Quote Originally Posted by Levy9 View Post
People take it for granted that you'll have an expanded balance after the opener. With rng buffs, anything can happen. One important catch to balance that gets overlooked is it's rng dependency. Sometimes you can't draw one at all throughout the course of a fight. Sometimes you get it in spades. You have a 1 in 6 chance of getting one with every draw or redraw, assuming that each card has an equal probability. That's only a 16% chance per draw/redraw of getting a balance. I've run entire 4-man roulettes without drawing balance once. This sort of extreme doesn't happen very often, but it still happens more often than what people give credit for.
1. The first Balance is almost guaranteed because you can set it up pre-pull, meaning there is exactly 0 RNG of having Balance during the opener. As the opener is the DPS heaviest part of the fight, this counts a lot.
2. As you say yourself, it's highly unlikely that you don't pull Balance again during that fight, letting WHM fall even further behind again.
3. Balance also benefits the AST themselves, meaning that they can get close, if not equal, to what a WHM can dish out, especially if also factoring in the Lord (I think it was that one that dealt damage and not the Lady).