Yes, simply to save everyone, including hunter, from all the resulting OMG KS QQ.

[Practice Dummy on 10/18/2010 in 39sec]

Practice Dummy on 10/18/2010 in 39sec

Total
 --- DMG: 1177425 (100%) @ 30190 dps (30190 sdps)

Archtank (Full T2, 3.0s, Angry Nerds IV x4, Sorc 23)
 --- DMG: 496992 (42.21%) @ 12743 dps (12743 sdps)

Archmonk (Full T2, 3.0s)
 --- DMG: 278428 (23.65%) @ 7955 dps (7139 sdps)

Archpal (T1/T2, 3.0)
 --- DMG: 197209 (16.75%) @ 5478 dps (5057 sdps)

Archrang (Full T2, 3.0s)
 --- DMG: 135981 (11.55%) @ 3675 dps (3487 sdps)

Archbard (Full T2, 3.0s)
 --- DMG: 68815 (5.84%) @ 2150 dps (1764 sdps)

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Was done against FG practice dummy, full buffs and over-haste song from the Bard.
Monk and Ranger (DPS halved because of root) are still lagging far behind the warrior.
Working on getting some of those damage augs though atm~ Should even things out a bit hopefully.

What about augs that upgrade proportionately to what zone you're in? So say when you're in FG/CG, you can get a Damage 1 aug for free off the vendor. (People are complaining that there needs to be more rewards for FG/CG anyhow...)
Then starting in Qvic, bosses drop aug upgrade pieces.
Damage 1 + Qvic aug upgrade = Damage 2 aug.
Damage 2 + Tacvi aug upgrade = Damage 3 aug...and so on.
Obviously going back and farming for all your chars would be a pain but it'd be worth it eventually atleast.

It's similar to the crafted weapons idea without the huge time/plat sink. This way, it'll be much more accessible to the vast majority of the server and fix DPS classes in a more widespread manner.