Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
They are tested below as well you are just looking at it from the perspective of what the class lost at 60 what is irrelevant to balance the classes are different now what you played for two years no longer exists. Look at what each of the jobs roles are at 60 and compare them among each other not to what you used to know but to what they are now.
No, they're not tested below max level, and even Yoshi has admitted to that. Testing all 15 jobs from the bottom up would just take too much time and effort when those testers could instead use that time to test other content in the game.

Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
And jobs. Balance is crucial to all choice, not just choice-within-choice... I can think of far more times when an entire job was subtly unlisted from PF openings for their given roll in XIV (and not due to one already being present) or party members asked why I was playing a given job than, say, a different build thereof was in WoW/GW2/Rift.
What do you think the meta is?