I always had the impression, the classes are not well balanced and therefore I went to destinytracker.com and did some research.
I evaluated several Top-100 rank lists (score, K/D etc.) on their site across all platforms and statistically counted the occuring classes.
This is the result as a distribution of classes among the Top 100 lists:
[b]63% - Hunters
23% - Titans
14% - Warlocks[/b]
This leaves two conclusions:
1. Good players play Hunters.
2. Hunters are the most powerful class concerning the Crucible.
Personally I doubt 1, at least in with this numbers. Hunters are the most played class, but the distribution in pure played classes is somehow like 38:31:31 (H:T:W).
How would you interpret these numbers?
edit: It's typical for these forums, how you get attacked and flamed if you open hypothesis like this.
Don't get me wrong, kids, I'm not calling for a nerf or anything. I just want to discuss the numbers.
And I expect Bungie to do a decent retrospective in the classes balance!
edit2: It's interesting to see, how nobody seems to care about this thread but the the Hunter fanboys, who solely come in to cry and tell me to stop crying and to stop to critic their beloved Hunter.
This community is really immature and childish.
edit3: A lot of people start to argue with class skills or player skills, but can we please reduce to the numbers I posted and you can try explaining them?
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Edited by Capt NSFW_Beard: 3/31/2015 12:46:23 PMProof all I see is the top crucible players play Hunters.... Proof would be 3 equally skilled players that are familiar with each class play numerous rumbl matches. You would have to have each player play a specific class and sub class. All same gun load out. Mark the winner and have them play another 10-15 matches. Get the average You would have to acount for all combinations of subclasses. Each player would then switch classes so you can rule out the variant in player skill. In the end you are looking at 810 rumble matches to completely and accurately test each class with each player. In the end if hunters had the greater average of kills and wins. Then you can say you have proof. As of right now you have nothing