Quote Originally Posted by rewd View Post
It's good etiquette to quote entire messages because otherwise you are taking things out of context like in this case.

There is a big difference between a general statement such as "Sage is the most popular healer and it dethroned WHM" and "SGE is the most popular healer in EX at the moment".
To no one's surprise, Sage, Reaper and Summoner are the most played jobs in EX at the moment.

As I said, if we want to infer anything meaningful about popularity with all-encompassing statements, we have to wait.
Do... you really take that much issue with the term "dethroned?"

Sage is the most popular healer in the moment. White mage is "dethroned"/not the most popular. In endgame content is generally implied, because that's the only area where it's measured.

Nowhere was it ever said that this is expected to be permanent.

However, to me at least, it is very much a surprise. This is unprecedented; neither astro nor scholar managed to take the "most popular" spot from white mage at their releases. So I think it's pretty notable that SE finally released a healer that can take that spot away from white mage - without a situation like "white mage is dead last in balance and a difficult savage raid is pushing the meta more than usual."

Doesn't matter if it lasts a week, a month, or the whole tier. It's a new situation, and at least to me, that's interesting.