Quote Originally Posted by Launched View Post
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No, Warrior was powerful enough to be balanced even before the stance cost was taken away. They still had the highest burst damage, best sustained damage, and best personal defence. At 4.00 PLD and WAR were quite well-balanced against one another, and DRK was behind WAR in optimized runs but was a legitimately good alternative with legitimate upsides in unfamiliar, non-optimized, or progression content. If the only change from 4.0 to Savage had been for PLD to get the slight nerf to Holy Spirit, tank balance would have basically been achieved.

Instead they let Warrior way out in front due to the whining, and so we went into Savage with worse tank balance than we should have. And now 4.1 balance is arguably as bad as it was in 3.x, again due to the whining.

So if whining is what gets things done with regard to class balance, then that's what you're going to see, and you've got nobody to blame for it but SE.