Quote Originally Posted by VictorSpoils View Post
There are so many RPRs going around, probably as many as every other melee combined, and even it is a big step up from SMN. Surely the latter could still be made more interesting without losing its popularity.
RPR was not even the most played melee in savage 6.4 or 6.5 Anabaseios, all melee jobs were relatively close in populations.
The only time reaper was extremely popular was right when Endwalker released when they were absurdly overpowered and outright broken, and then after every other melee job got a million buffs and Abyssos hit Reapers were merely 2-3% behind the other melee in dps and their population plummeted into the ground and became the least played melee job by far and didn't recover until way later.

It's a fact people flock to the easy overpowered jobs and ditch them the second something better comes along. Can't really blame them for that, it's just the path of least resistance, what does worry me is that I can't even tell if people are defending current SMN because they actually like it, or because they want to keep their broken overpowered free ticket job. And that's very worrisome because I don't want that to happen to my favorite job. I don't want it to be demoted into a troglodyte job for people that don't play the game.