@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[Tint]

[...] 2% gain in Tanks, 4% gain in Healers. [...]

Dark Knight is the most popular tank with a whopping 47%, over double what it was last year.


So...what's all that about DRK not luring people to try/play a tank? Hmmm....

i wouldn't say a 2% gain in tanks is any proof that DRK lures people to try tanking. i mean: i tried tanking because of DRK, so stuff like this happens. but a 2% gain in tanks over a year? that's not really "luring people". what these numbers show is that many PLD switched to DRK, that's it.

[Ariane]

i wouldn't say a 2% gain in tanks is any proof that DRK lures people to try tanking. i mean: i tried tanking because of DRK, so stuff like this happens. but a 2% gain in tanks? that's not really "luring people". what these numbers show is that many PLD switched to DRK, that's it.

Yoshida a while back partially blamed long Void Ark tank queues on that more people were playing tanks for DRK.

[Shippuu]

i wouldn't say a 2% gain in tanks is any proof that DRK lures people to try tanking. i mean: i tried tanking because of DRK, so stuff like this happens. but a 2% gain in tanks over a year? that's not really "luring people". what these numbers show is that many PLD switched to DRK, that's it.

Still doesn't change the fact Tank numbers went up, compared to their previous downward trend from 2014-2015 where they dropped from 21% to 19%. They're now back up to 21%. And going by their level 60 job breakdown, tanks make up 23% of level 60's, so even more. Also, looking at the job distribution chart for 2016, even if it's just level 60 jobs, we can see that while yes, PLD numbers went down, they didn't make up the full increase in DRK numbers, there was still an additional 1% in WAR and 1% in DRK. You can't say only PLD switched to DRK, as some WAR could switch to DRK, and some PLD could switch to WAR. We don't have any data for that so you can't make a blanket statement like that in any kind of substantial manner.