[Analysis] Era 11 Patch 2.6.6 Classes Grift Clearing Efficiency Indicator Assessment (Class Power)

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Conclusions:

The strongest class in terms of greater rift efficiency is wizards (represented by orange dots and lines), a class that many think is vastly overpowered. Many have called for nerfs to this class.

The weakest class in terms of greater rift efficiency depends on the greater rift level analyzed. The two weakest classes for grifts considered below 113-114 were necromancer (the worst) and monks (second worst). For greater rifts above 114 monks had the lowest greater rift efficiency.

Monks are represented by red dots and line.
Necromancers by gray dots and lines. The odd shape of the necromancer curve relates to its thorns vs. other builds.

Barbs are blue dots and lines.
Demon Hunters are brown dots and lines.
Crusaders are green dots and lines.
Purple are purple dots and lines.

Prokhan also showed a more simple comparison of the average grift clears of the top 1000 players. Each > represents a 1 greter rift difference.

Wizards>>>>Demon Hunters>>>>>>Crusader>Witch doctor>>>Barbarian>Monk>Necromancer

I would encourage everyone when they are comparing classes to link this thread/post. I think it would help to dispel misperceptions that occur on the forum.

@ greater Rift efficiency of 50	Greater rift clear
Necromancer	111.0
Monk	111.7
Barb	113.0
Crusader	114.5
Witch Doctor	116.0
Demon Hunter	117.3
Wizard	123.5

EDIT:
The revised OP now includes data on greater rift efficiency for all classes. The data informs and may dispel some misconceptions.

@Prokahn-1764

The relatively good balance of the lowest 5 class is actually apparent, a remnant of that past balance.

All classes in comparison to wizards need a buff; however, there appears to be other classes besides barbs who can make a compelling case for buffs.

@Free-1746

Though we didn’t publish it, we came to the same conclusion on an analysis of low and mid-end clears between classes. It was worth noting that several other classes perform better than Barb in those ranges, though.

From Prokhan’s analysis, it seems that Free considers mid-tier for classes to be higher than greater rift 120 (if not 122). Although this may make sense for the 2 overperforming classes, this is not true for the other 5 classes. I wonder the rationale why Free did not share this analysis?

EDIT: For those who want a way to reproduce this calculation for themselves:

1. Request each leaderboard using Blizzard’s API
2. Open the html file, copy and paste into Microsoft Word
3. In Microsoft Word, delete the first and last part of the file that does not include player information

Replace “}]},{”;player" with “;}]}^p{”;player" (Reason: Used to insert line breaks between players)
Replace all , with ^t (Reason: For use as tab-delimnited file)
Replace all : with ^t (Reason: For use as tab-delimited file)
Delete all " (Reason: For prettiness)
Delete all [ (Reason: For prettiness)
Delete all { (Reason: For prettiness)
Delete all } (Reason: For prettiness)
Delete all ] (Reason: For prettiness)

4. Save as plain text file
5. Import plain text file into Excel
6. Use the sort function and insert appropriate spaces to re-align columns for players with missing entries such as clan name
7. This excel (and of course the original json file from Blizzard) file includes the grift clear level, hero’s paragon at the time, how long the clear took (in milliseconds). Use excel to make the greater rift efficiency calculations.
8. Use Excel for simple graphs
9. Line fitting is more sophisticated and something like SigmaPlot, OriginPro, or R/SAS may work better than excel.