Blight Statistics: Challenges and Ascendancy Classes

Why is berserker not more popular? It was recently revamped.

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Tyrion2 wrote:

as usual, most of the players don't give a flyin f about challenges

I guess you are missreading the stats. The stats lists accounts, who are active in a league. If you take into account, that a large number of players has multiple accounts for trading purposes or to compete in leagues or to just gain more free character slots it is not that surprising that those accounts don't have completed many challanges, but some of them have a single one or a low amount rigging the stats in a "many players don't give a crap about challanges" kind of way. If you take a look at the three most obvious spikes at the challenge boundaries you can see, that people actually restrict their progression to the challenges completed. Which means, they DO care!

What we see instead is, that only a mere 5% of players get to 24 Challenges showing that the challenges are "challenging" enough to create some bregging rights for having a LOT completed. Exactly what they are supposed to do.

If a larger number of players would complete the tasks, those tasks would be to easy and not a challenge to keep players playing a longer amount of time.

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kompaniet wrote:

Why is berserker not more popular? It was recently revamped.

Wild guess?

Casual players, who play 1 Char a league, play one of the recently featured builds. Making those three Top of the List every single time.

Experienced players, who want fast clear speed and easy to gear builds just stick with spellcasters for QoL reasons making beserkers a choice for players who don't give a fuck about the meta or play 30 Chars a league like Mathil.

Well...necromacer, and minions in general, got a bonkers buff this league just like slayer got last league. The league mechanic is very doable with a minion build, but other builds that are good at it are stupidly expensive. Legion was not good with hhless melee. Not sure why anyone would have expected anything else.

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xMustard wrote:

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Joernzen wrote:

Flashback when?

never


but anyway, 58% necro in SSF? gaDAYUM
it isn't surprising that necro is in the top spot. but what is surprising is just how so many people are meta slaves, lol

Necro at top is not surprising at all. New minion gems. New minion wand. League mechanic where it's impossible to do DPS and play tower upgrade at the same time, barring minions or totems.

Having said this, not being able to do both at the same time doesn't matter for builds that do enough DPS to not need/care about the towers. One click to wipe everything out leaves plenty of time to upgrade towers before more enemies appear.

And these builds exist and are far stronger than the Necro. Just hope GGG keeps these facts in mind when nerfing things.

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20% of players have completed 12 challenges and earned the Blight Helmet.

by the graph on 1st page....if that is 20%, ur 100% is in fact 180%...i think just 11.11(11)% have finished 12 challenges....

just sayin...

tldr: Forced meta shifts lead to specific classes being top now

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Shadowstorm wrote:

For the top Ascendancy break-down chart, the one showing players of all levels and all leagues on PC, it baffles me that Deadeye is more common than both Trickster and Elementalist.

Based on the changes introduced this league, I understand Necromancer, Assassin and Saboteur being up at the top with the default classes. And the league mechanic itself explains why Heirophant is up there with them; his totems add more "towers" to the tower defense.

But what brought Deadeye up to the top, enough to beat out the jack-of-all-trades ascendancies: Trickster and Elementalist?

Because bow Barrage/Tornado is shot ultimately stronger than Necro. One click wipes everything out. Necro, nor anything can compete.

The 3 classes that GGG buffed are the most played. Big surprise there.
Enjoy summoners guys. Next league they'll delete the ascendancy.

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Galtrovan wrote:

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xMustard wrote:

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Joernzen wrote:

Flashback when?

never


but anyway, 58% necro in SSF? gaDAYUM
it isn't surprising that necro is in the top spot. but what is surprising is just how so many people are meta slaves, lol

Necro at top is not surprising at all. New minion gems. New minion wand. League mechanic where it's impossible to do DPS and play tower upgrade at the same time, barring minions or totems.

Having said this, not being able to do both at the same time doesn't matter for builds that do enough DPS to not need/care about the towers. One click to wipe everything out leaves plenty of time to upgrade towers before more enemies appear.

And these builds exist and are far stronger than the Necro. Just hope GGG keeps these facts in mind when nerfing things.

Agreed, there are much stronger builds than zombies. At least stronger in some aspects. But that doesn't matter. GGG doesn't care about build strength, they care about build popularity. When everyone plays something they nerf it.
Spectres have been OP for a long time but noone cares because they're not popular. HH TS Deadeyes are stupidly OP but you need very expensive gear so they're not very popular and they haven't been nerfed for many leagues etc etc.