Talk:Opushii/@comment-99.90.61.141-20160424104907/@comment-26574369-20160425035717

I don't think evolving into a state makes them superior at all to those who evolve into it. Nothing in the story has implied this at all. However I think divine blessings and bonuses granted from becoming a varient can only appear during evolution and since being born with blessings is extremely rare for monsters (most of the ones we see this happen to outside of parabelum become lords of their areas) generally evolving into a higher race from a lower one grants more chances for blessings and varience to appear.

But since in Opushii's case she was already born with two powerful blessings as well as Rou's mysterious tattoo buff that rule doesn't apply to her. Also when I mentioned potency I was just trying to say her divine blessings were especially powerful. While some make the body a little stronger or grant one natural elemental affinity her blessings give her steel like defense at birth as well as control over gems. So compared to other blessings her are especially powerful and have more potential to them than some of the others.

I do agree jobs and arts are powerful and are versitile but at the same time I think the reason it was said Opushii has the most potential is that in the end the power granted by evolution and divine blessings is superior. jobs and arts require far too much time, effort, and talent to develop properly and as monsters continue to evolve they eventually surpass the abilities of arts and jobs entirely with the exception of maybe the highest level jobs like great hero and such. Rou is able to make such great use of jobs and arts only because he's able to directly steel them from those he eats without training.

So regarding the argument Auro and Argento should have more potential due to having access to jobs I think the problem is they'd have to obtain and train jobs up the normal way thus limiting how much power they can actually get from jobs. They certainly gain a special kind of versatility from their mixed blood but I think we're supossed to assume the power Opushii is born with is such that she will eventually surpass human limits completely to the point job buffs will be  meaningless.

Mind you I can't say any of this for sure. I just think it's the most likely reason she's been stated as having the most potential despite those two having mixed blood. Or at least part of the reason.