Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Uh, they definitely should be because balancing is measured at the full potential of every job. It absolutely makes no sense not to.
Wrong.

Job balance is based on ability to clear, and performance across a variety of skill levels. It is not based upon 100 percentile.

CBU3 doesn't give a shit about how well a player does at 100th percentile, because there's no balance to balance there. This is a PvE game, and jobs must be balanced as to their ability to vs Environment.

Once you're at 100th percentile, the versus environment part of the game is not really a factor. Speedrunning is a community activity--it has NOTHING to do with game balance, outside of degeneracy.