Physical ranged DPS have lower potency relative to other jobs in Pilgrim's Traverse

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Date & Time: 30 November 2025 09:00
Frequency: Always
World name: Zodiark
Character name: Diah'li Sotavhi
Class/Level: BRD/MCH/DNC Lv100
Party or solo: Both
Area and coordinates: Pilgrim's Traverse/The Final Verse

Steps:
These steps work with any physical ranged DPS but I will use BRD as the example.

1. Outside of Pilgrim's Traverse/The Final Verse, unequip all gear on BRD except for a level 1 weapon.
2. Use Second Wind multiple times and observe that the healing averages around 600 HP.
3. Repeat the previous steps for DRG and RPR and observe that the healing also averages around 600 HP. This indicates one should expect that Second Wind would heal the same amount for all three jobs with equivalent gear.
4. Inside Pilgrim's Traverse/The Final Verse be at +99 Illumed Aetherpool Arm and test Second Wind healing values again. Observe that DRG and RPR average around 39,000 HP healing while BRD now only averages around 36,000, about 10% less.
5. This effect can also be seen with damage done by physical ranged DPS jobs. For example, RPR's Spinning Scythe and BRD's Ladonsbite have the same potency of 140. With BRD's Increased Action Damage II trait, one would expect Ladonsbite to do 20% more damage than Spinning Scythe. However, at +99 Illumed Aetherpool Arm Spinning Scythe averages around 8950 damage while Ladonsbite averages around 9900 damage. This means Ladonsbite does about 10% more damage than Spinning Scythe which is again 10% below what is expected.

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