Wesk Alber's poll on Jobs

[ty_taurus]

This is such a strange analysis to me...again, you seem adamant of finding any other answer possible besides "people like it".

Except I didn't say "no one actually likes Summoner or Healers" or anything to that effect. What I'm saying is population data can't just be taken at face value because you have to ask why. And I'm not trying to answer "why," I'm just listing a variety of reasons that can potentially be true for some people. How many people? Who knows? Maybe only 5% of the census data, maybe 45%. Without anything to go off of, there's no way to know. But between Black Mage and Summoner, Black Mage is very much a "ride or die" type of job, whereas Summoner is not. It's a very convenient job to take advantage of regardless of your opinion on it because it's accessible, easy, and it's stylish.

Which census? Lucky Bancho, as far as I can tell, uses only the Job you were on when the census snapshot was taken. It doesn't count players for every Job. The one that does it by ilevel (generally having the Extreme's weapon or better) also only does it for people logged with that weapon equipped, I think.

If that's the case, then that information is even less reliable in my eyes. Who knows what job I was wearing when that was taken. It might be Dancer. It might be Sage. It might even be a Tank if it was taken when I was grinding them up to 90. Who knows? I don't tend to swap back to my main when I log out or anything. I just log out in whatever I'm wearing, which is currently Dancer a lot just because I've only been logging in to do savage with my raid group and then log out, but that's not always the case.

And/or...people actually like WHM/SGE.

It's weird to me how far you bend over backward to insist that people CAN'T or DON'T like (at least not in large part) Jobs that you dislike.

Are you on something? The video you shared showed values out of 100%, which has nothing to do with how many people like current healer design and only shares info on what healers are the most or least liked from those who voted on a healer. I am saying that Scholar and Astro are likely so far below White Mage and Sage because of their pain points. You have seen many a player actively complain about both Scholar and Astro. You cannot deny that plays some effect into their overall popularity. That doesn't mean "You know if Scholar and Astro played more smoothly, it'd be 50% Scholar and 50% Astro cause White Mage and Sage SUCK." It means there are annoying aspects to playing as Scholar and Astro which undoubtedly has some effect on their low popularity.