FFXIV Job Design Feedback

[ty_taurus]

I think the most shocking thing to me about all this is...people actually like BLM. I'm kind of curious if that's a sample bias in the places the poll is posted or not, but it seems pretty wildly different from what the general perception of the Job is and what the census data postings tend to be. But I suppose it is a relatively small sample size of players (and we don't know if players are answering for every Job or only the Jobs the play or only the Jobs they really like/dislike strongly - EDIT: Correction, we KNOW players aren't answering for every Job based on the different response numbers, so it could be people are only answering for the ones they tend to really like or really dislike - strong feelings, in other words - or just the Jobs they more frequently play.)

But it is an interesting outcome I didn't expect to see.

The Healers seem to be bi-modal - with a lot of people liking them a lot and a lot of people hating them a lot, and SMN is the single most extreme bi-modal Job, I think. People that love it absolutely love it but people that hate it (probably a lot of old SMN players) absolutely hate it.

If you'd like a clearer picture of how each of these examples is scoring:

BLM


SMN


Healers

I just used the challenging content and overall scores (the solo and casual content scores are not better, trust me). I mean SMN is just getting demolished here, meanwhile BLM is just rolling in perfect scores. The healers are a bit more weird. With the exception of SGE, for whatever reason, it seems outside of the staunch defenders and impassioned critics of the role, most players that are responding feel that the healers are mid (except in the solo scores, the healers are crumbling in their solo scores, which isn't surprising since they have nothing to heal in solo). Despite SGE having a higher average, I'd actually say SCH is doing the best because their scores do lean more positive for overall values despite still being fairly mid.

[IDontPetLalas]

Well in the case of healers, it's a bit tricky to interpret why solo numbers are low. Is it because there is nothing to heal that someone rated it low or is because the healer's personal DPS is so low that solo content is a miserable slog?

i imagine there could be people in both groups, we don't know how many.