[dev1289] Job Adjustments

[bazookatooth]

Now, as a carveat: I do not play BST and I have no opinion of its power in the game right now and don't have the capability to fairly judge it, so I won't.

That said: It is poor balancing policy (in ANY game) to boost everything else up to the strongest thing. You don't balance a game by buffing everything that isn't the strongest. Nobody enjoys nerfs, but mass buffings cause more problems than they solve most of the time. It also accelerates power creep, because as soon as someone finds another imbalance (which is a certainty), that means another round of buffings and more power creep in a neverending cycle. Not only that, but it's less costly (less work) to adjust one job than 21 others.

The thing is, BST isn't the strongest at anything really except not dieing in certain situations. Other jobs can do more damage, buff, etc. better. They are literally taking away the only thing that makes this job relevant. They could have scaled back the damage output (even though it's already not as good as SAM, SMN, BLM etc.) or lowered the pets HP, or changed about a billion other things to balance it against the people who don't know how to use indi-vex etc. on their melee parties or magic burst on their mage jobs without completely crushing the whole role of the job in end game.

Let's be honest. This doesn't mean that people are suddenly going to start shouting for a bunch of Dancers, DRKs, WARs, Monks and DRGs to come waste their pops by wacking away at Packiset and getting one shotted. It does absolutely nothing for balancing those other jobs. They still won't be invited because many jobs still need adjustments regardless of what happens to BST and many people who play them still think they can just throw a bunch of offensive buffs up and throw some melee jobs at anything. So the whole idea of nerfing one job so that you don't have to buff a bunch of others is not gonna work. And besides that, SE's whole plan the last few years has been intentional power creep. we've basically doubled in level over the last few years. Power creep is SE's game plan.