So, here are some overall takeaways from the info for top 1000s:
1: Some classes performed better here than in top 100s.
Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor, and Wizard all had a higher % of clears in the top 1000 than they did in the top 100. In particular, DH and WD performed significantly better.
WD increased by 2.4%, from 4.14% “all the way” up to 6.54%, which is still not great, but, rather than having 0 Eras at the top and 8 at the bottom, as it did in top 100s, it here has 0 at the top and only 2 at the bottom.
DH went from its already respectable 3rd place 13.07% to an improved 3rd place at 15.66%. That shifts its top/bottom Eras from 3/7 to 4/3, giving it a tie for “top Eras” with Wizard and Crusader - 4 each. The one serious blemish on these improvements is the current Era, in which the class has 0 clears in the top 1000. Yes, zero. This is the only time that has ever happened.
Mighty Wizard did even better than its already strong showing in top 100s, increasing from 25.79 to 26.46%, ending up with 4 Eras at the top and 0 at the bottom.
2: And some performed worse.
Barb in particular suffered a significant decline, shedding about a quarter of its leaderboard presence (decline of 3.19%, from 12.71 to 9.52%). It also doesn’t have a single Era at the top on this board, an issue it shares with only WD. The next highest decline was Crusader, which lost a bit under a 10th (decline of 1.79%, from 21.93 to 20.14%). Monk and Necro each suffered some smaller decreases as well, including a loss of one top Era for Monk (down to 1, from 2).
3: Top 1000 boards are a little better balanced than top 100, but only a little.
I added another stat to both top 1000 and top 100, capturing Eras when the class did above average. Average is 166 / 16.6 clears in the 6 class Eras, and 143 / 14.3 after Necro was introduced. There were a total of 27 performances above average on the 1000s leaderboard, up from 25 in the 100s. The number of Eras where one class had more than 50% of the total clears remained unchanged- 10 for each board.
4: But no class did above average, an above average amount of the time.
No class, on either leaderboard, amassed 8 or more Eras in which it broke the “above average mark”. The closest anybody came was Wizards on the top 100, where they did it 7 times. Next best was Crusaders on the top 1000 board, where they bettered the average 6 times.
This is the flip side of the coin from the “one class rules supreme, more often than not” takeaway I laid out before. All classes actually spend the majority of their time being below average, like some kind of hellish parallel dimension Lake Wobegon.
5: The same class usually, but not always, won both leaderboards.
In 11 of the 14 Eras, the same class won both leaderboards. The exceptions to this were Era 1, in which Barb won 100s and DH won 1000s, Era 2, in which Barb won 100s and DH won 1000s, Era 5, in which Wiz won 100s and Crusader won 1000s, and Era 14, in which Monks won 100s and Wiz won 1000s.
6: The overall impression is largely unchanged.
Wizards and Crusaders still look very good. WD still looks pretty bad, despite improving its showing somewhat. Barb still shows a significant collapse from the early Eras, 1-5 (where it collected about 20% of the total clears) to the following Eras, 6-14, (where it collected only 3.8% of total clears). The biggest overall winner is probably DH, which in 1000s has more Eras in the top than the bottom, a big improvement from the more than 2x bottom:top ratio it had in top 100s.
The balance is still very lopsided, despite marginal improvement from top 100s. The best-balanced Era, by a fair margin, was Era 5, in which no class got more than 37% of clears, on either board, or less than 4%, on either board. And in which the 2nd place class came within 15% of the clears of the 1st place class, on both boards.
7: Bottom line:
A lot of room for improvement!