Balance was balanced

[Rawrz]

I don't know if it's been said, but I suspect they did feel balance was balanced, but balance + new/improved spear wouldn't be.

From an fflog perspective it is. By wounding balance you made the classes that were being fed balances 24/7 by 5 to 10% do less damage, thus shrinking the upper extreme. Spear cant be stacked with the balance, so you can't get the benefits together.

Whether ast can provide, on average higher dps boost uptime to average out to be better than balance is probably impossible. Every old balance was worth 2 new balances. Current spear is worth less than a balance unless its for healing.

[Alistaire]

From an fflog perspective it is. By wounding balance you made the classes that were being fed balances 24/7 by 5 to 10%, thus shrinking the upper extreme. Spear cant be stacked with the balance, so you can't get the benefits together.

Whether ast can provide, on average higher dps boost uptime to average out to be better than balance is probably impossible. Every old balance was worth 2 new balances. Current spear is worth less than a balance unless its for healing.

I mean stacked in general. Not both on the same person same time, but when both abilities now always boost dps, the potential became too great. So you'd end up having fflogs with pure dps, pure dps - balance categories, but then how would they even do "dps - spear" since that's more hit or miss as to whether it contributed or not?

Basically over the course of a whole fight AST's dps boost got pushed up, so balance got pushed back down to compensate.

And spear wasn't exactly bad, it just required more coordination to make it effective.