Samurai Melee DPS thoughts

[Kallistra]

You're right. But is this still the case now? Do we still have hundreds of ninja's clogging the queues? It eventually evened out, and this will be the same. It may take a little more time, but eventually a majority of the tanks will go back to being tanks, and the same for healers. Just like what happened when Ninja was released.

To make the assumption that everyone sticks to one role is incredibly incorrect. I don't know anyone who sticks to one job or one role for every single piece of content. Yes, they tend to do the harder stuff on the role/job that they main and/or have geared the most. But most people I know tend to try to do content on a variety of roles to keep things interesting. That's why in most MMOs other people have alts, XIV is different because you can just slap all the jobs on one character.

(edit) For those saying that ROG/NIN was different because it was mid expansion, fair enough. Everyone is going to be leveling in Stormblood, that is true too. But most people will be doing the MSQ, new dungeons, and new quests on their main job, while leaving their roulettes for the new jobs. Even in Heavensward there was a mild bloat with the release of the trinity. A lot of HW's hype was around DRK and AST, when HW came out we saw tank and healer queues increase while DPS queues got shorter. It wasn't anything too horrendous, but it existed. Of course they aren't going to stay bloated forever, maybe a month or two, but it's highly probable that there will be bloat with RDM and SAM and that it'll be noticeable.