Talk:Physical Potency

Doesn't increase physical damage?
According to the magical potency page, it says magical potency for BLM spells increases magic attack bonus by +2 per merit (for the elemental type merited, put a merit in Thunder potency, and you get +2 magic attack bonus to all Thunder spells).

Now, their choice of wording for the BLU merit is Physical (meaning only physical spells) Potency (which I would assume is the same definition of potency given above). Seeing as RDM get merits for elemental magic ACCURACY, if Physical Potency increased accuracy, they would have named it Physical Accuracy instead of Potency. I'd like to see proof beyond something that I saw someone say off of Killing Ifrit or some other board. I find it hard to swallow that it doesn't increase physical magic damage, but increases a crit rate (which blue magic spells don't have unless forced, I thought this was established awhile ago that crit hit rate doesn't affect BLU spells), or accuracy rate. I would think potency would add +2 "physical magic attack bonus" to your physical spells, increasing the damage potential for the spells. --Sabishii 17:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)