SE: Holding back information won't stop criticism, it will only delay it and is bad.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Guess they got tired of people flooding forums and reddit with the bandwagon mentality of "they broken my job" stuff before actually trying out the job out 1st, lol. To be fair devs do a pretty decent job of keeping jobs balanced to the content. Changes bad or not, you can totally clear the content they set you up for with any battle job so... *shrugs*

Heavensward bowmage says hi. 3.0 to 3.3 AST says hi. Useless Stormblood WHM Lilies say hi. Shadowbringers pre-buff Scholar says hi.

[Laphael]

Heavensward bowmage says hi. 3.0 to 3.3 AST says hi. Useless Stormblood WHM Lilies say hi. Shadowbringers pre-buff Scholar says hi.

Oh, yeah, i remember the outcry after the live letter and patch notes and SE immediatly reverted all the changes before release because of the outcry..... wait....oh right, the outcry changed nothing...

[Nedkel]

Heavensward bowmage says hi. 3.0 to 3.3 AST says hi. Useless Stormblood WHM Lilies say hi. Shadowbringers pre-buff Scholar says hi.

Gunbreaker would be a total disaster if they would not give us any info about the job before release.
Thanks to the players feedback this job functions now properly and it was quite successful tank for a long time played by a lot of people. In live letter SE team decided to giveaway detailed info and players quickly came into conclusion that it had too low damage and some stuff with deffensives was wrong as well. It would be the weakest tank in 5.0 if devs decided to not give any info about it beforehand.