Another example of blatant Double Standard when it comes to balance

[Deceptus]

Emphasis mine

Source

Using Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Savage) as an example, there are prolonged periods where the enemy cannot be attacked, as well as mechanics that grant increased damage to players, further emphasizing the value of burst damage. In such situations, the job's incompatibility with the duty becomes more readily apparent.

To substantively resolve these issues, we believe a full re-evaluation of actions is required. That said, waiting for such an evaluation would mean prolonging the unfavorable state of paladin. For this reason, we have elected to increase the potency of their actions in Patch 6.21.

As more significant adjustments to action mechanics will require more time, such changes will be implemented from Patch 6.3 onward. For now, we have elected to adjust actions that will improve the job's burst damage.

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

In previous Letter LIVEs, we mentioned that dragoon and astrologian would receive extensive adjustments in Patch 6.2; however, we’ll be postponing these adjustments based on the feedback we’ve received since Patch 6.1. Making extensive adjustments to a job on a fundamental level would involve numerous changes. The sheer number of changes would make it difficult to fully explain our intentions for each one, so we believe we should wait for an expansion release to make adjustments of that scale. With that said, rest assured we’ll continue to make minor adjustments.

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:

there is not a single thing that was said in those two paragraphs that doesn't also apply to black mage, something good black mages will readily point out after last night..

[DixieBellOCE]

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

[IDontPetLalas]

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

oh nevermind

[GoatOfWar]

Meanwhile, SCH and AST just dominating the healer category.

I mean, they're the superior options to their alternatives. Whm is an easier but weaker ast, Sge is an easier but weaker sch. You can thank homogenisation for that.

[Supersnow845]

I mean, they're the superior options to their alternatives. Whm is an easier but weaker ast, Sge is an easier but weaker sch. You can thank homogenisation for that.

Whoever decided buff vs selfish healers in a role with 1 button spam was a good idea is probably the same person who made healers the way they are right now

[GoatOfWar]

Whoever decided buff vs selfish healers in a role with 1 button spam was a good idea is probably the same person who made healers the way they are right now

It feels like the current healers were designed by how a dps main thinks healers should play. That is to say, not to the dps player's detriment. Healers are excessively forgiving to play and leave little to no room for skill expression. They made damage as uninteresting as possible because ''that's not what healers should be doing'' But then they also don't make the encounters do actual damage because that would disrupt the dps power fantasy if the healer can't handle it.

[Reimmi]

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

[Latarma]

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

this so much this as drg i'm not excited for this.

[Jeeqbit]

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

PLD doesn't really have significant issues in its design. It's fantastic. The issue is like SE said, that its design is not providing the advantage it once did because of a change in battle design. They could solve that by changing the battle design instead.

I really don't want to see them hastily rework PLD's rotation so that it's unrecognizable to what it has built up since ARR.

In ARR we got the Rage of Halone combo. In Heavensward this evolved to two Royal Authority combos between each Goring Blade dot combo. In Stormblood this evolved to replacing two Royal Authority combos with Requiescat and 5 Holy Spirits. In Shadowbringers this evolved to using Confiteor instead of the last Holy Spirit and 3 Atonements instead of the second Royal Authority combo. In Endwalker, the Blade of Faith combo replaced one of the Goring Blade combos that usually followed Confiteor. We can still experience all of these rotations by syncing to lower levels.

And it would be sad to think SE might just scrap all of that for a rushed design of a bursty rotation just so that P8S is workable at minimum item level.

[Nezerius]

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.