Would you prefer a new race or a new job?

[Ametrine]

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An FC mate who mained DRK plays RDM now because of the balancing issues.
There were nasty issues with over-nerfing SMN (much of SCH's issues hit SMN, too, and then some) and MCH, DRG, and poor, poor MNK.

Yet, amusingly, PLD and AST are better than ever. Every 2.0 BRD fan cried out in joy at the 4.0 changes. The rest was business as usual.

There is a good argument to be had in that nerfing hard to fix later makes for a better game in the long run because you avoid power creep, but 1/3rd of the jobs got jacked, so a way too large proportion of players naturally leveling the new jobs found their old choices less appealing after putting in the work.