User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 447: Escape Battle, Review./@comment-26451407-20150805081453/@comment-7418318-20150805202842

I just wanted to reply to the oft-recurring argument "Jura was stated to be on Gildarts level".

No. That was never stated.

Makarov thought that MAYBE Jura was on Gildarts level, but consider all the matters surrounding this.


 * 1) Makarov was in shock at that moment, so I wouldn't take this exclamation literally.
 * 2) Gildarts is almost always gone and was so for years and years. It's not just possible but acutally quite likely that Makarov doesn't have a fully accurate idea how strong Gildarts is. He might be quite a bit off with his estimation.
 * 3) Makarov greatly underestimated Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Erza just this very chapter. Not just one, but four of his "children"! I'd take that as a pretty clear sign that he plain sucks at juding power-levels. :P
 * 4) We've never really seen Gildarts go all out. Sure in the fight against Blue Note he was very angry, but before he could show his full powers, Azuma interfered. And afterwards Blue Note went down (or rather up) too quickly to give us a good idea. Not to mention that Gildarts might have held back to make sure the other FT mages wouldn't be hurt in the collateral damage.