This irks me so much, a great deal of though goes into some of the posts written here, and to get met with such facile responses... ugh.

Things that are utterly contradictory, too, wyverns def is too low! Automatons have high defense! Wyverns have 3 more def than a 119 automaton, that can get further boosted with Spirit Linked Prot/Shell, and Parameter boosts.. and wyverns rarely have an issue staying alive, what they need is a damage boost to breaths.. BUT NO. Let's address an issue that has never been brought up for Wyverns, and ignore a GAPING flaw in the pup and bst arsenal. It irritates me to no end.

And then there are the falsehoods they spout, it takes a very high degree of ignorance not to know that Automatons have never receive Protect and Shell. A very high amount.

The developers don't play this game, that much is evident, but I can't fault them too much for this. What I can fault them for is not having documentation, and a basic understanding of the Meta game that FFXI has developed. It means that our updates are usually antithetical to how we play. The RDM changes were a step in the right direction, but ask yourself, have you seen that many more people shouting for a rdm over a whm/rdm? Not really. We are at the behest of a dev team that has a mountain of problems, but refuses to solve them incase they rock the boat too far.

We are unlikely to see much change unless the developers learn their game, and make radical changes, not just half measures.