Ladder Class Distribution in Diablo II: Resurrected - Sorceress, Paladin, and Everyone Else

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With over 500,000 characters currently counted on all four Ladders since its introduction on April 28th, it's interesting to look at how the class distributions break down for the Ladders. This poses the question: has the meta for Ladder changed? Short answer: no, at least in not in Normal (non-Hardcore) ladders. Sorceresses and Paladins have always dominated the S-tier and A-tier of Ladder recommendation lists, and it appears that, in Normal ladders at least, this is totally true. Curiously, there is more diversity in the Hardcore ladders, where you would expect players to stick to more tried-and-true builds. While Sorceress and Paladin remain popular there, there does appear to be some small movement in the meta. For this class analysis, we only counted Level 20+ characters currently on the first week of Ladder Season 1. This eliminates mule characters, and only includes characters who have at least gotten past Act 1 and Andariel, which represents at least minimum commitment to Ladder.

By far, the most popular Ladder is the Expansion Normal-- to no one's surprise.

Coming on the heels of the major 2.4 patch with big changes to class balance, will this translate to big changes in Ladder? Although there is a small possible shift in Hardcore with the introduction of the Summon Druid, it appears that what was dominant in Ladder before remains dominant, even after all the changes. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to inspect characters on the D2:R ladder, so we don't know exactly what impact the 2.4 changes had overall. Some people