Quote Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX View Post
Edit because I don't think you understand: that fight came out in September/October and released i260/270 upgrade gear that patch. By April you could get i280 Weapons from Diadem and i265 gear easily from Diadem and farm i270 upgrade tokens weekly from the Void Ark
*snerk*
You think that matters to people who are good enough to beat that fight in classes? They probably already handily got the i270 gear and weapons months ago via raiding and just did it in april for the lulz because they got the thing on farm and got bored.

In fact, they first did it with echo to see if it was possible, then decided to try again without. They most likely didn't even have Diadem weapons, because those are fairly rare. They "could" have done it on the same patch, if they had wanted. They just didn't, it was easier to learn in jobs first.

The whole point is: If "viability" is all you're concerned with, then you can leave any and all balancing discussions for good, because even classes are viable, so jobs will definitely be. You have nothing to discuss, there's no point even raising your voice. You're just noise.

Balance is a different thing that's about whether the jobs will be equally good, or at least roughly. That is an independent discussion from viability - you can have all jobs balanced without any of them being viable and all viable without any of them being balanced. And this is what people are worried about with white mage. It will most definitely be able to clear all content - but is there any reason to pick one over an Astrologian? Is there a reason to pick a Conjurer over a White Mage? That's the thing people are worried about. The content will be clearable, that's taken for granted.