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Most Popular Archetype Combinations

Hello everyone!
I've posted a couple of these graphs in the discord, but I fear that this interesting information is being missed by a large part of the community! In order to connect with more of you and get everyone involved in an on-going community-driven project, I wanted to document the progress on the archetype survey here!

First of all, a class survey has been active for a couple months now (which you can find here!). If you haven't yet, please participate in the very brief survey to add your voice to the survey and also increase the accuracy of the results!

Secondly, I recommend using this link (voila) to view the results instead of the default google form results page. 

Thirdly- I make a graph, every month, that reflects the most popular archetype combinations (as of that moment's survey results). These graphs will be kept in this folder, however, I will also be updating this thread with those graphs as I make them!

I hope this helps provide a neat, progressive visual for the entire community who's here to be engaged, be active, and hurry up and wait for more AoC information :)!


Comments

  • April's most popular:
  • May's most popular:
  • June's most popular:
  • Hmmmm, I would really prefer to see people get really emotionally charged and passionately defend/argue why their combination should not only the most popular... But be the BEST combination there is. 

    (please don't. :s )
  • Some interesting results, but I would say increasing the classes and subclass to include all available combinations to get a better result 
  • nagash said:
    Some interesting results, but I would say increasing the classes and subclass to include all available combinations to get a better result 

    You can choose any combinations in the survey form. Just that some haven't been chosen. 
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    Hmmmm, I would really prefer to see people get really emotionally charged and passionately defend/argue why their combination should not only the most popular... But be the BEST combination there is. 

    (please don't. :s )
    Why not? If people argue about it, then someone might learn something or some possible element that they didn't consider when choosing their combination. The more arguments the better. So, why not?
  • nagash said:
    Some interesting results, but I would say increasing the classes and subclass to include all available combinations to get a better result 

    You can choose any combinations in the survey form. Just that some haven't been chosen. 
    And this is why I should click links ^^
  • SethGure said:
    Hmmmm, I would really prefer to see people get really emotionally charged and passionately defend/argue why their combination should not only the most popular... But be the BEST combination there is. 

    (please don't. :s )
    Why not? If people argue about it, then someone might learn something or some possible element that they didn't consider when choosing their combination. The more arguments the better. So, why not?
    Mainly because we have no information whatsoever on classes. Heh. To passionately discuss and defend them now would be quite pointless. 

    That being said  :#

    Cleric/bards (evangelists) are obviously the worst. You need them in parties because of the healing and buffs they bring to the table but they never stop talking about their religion. I think I'd rather have my character die than to ensure any more of their hymns and sermons. 


  • I'm sure once we have a boatload of information, we will definitely be seeing more passionate debates. Although, hilariously, debates are already occurring with no more information available than the little blip given on KS XD!

    And yes- the survey includes all the possible combinations, the graphs only represent the most popular ones (so the combinations which have received the most votes).. Do you guys have any recommendations to making that distinction more clear in the OP? There's some frequent confusion over that? 
  • I like how this is traceable over time :)

    Some unsolicited presentation suggestions, that could make the presentation more impactful (and easier in the long run, for you): assemble it into either a mekko chart or a 100% stacked line graph that shows distribution between the archetypes over time. This will let people see trends over time in one graph, and will be easy to manage because you can just copy/paste results into a new column and continue expanding.

    Powerpoint junkie commentary aside, super interesting and I'm glad you are tracking
  • Out of curiosity, what is a rogue mage supposed to do, exactly? I'd like to know why it's the second most prevalent in the most recent polls
  • Out of curiosity, what is a rogue mage supposed to do, exactly? I'd like to know why it's the second most prevalent in the most recent polls

    Lots of invisibility and teleporting backstabbing? 

    Like nightcrawler from the x-men perhaps. 

    Bamf.
  • Out of curiosity, what is a rogue mage supposed to do, exactly? I'd like to know why it's the second most prevalent in the most recent polls
    I think of a Rogue/Mage as an Illusionist.
    But, we'll have to see whether the devs actually go that route.
  • I actually enjoy the Rogue/Summoner combo... maybe i didn't think that through enough? I just think of you being able to break into wherever you need to be and then you can summon and while they distrct you can land a more fatal blow where they aren't looking. I didn't get creative enough XD
  • I was thinking rogue/mage but seeing how popular it is I may have to rethink my decision.  
  • Elder, hold out! As more information gets released on archetype combos/class information, I think we'll see big surges in popularity of certain classes :D
  • I hope so, I've always been a fan of high mobility classes. 
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    My problem is, until I actually read the combo descriptions and their skills, I have a very hard time picking any one class combo. I can only say at this point I tend to play rogues, fighters, clerics (I played a Friar extensively in DAoC, WarriorPriest in WAR and a Nightbalde in ESO as examples). I'm actually a huge fan of hybrid classes so I can only hope that combos besides same/same will have just as much power and ability as pure classes.

    Never been a pet class player and ranged is not my favorite (I like to be on or near the frontline) nor am I a damage sponge type or a pure support lover. So I can probably say mage, ranger, summoner, bard or tank will not be my primary. This might also include Cleric since I don't do heal bot.
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