Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

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Wait so you're trying to argue that tanks and healers are more popular in active numbers than DPS? That was the point of the previous statement and you're now stating that it's untrue. Whether or not there's an active following for a role is irrelevant when the point was referring to majority situations. The moment you have a universally greater need for DPS over tanks or heals is the moment the game has done something special that no others have for it.

I was never arguing that they are more popular so perhaps I mispoke but I was specifically talking about populations numbers. There are less tanks than dps as a whole, but when we're talking about jobs that are strictly melee its manipulating the statistics to compare all dps players to tank players when talking about adding specific jobs. People who are die hard caster/ranged dps players may have little interest in melee dps jobs.

In this situation, samurai. The argument is that "there are more dps players so it should be dps." But if we actually look at population data, the number of players who play specifically melee dps jobs is roughly the same as the number of players who play tanks (20% and 19% respectively). So to argue that based on population alone it should be a melee dps simply cannot be made. That was the point I was trying to make.