Quote Originally Posted by Rai_Takara View Post
To which I think homogenizing is good as I put balance up there. Of course I value fun too, but fun is subjective. Case in point, I enjoy the current AST over the old one. Also, do keep in mind that there are always more complainers than satisified people with these kind of things. Happy people tend to just play the game than complain.



This expansion is the best balance we've had in quite possibly the history of this game. 5.0 wasn't perfect was on the right track from the very start. Every job was serviceable. 5.1 rolls around and lingering issues get patched up leaving just the caster dilemna. Compare this to any other expansion like HW where there was an arms race of balance passes to fix jobs culminating to making AST overpowered in an effort to get more people playing. SB had this too with jobs like SCH and DRG were weak and they needed fixing.

Really with 5.2 and the balance pass on casters, we'd be at the most balanced FFXIV has been in its lifetime.
At what cost? Satisfaction? Unique game play? There are so many issues still to be handled to this day but I won't go into detail with that can be easily noticeable with all the threads created. RDM was still suffering even with 5.0, and don't get me started on BRD's song utility. If they manage to come up with fixes to all these concerns from now to next expansion then I might agree with you but the fact remains jobs being balance isn't everything to people.