What are the most and least played classes?

[Jetto]

Before the xpac hits, what are the most and least played classes ( lets say that people MAIN)

I guess its easy to group all the tanks and healer classes and say its those 5-6 but in general, for each role, what are the least and most played classes??

Back when ARR was couple patches old, felt like I saw a TON of DRG and BRDs, not sure if thats still the case. I felt the WAR/PLD were balanced in terms of popularity and I felt the healer classes were balanced as well with maybe seeing sightly more SCH than WHM

[Centershock]

Didn't SE release pie charts denoting what classes were played the most/least at some point during HW?

[Texa]

Role Distribution:

Healers - 23%, DPS - 55%, Tank - 21%

Percentage of Level 60 jobs - PLD - 7%, WAR - 8%, DRK - 8%, MNK - 9%, DRG - 8%, NIN - 8%, BRD - 9%, MCH - 5%, BLM - 10%, SMN - 6%, WHM - 10%, SCH - 6%, AST - 6%

Percentage ratio of Tanks: PLD - 29%, WAR - 34%, DRK - 47%
Percentage ratio of Healers: WHM - 36%, AST - 22%, SCH - 43%
Percentage ratio of DPS: DRG and MNK - 14% (28% total), BRD - 15%, BLM - 16%, SMN - 20%, NIN - 12%, MCH - 8%

[Jetto]

Role Distribution:

Healers - 23%, DPS - 55%, Tank - 21%

Percentage of Level 60 jobs - PLD - 7%, WAR - 8%, DRK - 8%, MNK - 9%, DRG - 8%, NIN - 8%, BRD - 9%, MCH - 5%, BLM - 10%, SMN - 6%, WHM - 10%, SCH - 6%, AST - 6%

Percentage ratio of Tanks: PLD - 29%, WAR - 34%, DRK - 47%
Percentage ratio of Healers: WHM - 36%, AST - 22%, SCH - 43%
Percentage ratio of DPS: DRG and MNK - 14% (28% total), BRD - 15%, BLM - 16%, SMN - 20%, NIN - 12%, MCH - 8%

wow thanks! Thats A LOT more balanced than I thought

[alimdia]

https://ffxivcensus.com/

That might help

[Texa]

I'd note that SCH and SMN's numbers are probably a little bloated because most people who play a arcanist role will most likely unlock both but that doesn't mean they PLAY both or really know how to. Like Scholars who don't know to spread crit adlos or Summoners who don't manually use contagion.

[Ririta]

I wonder how popular will red mage be since it had so many requests.

[EdwinLi]

I wonder how popular will red mage be since it had so many requests.

Both RDM and SAM have a high chance to be very popular during the first few months of 4.0 as players test out those two jobs.

Sword DPS Job has been a high demand since 1.0 so expect a lot of hype, satisfaction, and disappointment on the first few months as people either learn how the Job plays or give up and call it a copy of another job.

[Altena]

.... as people either learn how the Job ...

I am looking forward to lolDRG being retired and seeing lolSAM everywhere..

From the looks of it, the job has "animation lock" or at least some cast time on the strong/charged skills.
Pair that with everyone being all fresh, and it also being a pretty huge bandwagon job, there will be dead Samurai all over the place!

[VanilleFang]

Both RDM and SAM have a high chance to be very popular during the first few months of 4.0 as players test out those two jobs.

RIP DPS queue times.