"Balance team tests the fights themseslves"

[Packetdancer]

They certainly have very indepth data on usage statistics, atleast I hope they do. But that doesnt mean we have no data. FFlogs is providing everyone who cares to look with extremely detailed combat data. It's freely available to everyone, even SE could look at it and calculate every potency increase in a vaste variety of situations. They wouldnt even have to admit it either because we expect them to have detailed combat data themselves. Increasing potencies like they did for paladin and warrior has no negative impact on the casual playerbase, it's unrealistic that this is even a possibility.

I would argue that the content of fflogs skews heavily towards a particular subset of the playerbase. While sometimes you'll get casual content thrown on there for purposes of XIVAnalysis (or just because someone was lazy and uploaded an entire evening's worth of logs rather than specific encounters), the vast majority of those logs are going to represent Extreme, Savage, or Ultimate content.

Yes, we can certainly draw conclusions from FFLogs' data, but I'm not sure we can draw conclusions which are applicable to the entire playerbase as opposed to the small subset that run savage. I would assume that SQEX has far more complete data than we do in that respect.

This isn't to say that there is something in that data that explains why they're fixated on the current job balance, mind you. I'm just saying there very well could be, and we would not know. So the fact that they aren't changing job balance doesn't necessarily mean they're ignorant of its state.

[Saraide]

I would argue that the content of fflogs skews heavily towards a particular subset of the playerbase. While sometimes you'll get casual content thrown on there for purposes of XIVAnalysis (or just because someone was lazy and uploaded an entire evening's worth of logs rather than specific encounters), the vast majority of those logs are going to represent Extreme, Savage, or Ultimate content.

Yes, we can certainly draw conclusions from FFLogs' data, but I'm not sure we can draw conclusions which are applicable to the entire playerbase as opposed to the small subset that run savage. I would assume that SQEX has far more complete data than we do in that respect.

This isn't to say that there is something in that data that explains why they're fixated on the current job balance, mind you. I'm just saying there very well could be, and we would not know. So the fact that they aren't changing job balance doesn't necessarily mean they're ignorant of its state.

Well yes, of course FFlogs represents mostly extreme, savage and ultimate content. That's where job balancing is relevant. SE has long abandoned all notions of keeping job balance in normal content. Otherwise Warrior's self healing would have been nerfed ages ago. Buffs like the recent ones to warrior and paladin can not have a negative impact on the casual playerbase. It was just potency increases, so the jobs play exactly the same. They just wont be locked out of savage PFs anymore.