Quote Originally Posted by aiqa View Post
To thread title; that is cherrypicking heavily. There were also patches were SMN was the most popular caster, by far. Long after the novelty of the rework wore off. What changed since then; there is another caster option, and SMN does even lower (relative) dps now. If SMN loses rez and gains dps similar to BLM/PCT, I am fairly sure its popularity will go up again.
I specifically gave it the whole expansion to have the novelty wear off and PCT isn’t a counter, it’s part of my point

If all it took to crash SMN was relatively poor damage and the introduction of PCT what was even the point of the rework in the first place, it’s already unpopular again