BLM needs some love and RDM needs a nerf

[EllieShadeflare]

It doesn't make sense to pick two random spells from each job's roster and compare potency. A job's potential damage is determined by it's entire kit being used together optimally. Otherwise we could say "Warrior's fell cleave does 500 potency, and it can do it five times in a row! It's not fair to mages! Nerf it!"

Techincally, Warrior's Fell Cleave made BLACK MAGE look unfair, due to the way Astral Fire works with potency. You can't trust the potency given by the tooltip, since they're "base" potencies.

Back in HW (and maybe still now), Astral Fire affects damage like this:

1 stack: 40% increased damage (1.4x)
2 stacks: 60% increased damage (1.6x)
3 stacks: 80% increased damage (1.8x)

And old Fire IV was its base potency of 280. This meant our base, bread and butter attack spell was 504 (529after Enochian) potency when all things were said and done, equivalent to an OFF COOLDOWN NUKE.

Fire IV's potency nerf looks a little bad, now at 468 (though technically 491 after you remember Enochian is a thing), but no less formidable. Plenty to catch up with the 570 potency per Dualcast, though we can put out 468 per cast without waiting 2.3-2.5s for recast afterward.