Current player counts by class: some actual data

[Chinetter]

Some of the comments to this seem to be focused just on the higher-level chars so I thought I'd take a look just at that distribution.

One thing I notice is that the proportion of 40+ characters online in the Green server increased a bit during the four days last week that I was taking the samples. I sampled twice Wed evening, twice Thu evening, once Fri evening, and twice on Sat afternoon and evening. The total number of players in-game increased sharply over those samples, from 866 and 865 on Wed evening to 1,113 on Sat evening. (*)

I assume that's normal, more people play P99 on weekends. However the percentage of those live who were playing a 40+ toon also increased a bit: from around 30% in midweek to 35% on Sat evening. That may be a small pandemic-lockdown effect: players being online more and leveling their toons up.

Looking across the 7 samples just at 40+ characters, here are the percentages of those that belonged to each class:

DRU 18%
ENC 15%
CLR 11%
SHM 10%
MAG 9%
NEC 8%
MNK 5%
SK 4%
BRD 4%
WAR 4%
ROG 4%
PAL 3%
WIZ 3%
RNG 3%






(*) The server populations listed on server-list screen do not equate to players actually in-game, those totals include players who are at the character-select screen. I found a fairly consistent difference of around 10 to 12 percent e.g., if the Green server was listed with a population of 1,200 that turned out to mean around 1,060 players actually in the game.