Fists of Fire

[NoctisUmbra]

I, too, haven't had any success in obtaining a difference in damage with my testing on fire potency.

I do know, however, that attack magic potency does not affect PGL stances and for that matter neither does magic accuracy.

It's best to think of these stances as Enfire and Enstone with additional bonuses to attack power and defense respectively. Still purely physical, but also elemental.

[KRose]

Is it really still purely physical damage though? If you use Fists of Fire on Ifrit, you actually heal him per hit. If you pop Fists of Earth you get no attack bonus but you actually end up (or at least I did) doing more damage per hit and with weaponskills. These two stances might not actually act magical in terms of magic accuracy/potency making them more effective, but I think counts as magical.

Kind of like you have a flaming fist but you still need physical accuracy/attack to make that hit connect.

[NoctisUmbra]

Is it really still purely physical damage though? If you use Fists of Fire on Ifrit, you actually heal him per hit. If you pop Fists of Earth you get no attack bonus but you actually end up (or at least I did) doing more damage per hit and with weaponskills. These two stances might not actually act magical in terms of magic accuracy/potency making them more effective, but I think counts as magical.

Kind of like you have a flaming fist but you still need physical accuracy/attack to make that hit connect.

They are elemental. Elemental does not necessarily mean magical. Hitting the god of fire with fire whether it be magically or physically healing him makes sense. Also Fists of Earth tend to hit Fire-based mobs harder than regular attacks from what I can tell. While there are major weaknesses based on the elemental wheel, it seems to me like each element is weak to other elements to a lesser degree, or resistant to other elements to a lesser degree than what they straight-counter.

However I conclude they are not magical due to no difference being noted with gains to any of the magic potencies.