Lucky Bancho has just released his latest census on 7 February 2021. This is his first census since the release of patch 5.4.
As before, I have taken it upon myself to visualise some of the data to stimulate discussion on the state of Eorzea living in the shadow of laser robots, tree giants, Bozjan battlegrounds, and crafter monuments.
Again, to avoid flooding this opening post with pictures, I have made the visualised data available on my Lodestone blog here.
My Reddit post on the 5 December 2020 census is available here.
CENSUS POPULATION
This time, Lucky Bancho has considered only those characters who satisfy at least one of the following criteria in a Lodestone player search:
Among these characters, a character is considered active if it satisfies the following criteria:
Criteria 2.a and 2.b are intended to exclude characters that have been created using boost potions.
My cliff-notes summary of the data is as follows. (Click on the header to access the blog entry containing the relevant data.)
Clan demographics
Not much has changed since the 5 December 2020 census. All changes to clan proportions with respect to the last census are within 0.5%~1.0%. All trends remain the same: Cats and Midlanders remain popular worldwide; Lalafell remain popular in JP; female Roegadyn remain poorly represented worldwide, and are most represented in NA, particularly on the Crystal data centre, etc.
Eden's Promise: Eternity (E12S) Mount Ownership
The moment of truth we've all been waiting for... and most of us probably already know. For those unfamiliar, mount ownership is a rough indicator of the number of players who successfully complete the raid tier (in this case, Eden's Promise)
This time, to address feedback from several people in my last post, I have provided not one, but two types of bar charts: the first shows the raw number of owners of E12S mounts; and the second shows the number of owners of E12S mounts as a proportion of the number of owners of E4S mounts. The first type is intended to indicate the overall level of success at clearing Eden's Promise (Savage), and the second type is intended to indicate the same level of success as a proportion of the population of players that actively raid. Here, I have asserted that this population is equal to the number of players who own E4S mounts. Furthermore, this time I have grouped the owners not only by server, but also by data centre.
Now, for some observations. Here are the raw number of owners, grouped and ranked by data centre:
Evidently, the JP data centres (Mana, Gaia, and Elemental) are far... far more successful at clearing Eden's Promise than the NA and EU data centres. JP's Mana data centre alone is home to more owners (8456) than all data centres of NA and EU combined (6782)! This observation alone is not surprising. However, closer examination of the numbers by server reveal a few amusing tidbits:
Next, let us examine the numbers as a proportion of owners of E4S mounts:
Even if we restrict the discussion to populations of dedicated raiders, while the difference between JP and NA/EU closes slightly, JP data centres nevertheless remain home to the most successful raiders. Here are some other quick remarks about server proportions:
Jobs with weapon iLevels ≧ 530
These numbers roughly indicate which jobs players have "mained" for Eden's Promise in patch 5.4. As we are only two months into Eden's Promise, the number of owners of i530 and i535 weapons remain limited. 68.5% of these weapons are in the hands of JP players, while only 21.4% are in the hands of NA players and 10.1% are in the hands of EU players. Thus, the overall numbers are heavily skewed toward JP trends.
There are a few notable developments compared to the 5 December 2020 census:
MORE INFORMATION
For further information, readers are encouraged to look at Lucky Bancho's live Lodestone World Survey, available in Japanese and English.
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As before, I have taken it upon myself to visualise some of the data to stimulate discussion on the state of Eorzea living in the shadow of laser robots, tree giants, Bozjan battlegrounds, and crafter monuments.
Again, to avoid flooding this opening post with pictures, I have made the visualised data available on my Lodestone blog here.
My Reddit post on the 5 December 2020 census is available here.
CENSUS POPULATION
This time, Lucky Bancho has considered only those characters who satisfy at least one of the following criteria in a Lodestone player search:
- The character's level is at least 60; or
- the character is a member of a Free Company.
Among these characters, a character is considered active if it satisfies the following criteria:
- The character is affiliated with a Grand Company.
- The character's maximum level is 60 or above (excluding level 60 with zero EXP), with the following exclusions:
- the character's maximum level is 60 and its main weapon's iLevel is 260; or
- The character's maximum level is 70 and its main weapon's iLevel is 390.
- Since the last census on 5 December 2020:
- the character has been newly created; or
- the character's level has changed; or
- the character's EXP has changed; or
- the number of minions the character owns has changed; or
- the number of mounts the character owns has changed.
- The character owns at least one mount.
Criteria 2.a and 2.b are intended to exclude characters that have been created using boost potions.
My cliff-notes summary of the data is as follows. (Click on the header to access the blog entry containing the relevant data.)
Clan demographics
Not much has changed since the 5 December 2020 census. All changes to clan proportions with respect to the last census are within 0.5%~1.0%. All trends remain the same: Cats and Midlanders remain popular worldwide; Lalafell remain popular in JP; female Roegadyn remain poorly represented worldwide, and are most represented in NA, particularly on the Crystal data centre, etc.
