Quote Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho View Post
Off topic but related: This thread is an excellent argument why parsers would be bad for this game. Even when they are disallowed, people are throwing numbers around, will little context, in order to get a perceived overpowered job nerfed. Guys, don't you think Square Enix has a lot more data than we could ever compile about the performance of samurai versus the other damage dealers? Let them tweak the numbers. Our part in this is to let them know we believe there is too big a gap between the damage dealing jobs.
I hate when people say this. Y'know a little story called 2.0 WAR, 2.4 NIN and 3.0 MCH?

When it comes to having information about the capability of their classes, this development team isn't on the best side. They really need something like a public test realm because of course they can't balance shit perfectly all the time, they are only human. However this doesn't mean they cannot be wrong about things. It is even worse because in all of these cases they still thought they were right even after hearing the complaints and then proceeded to make changes to the classes. I've said this before (I think it was in this thread) but you can't forget that the development team consists of internal people who judge themselves by their intentions and therefore it is much harder for them to see if something isn't working as intended or in a way that the players are happy with.

They honestly need public play testing because it really isn't fun for the people who have their class cocked up. They typically do a good job addressing the issues (apart from 3.4 AST) so I don't think they are incompetent. It is just the fact that just because they have 'data' about the supposed abilities of the classes doesn't mean it is reflective of the actual ability and usage of the classes (case in point 2.4 NIN which was top dps but still had trick attack. Their justification was the NIN was hardest to play due to mudras but it was infact extremely easy to play with the lack of positionals and it had a straightforward rotation.)