Population data from the Live Letter

[Noshpan]

Better is subjective, it's different and still a good game in its own right.

I wish I could like your post more than once, but I can't.

On topic: the numbers are pretty interesting. I do wish I were fluent in Japanese though.

[Algin]

What I'd love to see, is the split between people from EU and NA on EU/NA block. If it's 50-50, then maybe SE, you should give us our own datacenter. Ya know, like every single MMO out there does, and stop selling us your fake EU servers from Canada.

[DragonSlayer45]

Representing that 10% of Highlander Hyur, and very proud of it.

[Warlyx]

That's cause most people probably get some class to 15 as the requirement for their job and then abandon it. (like I pretty much dumped my CNJ and THM at 15/26 once I got all the skills I needed for scholar.) Also with crafting, again, I wanted the level 15 culinarian cross skill so I got culinarian to 15 and now it's just sitting and rotting away (except when I do my GC dailies for seals ;3)

and thats why the average lvl is so low , add that lots of ppl open a class and never touch it (so its lvl 1 )

[Mavlok]

What I'd love to see, is the split between people from EU and NA on EU/NA block. If it's 50-50, then maybe SE, you should give us our own datacenter. Ya know, like every single MMO out there does, and stop selling us your fake EU servers from Canada.

It's never 50-50. NA market is bigger, hence more US servers.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Representing that 10% of Highlander Hyur, and very proud of it.

Have a like my good brother of the northern and cold highlands.

[MartaDemireux]

Scholar has no real Final Fantasy imagery.

That and, like myself and others I know I imagine that

a.) A lot of people stick with Summoner because they want their ten inch tall ketchup demon, mutated parrot and chicken nugget.

b.) Quit the class halfway through because Affliction Warlocks with intense pet micro are not all that fun.

Well I mostly meant that since queue times increase dramatically (from instant to over 25min) for healers post 30 I expected there to be more competition. The general consensus in the healing world has been that most ACN switch to SCH for duty finder in order to get chosen faster. But with so few SCH's it really makes me wonder if that was true at all or if WHM's mostly just solo'd up to 30 or chose to duty finder as something else until then.

[Rgbg]

Representing Elezen here AND warrior, wth only 26% of the entire tank population?? Man, what is it with the Paladin, seriously? Yeah shiny white knight and all but Warrior is badass! I don't get why the difference is THAT big, that there's more PLD than WAR I assumed, but that there's so few WAR in comparison... I'm also puzzled by the almost non-existing Scholars... and I'm surprised that there are more male chars than female, my perception really is that there are loooooots of female characters.

[shinros]

Well it does not help the fact that paladins can tank better(thats another discussion) and remember paladin is based of cecil/final fantasy 1 knight.

[Rgbg]

Well it does not help the fact that paladins can tank better(thats another discussion) and remember paladin is based of cecil/final fantasy 1 knight.

I think it's more a fact of "like" or as you said that PLD is familiar and WAR isn't, then again in FF11 Ninja was quickly accepted and even favored; as for the better tank, I don't think that statement applies here because the statistic from the live letter was taken now, 1 month after release with the avg lvl stating ~15-19. I doubt there were tons of players rerolling WAR > PLD within this very first month after release, which you must be implying bc in order to "perceive" sth as better you'd first have to see it which would mean lots of ppl would have either thrown away their axe at/nearing 50 or would have checked out the forums/internet as to what's "better" before they even started. both these possibilities seem highly unlikely to me, so I think more people from the start choose gladiator...and naturally end up as plds. sad. huh, maybe bc Ul'dah seems to be so popular...