Dude, if you have any grounding in science, I'm sure you understand the concept of weight of evidence? What you have is 5 testimonials/expert opinions vs thousands of data points of empirical evidence which lead to that Dervy damage formula. I'm purposely ignoring the fact that your level of evidence (opnion/testimonial/expertise) ranks significantly lower than Dervy's (which is an observational controlled trial).
It is OK to be ignorant, you can still learn and get better. It is NOT ok to be ignorant + belligerent because all you are doing is deluding yourself and misleading others.
I'll address your questions.
1. Potency to damage is a work in progress. The most accurate damage formula (both JP and EN independent work) can be found here
https://dervyxiv.wordpress.com/2015/...mage-formulas/
2. It has been conclusively proven by Dervy and also the author of the Healing formula that there is a 5% built in game variance in conversion from Potency to Effect (e.g. Damage and Healing). This means that for any action executed, the values in Damage/Healing can be 5% higher or lower within the same environment of identical stats.
3. see 2.
TLDR
Educate yourself on these resources:
https://dervyxiv.wordpress.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ulas_and_more/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ted_and_works/
Then we can begin a proper reasoned discussion in earnest.
P.S. btw, were you aware SKS is divided in tiers and the tooltip is inaccurate? If you don't reach the next tier (especially with bad ping), as far as the server is concerned, your extra SKS is worthless.



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