Quote Originally Posted by Nominous View Post
You then have to ask yourself if you believe that adding another Tank or Healer for queue times, for the feeling of inclusion, or for flavor, is worth the potential consequences. I think that's where Yoshi-P was coming from. I took it as, "Since it's mostly Tanks and Healers that would be playing potential additions to their roles, I'd like to do them a service by balancing them first, before adding something for popularity sake."
I'll be frank, I think a lot of people don't care. For them, leveling is content, and they believe that the developers have purposefully robbed them of content this expansion, no matter what the reasoning behind it is. Without pointing fingers at anyone specific, it's not a long shot to say that a good portion of people unhappy with no new tank or healer jobs are people that don't raid, who don't have a vested interest in role balance at the upper tiers of play, and don't mind that PLDs aren't meta for raids or that AST is a bongofest of a balancing nightmare right now. They're not being kicked from Dun Scaith or expert roulette for their job choice, so the fact that the devs are essentially "taking the expansion off" to fix something that doesn't have any effect on the content that they play is hugely disheartening for them.

And who knows? Maybe jack-all will happen except that PLD and WHM will get super DPS potency buffs and AST cards will be gutted to near uselessness so that there's nothing separating them from WHM and SCH. Then that anger will be justified, I think. But for now, I think it's best for everyone involved to take a "wait and see" approach, if only to stem some of the endless flailing and histrionics that are dominating the OF right now.