(07-11-2016, 07:18 AM)Gerel Kha Wrote: True enough, I suppose. I recall that being a big issue with FFXI back in the day (and to this day, supposedly, though I can't speak from personal experience), and I can imagine that they'd want to avoid repeating it.
Without going terribly far into it, yeah, that's exactly what happened in XI. The entire pace and balance of the game got thrown for a loop by a single ability from one class, and the entire meta changed irrevocably.