Does JP culture affect class balance on some level?

[Rymm]

I see what you mean. A short-sword-and-shield-wielding, plate-armor-wearing, holy-magic-using, knight-in-shining-armor PLD is totally a Japanese archetype. Obviously they were buffed in 4.0 because of cultural bias.

[Oscura]

I see what you mean. A short-sword-and-shield-wielding, plate-armor-wearing, holy-magic-using, knight-in-shining-armor PLD is totally a Japanese archetype. Obviously they were buffed in 4.0 because of cultural bias.

I wish I could like a post more than once.

[Oxmodial]

I see what you mean. A short-sword-and-shield-wielding, plate-armor-wearing, holy-magic-using, knight-in-shining-armor PLD is totally a Japanese archetype. Obviously they were buffed in 4.0 because of cultural bias.

Posts like this and the guy I replied to earlier in the thread frustrate me because it's very obvious that I was only referring to classes specifically within japanese culture. I'm not saying that classes can't be good if they aren't a japanese concept or that if the japanese generally frown upon a class archetype that it will always be bad. I'm simply saying that I find it interesting that the class with a japanese relation are very strong and the one class that generally seems to go AGAINST their culture has been chronically weak since its inception aside from a stint of power at the end of HW.

Also just to clarify I'm not saying that this is the case I'm just saying I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.