User blog comment:LegerPrime/Natsu surpasses Erza/@comment-1153699-20151009230413

I doubt anything's changed tbh. Hiro wanks Erza too hard to leave her behind Base Natsu.

Don't get me wrong, she should be massively weaker than Natsu because he wanted to get stronger a lot more than she did with Acnologia killing Igneel literally right in front of him.

I also don't think Gildarts should come back as the strongest Mage in FT again because he's already getting old and he wasn't as hellbent on training as Natsu, Gray and Laxus were. But tbh.. I doubt he's still at the level he were before the timeskip. Keep in mind we still haven't seen Gildarts go all out in a fight yet. He most probably will come back this arc and defeat a Spriggan.

If Natsu has DF though (which probably does), he murks Erza.