Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
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.
When did I say I have issues with "dethroned"?

SCH was released together with WHM, as 1.0 and 2.0 really can't be considered the same game. AST was released two years after WHM and SCH, so people weren't really in need of another healer. SGE, however, was released seven years after AST and people were so desperate to feel something fresh in the healing department that they were willing to hype a job that plays the same but with lasers. Not to mention that 3.0 AST was terrible and SGE is not.

It was very obvious that SGE would end up being the most "popular" at the very start of an expansion, just like it was obvious Reaper and Summoner would end up being, respectively, the most played melee and caster. This is what I'm arguing.