Some consider balancing out an online game a nightmare. A common excuse made by designers & developers used to just do as little balancing as needed is:

we don’t balance for small scale player versus player combat.

I am not sure what the reason behind this insane damage¹ of the Tempest of Set class in Age of Conan is, but for me it translates to: consider canceling the subscription.

1. Originally found at FileFront [↩]