Mystic Statistics: Results for the Eleventh Vana'diel CensusFollow

I don't know about you, but the amount of level 110 crafters out there screams that something isn't right.

The same can be said about the number of mythics and WAR/MNK (seriously, this job combo is that popular? bullsh*t)

I see the guy that maxed out his defender merits still plays.

Mythic katana sucks so much it dropped from 1 down to 0, so there's that.

few interesting things I noticed

----More than 50% of all characters have highest job level of 1-4, and of the remaining characters only less than 25% have actually leveled a job (any job) to 99

This is an attestation to player mule counts. Percentage wise it's equates to about 15-20% active characters and 75-80% mules. Apparently nearly everyone has at least one or two mules, and a bunch of people have a LOT of mules. There's a lot of multi-boxing going on as well

---- Strength is the highest merit at level 12 (duh) at about 47% of the populace, but interestingly enough weighing in second is Dex at close to 18%. The percentage of players who merited Int to level 12 less than those who merited dex to level 12, sitting at around 15%

---Not only is dagger the single most merited combat skill, it outranks most other merits vastly. About 17% of players have level 8 dagger merits, whereas sword is 13%, katana is 12%, H2H is 11%, and everything else is 7% or less. Considering you get to max out three offensive combat skills that number is very high. Abyssean eviscerations and the strength of exenterator probably had a significant impact on this, but when you consider that Great Axe is about 8% and Great Katana 6%, that speaks for itself.

---Far more players merited evasion (63%) than parrying (27%), about 2 and a half times as many. This is probably an attestation to the fact that parry never friggin levels, so merits are useless if your base skill is paltry. Evasion levels just from getting hit so it's gonna cap damn fast. I wonder how this would have looked if most players had higher parry across the board.

---The number of players who chose level 5 exenterator is close to 18%. Interestingly enough Ruinator is second at 14%, and Requiescat is the only other skill over 10%, sitting at about 11%. As broken as tachi shoha is, about 7% of players wield it, whereas 9% have resolution. Tachi is sam only though, whereas both war and Dark will be using resolution. Ruinator is war and bst and maybe drk depending on setup, and is interesting to see. This is again an attestation of just how many players have a dagger job leveled. Exenterator is proportionally merited in the same way dagger merits are to other combat skills.

---Girru and Ikarigiri??? What the hell are these? Zero people have acquired them on any server. They're listed in the pulse panolplia category alongside the other weapons and the armor. Have they been released yet? If so... they're certainly not voidwatch drops. Forgive me for not knowing what these are, this struck my curiosity bone. High tier legion reward maybe? That would also be an attestation to how many people have ever cleared a high tier legion battle if it was the case...




Fishing and cooking are cheap, and even then there are 11 of each at max level ON ALL SERVERS. Meanwhile the total craft levels above 100 probably sits at 100-103 across the rest because synths past 103 are ridiculous. I already eluded to this but crafting to 110 is just stupid. Mats are too friggin silly and a lot of the recipies are pure loss. That's an ouch and a half.

Voidwatch stats and drops are spot on. No surprises there at all. In fact I wasn't shocked at anything else.

Edited, Jul 4th 2012 8:59am by Melphina

Edited, Jul 4th 2012 9:01am by Melphina

Abyssea, yo. I can see it being that popular, because it's that damn good in there, assuming you are the only one taking hits (likely in a WAR+WHM scenario). It's basically just an alternate MNK with less HP, except you counter sh*t with a friggin great axe instead of a fist.



I probably had Exenterator merited at the time the data was taken... but I've since scrapped them for Ruinator. Very happy with my choice; it's far more of an improvement for axe output than Exen was for dagger output >_> For me at least, Exen was infrequently peaking at the amounts of damage than Ruinator has no trouble hitting on a regular basis @_@

Sand Sweeper dropped to 14th most deadly monster. Wasn't he 1 or 2 last time?

The fact that only 8 people on all the servers have a Terpsichore is depressing to me. I mean, yeah, there are much better options, but considering how much wanting after that thing I did, it's sad to see how useless and unpopular it turned out to be in the end.

I rarely see rdm around.... How could they be so close to the top? Is that just legacy?

Also I like how they say the bst/dnc combo WAS effective in dynamis... Still is, but couldn't help feel a little dagger stab from the loss of treasure hunter 3 in those words

I found it terribly amusing that there is not a single relic with afterglow.

Ok, few more things I found interesting



Considering that this is a tally for every server, and this is content that spans back to what? 2004? When were the H.Q. kings implemented? That number is astonishing. Average of 40 per server.



