One Week Nemesis Race Infographic

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Qarl wrote:

Scions were prevalent in the one week league, and take a lot of the same space as Witches and Shadows, reducing the numbers in these classes. Shadow appears to need attention specifically.

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Qarl wrote:

While the keystones used were influenced a little by players following specific examples, clearly Iron Reflexes is too dominant in this short format.

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Qarl wrote:

We will also be specifically looking at death rates for specific areas.

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Grogolog wrote:

Spoiler

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Alhoon wrote:

Awesome infodump.

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SlayerII wrote:

only 6 players used CI? Oo

Really shows how balance is highly skewed towards life based characters.

not really, CI requires good gear to be more effective than a life build, and you cannot guarantee that in a 1 week race

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Snookdog wrote:

Skill tree needs it's next iteration badly. Unfortunately GGG likes to frustrate the players...

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Snookdog wrote:

End word:
I'm not for nerfing, I'm for good alternatives that don't suck.

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Qarl wrote:

Only 15 instances of Merciless Sceptre 2 were run, but it still claimed one character.

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Invalesco wrote:

Those are nice infographics! However, not to be a damp squib or anything, but the stats don't show anything new that most long-term experienced players would not already have been able to figure out within one play through.

In terms of class breakdown, it's no surprise that the Scion is the most commonly played class. It's starting area is OP. This is never going to change, not unless the skill tree is enlarged further and the center of the tree made less relevant and other classes made more relevant. The only reason that there are even other classes in the top twenty is because this was a party-enabled race, and less effective/competitive builds such as colby's acro melee duelist (no offense colby, it was a good effort) and zeroes' utility freeze miner build (which incidentally will be much less effective now with freeze mine having been nerfed) could just get themselves carried. The only witch in the top twenty wasn't even a traditional caster witch but a trapper instead. if this was a solo race, the class breakdown would be much more biased towards marauders and scions. There wouldn't be any class aside from scions and marauders (and probably a sprinkling of duelists) in the top 20, and ranger would definitely not get top. Especially not with the presence of overtuned act3x mobs such as the ice leapers and undying evangelists.

It's not surprising that the most deadly area is the cruel sceptre of god. Cruel dominus is a huge joke and a massive MASSIVE jump in difficulty. Combined with the FPS issues on the rooftop, I'd much rather fight piety merciless rather than cruel dominus.

IR being incredibly overused has always been the case since CB and this will never ever change unless or until Evasion is made much much better. Nerfing IR further won't change a thing. There is little point in playing an evasion-based build when you have ridiculous physical spells rendering evasion absolutely obsolete. Of course, one can say that a high block, high evasion, acro character would be extremely tanky. HOWEVER, this is an AARPG. Players come here to KILL monsters, not TANK monsters. What's the point in having to invest heavily in more defensive (block) nodes and having to sacrifice so much DPS? The game will not be fun anymore if one has to resort to that route. No, the Acro/Evasion/Shadow part of the tree needs a huge increase in terms of HP nodes. The only thing that can help evasion/acro-based builds right now is an increased damage buffer, which MoM partly contributes, however it's proximity to IR just makes IR the obvious choice instead.

I'm actually rather surprised that 127 people took acrobatics. However, I would be interested in their death rate as well as their "give-up rate" (i give up, this build doesn't work, reroll). Acro has been buffed since CB, however, its completely random nature renders it completely unreliable and thus completely useless in the absence of a healthy amount of damage buffer. This is not to mention its complete and utter uselessness in coping with DoT effects such as corrupting blood. There is no one skill/spell in this game, not since the implementation of chaos resists, that armour users are unable to defend against. But physical spells that deal such high damage completely bypass evasion, and that is a broken mechanic that needs to be altered.

CI has traditionally always been relatively underused in one week races, however this has got to be a new all-time low. 6?! That is completely ridiculous. Enough with "CI is powerful in the end-game, yada yada stuff." No it is not. Glass cannon builds are viable only in SC and not in HC, and the only reason glass cannon builds choose to go for CI and not HP is becausse the crit/dagger nodes are all at the top part of the tree, where there isn't enough HP nodes to begin with and the logical decision would be to go CI. Nerf dagger/crit nodes and buff HP nodes and you'll see a complete change in direction from CI --> HP. Caster builds don't even go for CI anymore because to be a CI caster these days would be to spend 10x the amount of currency that an EB caster would spend and deal 1/2 the amount of DPS with 2/3 the amount of survivability.

Also, the decision to move VP even further away from the shadow is horrendous. It's great that you're looking to buff shadows again, and I'll be glad to provide input if so desired.

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Odoakar wrote:

It's a shame that GGG won't buff evasion, but will nerf IR/armor.

It's a recipe for a shitty aRPG.