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RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - allgivenover - 04-21-2015
I would've thought they'd nerf them so that any group composition could go through, but who knows.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Dis - 04-21-2015
For what it's worth, while I'd hoped that poetics would be uncapped because I find it difficult to grind any type of content until my eyes bleed, I'm not really that upset that it didn't uncap. Â It would have been nice to max out the remaining gear I had that was i100 or less, but it isn't so large a thing that I'd quit over it. Â
I also don't think that people would quit just because poetics were uncapped.  If they were going to do that, they'd do it regardless of was capped or uncapped, especially as, since Warren said, there has been such a length of time to grind them.  It's a very common theme for people to drop a game pre-expansion, then pop back into the game at release, grind out the content as fast as possible, and then quit again.  It's a revolving door type of mentality. Â
Mind you, a lot of RPers don't seem to share that same mentality, but I realize a lot of it is about people wanting to keep subs. Â That said, even if people stop playing, they often continue with their subscription, especially since it gains them veteran rewards.
As far as FCoB, that doesn't even apply to me, as I've not even completed Binding Coil.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Kage - 04-21-2015
Interestingly enough, some census info taken from the Lodestones population came up.
Not sure how completely accurate (AKA T13 clears by use of the minion? Not Achievement?)
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/33cc1k/latest_lodestone_population_survey_730k_active/
Quote:Critera same as the last time, must be above level 21. Any changes to HP/mount/minion/gear counts character as active.
Summary
Out of a total 1.7m characters on the lodestone, 733,267 have met the above criterion. Of those, 255,626 are new.
The JP servers have best player retention rates, EU servers have the worst.
NA servers have the largest amount of new characters, EU servers have the worst.
There's a pattern in there.
Veteran Rewards
Roughly 150k people have the 540 day rewards. A saddeningly smaller number than during the previous survey's 260k of 360 day rewards, though it could just be a calendar thing.
Mounts and stuff
This one is interesting. 200k people have the Hildy minon. At least 36k people have cleared Fcob. 801k have cleared 2.0 but only 301k have cleared the 2.5 quest. 3500 people have the ADS mount, 4200 people have the Kirin mount. 53k people have paid for the bonus marriage sets based on number of people with the grand chocobo.
Clicking on any minion/mount when viewing the inidividual world statistics will bring up the global numbers for it.
Checking the Louix minion, Fcob clears are up to 10% for most JP servers while still negligible everywhere else.
*It's negligible because NA/EU has less than 2% of the "active" population who have cleared T13.
Only 301k have finished 2.5 (2.55?).
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Caspar - 04-21-2015
The number of people who have cleared T13 outside of JP is that small? Shameful.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Kage - 04-21-2015
Yeah check this out based on -the minion- so... maybe people dunno they should get the minion from Apkallu Falls?
Fcob ranking for NA based on number of cleared T13 players:
1: Gilgamesh : 848
2: Excalibur : 757
3: Hyperion : 585
4: Balmung : 515
5: Behemoth : 490
6: Sargatanas : 473
7: Leviathan : 432
8: Ultros : 342
9: Cactuar : 322
10: Adamantoise : 299
11: Midgardsormr : 233
12: Exodus : 210
13: Diabolos : 197
14: Lamia : 149
15: Famfrit : 145
16: Malboro : 125
17: Goblin : 102
18: Brynhildr : 101
19: Faerie: 99
20: Coeurl: 94
21: Siren: 79
22: Mateus: 47
23: Jenova: 37
24: Zalera : 32
EU ranking:
1: Ragnarok : 560
2: Odin : 444
3: Moogle : 369
4: Shiva : 320
5: Cerberus : 270
6: Phoenix : 250
7: Lich : 56
8: Zodiark : 13
JP ranking:
1: Chocobo: 2452
2: Carbuncle : 1644
3: Bahamut : 1598
4: Garuda: 1332
5: Mandragora: 1317
6: Tonberry: 1179
7: Tiamat: 1114
8: Ifrit: 1039
9: Gungnir: 991
10: Fenrir: 964
11: Aegis: 937
12: Alexander: 936
13: Ramuh: 877
14: Masamune: 871
15: Atomos: 868
16: Duranda: 814
17: Titan: 810
18: Ixion: 733
19: Anima: 710
20: Unicorn: 697
21: Ridill: 653
22: Ultima: 646
23: Hades: 602
24: Typhoon: 552
25: Valefor: 550
Japan's last* ranked world beats Balmung.
Surprisingly, (or not), Balmung is 4th in NA servers.
And poor Zodiac with 1 static+ a few other people\
* = Last of those currently ranked
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Zyrusticae - 04-21-2015
Well, I personally unsubbed for now just because there's SO MANY GAMES out that I want to play right now and I haven't been regularly logging in for the better part of the past month anyway, so tomestones have absolutely nothing to do with that.
I don't know why I'm mentioning this here, other than it being related to all this talk of going on hiatus for one reason or another.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Cato - 04-21-2015
(04-21-2015, 12:51 PM)Caspar Wrote: The number of people who have cleared T13 outside of JP is that small? Shameful.
I don't think it's due to a lack of experience or willingness for people to try but rather a lack of opportunities. This is especially true for EU players - finding organised groups for the high end content is ridiculously difficult and then when people do get through it themselves they're often not willing to do it again for somebody else's sake.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Merri - 04-21-2015
(04-21-2015, 12:51 PM)Caspar Wrote: The number of people who have cleared T13 outside of JP is that small? Shameful.
/moderator
As an aside, calling it shameful might be a bit harsh. It's alright to be displeased with one's own group and their progression, but it isn't necessarily fair to label a server's population as "shameful" because they might not be into progression. ^^
/moderator
It's honestly more of a cultural thing, if I had to guess. Japanese players seem to have a greater tendency for "hardcore" playstyles, and the "casual" playstyle is more of a western approach. Granted, both sides have both, but casual players do appear to be more prominent in the west. It isn't shameful in the least, it's just different tastes for different cultures.
I am genuinely curious as to the raw numbers for savage coil across all servers, seeing as they pulled up these numbers. I know as far as Balmung is concerned, it seemed like our static managed the server first on T7 sav a few months back, and we've only just started seeing other mauler titles pop up in the past few weeks. T6 and T9 titles are bit more prominent, but those turns are fairly simple in comparison to 8 and 7.
RE: 2.56 Maintenance April 20 - Aduu Avagnar - 04-21-2015
I've not touched Coil since my group fell apart on T8. I mean I would love to get back into it, but I am wary, due to the reasons why it fell apart.