Quote Originally Posted by Drayos View Post
Have you looked at logs your the fourth highest recorded logs in FFXIV currently I don’t think as many quit the job as you think.

I’ve brought this up before and the overall reply I got was “just because there’s complaints doesn’t mean we’ve quit, we simply want it put right” which is a great mentality overall, but I wouldn’t underestimate people’s persistance.
That is literally nothing new with SMN...
Just because people are doing parse runs on a job doesn't necessarily equate to people maining it. Not to mention not everyone uploads to fflogs, myself included. Most of my runs have been on BLM but my fflogs do not reflect that. What's more important to think about is how much of the player base actually have active fflogs.

SMN has always been the job that so many people want to play at the beginning of an expansion but it slowly die off in favor or other jobs. If you played and remember 2.0 release, "the sea of emerald" should ring a bell. However, about a month into 2.0 SMNs were becoming pretty uncommon. I think the average of the player base that report that they main SMN is usually around 4% (wish I could find that poll.)

And if I remember correctly, SMN is one of the jobs that people are unhappy about in 5.0. So if doesn't get adjusted, people will leave it like always.

I think this expansion will no different especially if SMN doesn't receive a buff. BLM will dominate the raiding scene for casters.