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ReaperTheAbsol
Jun 18, 2014, 12:33 AM
Player: http://pso2.jp/players/event/2nd_anniversary/report/player/
Support Partner: http://pso2.jp/players/event/2nd_anniversary/report/player/supportpartner/
Photon Arts: http://pso2.jp/players/event/2nd_anniversary/report/player/pa/

Did these results live up to your expectations?

Edit: Here's the report from the year before.

Player: http://pso2.jp/players/event/1st_anniversary/report/

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 12:34 AM
Oh yes, I've been looking forward to this. Let's see how the bust sizes have changed over the past year.

To what should be absolutely no one's surprise, Shunka and Ilmegid are the most used PAs of their respective categories. I'm a little surprised at some of the other results though. Million Storm is the most popular bow art? Really, you guys?

Macman
Jun 18, 2014, 12:38 AM
Didn't expect fighter to be almost as much of a minority as Techer...

Braver taking up a huge chunk of the pie doesn't surprise me, though.
I wonder if hunter is counting subclasses because I can't imagine that many players maining hunter unless they're counting people who tried the game for 1 day and quit. (as that rather large spike of level 1-2 characters would indicate)

Meji
Jun 18, 2014, 12:41 AM
I am the 3.7%!

Macman
Jun 18, 2014, 12:42 AM
I'm the 3.7% AND the 7.5%

SakuRei
Jun 18, 2014, 12:45 AM
And still... Male Newmans are close to extinction...

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 12:46 AM
We're prepared to offer ourselves for a prospective breeding program at any time.

Natsu Nem
Jun 18, 2014, 12:46 AM
Million Storm is the most popular bow art? Really, you guys?

I can't tell you how many times I've seen a bow BR next to me using Million Storm on a boss while I'm doing a Nemesis/Banishing combo.

It's like... why?

Chik'Tikka
Jun 18, 2014, 12:47 AM
hmm.... ok then+^_^+ more Newmans then i thought there would be, and a lot fewer CASTs+^_^+ rest seems right+^_^+


We're prepared to offer ourselves for a prospective breeding program at any time.

Lol, as is true with any species, you only need a few males, did you see all the Newearls out there? that race does *not* need protective breeding+^_^+

EvilMag
Jun 18, 2014, 12:47 AM
Only PA that doesn't really make sense to be on top is speed rain. Really?

TheMagickHat77
Jun 18, 2014, 12:47 AM
Combined, the percentage for TE and FI is 9.7, which is STILL in last place compared to the other classes.

Non-conformist FTW!

Kondibon
Jun 18, 2014, 12:49 AM
Those breast size distributions though...

SisterPrincess
Jun 18, 2014, 12:51 AM
Main HU users are probably HUBR or HUFI anyways. Of course its going to top.

Sp-24
Jun 18, 2014, 12:51 AM
http://i.imgur.com/cGz7DBF.png

What a shocker.

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 12:52 AM
The second tab is regarding support partner stats, in case anyone was unclear on that.

Kondibon
Jun 18, 2014, 12:52 AM
Milla's support partnet is a male cast. 3:

Sayara
Jun 18, 2014, 12:53 AM
Good to see im in the >5% of females over 190cm scale again

Punisher106
Jun 18, 2014, 12:57 AM
I'm a bit surprised at the Wired Lance and the Twin Dagger ones, but Partisan made my jaw drop. Assault Buster and Slide End are crazy useful PAs over Speed Rain. I was hoping for Facet Folia and maybe Other Spin to be up there. Also, digging how Ilgrants beats Resta.

wefwq
Jun 18, 2014, 01:03 AM
31.5% Braver . . .
I don't know if it's valid because lots of people leave Br after shunka nerf.

Sp-24
Jun 18, 2014, 01:06 AM
Zonde is the #1 thunder technique, beating even Zondeel, so I assume that this data was gathered over a period longer than the last 5 minutes before this maintenance.

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:06 AM
As usual, nobody likes male Newmans. :(

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 01:07 AM
Says on the page from April 1st to April 30th. I'm not absolutely certain what that's in reference to, but I imagine its the period over which the data was polled.

Kondibon
Jun 18, 2014, 01:07 AM
Zonde is the #1 thunder technique, beating even Zondeel, so I assume that this data was gathered over a period longer than the last 5 minutes before this maintenance.That makes things like Ilmegid and Ilbarta funnier.

