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This was not an issue in FFXI- They did not redesign WHM or BRD to be better at beating people up for instance. These classes that are not the best at direct combat are sitll valuable to have in PvP for their party roles. That being said, even in 1.0 FFXIV, with no PvP in the picture, all classes were at least competent in combat to the extent that they can all solo- and that's as far as it needs to go.
Indeed, but PvP was a side activity and implemented as a mini-game of sorts, here it's being implemented with a focus and as said, they already demonstrated they're doing global changes for it.