Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
There was a notable increase in the number of tanks when DRK came out[...]
Was there...? The 2014 official census lists 19% tanks, 13% healers and 68% DPS for the role breakdown (30+) (Note: Ninja was not included in any of the figures). The 2015 official census lists 19% tanks, 19% healers and 62% DPS 30+. And that's with 2 DPS, 1 tank and 1 healer released in the meantime. Seems odd - you release 1 tank, 1 healer and 2 DPS, yet the relative amount of DPS goes down?

Now, there could be bloat in that due to people picking up the job at 30 (thus entering the statistic) but never actually playing it, which would relatively impact tanks and healers far more - 1/3rd of the Tanks/Healers start at 30, only 1/6th of the DPS do. That cannot explain however why healer relatively shot up while tank relatively remained the same and it's doubly odd because DRK is the iconic FF job, not Astrologian.

Now...these are pretty cool numbers, right? Unfortunately, they don't say much, because they only say how the distribution looks like in levels - that means it shows the potential, not the actual participation. I have all jobs at 60, so my personal distribution is like 54/23/23. Yay, I'm pushing the statistic! Shame I play like 85% as DPS. For actual participation, we unfortunately lack data.

Since people dislike logic and deduction, I'll leave the interpretation to you guys. Make of that what you will.