Does JP culture affect class balance on some level?

[YitharV2]

I can't find the source, but Yoshi-P stated in an interview he made SAM and RDM that way on purpose because of AST and MCH reception, because it takes time for people to change their views regarding jobs. By making them more powerful at the start, it helps to put that in people's mind, that SAM and RDM are strong. What I dislike is it makes my MNK look powerless in PoTD though.

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Source: https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...ew-Translation

We'll talk more later, but there certain areas where we've looked back at the new jobs we implemented in Heavensward and made decisions to make the new jobs somewhat stronger this time because it took a while for the new jobs to truly shine with Heavensward.

[JunseiKei]

I can't find the source, but Yoshi-P stated in an interview he made SAM and RDM that way on purpose because of AST and MCH reception, because it takes time for people to change their views regarding jobs. By making them more powerful at the start, it helps to put that in people's mind, that SAM and RDM are strong. What I dislike is it makes my MNK look powerless in PoTD though.

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Source: https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...ew-Translation

That's the unfortunate truth. People rather like to parrot information without checking for themselves. >_<