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 FSM Blizzro: 4/27/2015 2:33:44 PMMay I suggest that when one posts an inciteful title, one incites people? Your point would've been more valid to me and others had you instead been an adult and written "hunters are over represented in various top 100 lists". Because then your point has truth. Your point now is open to all sorts of discussion. Like I personally feel hunters are not OP. I play a warlock and hunter in PvP and have good stats on both (compared to a lot of people in this thread). A lot of people who "play all three" really don't. Hence I'm not including my Titan as I don't crucible on it. What I do feel however is that Hunters have the biggest capacity for a players skill to actually influence gameplay. A shit warlock will be okay, a shit hunter will be shit. A great player can do better with a hunter than a warlock and it's due to abilities that let your individual strategy and skill come through, like trip mine and throwing knife. Good use of invis (we see you, but your off the radar) etc.