So I'm hoping someone can explain this to me because I sure don't honestly understand what I'm seeing. I'm a level 50 summoner and I decided to see just how much more damage Ifrit-egi's burning slash did in comparison with Garuda-egi's basic attack.

Now Ifrit-egi's Burning slash has a potency of 120 and for me in my gear hits normally around 107 damage.

Now as for Garuda-Egi's basic attack it has a potency of only 100, 20 less then Ifrit-egi's yet for some reason it was hitting normally around 154 damage almost 50 damage more then ifrit-egi even with a lower potency.

Now I might be missing something here...but that does not make any sense to me and the only thing I could come up with this is that since Ifrit-egi is an attacker tpye it goes of my physical damage and not my magic potency like Garuda-egi does who is a caster type, and if this is the case...why? Summoners are caster's by nature so why should one of their pets go off their terrible physical damage state.