That sums up voidwatch. These guys have been getting spammed on a daily basis for a while now, and the standard shout includes 6 kills each, as well as frequent double runs of 12 kills. You're looking at 18 people per kill, and each person will have at minimum 3 voidstones, but most will have either 4 or 6 depending on au/cop stones. That's still a minimum of 54 chances per run (3 x 18) and more realistically an average in the 70-80 range per run. This has been going on for four or five or so months, and has seen an increase in frequency of higher end shouts in the past 2-3 months or so. How many quilin and pil runs does your server do daily? Public shout/linkshell onry, or otherwise, between both JP and NA clients in their respective prime time. Probably plenty. The other voidwatch mobs follow similar drop rate trends based on their spammage frequency.

Logwatch drop rates have much to be desired, but we knew this already. This just gives some facts and figures to back up the statements of 1/300+.

I would have liked to have seen the stats for the Neo Nyzule gear aquisition, but alas those statistics were omitted from this years census.

Edited, Jul 4th 2012 12:45pm by Melphina

Girru comes from Legion according to BG so I guessed one dropped after the census was taken. I am guessing Ikarigiri comes from the same place.

As far as I know, no confirmed drops of the glowy version but the non-glowy drop was enough of a confirmation of where the glowy comes from.

Also, Pchan is working feverishly on collecting marrows for his Spharai. Amazingly, he might be done soon (he's like 200/250). Even more amazingly, he is able to juggle FFXI with being a sphincter on the SE forums.

I was just going by BG wiki but heh I guess I should of added the grain of salt its from wiki to my post.

Didn't say it was, that was the ONLY reason given in that post. There are reasons to go /blm or /whm but it simply does not outweigh /sch overall.

PUPPETMASTERS! WE ARE THE ONE point sixty nine PERCENT!

Merits: I'm personally shocked by two things; first, that tachi: broken is as low as it is, and second, what the sh*t at the mnk merits? #1 is 5/5 Formless Strikes? What.
Them JP monks be cray cray.

RME: poor clawlstrum, 16 95s, 3 99s. I also wonder if SE recognizes the tiny number of gungnirs is because the weapon is poorly designed.... I doubt it.

LS rankings: Siren wins at getting killed? Which shell is that? And we also have the largest combined lack of lives, since we have both 2 AND 3 on that one... Just reinforces my belief that Siren is awesome.

SON OF A BITCH. I missed adventurer appreciation. Again. that's like, four @#%^ing years in a row now...

I'm also slightly confused as to how we've gotten to our 11th annual census on our 10th year... but mostly because I'm to lazy to try and remember which year(s) borked it up.

Ever tried to skill up guard? Parry's about 5x easier.



Everyone saying the job %'s are inaccurate or off because they have the 6 starters at the front, those %'s are level 6-99. The accurate one you want is at the bottom, the pie chart of level 99 distribution, which is MUCH more telling.



The reason there are so few mythics, to me, has more to do with the fact that about half of them flat out suck, and the rest are, as good as they are, not even remotely worth the effort they require. I'd have no problem with how hard they are to get if they were all appropriately amazing weapons, or if they were easier to get, on level with their current state of usefulness, the problem is that SE doesn't seem to understand that "this sh*t is useless and no one wants it." means "you designed these items @#%^ing terribly", not "we don't know how to use these awesome items you designed."


say whaaaaaaat?

Edited, Jul 5th 2012 12:50am by Jinte

Even if you account for characters that are level 6-30, the numbers are still far too skewed toward the starting 6 jobs. Based on the main job level distribution chart, characters level 6-30 make up 34.78% of all characters between levels 6-99. That means 65.22% of characters between levels 6-99 are high enough in level to access jobs beyond the initial 6. And yet the initial 6 jobs make up 81.93% of that population?

Either the population has had a HUGE shift toward brand new characters, for which players are opting to take them straight to 99 with one of the initial jobs before unlocking new jobs, or there is something simply outright wrong about these numbers.

And did you just add those mules/alts in the last 12 months? I would assume that type of behavior was also common before this year. And yet last year's census shows much closer numbers for main job distribution for levels 2 through 90:
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/guide/development/census/10/2.html

Notice that last year's chart even included levels 2 through 5, which would have likely meant that those numbers contained quite a few Mog Bonanza mules. So for this years numbers to show even greater gap between the initial 6 jobs and the other 14 jobs even after having filtered out characters that are only level 2-5, something must have happened. That is why I said that a HUGE shift in leveling behavior had to occur over the last 12 months for the new numbers to make sense.