A few numbers on the stronger builds of S27

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While dmkt and I are not tracking every set for S27, the way we did for season 26, I did figure I’d take a quick look at some “adjusted” numbers for the best-performing build for each class.

How the adjustment works is explained here.

#7: Crusader - Akkhan: Cleared 144 in 10:26 with 1626 paragon, which adjusts to 150.5.

Poor Crusader is really in the dump this season. Not only are all of the crucible powers pretty bad, but the newly reworked Akkhan got ninja-nerfed. And without a leaderboard reset, there isn’t really even much reason to push the build, since it’ll be hard to compete with those pre-nerf clears without a boatload of paragon. A sad state of affairs. Still, when even the weakest class is breaking adjusted 150, you know there are some powerful seasonal themes flying around!

#6: Demon Hunter - Marauder: Cleared 150 in 12:48 with 4894 paragon, which adjusts to 151.1.

Marauder is performing fairly solidly when it comes to pushing, though it is still near the bottom of the heap, at least for now. The main use for DH this season seems to be running speeds using Strafe/Impale.

#5: Witch Doctor - Mundunugu: Cleared 150 in 13:29 with 4091 paragon, which adjusts to 151.6.

Though performing a hair better than DH at the top end of pushing, it doesn’t seem like a whole lot of people are playing this class- there’s a 5-tier gap between this clear and the one just below it on the leaderboard.

#4: Barbarian - LoD HotA: Cleared 150 in 13:02 with 3051 paragon, which adjusts to 153.0.

Thus far, all the highest clears have come using the HotA Crucible, rather than the WW one. Raekor has not been competitive with HotA thus far, largely because people just don’t seem to be playing it- its numbers are well below where they were last season, when the theme was: nothing. It’ll be interesting to see whether the WW Crucible becomes more prevalent on the leaderboard as the paragon increases.

#3: Wizard - Tal Rasha: Cleared 150 in 11:55 with 3138 paragon, which adjusts to 153.5.

Tal Rasha Meteor is performing strongly this season, coming in a half tier ahead of Barb. That spread may increase as time goes by, as it seems like this build benefits a lot from a solid helping of paragon.

#2: Necromancer - Trag’Oul: Cleared 150 in 13:23 with 1898 paragon, which adjusts to 154.4.

The formerly terrible Trag’Oul is now a very strong build, especially when it comes to mowing down density. In addition to being a strong solo pushing build, it’s also the trash-killer of choice for about 95% of the top 100 4-person groups.

#1: Monk - LoD Wave of Light: Cleared 150 in 5:12 with 5177 paragon, which adjusts to 156.5.

In first by a mile is the Wave of Light Monk. Its top clear is ahead of next-best Necro by about two tiers, and that is not much of an outlier: the top Trag’Oul clear would only rate 45th place on the Monk LoD WoL board, while the top Tal Rasha clear would be all the way down at 123rd place. There are already over 1000 GR 150 LoD WoL clears on the board, including some with just under 1700 paragon, and others (including the top adjusted clear) done in just over 5 minutes. In comparison, all other classes combined have 86 clears of GR 150.

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I’m not sure when that Crusader-Akkahn clear was. The build was nerfed a few days ago by killing a bug that allowed folks to spam Shield Bearers and they wouldn’t disappear with new casts. Since the nerf, the build is a good bit weaker. So if that clear was say 5 days ago, it isn’t capable of the same today.

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Yes, Crusader is in such a bad state.

AoV Fist of the Heavens is about as strong as the nerfed Akkhan Phalcon.

AoV’s adjusted clear is 143.5

Personally I’m doing better with AoV.

When you compare Crusader’s AoV FotH versus Monk’s LoD Wave of Light, we’re talking about a +13GR power gap, simply put, LoD WoL dishes out 1535% more damage than AoV FotH.

