Please, NEVER nerf RDM!

[KalinOrthos]

Like I said, RDM is fine on its own. Its the other jobs which need to be brought up. RDM isn't Broken. BLM and SMN are. Even before we could play the game BLM and SMN players were looking at potencies and new abilities and knew immediately their classes had been broken. If two lights won't turn on, but the third one will, the solution isn't to break the third light, its to fix the other two.

Congratulations, you've just created power creep, where classes are overtuned for content.

Nerfs are a harsh, sucky reality that we have to deal with in an MMO. I main PLD and AST, and I am dreading the nerfs incoming for both of those jobs, but I know they are necessary, because both are top of the charts in what they do. Instead of bringing everyone up, a much more sensible design choice is to meet in the middle.

[Vexander]

Congratulations, you've just created power creep, where classes are overtuned for content.

Its the launch of an expansion. The odds of all classes being balanced is pretty poor. So, what you do is, you plan for the future. Introduce the buffs needed to bring the classes to the same levels of performance or close enough that they can compete with one another. Sacrifice the balance of existing content. Then, for the first major patch, 4.1, you tune the new content around the now balanced classes.

Very simple process.