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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8790878" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>Keep in mind that even taking the D&D Beyond data at face value, that doesn't exactly tell the whole story.</p><p></p><p>13% fighters / 8% wizards is for all players. A large portion of whom appear to be free users, given that around 40% of those users chose champion, and evocation as their respective subclass. However, last I checked the free version didn't contain all PHB spells, meaning that free DDB wizards (and other casters) are significantly weaker and less versatile than their PHB counterparts.</p><p></p><p>Simply look at the data for users who have all options unlocked (Top Sub w/o Multiclass). Suddenly Fighter drops down to 12% while Wizards jump up to 10%. The Fighter admittedly does still show a lead, but by nowhere near the same margin of the free dataset. You could attribute this to wizard being a less popular choice for multiclassing than the fighter. It could also be that when all options are unlocked, wizards are far more competitive with fighters in terms of popularity on DDB. It could very well be a combination of factors, including those I haven't considered here.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, we don't know. It's interesting data, but we don't really have enough information on their methodology to do more than intuit potential correlations, IMO. Frankly, it would be nice if they released a more comprehensive dataset along with their methodology, but I doubt we'll see anything like that anytime soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 8790878, member: 53980"] Keep in mind that even taking the D&D Beyond data at face value, that doesn't exactly tell the whole story. 13% fighters / 8% wizards is for all players. A large portion of whom appear to be free users, given that around 40% of those users chose champion, and evocation as their respective subclass. However, last I checked the free version didn't contain all PHB spells, meaning that free DDB wizards (and other casters) are significantly weaker and less versatile than their PHB counterparts. Simply look at the data for users who have all options unlocked (Top Sub w/o Multiclass). Suddenly Fighter drops down to 12% while Wizards jump up to 10%. The Fighter admittedly does still show a lead, but by nowhere near the same margin of the free dataset. You could attribute this to wizard being a less popular choice for multiclassing than the fighter. It could also be that when all options are unlocked, wizards are far more competitive with fighters in terms of popularity on DDB. It could very well be a combination of factors, including those I haven't considered here. Unfortunately, we don't know. It's interesting data, but we don't really have enough information on their methodology to do more than intuit potential correlations, IMO. Frankly, it would be nice if they released a more comprehensive dataset along with their methodology, but I doubt we'll see anything like that anytime soon. [/QUOTE]
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