Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong but SMN even back then wasn't even an unpopular job. It had a lot of appeal because it did high DPS, sometimes powercreeping BLM and people wanted to take advantage of that. That and it had more appeal than BLM for being more mobile.

It was not unpopular in the slightest.
Last I remember seeing, it was one of the most unpopular regardless of High DPS. I cannot speak to raid numbers, I guess we could look at old parses, but I seem to recall something from LuckyBronco showing job distribution.