Thoughts of Samurai Changes

[Ryaz]

So, looking at the newest vids about Samurai changes, looks like all our potencies were nerfed HARD. Haven't looked at the other jobs yet, so I'm assuming it's the same for them. It's definitely painful to see, even if it was expected.

Also really not seeing a point to Hyosetsu. An extra button taking up your bar for a whole 10 more AoE potency seems like a had tradeoff

[Beddict]

So, looking at the newest vids about Samurai changes, looks like all our potencies were nerfed HARD. Haven't looked at the other jobs yet, so I'm assuming it's the same for them. It's definitely painful to see, even if it was expected.

They covered physical Potencies in the last Live Letter. To quote from the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVI Digest (9/30/2021):

Another adjustment has been made not only to tank jobs, but all physical damage jobs in general. Thus far, FFXIV has used separate battle calculation formulas for physical and magical attacks. Between the two, magical attacks were given a higher base value to compensate for more intricate calculations, but these values will be unified in Patch 6.0. Because the base value of physical attacks will be raised to the same value of magical attacks, action potencies will become smaller. Note that this is simply due to raising the base value used in calculations, so the actual power of the actions won’t be any different from before.

[Ryaz]

They covered physical Potencies in the last Live Letter. To quote from the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVI Digest (9/30/2021):

Ah, yes... I remember that now. Thanks for the reminder!

[Kazimere]

So, looking at the newest vids about Samurai changes, looks like all our potencies were nerfed HARD. Haven't looked at the other jobs yet, so I'm assuming it's the same for them. It's definitely painful to see, even if it was expected.

Also really not seeing a point to Hyosetsu. An extra button taking up your bar for a whole 10 more AoE potency seems like a had tradeoff

Don't worry about the potency shifts right now. A "nerf" on the tooltips doesn't necessarily mean a nerf in game with everything they were doing behind the scenes.