Some statistics on class balance

Foolou · 09-09-2009, 09:54 AM

After reading some wines about imbalances and overpowered classes I decided to do some statistics on my own. I wrote a little python module that polls the statistics of the Servers Horus, Ra, Muspell and Niflheim by realm and class (2160 chars in total) and did a little survey.

I calculated the rp differences of yesterday (sept 8th) to today (sept 9th), threw away all players that did not gain rp last night and did some simple statistics on the data, here are the results.

There were 44 extraordinary players in the toplists (rp-gains bigger than average+2*standart deviation), the classes of these are:

Barbarian:6
Knight:1
Hunter:15
Marksman:11
Conjurer:5
Warlocks:6

So the enthusiast players clearly prefer the bow classes, there is just one knight playing on server Muspell (Doggy-San), maybe we should ask him how knights need to be played to be effective.

But lets look at the broader mass of players (rp smaller than average+2*standart deviation):

Overall average rp: 151 (730 players)

(Class) (Average) ( played by ) ( total rp gained by class )
Barbarian 145 117 17038
Knight 112 101 11341
Hunter 180 148 26686
Marksman 181 128 23174
Conjurer 131 126 16581
Warlock 143 110 15777

I think overall it is safe to say that the bowclasses are a little stronger, knights a little weaker in the big player base, but the difference is not dramatic (!).

Somehow hunters and marksman become a very deadly tool in the hand of the very ambitious players, which seems difficult to achieve for other classes, especially for knights, but that's just guessing. There might be a other reasons.

The general problem with this survey is that there are a lot of inactive players in those top 30 rp charts (2/3 of the players listed did not gain rp during the last 24h).

Please don't start discussing about reasons for the results, these statistics do not tell anything about that, they are just numbers.

09-09-2009, 09:54 AM	#1
Foolou Pledge Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5	Some statistics on class balance After reading some wines about imbalances and overpowered classes I decided to do some statistics on my own. I wrote a little python module that polls the statistics of the Servers Horus, Ra, Muspell and Niflheim by realm and class (2160 chars in total) and did a little survey. I calculated the rp differences of yesterday (sept 8th) to today (sept 9th), threw away all players that did not gain rp last night and did some simple statistics on the data, here are the results. There were 44 extraordinary players in the toplists (rp-gains bigger than average+2standart deviation), the classes of these are: Barbarian:6 Knight:1 Hunter:15 Marksman:11 Conjurer:5 Warlocks:6 So the enthusiast players clearly prefer the bow classes, there is just one knight playing on server Muspell (Doggy-San), maybe we should ask him how knights need to be played to be effective. But lets look at the broader mass of players (rp smaller than average+2standart deviation): Overall average rp: 151 (730 players) (Class) (Average) ( played by ) ( total rp gained by class ) Barbarian 145 117 17038 Knight 112 101 11341 Hunter 180 148 26686 Marksman 181 128 23174 Conjurer 131 126 16581 Warlock 143 110 15777 I think overall it is safe to say that the bowclasses are a little stronger, knights a little weaker in the big player base, but the difference is not dramatic (!). Somehow hunters and marksman become a very deadly tool in the hand of the very ambitious players, which seems difficult to achieve for other classes, especially for knights, but that's just guessing. There might be a other reasons. The general problem with this survey is that there are a lot of inactive players in those top 30 rp charts (2/3 of the players listed did not gain rp during the last 24h). Please don't start discussing about reasons for the results, these statistics do not tell anything about that, they are just numbers.