Finding parties still hard as melee?..

[Drynavere]

Just a question to those who still play teh game, as we all know, if you played about a year ago, it was rather hard to find a party if you were a melee class. RDM and WHM were claimed almost immediately, but you saw DRK and SAM and DRG sitting around all day doing nothign but seek.

My question is, is it still this hard to find parties?.. As well, what to people tend to prefer, DRK, DRG or SAM.

The reasoning behind this question is, well, I am considering, highly, to come back to FFXI. I have a 52 DRK, 52 RDM and DRG is 1 and SAM is about 20... I personally want to level RDM but not sure Ill like it at the endgame, as Ill be bored with a mage class. Since I really like the 'genre' behind SAM's I would like to play one of those... but not sure if I'll be sitting in jeuno for hours seeking. I don't want that.

Thanks for any contribution, and even if you only have the smallest comment, please post it to keep the question bumped.

(Also, which do HNM LS tend to prefer... of the 3?)

[kuu]

Re: Finding parties still hard as melee?..

No clue, sometimes hard sometimes not.

Your mileage will vary between times, levels, and servers.

There seems to be more people playing melee in "afternoon" NA period and into the primetime

JPs seem to be more mage oriented now. So usually into the night around that time you start seeing a lot of mages pop up there.

And finally you have to realize the magical lvl 37 cut off gap.

Popular subjobs that appear a lot pre 37 can suddenly disappear after it, due to obvious reasons. Nin, whm, thf, etc.