Thread: Another example of blatant Double Standard when it comes to balance

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

I will say without a doubt that PLD has many more issues in its design than dragoon or ast, so i don't see the problem here
There's many things to complain about here, but this ain't one of em. I loathe the upcoming drg rework myself, considering what happened to summoner

Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

oh nevermind

To me, OP's two quotes just sound like PLD will be receiving significant adjustments, while AST/DRG will receive a possible SMN-like job redesign. In which case there's no blatant Double Standard.
But I guess this is all up to one's interpretation of both quotes.

Does make me worried for 7.0 DRG though, considering how SMN turned out.

It says adjustments. It does not say full rework.

Could be they're going to change just a couple of actions with most of PLD still playing the same.

AST and DRG are going to be getting actual reworks, though. Do you really want them to rush reworks with half-formed ideas of how to fix the major complaints just for AST to end up worse for the rest of the expansion?

Wait until 6.3. If PLD is given an actual rework instead of just a few action changes, complain then.

I'm waiting for the AST rework myself. It's a job I want to be able to enjoy but can't. But I'm also willing to wait for them to do a proper job on it instead of pushing out something that will end up feeling just as bad as it currently does.

Originally Posted by Deceptus

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Talk about a double standard. AST and DRG were promised a rework but got pushed to 7.0 because "it would be too hard".



PLD has issues with 1 week of savage and get a promised rework in the next major patch (a few months.)

From the tank forums:

Balance is bad, but uniqueness is fantastic. Say no to balancing!

Not sure how is this a negative. DRG/AST might still have a chance at well thought out reworks. PLD is just going to WAR III or GNB II. Don't need much dev time for that.

You mean people were incredibly pissed off at Samurai changes, so you're mad that the same thing didn't happen to Dragoon/AST instead of SE taking a step back and thinking 'hey, maybe we messed up'? Or do you want this balance team to screw up your job because they obviously don't play it?

Do you pay attention?

At the moment, it sounds like PLD is suffering from not fitting into the two minute burst meta more than AST and DRG are suffering from... well, I'm not sure how they're suffering, exactly. So, it makes sense to me that PLD would get "fixes" before AST and DRG, especially if the alternative is PLD getting locked-out for the remainder of 6.x.