@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[Shippuu]

Well, well, well.

Official 2016 Eorzean Census is here.

Role Distribution:
2015

2016

2% gain in Tanks, 4% gain in Healers.

Tank Distribution:
2014-2015

2016

Dark Knight is the most popular tank with a whopping 47%, over double what it was last year.


So...what's all that about DRK not luring people to try/play a tank? Hmmm....

[Lewtskie]

So...what's all that about DRK not luring people to try/play a tank? Hmmm....

"SEE THESE MINUSCULE SHIFTS IN NUMBERS, THAT MEANS YOU WERE, LIKE, SO WRONG!"

Well, golly gee, 2%, that's almost half the number of people who bothered to play endgame! You're right, cause there couldn't be any possibility that people decided DRK was something they could finally enjoy tanking with, but of course we're not going specify what are current and what are new players, that's obviously not a stat we'd want to know.

And the popularity doubling since last year... when it released in June... before QoL updates... and people getting a feel for the job... over a period of time when a main can get stale for a player often pushing them to try other roles/classes. Let's not worry about what makes the difference though, it said from previous year to current so that's what is important.

Oh, but someone might have said that there was no possible way people would try DRK? Not like it'd make sense that obviously some people are going to try AND like DRK and make a shift in occupation. But you got some fancy numbers to throw around, so who cares about those pesky finer details?

[Madepossible]

Naoki Yoshida, as you can see most people here want a DPS tank, I mean they want to do damage so think about this: make it a over the edge Damage dealer tank like Warrior. See, ppl want it as DPS cos most probably are afraid it does low damage like PLD so to avoid that they want DPS. Combine water with wine and make it a Tank-DPS ne? \o/

[Tint]

[...] 2% gain in Tanks, 4% gain in Healers. [...]

Dark Knight is the most popular tank with a whopping 47%, over double what it was last year.


So...what's all that about DRK not luring people to try/play a tank? Hmmm....

i wouldn't say a 2% gain in tanks is any proof that DRK lures people to try tanking. i mean: i tried tanking because of DRK, so stuff like this happens. but a 2% gain in tanks over a year? that's not really "luring people". what these numbers show is that many PLD switched to DRK, that's it.

[Beskar]

I hope it gets made a melee DPS and a red mage becomes tank instead.

[Madepossible]

I hope it gets made a melee DPS and a red mage becomes tank instead.

I will not even touch that class if Red Mage is being a gd tank... Fk no lol.

[Ariane]

i wouldn't say a 2% gain in tanks is any proof that DRK lures people to try tanking. i mean: i tried tanking because of DRK, so stuff like this happens. but a 2% gain in tanks? that's not really "luring people". what these numbers show is that many PLD switched to DRK, that's it.

Yoshida a while back partially blamed long Void Ark tank queues on that more people were playing tanks for DRK.

[Vurtney]

red mage becomes tank instead.

I'd be all over this. Imagine all the torches and pitchforks if this actually happens.

[Celef]

Naoki Yoshida, as you can see most people here want a DPS tank, I mean they want to do damage so think about this: make it a over the edge Damage dealer tank like Warrior. See, ppl want it as DPS cos most probably are afraid it does low damage like PLD so to avoid that they want DPS. Combine water with wine and make it a Tank-DPS ne? \o/

People want to avoid the responsability it is to tank so go DRK / WAR cause you can hide behind the "I do more damages, go tank you PAL" xD

[Madepossible]

People want to avoid the responsability it is to tank so go DRK / WAR cause you can hide behind the "I do more damages, go tank you PAL" xD

LMAO legit you just made me laugh hard XD! Poor pldxD