Our bellowed community manager for Star Wars The Old Republic Eric Musco, took on the forums today answering an old question on nerfs vs. buffs off classes. Check it out: 4t584t
Any time that nerfs need to understand is that we balance Classes/Disciplines based on specific DPS, HPS, and DTPS targets.
Now, those balance targets not only dictate Class/Discipline balance, but they dictate balance across all boss and every Mission. The inverse is true of Classes that have lower than desired DPS.
If we took every Class and moved it so that it was equal to the highest performing one, now everyone would be way stronger than we intended based on our balance targets. PvE content in general would become too easy, the “time to kill” in PvP would go down quite a bit making for less counter-play. The only level cap, as it is a massive undertaking.
While we are at the topic on Class balancing, check out this video by our house friend VULKK:
