Quote Originally Posted by Drayos View Post
I have to admit, during SB launch was the balance this whack? I didn’t join this game til the very end of SB.

But when I looked at logs and more numbers were closer together, RDM was 1100 dps apart and now 2700 apart from BLM.

Is it normal for balance to start this whacky? RDM and ninjas are basically benched by the community but these are the two who seem so far helped the least?

While monks and stuff overperform and seem to be the fotm
Put it this way HW launch AST was unusable in later savage fights because of gross undertuning in every aspect heals, buffs and damage, heals got fixed a few weeks after savage buffs by 3.2 and then the overtuning began.

HW launch Brd was better to not use wanderer's minuet(which canceled autos and gave gcds cast times), Mch rng was too much for way too little pay off with barely anything helping with those procs, Pld had low magic defense abilities in a tier where everything(apart from a few autos) were magical damage from bosses, War's Raw Intuition worked with heals, as in a war pops it and could get garenteed crits from heals including sch and they could spread that crit shield everytime.

I could go further but yea balance is always outta whack at expansion launches and from what i have seen ShB is not that bad there are very much problems that need addressing but compared to previous eh it is serviceable.