Quote Originally Posted by Scuoll View Post
I mean true, but there's popular and there's "basically impossible to find high end groups without one", it's a bit hand wavey, monk's strong and popular but plenty of groups are not running one, even those at least of those available on twitch, the world first group for the last boss of the tier didnt have one, they had a black mage as a 4th slot.

Outside the people going for world first and early clears its still really popular, if im reading that graph right only 10% of groups dont have a reaper, that doesnt seem good when you have 4 other melee jobs, what did these numbers look like in previous expansions? I'd imagine samurai was the previously most popular class but this seems a bit excessive, its got a higher play rate than ninja + dragoon + samurai
I can't say what the representation for Samurai was in SB. I feel like I saw them everywhere though, but that is subjective. Reaper has been over represented since release. It's the new kid on the block and it actually does solid numbers (iirc, Samurai wasn't doing so well at SB release). Regarding finding a group if you aren't a Reaper. I think the opposite is true. It's is damn near impossible to find a group as a reaper (static or PF) since there are so many. I know I'm going to struggle to the point that I will probably just start my own groups to run Savage. It's that bad on Primal.