GoldenFalcon
Jun 18, 2014, 01:09 AM
Clearly, roll a male newman techer and you'll be a rare specimen!

AlaskanKactus
Jun 18, 2014, 01:10 AM
Wow, newman are nearly extinct.

That lance PA is actually quite a surprise and the top techs were not.

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:11 AM
Clearly, roll a male newman techer and you'll be a rare specimen!
Or a male Newman Fighter, like what I have.

AlaskanKactus
Jun 18, 2014, 01:11 AM
Clearly, roll a male newman techer and you'll be a rare specimen!

Fi/Te Newman with a Gu Newman SP. The rarest of all arks.

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:13 AM
Fi/Te Newman with a Gu Newman SP. The rarest of all arks.

I was Fi/Te for a whole.... before Episode 2.

In addition, I'm surprised how common Humans are. I thought they'd be rarer because they're not Dewman and thus are "useless."

...And I need to make my Deuman or my Caseal taller. :<

Melodys
Jun 18, 2014, 01:13 AM
This statistic seems to have been taken during April pre-Shunka nerf, before Fos got element conversion buff and when II megid was still new. I can imagine that percentage being a bit inaccurate now as I see less Bravers or Katana Hunters in TD/AQs and more Forces.

Maninbluejumpsuit
Jun 18, 2014, 01:16 AM
And still... Male Newmans are close to extinction...

I'm not joking when I say I legitimately forgot that was a category.

Also, am I the only one here not surprised sarabande, and kaiser rise are up there in popularity?

Sarabande needs no intro as to why it's great, and kaiser raise is the best ranged S atk PA since sacred skewer, but better in every way except for the fact it attacks from the ground up, and moving hitstun/knockup-proof targets might not take all 5 hits before they leave the photon geyser.

GoldenFalcon
Jun 18, 2014, 01:19 AM
I wish there was class breakdowns for every race

that way we'd find out which is actually the rarest male newman

yoshiblue
Jun 18, 2014, 01:20 AM
Hipsters know what to do none the less. Become the ultimate Newmen Fighter.

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:24 AM
Hipsters know what to do none the less. Become the ultimate Newmen Fighter.

Hmph, I was playing Newman Fighter before it was cool.

SakuRei
Jun 18, 2014, 01:25 AM
We're prepared to offer ourselves for a prospective breeding program at any time.

Regias: This is Regias, No. 1 of the Six Pillars of ARKS, I am now enabling an Absolute Order, Emergency Code: PROCREATE. Every female species of the ARKS are now forced to cooperate and reproduce the Newman Male race, any female species of the ARKS that will rebel against this rule will be sent to the Tentacle Chamber for reflection.

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 01:26 AM
I'd read that doujin.

Arksenth
Jun 18, 2014, 01:29 AM
Regias: This is Regias, No. 1 of the Six Pillars of ARKS, I am now enabling an Absolute Order, Emergency Code: PROCREATE. Every female species of the ARKS are now forced to cooperate and reproduce the Newman Male race, any female species of the ARKS that will rebel against this rule will be sent to the Tentacle Chamber for reflection.

as a male newman, this will be hell for me because i only like boys

joining the rebellion

mmm

tentacles

Maninbluejumpsuit
Jun 18, 2014, 01:32 AM
Hipsters know what to do none the less. Become the ultimate Newmen Fighter.

Was newearl FI before episode 2 8-)


I'd read that doujin.

We'd then have a poll for the most desireable newman bachelor on each ship. Cricketjam would require armed escort. Conspire would be ignored and be emo.

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:32 AM
Regias: This is Regias, No. 1 of the Six Pillars of ARKS, I am now enabling an Absolute Order, Emergency Code: PROCREATE. You are now forced to reproduce the Newman Male race by force, any female species of the ARKS that will rebel against this rule will be sent to the Tentacle Chamber for reflection.
Unfortunately, Mazarin is asexual. If the male Newmen were not allowed to refuse, then he'd have to just lie back and think of the Oracle Fleet.

Sp-24
Jun 18, 2014, 01:32 AM
Says on the page from April 1st to April 30th. I'm not absolutely certain what that's in reference to, but I imagine its the period over which the data was polled.
Yeah, it says that that was the survey period, but Rafoie being among the fire techs that ever get used makes me think that they accidentally used the 2012 results instead.