The Akkhan rework was technically a nerf too judging by the limited amount of clears we’ve compiled so far. If you’re sticking it out with Shield Bearers, which arguably is still the strongest rune, fighting the rift guardian is dysfunctional. The revamped Akkhan’s set does not run smooth, if your Phalanx are not continually hitting enemies you will get one shot and die. Not to mention there is about a 3 second delay to deal damage — this set is truly terrible in Echoing Nightmares. It is not friendly for beginners, therefore the clear ceiling should be higher.

I’d love to see Eternal Union addressed as a solution for this clunky set. To keep up with the likes of the recently buffed Tal Rasha and Trag’Oul sets, Eternal Union needs approximately 200% damage buff to Phalanx, which is a complete replacement for

Not to discourage anyone, but I personally plan to delete my Crusader by Friday since it’s just not worth staying with it this season. I’m already very behind in paragon for the hours played and I’m not getting many group invites with it either.

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Set data not as meaningful this season as some are affected by seasonal theme, unless you add another adjustment for seasonal theme powers.

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Sets belong to classes. Angelic effects belong to classes. Certain Angelic effects are only compatible with certain sets.

Do we play the set, crucible power or the class?

Any way you present it, the set reporting paints a good picture of what is happening from a solo push standpoint in the season for each class. It is meaningful in that regard, though you might just value exp meta and 4p push performance more.

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Yeah, exactly. While numbers from this season might not provide the “baseline” that numbers from S26 did, they still give a good look at the actual performance of these builds, vs each other, within the context of this season- much better than the basic leaderboard.

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Someone in s27 has 5177 paragon? How is that even possible?

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I know, it’s crazy. Looking over the solo boards, I see a bunch of people with more than 4k, but just that one fellow with over 5k. Over on the 4 player board, seeing 5k seems more common. On the front page, to see a player with under 4k is almost a rarity.

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China Power.

I had the same reaction than you when I saw the WD record.

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k so i didn’t like the idea of condemn being used, seemed awkward, so i’d like to see a quick rework involving these abilities being cast instead
Bowmen = FotH
Shield charge = Shield Bash
Shield Bearers = Blessed shield
Bodyguard = Sweep attack

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Any numbers on DMO and Firebirds, Typhoon and Vyr? Are they still pretty much unviable?

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OP, how often you have 3000+ paragons in season?

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Zero times. I only play solo, don’t cheat, and don’t particularly like grinding XP for long periods of time. What I mostly like to do is push, which is why I play a lot more non-season than seasonal. Most paragon I’ve ever gotten in a season is around 2200.

Well, let’s see… top adjusted clears in this season, for those builds, are:

Delsere: 144.7
Firebird: 148.2
Typhon: 139.7
Vyr: 132.8

Firebird’s 148.2 is fairly respectable, though not near the builds that I listed in the OP. None of them are going to compete with HotA or Tal or Trag, let alone the insane LoD WoL Monk.

When it comes to non-season, dmkt and I just finished updating State of Set. There, Typhon and Vyr are at adjusted 144.9 and 143.2, respectively, putting them into our B-tier. Delsere, with 146.9, and Firebird, with 148.0, are in A-tier.

Wizard is really in pretty good shape on that front- Wiz and Barb are the only two classes to have no builds below B tier, and both have 1 S-tier build, 3 A-tier, and 2 B-tier. Of course, my dream is for them to eventually get everything into “high-A / low-S”, but that will probably never happen.

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Throw 150% damage after teleporting for 3 seconds (or whatever) on Aetherwalker, and Vyr would be right on the money. Such an easy change.

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They could have fix the bug but buff the damage. Sad for Crusaders players wanting to play proper pet build.

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Chinese D3 is F2W with XP boster right. If so should be excluded from other table.

If not that kudos to him.

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Nope, that player is in EU.

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He must have lots of free time or streamer.

I haven’t play more than10mins this week. Very busy at work.

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Best monk (LoD) in UE cleared a 150 in 10:57mins with 3137 paragons when I look at the leaderboard.

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Must be a banwave! Yep, that guy has definitely disappeared.

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