Quote Originally Posted by EdwinLi View Post
Bard has always been the most player base Job in FF14 since 2.0 due to how mindless it can be with gameplay.
That has never been the case. BRD in ARR was among the least played classes if not the very bottom as they had extremely subpar DPS due to being designed to be a support class. This led to pretty much every raid static needing to find a BRD above all else.

In HW they regained some popularity once they had better DPS, but have always been somewhat around the middle of the pack in terms of popularity.