Least played job?

[Noshpan]

I've been seeing a lot of Arcanists/ Scholars/ Summoners lately in the roulettes.

[kukurumei]

Ahaha agreed. SCH is currently the most diversified job in the entire game. No idea what all the drama is about.

There seems to be a high amount of arcanist based elistism that think their way is the only way, and everyone else falls at their knees when they arrive. Schs and smn love to talk the good talk but rarely make the good walk. (That isn't to say mnk love is left out)

A good whm is just as good if not better then a sch, suffice to say almost any content has been done amirably with 2xwhm where 2xsch is a huge nightmare.

Good is good regardless of jobs. A super whm can pre-cast those stoneskins and cure's etc to make a sch sit in the corner and twiddle their thumbs all the same as the reverse.

And really shielding is over rated, any sch will tell you that. There's a time and situation for everything. I rarely even aqu these days until pressure points to sustain a near infinite supply of mp heals, and burst ratio.

There is enough diversity that there isn't really any lacking classes, though tanks are always in high demand. I would say PLD almost always in high demand.

Much like how 2x sch vs 2xwhm is a nightmare on groups 2xWars is a nightmare as oppose to 2xpld.

So I would say in general, PLD is least played because the pool of pld is just too small for what they are needed for.

Skills aside there is always a fairly high demand for a PLD to join anything and everything, and a 2nd pld doesn't quite hurt very much as long as skill is there or even not.

[ispano]

So wait a minute, you're pulling the double standard on me by accusing me of "misinterpreting" his post, when he clearly misinterpreted the post before his. Or am I mistaken in assuming that people know how to play and equate pre-casting to timing with the beginning of an ability. Looks like everybody on this page is guilty of "misinterpreting".

It's because there's a difference between the two. Sometimes, for example on T9, you want the shield up before the damage hits just due to the sheer amount of it. In other cases, such as Titan stomps, the damage itself isn't all that much, so allowing the heal portion to take effect as well is preferable.

[Lunavi]

The least played has to be Warrior. Everyone who is a DPS and think their class is the least played based on DF results: When you get paired in DF the system tries to make it so there is one melee and one ranged DPS, if there is not they try to atleast make so 2 people are not the same class. Therefore it is easy to think there is no players of your own class if you use DF as the poll.

[BunnyChain]

There seems to be a high amount of arcanist based elistism that think their way is the only way, and everyone else falls at their knees when they arrive.

*walks into thread*

Kneel, mortal!

[TomTom1968]

Can't remember if I EVER saw a Summoner in a party in the last three months. Really can't remember. I have one but never touched him besides levelling up.

[Craiger]

On my server it has to be SMN for sure...

My main until 2.2 was SMN, but I got tired of it, which might be the case for a lot of other players it seems. There's a lot of things they need to change with SMN for me to go back there again.

[Shneibel]

I was not trolling: i said that scholar job is much more than just precasting succor, but got replies like this:

While all your input so far was:

I learned this during my 4th week in the game.
What did you call me bad, moron and troll for? I only stated and explained my own point of view, did i deserve all that hate?
And seriously, it has been said many times and probably everyone knows now about not using pets on Sic and <mo> macro - this is a basic scholar/summoner knowledge.

if you had stop at #17 when 3 ppl said you are a bad SCH, you can advoide get burn

[Luxx]

u guys wont believe me when i personally say blm. im sorry but i RARELY see them via df.
ive been gettin double bards triple bards tho.
smn and mnk are up there as well

[Garlyle]

My personal experience has been an absolute dearth of Monks. I see plenty of everything else on my data center, but even if I pop into Crystal Tower (where there's 12 total DPS), I'm the only monk 80% of the time. I think that out of the 100+ players in my FC, I might be one of the only players who 'mains' Monk as their DPS of choice, too. I see far more of every other DPS.

It's kept me from almost ever having to contest a Monk drop in any content, which is nice, but still...???