Level 16 Technics and PA - A balancing act?

[DigestNeko]

So with this Super Hard update, monsters will drop level 16 discs.
I was looking at how much increase in attack power does level 16 discs give and noticed that some Level 16 PAs and Technics does have significant increase in attack power.

Then i noticed that most of the significant increases are on unpopular PAs and Technics.

I play as a Force so i looked up more about Technics.
Take the below examples for lvl 15 -> lvl 16 increases, most of the ice technics gets huge boosts.
Technics that are not mentioned have linear increases (miniscule)

Barta 279 -> 281 -> 340 (LVL 16)
Gi Barta 385 -> 388 -> 465 (LVL 16)
Ra Barta 296 -> 298 -> 360 (LVL 16)

While less Fire technics gets huge boosts

Foie 283 -> 285 -> 342 (LVL 16)
Gi Foie 299 -> 301 ->361 (LVL 16)

Only one Light technics gained huge boost

Ragrants 425 -> 428 -> 513 (LVL 16)

Its even worse for Bolt, Darkness and Wind technics as none of them gain huge increases.

I looked at Hunter PAs and although i dont really know what is the most useful or popular PAs, i guessed Overend and Sonic Arrow are pretty much in the list.
(And also by looking here http://pso2.jp/players/event/1st_anniversary/report/pa/)

Heres a look at the damage boost:

Overend 1941 -> 1958 -> 1975 (LVL 16)
Sonic Arrow 258 -> 260 (LVL 16)

So its not much of an increase, meanwhile:

Rising Edge 352 -> 355 -> 419 (LVL 16)
Twister Fall 345 -> 348 -> 418 (LVL 16)
Ride Slasher 525 -> 529 -> 794 (LVL 16)

I am not sure how useful these PAs are, but they do gain considerable boost.
The same goes for other classes' PAs.

So i guess this Level 16 discs is a way for Sega to encourage players to use unpopular PAs and Technics?
Especially on the Ice Technics since it sucks big time and most people wont even consider investing in Ice trees.


Edit*:
I realized that the most significant increase is SaZan:
Sazan 303 -> 305 -> 586 (LVL 16)

Ridiculous?
More reasons to break Red Crates now.

[jooozek]

yes, it's a halfassed way of segas balancing, first time it happened was a year ago, when they introduced lv11-14 discs

[TaigaUC]

Se~ ga~

[Lostbob117]

Cruel Throw is a big winner with the increase in power.

[UMVC3_Wolverine]

dayum kinda want an ice tree now :O

[supersonix9]

I should get my hands on Ride Slasher 16...

[Kietsu]

You should see what they did to Sazan.

[isCasted]

Why couldn't they do it to lower-level discs? It's not like balancing against players' will is something bad.

[Sp-24]

"Content".

Find out what we did to your favorite PA... If you can!

[Lostbob117]

Agrajag datamined and uploaded them

http://hiigara.arghargh200.net/pso2/...2_pa_names.txt Name reference
http://hiigara.arghargh200.net/pso2/...9_pa_stats.txt stats