Quote Originally Posted by DreadfullyAwful View Post
It's almost like the devs balancing jobs don't play a lot fo the classes to a high pedigree themselves. That are they are just that ignorant with these insulting changes
I think it's very clear, from the precise way potencies were balanced, that SAM was all done in a spreadsheet. A Balance guy ran the numbers yesterday and concluded that without party buffs personal DPS changed by about 3 DPS. 3. Out of 9000. That's 0.03%. You will never get balancing changes fine-tuned to that degree by actually PLAYING and PARSING the job in combat.

They likely have every GCD and every optimal oGCD mapped out in a spreadsheet, just like the Balance guys, and had some intern move numbers around until they were about the same as before. And because that's all they did, because they treated our skills and our rotation like numbers on a spreadsheet, they gave no consideration to how FUN or ENGAGING it is. That's why we lose a skill like Kaiten, because it's just a number on a spreadsheet to them.