NY: "Because the job balances are not based on 1 v 1. Let’s say that a scholar won’t be able to beat astrologian, that’s impossible. It will not be fun, that is why we will not do it. If we would do it and start balancing on the jobs, it would affect PvE."

I'm starting to think that Yoshida is not very experienced or familiar with pvp in MMOs. It's already uncommon for healers to duel each other. In WoW, if 2 healers dueled each other it was just for the hell of it and wasn't a real competition by any means.

Plus, his own game already balances jobs in pvp (for example: swift cast damage halved in pvp) separately from pve. Is he unaware of that too?