Did the devs lie to us? Either actually make BLU OP, or unlock it

[BillyKaplan]

They'd never give a regular DOW/M the ability to paralyze, or petrify.

But at the end if boils down to CC, which other classes have. Several classes have bind, or sleep. Not as strong, I agree, but then again none of these works on bosses and hunt marks, so it's all the same at the end of the day.

considering it gets a 50% Maim and Mend compared to other jobs 30%

Other jobs get that bonus from their weapon damage, which BLU doesn't have - and that is exactly why BLU has such a high level Maim & Mend.

but it's not horrendous and I hope the job will get these sort of tweaks down the road.

I wonder if they'll bother. Because this entire debate about potencies is born out of the paradox in which Masked Carnivale's BLU is forced to engage with content outside of it.

[Seraphor]

I wonder if they'll bother. Because this entire debate about potencies is born out of the paradox in which Masked Carnivale's BLU is forced to engage with content outside of it.

Very good point. Increasing potencies by too much would mean they'd need to buff the entire set of Masked Carnival encounters...
That could be a lot of work.
Or it could be a simply level adjustment, who knows.
Or maybe they'll wait until they expand the Masked Carnival to level 60, making the original level 50 challenges redundant and not worth fixing.