yes they did, one of the comon most request of WAR back in 4.0 is giving utility to WAR in form of a party defensive support skill, the most comon sugestion whas an aoe thrill of battle, expand his iriginal effect to all the party or some kind of defensive mitigation.

here some of the threats thats include a variety of sugestions about party utility, sorry if im not specific with the big one, phone and such.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-potential-fix

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-Utility-Idea

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...eedback-Thread

when someone claim we are "balanced" i considering i can disagree and express my opinion about it, and most of the time involves the extremes of why isnt consider balanced since balance perspective comes from 2 or more sides, in this case WAR ruling and DRK gutted.