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[Midoof]

Spreadsheet

June 22, Patch 1.50
Had something written up for this, but lost it. Nothing too surprising happened, except maybe the continued sustained growth of Invokers. This time I included the link to the spreadsheet for easy viewing so you don't have to look up the numbers yourself, though it's always good to check. The sheet will have all the relevant graphs as well.
 

Dragoon:	168
Overlord:	171
Invoker:	230
Sorcerer:	143
Sentinel:	143
Destroyer:   	 75
Savage:		176
Ninja:		156

Total:		1262

So over 300 new characters made the 4th Job change in 2 months. Nice 36% gain overall, with most classes having roughly equal amounts of growth. Pallies ballooned 50%, with 56 joining their ranks. An additional 66 invokers arrived as well, no idea why on that one.
 

Level 70:		Max
Dragoon:	 48	26
Overlord:	 45	25
Invoker:	 69	37
Sorcerer:	 41	23
Sentinel:	 38	23
Destroyer:	 19	11
Savage:		 42	31
Ninja:		 32	17
Other:		  3	 0

Total:		337	193

The number level 70 chars also did a sizable jump, with a 52% increase. Savages uniquely have a high proportion of their level 70s at maximum experience compared to everyone else. Sentinels and warmages also continue to be neck and neck as well.

April 21, Patch 1.41

Spoiler

Intro
Rankings were finally updated during patch 1.41 and a huge amount of things changed from the last time they updated (roughly 6-8 weeks ago). Most noticeably the amount of capped players has shot through the roof, thanks to f7 being introduced during the interim. This thread is to note and discuss the current trends in class usage. Below are a couple of charts I made after crunching some numbers from the ranking board. Enjoy!
 

Dragoon:	112
Overlord:	128
Invoker:	164
Sorcerer:	110
Sentinel:	112
Destroyer:   	 55
Savage:		135
Ninja:		109

Total:		925

The above is simply all the 4th Job classes currently in our server. The two obvious outliers would be the popularity of Invokers (17.7%) against the rare breed of Destroyers (5.9%).
 

Level 70:		Max
Dragoon:	 26	12
Overlord:	 33	18
Invoker:	 45	25
Sorcerer:	 28	14
Sentinel:	 24	14
Destroyer:	 15	 8
Savage:		 28	14
Ninja:		 20	13
Other:		  2	 0

Total:		221	118

Above lists all the level 70 characters. As noted above, we have quite an influx. The column to the right lists the number of capped players (level 70 with 100%) and an interesting pattern is that all branches (besides Dragoons) have 50% or greater of their 70s capped. The other category are 70 characters that haven't job changed to 4th job yet.

Edited by Midoof, 28 June 2011 - 07:50 AM.

[Chrysanthemum]

WOOO! GOGO INVOKER POWER!

[yartrebo]

Nice analysis. I'm actually quite surprised that pallies are as rare as they are since everyone thinks that they're so OP.

[Midoof]

Goes to show how many players fell for the myrmidon trap. They couldn't get passed their big swords |:

[Meganekko]

SUP INVOKING AND DESTROYING! NPNP

nicely done :F I must say though since being here since day one in THQ Pallies used to be the LEAST seen along w/ grens. pallis def. have become a much more popular choice.

[Teochiu]

I WONDER WHY GRENS ARE SO UNDERUSED.... ;(

[Miname]

FFFFF INVOKER PARTY

[Coolsam]

Goes to show how many players fell for the myrmidon trap. They couldn't get passed their big swords |:

Yep...... :/

And im too lazy to get to making my pally.

[OFireO]

good job XD

[reallycalmer]

Goes to show how many players fell for the myrmidon trap. They couldn't get passed their big swords |:

My atk power is just bait =/

[nlvwithgms]

WOOO! GOGO INVOKER POWER!

Don't woo too much, I for once did all job change to all 8 chars and can tell you for a fact, "personal opinion", that my priest its the most boring of them all, only 2 good use for it's xxxxxxx spam and heal-revive. Priest to me are so boring, you need zero talent to handle them, lol... main reason people gets them its because they lack skills for combos. Good char overall its nice to see some reflection, but destroyer its actually a really good char, a shame not too many use them. My preferred chars its the savage, followed by ninja, then warlock, all 3 lvl 70. Anyways thanks for the chars.

[Midoof]

You're very welcome. I should update this.

[fyerolight]

Im amazed by the amount of harlies :s

[Midoof]

June 22 Update

Link to Google Spreadsheet

Not too many changes overall, but there was a big jump in the number of maxed out paladins. Invokers continue to be the most popular class by far as well. Since the charts are pretty similar and you can see them with the link above, I'll just post the graphs that show the growth and changes that occurred over 2 months.





I'll update the OP as well with the update and spreadsheet info. Also looks like the rankings changed already from last week when I input this data. Asked Aramis if he knew anything about how frequent the rankings are updated, but he wasn't sure either.

[Meganekko]

iirc rankings are updated once a day. Somewhere around 9-10AM EST

[sXcDennis]

By looking at this data, 24% of the people were have reached level 70 for patch 1.41, and now as of 1.50, 27% have reached 70. I would of expected a bit higher increase in the percentage of people getting to level 70..

[Midoof]

Nice trend I didn't pick up on. Though I gotta say getting to level 70 is a pretty big hassle compared to getting to 60.

[Azentaicho]

Hardly any destroyers...QQ

[IceDragon]

Wow i always thought people disliked pallys
i remember in THQ... It was so hard being a pally, people would kick me out of the party all the time even if i were a decent lvl and the limit was one pally per party if they had one.

[Coolsam]

Wow i always thought people disliked pallys
i remember in THQ... It was so hard being a pally, people would kick me out of the party all the time even if i were a decent lvl and the limit was one pally per party if they had one.

And then the Revenge of Paris Paladin's came. Then it evolved into Dragoon Saga.

[Midoof]

Nice Sig.

ಠ_ಠ

[Coolsam]

You too

ಠ_ಠ

[Lorika]

How did you get these data?

[Midoof]

Pretty simple, all I did was open the rankings (ESC -> Rankings) and went to the ones for Exp. Then it was just a matter of seeing how many #1s there were (capped players) for each 4th job class, as well as in total. Made sure to line them up for accuracy and wrote down the numbers.

[Midoof]

Updated Spreadsheet with July 18 when rankings updated, will get around to updating OP later on. Was glad they updated them right before the level cap was raised and everything else that comes with professions. Will be interesting to see how many capped players we'll have by the end of the race to 75 event.


Here are the rough and dirty numbers:

                Capped          70              Total
dragoon		43		64		187
overlord	32		53		188
invoker		52		81		256
sorcerer	26		48		158
sentinel	26		45		163
destroyer	14		25		86
savage		37		53		186
ninja		25		44		175

all		257		422             1399

Edited by Midoof, 20 July 2011 - 03:38 AM.