@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[StarRosie]

The statistic is literally just "people with the job at 60," not any metric of how much a job is actually played or used in content.I for one would love to see a statistic for, say, the percentage of DRK players who have it as their only tank at 60, but already had, say, PLD at 50 or higher, because I honestly doubt I'm the only player who "switched" tank mains (just as a similar number probably switched to the greatly improved 3.0 WAR).

Oh, well, that muddies things even further. One moment, I am gonna go comb over the census even further to gather more data.

Oh I completely agree with you, I'd very much like to know how exactly is that data collected and if I only need to level a tank to be considered one.
I'm mostly going with what we know for now.

Nevertheless, if the data does count active tanks, you can't say DRK wasn't a massive success by being the new most played tank job by far.

I am not saying DRK wasn't a huge success, I believe it was a success but I don't agree with the argument that DRK is the sole purpose for this 2% population raise. That's where I am skeptical and would like more data. I agree that DRK was a big success and a beloved addition, once I finish LvLing WAR, I will be switching over to DRK in order to create an awesome Black Rose cosplay from .Hack!

[Walfan]

The statistic is literally just "people with the job at 60," not any metric of how much a job is actually played or used in content. I for one would love to see a statistic for, say, the percentage of DRK players who have it as their only tank at 60, but already had, say, PLD at 50 or higher, because I honestly doubt I'm the only player who "switched" tank mains (just as a similar number probably switched to the greatly improved 3.0 WAR).

Hmm, is it really just that ? In that case these statistics aren't really useful.
I still think you can say the tank population increased, if more people bothered to level a tank to 60 it seems logicial some of those people would start playing it.

I am not saying DRK wasn't a huge success, I believe it was a success but I don't agree with the argument that DRK is the sole purpose for this 2% population raise. That's where I am skeptical and would like more data. I agree that DRK was a big success and a beloved addition, once I finish LvLing WAR, I will be switching over to DRK in order to create an awesome Black Rose cosplay from .Hack!

Probably not the sole purpose but look at it this way : DRK is a huge success, it's the most played tank and the tank population has probably increased going with what we have.
Even if some tank mains switched jobs with it's release (me included), I seriously doubt every DRK player played a tank before or would have kept playing tank were it not added.
Personally DRK is pretty much the sole reason I got back into the game, I got sick of my PLD even with the few new interesting spells they added in HW and I didn't want to play it at all when I came back some time ago. DRK looked cool and interesting, I leveled it and here I am.

[StarRosie]

Probably not the sole purpose but look at it this way : DRK is a huge success, it's the most played tank and the tank population has probably increased going with what we have.
Even if some tank mains switched jobs with it's release (me included), I seriously doubt every DRK player played a tank before or would have kept playing tank were it not added.
Personally DRK is pretty much the sole reason I got back into the game, I got sick of my PLD even with the few new interesting spells they added in HW and I didn't want to play it at all when I came back some time ago. DRK looked cool and interesting, I leveled it and here I am.

Again, I agree DRK contributed some to the tank pop increase, and indeed was a very large success considering it's numbers. Just an argument was being raised using these numbers that the whole of the tank pop's increase rested on DRK's powerful shoulders. (Though looking back, you were not the one who started that, apologies if it seemed like I attacked you on that point.) I am just making the point that the data does not fully support that argument and without a more detailed breakdown, there is nothing concrete to corroborate that argument.

I think we are running in circles now, both saying DRK is popular and cool! XD So that we agree on and we agree that it helped increase tank pop to a degree. But I am just saying, I don't agree that it was the sole purpose for the tank pop increase. If that clears up my arguments. Anyways, I am gonna be unable to post for a bit so, I'll probably bow out here for now, that and at this point I think the thread has been so utterly derailed from it's topic...we should let someone come in and put the doomtrain back on its tracks.

[Shippuu]

Hmm, is it really just that ? In that case these statistics aren't really useful.
I still think you can say the tank population increased, if more people bothered to level a tank to 60 it seems logicial some of those people would start playing it.

The overall statistic of Tank/DPS/Healer from the recent census didn't take into account the levels, so the 2% increase was tanks as a whole at 21%.

The later chart showing only level 60's showed tanks as 23% of Level 60's. So the level 60 tank % is higher than the overall tank %. It's still a good thing even if only existing tank players simply leveled DRK, that's still a large number of people revitalizing leveling content.

Probably not the sole purpose but look at it this way : DRK is a huge success, it's the most played tank and the tank population has probably increased going with what we have.
Even if some tank mains switched jobs with it's release (me included), I seriously doubt every DRK player played a tank before or would have kept playing tank were it not added.
Personally DRK is pretty much the sole reason I got back into the game, I got sick of my PLD even with the few new interesting spells they added in HW and I didn't want to play it at all when I came back some time ago. DRK looked cool and interesting, I leveled it and here I am.

It's definitely a success, DRK is the most played tank despite not actually being the best tank in the game which is very telling. One would expect Warrior to be the most played given it's reputation as clearly being the best Tank, but DRK is higher.

We have to also take into consideration that DRK could have acted as a "gateway tank". Even if someone tried DRK and didn't like DRK specifically, it at least exposed them to tanking and some may have then gone on to try the other tanks and potentially taken them to level 60 as well. Without literally polling a mass amount of players there's no way to get accurate data on if this was the case and by how much unfortunately.

[StarRosie]

We have to also take into consideration that DRK could have acted as a "gateway tank". Even if someone tried DRK and didn't like DRK specifically, it at least exposed them to tanking and some may have then gone on to try the other tanks and potentially taken them to level 60 as well.

I can agree with this, DRK having the benefits of starting at lvl 30 instead of lvl 1 definitely gives it the ability to let people dip their toe into tanking to find out if it is for them or not, without having to invest a lot of time into leveling and gearing for the dungeons.