Least played job?

[kukurumei]

For DPS, DRG, MNK and SMN are all up there in terms of skill-cap, probably in that order. They each have their own way of doing things though, so it can be hard to say which is the hardest of the three. BLM and BRD...eh, low skill-caps compared to the others

Heals, its not really comparable, as it relies more on whether you are a naturally reactive healer (WHM) or preventative healer (SCH). You can understand the theory for both, but if you are a natural preventative healer, you can struggle with WHM but find SCH almost boringly easy.

NO way is a blm low on the skill totem poll. They can be as reliable and unreliable as any other class. Same with Brd. While brd does bottom out, good bards are darn good bard. darn good.

A lot of unsatisfied blms switch to smn only to be similar unsatisfied just the same. I don't believe any of this elitist "high skill cap" nonesense, because every job contributes just as hard and push just as high with every attempt at content.

There is always going to be ways to optimize your approach every time you do content on that class.

Least played it's hard to say for pf/df because people switch jobs to whatever is the fastest to get a slot and run things.

But in the end tanks are always lacking.

[Artemiz]

NO way is a blm low on the skill totem poll. They can be as reliable and unreliable as any other class. Same with Brd. While brd does bottom out, good bards are darn good bard. darn good.

A lot of unsatisfied blms switch to smn only to be similar unsatisfied just the same. I don't believe any of this elitist "high skill cap" nonesense, because every job contributes just as hard and push just as high with every attempt at content.

Completely agree, if ranged DPS was as easy as some people make out then there wouldn't be such a big difference between a good one and a bad one. In reality though the difference is pretty big, not just in terms of raw DPS but also how they use their utility spells like songs or E4E.

As for least played job..... one of the tanks I guess, I see most jobs quite frequently though ranged DPS is more common than melee it seems.