Punisher106
Jun 18, 2014, 01:35 AM
I have a male newman shota that I play as a TE, sometimes. Am I the elusive ARKS?

Mega Ultra Chicken
Jun 18, 2014, 01:37 AM
I have a male newman shota that I play as a TE, sometimes. Am I the elusive ARKS?
Yes you are. Welcome to the jungle club! We've got fun and games! But we also get taken day by day (like with me and my new Human Force main) and it gets worse here every day.

yoshiblue
Jun 18, 2014, 01:37 AM
We'd then have a poll for the most desireable newman bachelor on each ship. Cricketjam would require armed escort. Conspire would be ignored and be emo.

Unless they pull a PSO where Newmens barely have any rights and just mass clone them to solve the problem.

Chdata
Jun 18, 2014, 01:50 AM
No idea what's going on in those links.

Are those logistics of what oppai size the player base made their characters with?

ReaperTheAbsol
Jun 18, 2014, 01:56 AM
No idea what's going on in those links.

Are those logistics of what oppai size the player base made their characters with?

Oppai, race popularity, class popularity, etc.

Sp-24
Jun 18, 2014, 01:58 AM
No idea what's going on in those links.

Are those logistics of what oppai size the player base made their characters with?
Yes. Interestingly, breast size is the only category that doesn't show a clear bias towards one of the options.

Rakurai
Jun 18, 2014, 01:58 AM
I'm a little confused at to how Megid ended up in second place for Dark techs and Na Megid wasn't in the top three period. There's literally no reason to use Megid now that Ilmegid exists.

EDIT: On second thought, it's probably tied to the fact that Megid has a PP reducing customization, and Na Megid's ridiculously long cast time.


Are those logistics of what oppai size the player base made their characters with?

Yes. I'm really surprised that it's so balanced.

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 02:01 AM
PSO2 is a wonderful utopia in which oppai of all sizes can coexist in harmony.

yoshiblue
Jun 18, 2014, 02:01 AM
Still no butt sliders.

Zyrusticae
Jun 18, 2014, 02:02 AM
Yes. Interestingly, breast size is the only category that doesn't show a clear bias towards one of the options.
The first survey was even more balanced (I'd link to it, but phone). It's really interesting that the average has skewed towards smaller breast sizes since last year.

ReaperTheAbsol
Jun 18, 2014, 02:05 AM
The first survey was even more balanced (I'd link to it, but phone). It's really interesting that the average has skewed towards smaller breast sizes since last year.

Here you go.
http://pso2.jp/players/event/1st_anniversary/report/

Xaeris
Jun 18, 2014, 02:05 AM
Still no butt sliders.

Yes, well, equality is a neverending marathon.

Zyrusticae
Jun 18, 2014, 02:06 AM
I'm a little confused at to how Megid ended up in second place for Dark techs and Na Megid wasn't in the top three period. There's literally no reason to use Megid now that Ilmegid exists.
Easy answer: because cool factor. Megid is one of the categorically iconic techs and fits into many people's idea of what a perfect base technique should be, stats and DPS be damned. Hell, I still spam the damn thing just because it's so perfect.

ShinMaruku
Jun 18, 2014, 02:07 AM
Regias: This is Regias, No. 1 of the Six Pillars of ARKS, I am now enabling an Absolute Order, Emergency Code: PROCREATE. Every female species of the ARKS are now forced to cooperate and reproduce the Newman Male race, any female species of the ARKS that will rebel against this rule will be sent to the Tentacle Chamber for reflection.

What they don't tell you is the race of the baby depends on the race of the mother and the sex of the child. So if they all have daughter male newmans won't exists. :P Newmans were created to be a mainly female race mission accomplished
http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/emoticon-2867-src-f02f9d40f66f0840-28x28.png

TaigaUC
Jun 18, 2014, 02:22 AM
I'd be more interested in the breast size results if larger breasts didn't tend to look mangled (clipping, bizarre shape, blockiness, etc).

Kondibon
Jun 18, 2014, 02:24 AM
I'd be more interested in the breast size results if larger breasts didn't tend to look mangled (clipping, bizarre shape, blockiness, etc).

The opposite happens with flat chests. A lot of stuff scales weirdly, though it's probably not as bad as if they're too big.

