There are alot of possible reasons. Merits, quality and quantity of atmas, regular gearing, trial staff vs HQ, possible resist on there part, maybe day/weather proc, possible magic crit, etc etc etc
So for all the ***talkers, they were both 90blm same as me, and the only atma i have is ambition. The only thing i can think of is that they smn burned or abyssea burned their blms and just have ***for skill or something. And you know what, maybe i'm not the god of FFXI, but i at least take the time to make sure i work on skill ups.. Dasva was the only person that actually gave a reasonable explanation so thank you. everyone else, you have time to go around and just talk ***on peoples pictures, why don't YOU spend the time to maybe help the people you're criticizing in the pictures? effin hypocrites.