SE isn't hearing the community RE: Job Feedback & Simplification

[Supersnow845]

Question: How would you balance them? Who would deal the most damage at the top end?

Depends on the content, a hard class shouldn’t do more damage by default compared to giving classes different niches but it also should potentially be offered some other benefits such as potentially more powerful utility (like RDM’s raise being stronger than SMN’s as a reward for its complexity over SMN as a super simple example)

[Carighan]

Depends on the content, a hard class shouldn’t do more damage by default compared to giving classes different niches but it also should potentially be offered some other benefits such as potentially more powerful utility (like RDM’s raise being stronger than SMN’s as a reward for its complexity over SMN as a super simple example)

That'd be a way of doing it, because otherwise most groups would just hard-exclude the harder classes as by their nature they got a larger chance to screw up and wipe the groups. But if the utility-ladden classes were the same DPS as the DPS-only classes but with extra difficulty heaped on top, that'd be a way of balancing it.

Of course this means content can never be balanced to request the utility these classes bring (as otherwise it'd be undoable without them), and that in turn means that most content becomes easier than intended with them, but that's a nearly unsolvable issue regardless. It's always either "Stuff too easy with the better class" vs "Harder class excluded because not better in any way".