Quote Originally Posted by IruruCece View Post
High damage or fancy animations alone don't actually make a job popular. More people are bringing Bards, Machinists, Summoners, and Dancers into endgame content. Why do you think that is?
It's not as if Dancers, Bards, and Machinists offer much more than fancy animations, though. Summoner at least has rez to make up for its low dps. The rest are just barrel-bottoms with, if one exempts "fancy animations", no redeeming feature beyond "I really, really like procs!" or "I really, really don't like doing anything but 1-2-3 cycling while hitting whatever CDs pop up."