March 6th, 2008 by Dinak

A few posts from Kalgan concerning class balance and representation in Arenas. I am a little surprised by the numbers for Shaman in 5v5 - the other brackets are about where most would expect shaman to be - underrepresented :(

Source: Kalgan

No other warlock nerfs are planned for 2.4. One of the things we look at is class representation in arenas (although normalized for class popularity). In this particular chart, a value of 100% means the class is represented as we’d expect, a value over 100% means the class is represented that much more often than we’d expect, a value below 100% means they’re represented less than we’d want (obviously this chart doesn’t include a spec breakdown in any way).

         2v2     3v3     5v5

Druid	276.0%	184.0%	80.5%

Hunter	43.0%	50.2%	43.0%

Mage	8.7%	96.0%	96.0%

Paladin	19.7%	29.5%	147.4%

Priest	113.3%	164.8%	185.4%

Shaman	37.8%	50.4%	138.6%

Rogue	144.2%	175.1%	61.8%

Warlock	149.2%	93.2%	111.9%

Warrior	130.4%	90.7%	79.3%

Locks are doing pretty well overall, but what had us worried was that it appeared to us a month ago or so as though warlocks were on an uptrend. However, the evidence is strong that that trend is reversing, which means significant nerfs aren’t really what we want right now (we really don’t know where those numbers will settle down).

Edit: one other detail regarding the chart, this one is set at 2200+ rating.

And  for the 1850+ charts

Source: Kalgan


Here’s 1850…

Druid	184.0%	138.0%	92.0%

Hunter	50.2%	50.2%	50.2%

Mage	61.1%	87.3%	87.3%

Paladin	68.8%	88.4%	137.6%

Priest	133.9%	133.9%	154.5%

Shaman	75.6%	88.2%	138.6%

Rogue	154.5%	154.5%	82.4%

Warlock	121.2%	102.5%	102.5%

Warrior	90.7%	85.0%	85.0%

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