit that’s added on independently of your own attack. That would bypass the multiplicative spiral entirely.

That would not bypass the multiplicative spiral entirely, even then. Modifiers like Fight or Flight and Twin Snakes still affect such things. Even if they didn't, you'd then have only two optimal targets, a Heated MCH and Monk. Such would be far worse than what we have now, so I don't understand what you hope to accomplish by moving away from the already most balanced form the buff could take.