Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
You have to consider that the devs can instantly change their loadouts because they have access to everything. Were they all in pentamelded crafted gear doing it (lolno)? Were they at max ilvl (630) for this patch? Were they around i615? There's a lot of different choices they could have made for testing it. Were they using the meta setup? Were they using a mix of meta and average setups without PLD or MCH in the party? There's so many ways they could have done these fights, and so many ways they could have easily missed it. Had they done minimum ilvl with pentamelded crafter gear for the tests, and used PLD or MCH, it's likely it never would have been as high in HP as it was. They likely would have also noticed the job imbalance. I'm personally hoping this leads to them actively testing what the players consider the weakest jobs in these fights from now on.
They specifically said in the Famitsu interview that it was all balanced for i610.