Homogenization and Simplicity in Tank Roles

[AziraSyuren]

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I take issue with the sample size and lack of clarification on what they mean by high end. Is it a self report? I bet a lot of players would fancy themselves as high-end raiders when all they do is clear weekly.

The fact that high-end tank players are literally more satisfied with their role than any other in the game except casters checks out, though. Tanking is the best it's ever been and it's vindicating to see that that's not even a particularly uncommon opinion.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

I take issue with the sample size and lack of clarification on what they mean by high end. Is it a self report? I bet a lot of players would fancy themselves as high-end raiders when all they do is clear weekly.

The fact that high-end tank players are literally more satisfied with their role than any other in the game except casters checks out, though. Tanking is the best it's ever been and it's vindicating to see that that's not even a particularly uncommon opinion.

In the absence of official statistics, fan statistics is all we can go off of. Hence why I said it lets people catch a glimpse since its an interesting insight even with a limited sample size. It was a google form people filled out, and one of the tabs was a dropdown indicating if you were high end or casual.

There was also similar surveys done near the beginning of 5.0 asking people what they thought about the updates SHB did to their job coming from SB which give similar results, where DRK sits at a 70% positive rating: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=991492593
And a JP one of the same survey that was done which also reports DRK at about ~74%-ish satisfaction. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...dark_red_most/

The sample sizes aren't amazing, but there's a clear trend emerging across them. For every 1 person that has issues with new DRK, there's 3 that are satisfied with it. Hence why I made the observation that if Square's internal statistics are showing anything even remotely similar to this, it shows a clear bias in favor of moving ahead with current DRK design.