Balance

[Avenger]

A balance matters week 1-2 even in savage prog. Ofc every job is viable since you probably only play when everything gets buffed with bandaid fixes and you get showered in loot that slightly lower ilvl than savage (alliance patches).

The devs have explained that they test all content with all jobs to make sure that they are viable on day 1. Of course the dev team and testers may know more about the internals of the jobs and the fights than we do at the beginning at least.

Presumably the reason why Reaper and Sage were so strong out of the gate was to encourage people to play them (and to compensate somewhat for unfamiliarity.) Balance would have been counterproductive in both regards.

Now that the new jobs are well established and people know how to play them, it seems reasonable to balance things out a bit –which seems to be what they are doing.