Buff Level 1 Blast

A Hero with Level 1 Brandish deals 135% damage on two strikes that totals up to 270% total damage, which is stronger than a Max Level Power Strike which deals 260%. This allows Heroes to instantly replace Power Strike upon their 4th Job Advancement and most builds recommend this as well.

In comparison to their counterpart, Paladin's Level 1 Blast only deals 220% damage! That's far weaker than Max Power Strike and there's never a reason to have a low level Blast in the early parts of a Paladin's career. Paladins must have at least Level 3 just to tie Power Strike in power! Skill Points are hard to come by at the start of a Paladin's career, so to try and invest a minimum of 4 points as soon as possible to Blast can really hurt the effectiveness of Paladin for awhile as that will delay Advance Charge Blow or Heaven's Hammer.

I find it rather odd that there's such a massive difference between the two "counterpart" skills for the two Sword-wielder classes. One class has to go out of their way to make it even usable and the other can use it right out of the gate.

I would like to propose to buff Level 1 Blast's damage level to 300% damage, but of course keep Max Blast's damage the same (600%). This way Paladin's early levels can have a nice improvement, but won't affect their late game performance as Paladin's late game state is already pretty good.
As a small "bonus", if this buff does go through each Level of Blast would evenly increase by 10% damage per Skill Point addition.

 

Oh wow, I wasn't aware that was how Combo Attack works in how it's actually an 140% increase rather than a 240% increase.
Even though a Level 1 Blast with Fire Charge versus Level 1 Brandish with full Combo Attack is just a very small difference, that still needs to consider other factors for this scenario to work as this would only be true if this Monster in question is Fire Neutral. Any other Charge would make Paladin much weaker.

Thunder Paladin = 1.5*2.2 = 3.3
Ice Paladin = 1.25*2.2 = 2.75

The problem of that a max Power Strike would still outdamage a Level 1 Blast remains, but that would make problem at Level 120 would be worse then!
If we do assume the target is Fire Neutral, a sane Paladin would just use Power Strike instead of Blast.

Fire Power Strike Paladin = 1.75*2.6 = 4.55
Combo Attack Brandish Hero = 1.4*2*1.35 = 3.78

So if Blast isn't the problem, then is it really a Fire Charge or Power Strike problem?
Combo Attack too weak?

 

Heaven's Hammer CAN'T one-shot Monsters, it can only reduce their HP to 1. :X