Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Honestly at this point I’m more leaning towards them even regretting RDM being partially melee because they seem to suck at designing mechanics that allow RDM the flexibility to actually do its melee combo when it needs to

If you really want to gold parse RDM you really want a melee spot but to facilitate that you kinda need a BLM/PCT but then you’d get more benefit out of giving the melee spot to them anyway
xd!!!!!!!!!!!!

Knowing how to manipulate RDM resources and adapt based on whether you have to resolve a mechanic while also being during the 2-minute burst or not is part of the class mastery and difficulty. Not every burst comes with mechanics to do. Otherwise, you can delay your melee combo. SE gave RDM Grand Impact, Prefulgence, and Vice of Thorns, in addition to the already available ranged mechanics.


@ForsakenRoe
Lucky Banjo does however post the methodology how he approaches the entire research and how he obtained the said numbers. Both Census and Banjo simply take the database made available by SE through Lodestone and correlate the data with the help of certain filters.

Census is a lot more basic and from what I see, it's just a bunch of numbers of created characters still present in lodestone but nothing beyond it (which makes sense since it is a census). In any case, the numbers are approximate because some profiles are hidden.

As for WoW healers being incredibly popular, a dozen recent posts and data contradict your claim. Perhaps the healing spec of the Paladin is more popular than other specs but it doesn't mean healers overall are popular. Tigore did comment on it and his estimation and take on it sounded a lot closer to reality and in line with what I have also found than what you say.

I have a very basic understanding of WoW (I never really played it) and I had to do a bit of research on which specs are considered healing (lol) to see if the WoW player base claims/posts held any truth or if it was also skewed by personal perception as it is in some post in FF14 forums.

Other factors skew the pick and progression of playing/ staying a healer in WoW the same way FF14 also has its own additional variables but that wasn't the point of the discussion.

In any case, I am not saying the design cannot improve overall, but saying it needs to change or else, or that this forum represents the majority is just simply grossly out of touch with reality. At the end of the day, it's their game, their vision, you have the privilege of playing this and they don't owe you anything. It's up to you if you want to stay or find something that better aligns with your idea of fun. Every single game that tried to fundamentally change based on a very vocal minority found its fast demise.