Eden's Promise: Eternity (E12S) Mount Ownership
The moment of truth we've all been waiting for... and most of us probably already know. For those unfamiliar, mount ownership is a rough indicator of the number of players who successfully complete the raid tier (in this case, Eden's Promise)
This time, to address feedback from several people in my last post, I have provided not one, but two types of bar charts: the first shows the raw number of owners of E12S mounts; and the second shows the number of owners of E12S mounts as a proportion of the number of owners of E4S mounts. The first type is intended to indicate the overall level of success at clearing Eden's Promise (Savage), and the second type is intended to indicate the same level of success as a proportion of the population of players that actively raid. Here, I have asserted that this population is equal to the number of players who own E4S mounts. Furthermore, this time I have grouped the owners not only by server, but also by data centre.
Now, for some observations. Here are the raw number of owners, grouped and ranked by data centre:
- Mana (8456)
- Gaia (6062)
- Elemental (5146)
- Aether (2261)
- Primal (1768)
- Chaos (1298)
- Light (941)
- Crystal (514)
Evidently, the JP data centres (Mana, Gaia, and Elemental) are far... far more successful at clearing Eden's Promise than the NA and EU data centres. JP's Mana data centre alone is home to more owners (8456) than all data centres of NA and EU combined (6782)! This observation alone is not surprising. However, closer examination of the numbers by server reveal a few amusing tidbits:
- The Chocobo server on Mana is home to more owners (1250) than the whole of the Light data centre (941) and the Crystal data centre (514)!
- Twenty servers in JP (and Gilgamesh on NA) have more owners than the whole of the Crystal data centre (514).
- The top-performing non-JP server, Gilgamesh, has 616 owners. Even so, Gilgamesh comes in at only #15 in the world rankings.
- The next-top-performing non-JP server, Sargatanas, with 390 owners, comes in at a distant #32 in the world rankings.
- The top-performing EU server, Ragnarok, has 381 owners, which puts it just behind Sargatanas at #34 in the world rankings.
- The last eight places in the world rankings are occupied by all eight servers of the Crystal data centre.
Next, let us examine the numbers as a proportion of owners of E4S mounts:
- Mana (30.1%)
- Gaia (26.0%)
- Elemental (24.3%)
- Aether (15.4%)
- Chaos (14.8%)
- Primal (12.6%)
- Light (11.4%)
- Crystal (7.8%)
Even if we restrict the discussion to populations of dedicated raiders, while the difference between JP and NA/EU closes slightly, JP data centres nevertheless remain home to the most successful raiders. Here are some other quick remarks about server proportions:
- All but one JP server has a higher proportion than every non-JP server.
- At 20.6% ownership, Gilgamesh remains the most successful non-JP server, but its world ranking falls to #31, just above the worst-performing JP server, Gungnir (with 20.1%).
- EU servers, particularly those on the Chaos data centre, tend to fare better in terms of proportion than in terms of raw numbers. I am pleasantly surprised to see Spriggan (the second-least populated server outside of JP) come in with the fifth-highest proportion (17.2%) outside of JP.
Jobs with weapon iLevels ≧ 530
These numbers roughly indicate which jobs players have "mained" for Eden's Promise in patch 5.4. As we are only two months into Eden's Promise, the number of owners of i530 and i535 weapons remain limited. 68.5% of these weapons are in the hands of JP players, while only 21.4% are in the hands of NA players and 10.1% are in the hands of EU players. Thus, the overall numbers are heavily skewed toward JP trends.
There are a few notable developments compared to the 5 December 2020 census:
- MNK is no longer the least popular DPS worldwide! MNK has gone from a distant last place (#10) among DPS in the previous census to a comfortable #7 today. This might be attributable to the quality-of-life update that MNK received in patch 5.4.
- SMN has also risen in popularity, from #6 in the last census to #2 today. This is largely due to trends on JP, where SMN has risen from the fifth-most-popular DPS to the second-most popular DPS (and the most popular caster DPS)
- RDM, formerly the most popular DPS, has fallen to #6 in popularity.
- DNC, formerly the second most popular DPS, has dropped to second-last place (#9). Again, this is due to trends on JP, where DNC is unpopular. I expect DNC to rise again when NA and EU have accumulated more E12S clears.
- Among tanks and healers, popularity closely follows JP trends (i.e., in order of popularity, PLD > DRK > GNB > WAR for tanks and WHM > SCH > AST for healers). The popularity of AST in JP has actually dropped since the last census! In the previous census, JP AST and SCH were roughly equally numerous; now, there are 34% more JP SCH than JP AST. Again, I expect these differences to flatten when NA and EU, which are traditionally less partial to any particular tank or healer (excluding WHM) have accumulated more E12S clears.
MORE INFORMATION
For further information, readers are encouraged to look at Lucky Bancho's live Lodestone World Survey, available in Japanese and English.
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