Solo game balance: Non-Season Era 11 and 12 Data and Analysis

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@JustinFan,

I differ with certain elements of your interpretation.

@JustinFan-1165

Bliz and players still need some time to see the true power of zodiac rend. The data of barb era 12 is pretty close to WD era 11.

@JustinFan-1165

Clearly, barb is in gray.

With additional time, the top GR clears will only increase. It will be interesting to see what Blizzard’s blog post says. At the top end of the leaderboard, the top barb clear is +5 GRs over the target of 141. Within 1-2 GRs is considered good balance. The gray is 3-4 GRs. 5 GRs or more is most likely “correction” zone. Matt has made a couple posts already about this.

See:

Barb did 142 in non season in 12 mins

Definitely not fantastic design and balance. This one particular Crusader at 10,176 Paragon is about +5 GRs above our expected. Something to look into for next patch!

Game producer's post on game balance

This post by the game producer Matthew Cederquist gives some insights on their ideas on balance. As previously stated, a blog post will be coming in the future. I wanted to increase his post’s visibility as it is post 368 in another thread. From multiple other posts, the max target for top player @~10K paragon is GR 141.

@JustinFan-1165

The data of barb era 12 is pretty close to WD era 11.

The data is much closer to wizards of era 11 than witch doctors. Double check the median of the top 10 worldwide GR clears and GR efficiency (overall and at specific GR levels for example GR 125 and GR 120). You can also look at GR tiers as a function of leaderboard ranks. For example, rank #100 era 11 wizard cleared GR 131 while currently barbarians are at GR 130 and this era is a couple of months old.