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    Voidsent Veneer
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    Halicarnassus
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    Paladin Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by scatteringmyashes View Post

    I miss when all the NA worlds were closed except for Dynamis, because then at least everyone had to come to the same world. As it is, Aether gets to hang out and do its thing and the rest of us are scrounging for scraps.
    I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and one of the things I realized was actually how Dynamis got indirectly screwed over compared to the growth of the other Data Centers when they were created. When worlds got added in the past, when Crystal DC first got created, etc., there was no DC Travel. You made a character there, ran content there. You didn't have this phenominon like Dynamis where people created a character there, and then expected to run content elsewhere. Every other addition in the past got to experience organic growth while Dynamis is always going to be nerfed a bit because people will join for the "wrong" reasons (from a dev standpoint). When I was looking at the numbers from the survey/lodestone datamine, I realized that the ratios are skewed even to reflect that. Crystal, Aether, and Primal all had similar players as home world at around 200k'ish, while Dynamis was at 70k. But you look at the PF and you see Primal at 100-125, Aether at 150, Crystal at 60-80'ish last I was checking. You have 25-200% differences in PF strength even with the same home characters. Crystal was known for RP so a smaller conversion rate of playerbase count->PF makes sense a bit. But you look at Dynamis and it should be 35% of what the others are, and the closest to 35% that we hit is 35% of Crystal, the low end of the main DC spectrum. We don't have the same conversion rate of home world players->PF that Primal and Aether have, we have a similar skew to Crystal who have more character creation bias than the others. Only difference is that Crystal had that organic growth period and started with players naturally from worlds that already existed instead of being empty by default.

    On the note of scavenging for raid, I had a friend that cleared M1S on Dynamis, then did M2S and M3S on Primal, Primal didn't have good reclear parties for their time of trying, so they went to Crystal for reclears, Crystal reclears were better but didn't have good M4S parties, so they ended up on Aether to get M4S done. So went through Primal and Crystal PF and still couldn't find as much as what they did on Aether.
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    Last edited by VoidsentStatus; 08-30-2024 at 10:52 AM.