Betrayal Statistics

Scarabs usage statistics anyone?

How is this topic passed without mentioning scarabs?
Those advertised as main league content, no?

Forgotten?

Can't believe Trial of Burning Rage is the second most deadly area in the game. In my opinion that's the easiest trial of them all. I guess people are impatient and die while rushing it?

Got to love the positive balance spin implying GGG is pleased that 90% of the ascendancy classes appear to be well balanced since about 1% of the higher level players choose each one. LOL, the message should have been "we are firing our entire balance team and replacing them with people who actually play the game"

What we learned. To much time is spent on the story rather then the far more fun and diverse end game content.

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insilopeh wrote:

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Kelvynn wrote:

That 'rework' of Berserker worked out so well...

It was such a fun class to play until somebody decided that it needed to be played in a completely different and very specific way.

Change the Berserker back to the way it was before!

Old berserker sort of died with the rework to VP...

It was still fine in 3.1 with the current VP, I played a Berserker in the Abyss league and did 40/40 challenges on him. The rework in 3.2 completely ruined that class. RIP Berserker.

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We're out of stats now, so what have we learned? There's a pretty good chance that if you randomly select a character online, it is an Elementalist in their hideout, and you have a better chance of finding a stack of Exalted Orbs than finding a Berserker in the Temple of Atzoatl.

I was running a lot of temples though.

what a cool league

p.s. dont nerf elementalist

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korn7809 wrote:

What we learned. To much time is spent on the story rather then the far more fun and diverse end game content.

I have 400+ hours in this game, and story acts are easily the best part of POE.
Maps are just retuned reused story content for the most part.

I am reasonably confident that the Elementalist dominance occurred in no small part as a result of a certain Enki91 and his amazing Arc Witch guide.

One thing I have noticed over the past month or so, is that this particular build has been namedropped all over the place. Whenever a newcomer asks "what is a good build for a beginner?", you can guarantee that someone will answer "Enki's Arc Witch". The build is even being mentioned, explained, linked-to and name-dropped by popular Youtubers and streamers.

It's also the sole reason why I, a relative newcomer, used that build for the majority of the league. Not because it's necessarily strong (I lack a reference level to recognize strength in the game), but because Enki's guide was so good, so I was able to easily put a functional Arc Witch together by following it closely, and finish Act 10 for the first time with it. Not only was the build SSF-capable, meaning anyone could just jump right in and follow the guide without having to buy any gear or jump through other hoops, but the guide itself was utter perfection as he literally explained EVERYTHING in a format which made sense and could be followed by complete beginners.

Because of that guide, and the widespread popularity of that guide, it's hard to know for sure how much of the Elementalist popularity is down to the strength of Elementalist herself. Newcomers (especially players drawn to the PC version in anticipation of the PS4 release) will obviously gravitate to Enki's Arc Witch, as will players who've maybe been around a bit longer, tried to follow several other build guides in the past, but never really had much success with those.

Assuming Enki continues that amazing work, and makes more build guides in the same format, it will be interesting going forward seeing if there is any direct correlation with those guides being made and popularized, and the most-played meta classes in a league.