What is the most popular job in the game?

I just hit level 50 after two months.... I must say the game at level 50 is so much better than pre 50.

II just wanted to know what is the most popular job in the game and why?

This kind of question makes no sense at all. All jobs are interesting and balanced. You need to find your own favorite job by yourself

lol im not looking for someone to choose my favorite job....My favorite is dragoon.. but i was just curious to know what the most popular job is in this game. I'm just curious its not going to change what i find fun and/or entertaining.

Im not even sure if official statistics exist. Last time i checked job polls they were all balanced. People have a lot of different jobs so the stats make no sense.

You won´t get any form of credible opinion here, in a forum where just a few of characters hang out.

http://xivsoul.com/

Check this site out, they gather informations of the lodestone and feed their database, make up your own results there.
(disclaimer: bots/rmt seem to tend to be GLD / BLM, so maybe slice down a chunk of their cake)

Soul still doesn't really help too much; that just shows what people have, not necessarily what the use. Some people like to get everything to top level, then never use it again.

Congrats on hitting 50!

I'd say it probably depends on if you have any specific reasons for wanting to level a particular job, otherwise they all seem equally useful. Tank and healer jobs are fairly nice to have in terms of queue times. A lot of players will work on a crafting or gathering class to help out a little with gil too, that's the route I went after hitting my first 50 anyway.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

Congrats on hitting 50!

I'd say it probably depends on if you have any specific reasons for wanting to level a particular job, otherwise they all seem equally useful. Tank and healer jobs are fairly nice to have in terms of queue times. A lot of players will work on a crafting or gathering class to help out a little with gil too, that's the route I went after hitting my first 50 anyway.

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Thanks. So I guess crafting items and selling them is the best way to earn gil? any other ways? I really hate disciples of hand/land jobs. I just can't into them

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Originally Posted by AzraelX

Thanks. So I guess crafting items and selling them is the best way to earn gil? any other ways? I really hate disciples of hand/land jobs. I just can't into them

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You could also do spiritbonding, and there are a couple things that can be farmed from dungeons/raid instances once you're geared up a bit more that might sell for a decent amount of gil, really depends on what your server's market is like. I farmed allagan leathers from binding coil t4 for a while when I was on Phoenix, but they sell for a lot less on Excal.

Based on my experiences... Ninjas everywhere, dragoons a close second, other DPS about equal. Warriors seem more popular than paladin as tanks, and scholars and white mages are split broadly down the middle.

Ultimately you should just play whatever class you find the most fun, DPS have to deal with longer queue times, but if you're good at your role and enjoy it you'll always find a place.

When the most recent official census was released last October, WHM was the most popular job, but not by a large percentage. It is mostly a pretty even spread. The census can be viewed here, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/197811.

One thing to point out is that the census was taken before the release of NIN, so that job is obviously not represented. Although it is half a year old, if you are interested in looking over numbers about race, gender, roles, etc., then it makes for an interesting reed.

From my experience, there's way too many bards.

It's very likely to get at least one, sometimes 2 bards, in a Dungeon roulette. (meaning no LB!! :S )
It's not unusual either to get an alliance with 10+ bards in WoD, before and after the weekly lockout. Same thing happened to LotA(CT) and ST.

For Coil, it's very unlikely to be looking for a Bard like ever.
People are usually looking for a tank, a healer or a melee and sometimes a caster, but I've yet to seen someone looking for a bard since there are so many.

Subjectively, I see a lot of Ninjas, Bards, and Black Mages.

I expect Eorzea is soon going to be full of Dark Knights, Astrologians, and Machinists. Just like when Rogue/Ninja was first introduced, it seemed like they comprised three quarters or so of the population for a while, everyone will soon be flocking to the next bunch of new ones. (Myself included, of course.)

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Originally Posted by Ultear_Milkovich

All jobs are interesting and balanced...

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Lolz, wrong so wrong. Look at SMN vs other DPS... Smn got over nerf'd and is now an endgame joke just available for utility (may be fixed in 3.0). There's definitely not such a thing as all jobs are correctly balanced.

Still love my SMN just hope it gets revamped/unnerfd

IRT OP, I've heard many times on the forum that Ninja wins the popularity contest due to playability and looks/feel as well as comparable DPS to mnk with less hassle

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Lolz, wrong so wrong. Look at SMN vs other DPS... Smn got over nerf'd and is now an endgame joke just available for utility (may be fixed in 3.0). There's definitely not such a thing as all jobs are correctly balanced.

Still love my SMN just hope it gets revamped/unnerfd

IRT OP, I've heard many times on the forum that Ninja wins the popularity contest due to playability and looks/feel as well as comparable DPS to mnk with less hassle

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SMN has MP issues in very long fights (T8 pre echo and nowadays i would say T13) but the job is OK for 95% of the content or even more. I always see SMNs parsing nice in EX trials or whatever and they add a great utility to the party. Plus they do huge damage in PVP.

Even tho if the job deserves some MP adjustment this is not a " weak " job unless you suck at it (but this works for every job)

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Lolz, wrong so wrong. Look at SMN vs other DPS... Smn got over nerf'd and is now an endgame joke just available for utility (may be fixed in 3.0). There's definitely not such a thing as all jobs are correctly balanced.

Still love my SMN just hope it gets revamped/unnerfd

IRT OP, I've heard many times on the forum that Ninja wins the popularity contest due to playability and looks/feel as well as comparable DPS to mnk with less hassle

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on the other jobs. The 3 melees all have solid pros and cons but no one is unbalanced. DRG is said to be the weakest but thats only because a lot of raid teams prefer NIN + MNK.

Bards will always be required and BLMs remain kings of AOEs. I see to "weak" job here. All can be played at the highest level. No one really sucks.

My experience :

Bard > Black mage > White Mage > Paladin > Lancer > Ninja > Warrior > Scholar > Monk > Summoner

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Originally Posted by AzraelX

Thanks. So I guess crafting items and selling them is the best way to earn gil? any other ways? I really hate disciples of hand/land jobs. I just can't into them

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Spiritbinding really is one of the best (if not the best) money makers in the game. The drawback being: If you don't have the crafts/gatherers you need at 3star/4star, you're gonna have to pay the middle man on MB, that means:

1) You pay for the gatherer
2) You pay for the mat crafter
3) You pay for the item crafter

So, you're losing money 3 times for not gathering/crafting your own stuff. But you're still seeing a profit by selling Materia, just not as much

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Originally Posted by Lyzern

Spiritbinding really is one of the best (if not the best) money makers in the game. The drawback being: If you don't have the crafts/gatherers you need at 3star/4star, you're gonna have to pay the middle man on MB, that means:

1) You pay for the gatherer
2) You pay for the mat crafter
3) You pay for the item crafter

So, you're losing money 3 times for not gathering/crafting your own stuff. But you're still seeing a profit by selling Materia, just not as much

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A supportive FC can let you bypass a lot of that without touching DoH/DoL.

Going on que times for DF, i'd say BRD is pretty much up there as most played as ranged DPS seem to have the longest ques, aka so many in the pool to pull from.

most of the time i mainly see bards n ninjas via df queue parties did a WOD run other night and it had 10 bards lmao :P

used to be loldrg, now it's nin.

If I am reading it correctly, the Square census showed the most popular was WHM 14%
BRD, DRG, PLD tied for 2nd at 12%

http://m.imgur.com/a/pEzlr