Balance

[Stasya]

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.

After savage week 1 stuff and very late 6.08 buffs with later killing of sam in 6.1 i won't believe they test all content with all jobs(it shows with their useless band aid fixes prior ultimate release, you really TELL me they tested ultimate with sam in comp, when 4 classes no more have synergy with sam?????? or stuff like was bard tested in ultimate aswell???). And wtf is this logic: make reaper broken on release so people play them more?

Devs can also say that they care about job balance. 6.05 and SAM changes(might aswell include NIN) prove it otherwise.