Another example of blatant Double Standard when it comes to balance

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Originally Posted by FFXIV Job Team

Using Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Savage) as an example, there are prolonged periods where the enemy cannot be attacked, as well as mechanics that grant increased damage to players, further emphasizing the value of burst damage. In such situations, the job's incompatibility with the duty becomes more readily apparent.

To substantively resolve these issues, we believe a full re-evaluation of actions is required. That said, waiting for such an evaluation would mean prolonging the unfavorable state of paladin. For this reason, we have elected to increase the potency of their actions in Patch 6.21.

As more significant adjustments to action mechanics will require more time, such changes will be implemented from Patch 6.3 onward. For now, we have elected to adjust actions that will improve the job's burst damage.

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Talk about a double standard. AST and DRG were promised a rework but got pushed to 7.0 because "it would be too hard".

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Originally Posted by Live letter LXXI

In previous Letter LIVEs, we mentioned that dragoon and astrologian would receive extensive adjustments in Patch 6.2; however, we’ll be postponing these adjustments based on the feedback we’ve received since Patch 6.1. Making extensive adjustments to a job on a fundamental level would involve numerous changes. The sheer number of changes would make it difficult to fully explain our intentions for each one, so we believe we should wait for an expansion release to make adjustments of that scale. With that said, rest assured we’ll continue to make minor adjustments.

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PLD has issues with 1 week of savage and get a promised rework in the next major patch (a few months.)

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Originally Posted by wyznwyb

there is not a single thing that was said in those two paragraphs that doesn't also apply to black mage, something good black mages will readily point out after last night..

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Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

I will say without a doubt that PLD has many more issues in its design than dragoon or ast, so i don't see the problem here
There's many things to complain about here, but this ain't one of em. I loathe the upcoming drg rework myself, considering what happened to summoner

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Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

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oh nevermind

To me, OP's two quotes just sound like PLD will be receiving significant adjustments, while AST/DRG will receive a possible SMN-like job redesign. In which case there's no blatant Double Standard.
But I guess this is all up to one's interpretation of both quotes.

Does make me worried for 7.0 DRG though, considering how SMN turned out.

It says adjustments. It does not say full rework.

Could be they're going to change just a couple of actions with most of PLD still playing the same.

AST and DRG are going to be getting actual reworks, though. Do you really want them to rush reworks with half-formed ideas of how to fix the major complaints just for AST to end up worse for the rest of the expansion?

Wait until 6.3. If PLD is given an actual rework instead of just a few action changes, complain then.

I'm waiting for the AST rework myself. It's a job I want to be able to enjoy but can't. But I'm also willing to wait for them to do a proper job on it instead of pushing out something that will end up feeling just as bad as it currently does.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

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Talk about a double standard. AST and DRG were promised a rework but got pushed to 7.0 because "it would be too hard".



PLD has issues with 1 week of savage and get a promised rework in the next major patch (a few months.)

From the tank forums:

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Balance is bad, but uniqueness is fantastic. Say no to balancing!

Not sure how is this a negative. DRG/AST might still have a chance at well thought out reworks. PLD is just going to WAR III or GNB II. Don't need much dev time for that.

You mean people were incredibly pissed off at Samurai changes, so you're mad that the same thing didn't happen to Dragoon/AST instead of SE taking a step back and thinking 'hey, maybe we messed up'? Or do you want this balance team to screw up your job because they obviously don't play it?

Do you pay attention?

At the moment, it sounds like PLD is suffering from not fitting into the two minute burst meta more than AST and DRG are suffering from... well, I'm not sure how they're suffering, exactly. So, it makes sense to me that PLD would get "fixes" before AST and DRG, especially if the alternative is PLD getting locked-out for the remainder of 6.x.