I'm wondering what's the order of how many people have which attunement.
For example, Corin (if I remember correctly) remarked on how Summoners were rare. And enchanters seem to be an important part of the economy of not just Valia but the continent, so there has to be enough to support Kaldwyn.
Does anyone have any other information?
Posted Feb 2, 2022, 3:47 AM UTC
Enchanted items not from towers are one of the ways Valia stay in power. Their main exports are high quality enchanters along with enchanted items. As Corins says if you have the right mana types you can fake almost any attunement but having the attunement makes things lots easier.
I feel like Rowe answered this already at some point...but here's what I can come up with off the top of my head:
There are five divisions worth of housing. So from that we would know that:
That leaves 63% for the remaining six attunements (if we presume that foreign attunements are around 1%, between foreign exchange students and the Serpent Spire non-standard assignments) so we'll assume that the remaining three divisions combine to around 21% each.
Tortoise Division = Guardians & Summoners
a) we know that Summoners are rarest amongst the eight standard attunements, so therefore there are more Guardians than Summoners
b) The Tortoise's Heart has more 'honor' student spaces available than Phoenix Hall
From this I'm going to guess that:
Guardians ≈ 13%
Summoners ≈ 8%
Phoenix Division = Menders & Enchanters
a) From what Corin has described, it seems likely that it is a pretty even split between both Menders & Enchanters.
b) But since Jin is present as a Mesmer (which doesn't really align that well with Phoenix Division themes) it seems likely that Phoenix division gets overflow when another division wouldn't have enough room.
Enchanters ≈ 10%
Menders ≈ 10%
Serpent Division = Shadows & Diviners
We know the least about these so I'm just going to guess and put:
Diviners ≈ 11%
Shadows ≈ 11%
I feel like it's really hard to say how many enchanters there are considering
There have been confirmed enchanting "printing presses" which help mass produce common products and essential items.
Enchanters seem relatively widespread due to the bonkers amount of versatility in what they can be used for, East Edria is familiar enough with them to apply a religious significance to the process of turning mana crystals into items as "taking your enemy's soul and making their power your own."
Memory says they also comment how Elementalists were more common than most attunements. I only have like 10 data points though and 2 of them were enchanters so I don't actually have anything useful to contribute.