 | I could have let it go another day but since I feel like I've collected almost hundreds of responses and new ones showing up about once ever hour or two, it felt like a good time to call it. If I missed your comment I apologize, I set it to "new" and went through the list available to me. To my surprise, Gridania took the #1 spot for return point at 157 WOL's, followed by 135 for Limsa and 94 for Uldah for the other two Grand Companies. Makes me proud of my beginnings. ^-^ Tuliyollal actually beat Uldah with 118 returns, likely due in great part to people's progression in the story, as people had been commenting. Solution 9 came out with 80, and I couldn't say whether it's because fewer people had progressed to that point or just preferred it to Tuli as an endgame location hub. I personally prefer the vibe. As for the older progression points, Old Sharlayan had 48 returns, followed by Foundation and Crystarium at 27, Kugane at 26, and "Ishgard" (probably Foundation) at 19. Poor Radz-at-Han only had 10 fans, and a few of those said it was for crafting & gathering. Lastly you have Gold Saucer at 20, Bestways Burrow at 13, Mor Dhona "Revenant's Toll" at 15, the Doman Enclave and Idylshire at 8, and the remainder having 3 or less people with return points. Aside from MSQ, there are a few assumptions I think I can make based on side quest & endgame content. If I miss any do let me know cause I haven't been through all the side stuff haha. So the Doman Enclave is a bit out of the way but it has a cool restoration project. A few people set their return to the Ondo Cups to grind BLU, which actually reminds me that an old friend helped me with that once (thank you Rae!) Idylshire has the weekly notebook thing with the bonus rewards for daily raids. Revenants Toll has tons of dungeon & raid quests and is also acts as a crossroads for quests that start in other places. Old Sharlayan also has tons of raid quests. Ishgard/Foundation has a restoration project. I'm guessing that Bestways Burrow is popular for "Cosmic Exploration", although I haven't started it yet. The Gold Saucer is... the Gold Saucer. Kugane is absolutely a vibe and also my return point, but it's also got Eureka, and the tower challenge. Now for some trends that I've picked up on. As for the top player race return points, moon cats came out with 20 for Tuli; almost 2x their sunny cousins in the same spot! (o^▽^o) I started as a Raen in Gridania and had my return set there for a while, but it came in 2nd at 19; also almost 2x the Xaela. ヽ(´ー` )┌ Third place goes to the sun cats in Gridania at 17. I have no reason to believe Hyur showed any bias between the 3 GC's (surprise), but they did seem to take a liking to Ol' Sharly at a total of 8 people, and a couple thighlanders liked their Doman Enclave. Elezen greatly preferred Gridania to the other GC's, totaling just over the other two combined at about 20, and given the low total numbers I can assume that a couple set their return to Ishgard for the immersion. Xaela seem to take a small edge with about 5 in Foundation, and no surprise given the dark draconic vibes. Other Raen seem to have a thing for Bestways that others don't I'm either not picking up on or is a coincidence, with 4 compared to 2 Veena and only 1 for some other tribes. I'm proud to confirm that Au Ra were the most common in Kugane at 10 total >0< followed by 6 Viera. We got that far eastern spirit. The Sea Wolves absolutely showed their pride for Limsa and the sea at 9 to 2 in Gridania and 1 in Uldah, although there is extra incentive regardless to set your return point at a GC. For some reason it appears the Hellsguard and Sea Wolves preference between Tuli and Solution 9 is opposite from each other; 5 Hells-1 in Tuli, 4 wolves-1 in S9. Interesting. The ankle biters were NOT about that Uldah life, showing the least racial pride with only 3 Plainsfolk, compared to 20 total lala's in Gridania and 12 in Limsa. Dunesfolk also seem to prefer S9 at 8-2. Maybe because of the darker, cyberpunk vibes? Multiple races seem to 2 to 5x the opposite tribe in terms of how much they like Tuliyollal for some reason; including midgets, kitties, big bones, lizards, rabbits and tigers, oh my! Meanwhile Hyur and Elezen seemed about the same. Veena preferred Sharly to Rava 4-1 Other than that, I'm not sure I would have enough to pick up on anything else, or if there's anything I missed or insights you might like to add please feel free to say so in the comments! Hopefully we can do more fun things like this in the future. https://preview.redd.it/qa58hydb3o6...bp&s=7a00f6a10cedb618ae50561d8424eef04d90ed3b https://preview.redd.it/rir97ydb3o6...bp&s=34cb6a3ae2a2c577fb0badbc14991f3fef19953f https://preview.redd.it/mevifydb3o6...bp&s=3f217e2a6de15834774ced668b971d336fcb4b10 submitted by /u/Illustrious_Focus_33 [link] [comments] |
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