User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 578 (I'm not gonna spoil the title like Schiffy did)/@comment-10371091-20140427135021/@comment-1489595-20140428220240

Hard to say what a Quincy is exactly capable of these days.

Through most of the Bleach story arcs there was a pretty clear, if unspoken, definition of Quincy powers: the archetypical spirit bow and its ability to eradicate spirits permanently, a variety of physical enhancement powers such as the quincy version of the flash-step, sorcery contained in spiritual containers that were capable of many kido like effects. All commonly shared with quincy being somewhere along the power levels of a shinigami regular to lower seated officers. You could easily ID quincy and the powers that were typical of them.

But the current story arc really extends well beyond these perceived limits. Some of the stuff shown can easily be retro-fitted to the earlier definitions of quincy powers (like blut) and even the stupendously powerful Vollstandig could be seen a a logical evolution of 'natural' Quincy power.

But some of the stuff shown is so powerful and atypically outlandish seeming of the stereotypical quincy that I suspect its a result of Yhwach's own unique powers rather then an enhancement of defacto native quincy ability. Yhwach makes a deal (or whatever he does) with a Quincy and imprints his soul on theirs to grant them a 'wish' kind of power that they normally couldn't manifest. Thus this bizarre array of powers that hardly seem Quincy at all.