Just a few thoughts here, before you start i realise SE that i might be upset in my speach and my attitude might turn you off from taking to heart what i'm saying, but please listen to what im saying (im upset because i feel you get alot of good advice here and some you just throw out the window becuase you wanna do your way and not listen to some sound advice. I admit Im not you guys SE and and therefore I DONT know what you guys are planning or maybe some deeper connection that im missing because im not at your level, but hear me brothers of vanadiel)
WHM-
When SE gave everybody and there sister protect V/Shell V. you left a big whole in my whm. Yes, my merited stuff is better, but really? The way it is now the only differenece between shellV and shellraV is merits. I'd feel even more ripped off if at 99 whm doesnt get an ability or new merit that gives them an increase to all shell/protect spells, thereby restoring the difference a whm's protectra/shreallraV has compared to other jobs of the same tier spell. I'd say the increase to all shell/protect because if whm gets shrellra/protectraVI, what about the 75 merits to tier 5? Unless all merits at 75 for shrellra/protectra count towards a tier 6 merit at 99 cap, in addition to the merits/ability at 99. Now i wanna throw this in quick because everyone says they want cure5 for sch/rdm and this too will kill whm. Whm does nothing, nothing but heal and status removal/buff. Nobody can argue that because whm gets cure6 its ok to give others cure5 because cure6 is not as effecient as cure5 (at least not at 90) it seems to only give 150% the cure as cure5 at 200% the cost of cure5. Im capped healing and cure gear so im seeing the results and I rarely use cure6 outside abyssea because my cure5 heals for around 1100 and most the time in a pt theres a rdm helping to cure and if i use cure6 ill waste mp cause its not as good as cure5 and the rdm will cast cure4 also so why use cure6. Not to mention 1100hp cured outside abyssea is 75% of most dd/tanking jobs hp max so right there unless the guy your curing is at 1hp whats the point of cure6 really besides abyssea cure5/6 spam.
SAM-
WOW (not world of warcraft). Before this update SAM was already the best DD outside abyssea, period. Now, lol, a pearl SAM can out damage my empyrean2/almace blu. Really? I have a friend who took his SAM before update and dualboxed the last two bcnm for the wings of the goddess earring. Now he's well geared 90empyrean/relic/+2/yada/yada, but even average SAM can destroy all other jobs now. Power check dude, slow down please, hello SE, in one ear out the other i know you think its great but come on your going to the bathroom on all the other jobs where's the balance you claim to crave.
COR-
Ok. Cor is similiar to brd, i get that. Different buffs and stuff sure. But COR can do decent damage with their abilities and ws, so why would you give them a 3rd roll when brd has to have an empyrean to get there 3rd? I like COR more than BRD, but that doesnt mean im willing to sacrifice balance just so that a favorite job of mine can run loose all of vanadiel.
DNC-
Regain? I know its 99 cap but im tired of seeing the same thing passed on to the next job. Cor gets regain, oh lets give it to DNC. Again, another over powered job getting another job's ability. Lets just give SMN the PLD's 2hr ability for the whole pt and call it a day, you can just make it an avatar like odin and say it's alex's cousin. As insane as this sounds, in this author's opinion so does some of the changes that are being discussed.