I don't care either way though since the middle is what I like and what my characters have.

musicmf
Jun 18, 2014, 02:34 AM
So, them FI and TEs... any chance Sega considers those numbers when they do that round of Ep3 balancing?

Also... Zonde... >_> I guess that's why my Zondeels keep exploding in MPAs...

Support Partner level is pretty interesting. It seems many people hit the level cap (65) with their partners a long time ago, then when the cap was increased they just couldn't be bothered to level them higher. (I admit I also left mine at 65)

Achelousaurus
Jun 18, 2014, 03:05 AM
I guess bust size is an important issue that must be recorded, lol.
And lol at Patty pounding in the vein of Dark Phallus.
And obviously, everyone using Shunka: Shun, run!
...poor Shun...

TehCubey
Jun 18, 2014, 04:24 AM
Compared to a year ago, average height and bust size of female characters is much smaller.

We're being invaded by lolis!

GoldenFalcon
Jun 18, 2014, 04:30 AM
Guys, don't forget that newbs still spam things like Speed Rain and Rafoie

Maenara
Jun 18, 2014, 04:34 AM
So, them FI and TEs... any chance Sega considers those numbers when they do that round of Ep3 balancing?


In a perfect world, yes.

Gardios
Jun 18, 2014, 04:35 AM
I still use Speed Rain because it looks cool.

:c

final_attack
Jun 18, 2014, 04:40 AM
Oh .... compared to last year, male % population dropped ._. Somehow I'm not surprised ^^;

Yay for being on 6.1% of population _ ( : 3 Make the costumes cheaper please _ ( : 3

GoldenFalcon
Jun 18, 2014, 05:21 AM
I still use Speed Rain because it looks cool.

:c

I use Trick Raver because I can't be arsed to use 1 point in gear

Erza
Jun 18, 2014, 06:45 AM
Speed Rain was the most effective and easiest way to hit weak points (especially with gear) before they gave HU's - Wild Round for Wired Lances

Dnd
Jun 18, 2014, 06:54 AM
IM really surprised fighter isnt higher, i mean, it isn't precisely a bad class by any means....

Rien
Jun 18, 2014, 08:10 AM
How hard does speed rain hit nowadays?

CricketJam
Jun 18, 2014, 08:15 AM
Why isn't ilzonde in top 3

Would think every force in the game is spamming it to get to places

Xaelouse
Jun 18, 2014, 08:18 AM
How hard does speed rain hit nowadays?

like around 12.5k non-weakpoint damage in total over 5 hits, while slide end can deal 18-20k in one

Rien
Jun 18, 2014, 08:22 AM
Why isn't ilzonde in top 3

Would think every force in the game is spamming it to get to places

some forces use regenschlag/knuckledash instead

gigawuts
Jun 18, 2014, 08:35 AM
Ha ha ha look at all those people who reach a level cap raising CO and say fuck it

Shit sega get it together

Remz69
Jun 18, 2014, 10:49 AM
IM really surprised fighter isnt higher, i mean, it isn't precisely a bad class by any means....

even if you would think about Fi being higher, just paying attention while playing the game would have had you realize you never see Fi mains nowadays so it can't be that surprising

plus if you think about it it really is no surprise Fi's so low, one could argue it's in an even worse situation than Techer as it literally has nothing going for it

Jazneo
Jun 18, 2014, 11:04 AM
They should add Ip tracker were most player come from in that lol

Mysterious-G
Jun 18, 2014, 11:04 AM
I'm actually surprised by the diversity in race and gender. It's all pretty even if you ignore Newman males. Heck, even the breast size is completely spread out from A to E. Lastly, most SPCs being Dewman is hardly surprising, seeing how SPCs came out right when Dewmans did and you can't delete them.

Really sick by all the Fighter dissing, also. But that's for another topic.

Macman
Jun 18, 2014, 11:07 AM
Guys, don't forget that newbs still spam things like Speed Rain and Rafoie
They're still in a bit of a minority. Look at how many players are level 65-70, and I doubt those level 2 people who quit after the tutorial managed to get their hands on those PAs so soon.

Punisher106
Jun 18, 2014, 11:10 AM
They're still in a bit of a minority. Look at how many players are level 65-70, and I doubt those level 2 people who quit after the tutorial managed to get their hands on those PAs so soon.

I don't even think you can get Speed Rain before you quit, to be honest. And look at it this way, Ilbarta's the most commonly used ice tech.