Max stats, HK's, Talents, Armory Spider and more!

The spider has gathered 71173 characters and I've switched it to gather arena team data. Its grinding away and has grabbed 25704 (and counting) teams. I'll be doing arena analysis with the team data sometime next week. Now for more breakdowns. Since there are many stats we can track I've decided to do a blog post per class highlighting important stats relevant to that class. Please keep in mind that this is an interim-post while I do the write up for different classes. I did this post to respond to comments on my previous post and also to ensure that I'm still around doing this and haven't vanished!

The Spider

The spider is quite simple. It has a list of battlegroups and knows that there are 3 team sizes: 2,3 and 5. It then starts grabbing the XML for each team and characters in that team from the ladder pages of the team size and battlegroup. When I need guilds and non-arena characters I tell the spider to get guild names and spider guilds and each character in the guild too. The only thing to remember is to keep a 1.5 second (I use 2 seconds) interval between each access.

Now for a quick recap of classes/races/genders.

Recap


Paladins dominate the arena teams. DK and Druid have decent representation. Warlocks have the least.



Paladins again dominate. Surprising since paladins are a relatively new class for Horde. DK is close behind.




There you have it. Breakdown of classes by faction.










Males outnumber females for all races, including the Blood Elves. So, the # of BE's must be due to popularity of Paladins, the racials and the *shiny-new-toy* factor. Draenei are the only race where they're pretty much even.





Average HK's breakdown by class and faction.



The number of characters which have > 25k HK's breakdown by class and faction.



Talents




Arms is by far the most popular talent choice.




Ret is pretty popular while holy is another close competitor.




Survival is the clear winner.




Assassination is the most popular talent tree by far.




Disc outnumber the other two.




Unholy is the most popular tree.




Resto rules.




Very very close. Frost slightly edging out the other two.




Affliction and Destruction are the most popular.




Resto again rules.


Popular talent trees (over 1000 characters)

Warrior
57/14/0 - 1370
54/17/0 - 1124
60/11/0 - 1031

Paladin
0/17/54 - 1897
51/5/15 - 1725
0/19/52 - 1578

Hunter
0/15/56 - 1089

Rogue
41/5/25 - 4140
51/13/7 - 2010
15/51/5 - 1675

Priest
60/11/0 - 1777
14/57/0 - 1618
57/14/0 - 1179

Death Knight
0/17/54 - 1459


Shaman
0/16/55 - 1856
57/14/0 - 1332

Mage
20/0/51 - 2149
57/3/11 - 1330

Warlock
54/17/0 - 924

Druid
14/0/57 - 1773
0/60/11 - 1120
0/55/16 - 1083
11/0/60 - 1002


Hybrids

As you might have noticed in the charts above that I've not included Hybrid talents (as shown on the armory). This was not intentional. The fact is, there are < 300 characters who have hybrid character spec for each class. Clear data that the high level point talents are definitely very popular (hence, valuable) among characters.


Max Stats

PvE Related Sidenote
Blizzard has nerfed DK tanking abilities since they believed that DK's were ending up as exclusive tanks irrespective of boss abilities. So I had to run some numbers and see who had the highest avoidance. I do understand that the DK abilities end up granting a DK with additional avoidance on-demand (and that these abilities could be chained). I am not challenging Blizzard's data that DK's were nerfed unfairly.
There are 20 characters with avoidance > 75%. 17 warriors and 3 paladins.
The top 3 are warriors (note, some have since changed gear, but I have the cached files and they show the gear they were wearing when the spider grabbed them):

• Kalia of Bronzebeard - 87.4%
• Infurion of Stormscale - 85.4%
• Allinyaface of Stormscale - 82.8

The highest 3 paladins are:

• Kalifar of Hydraxis - 76%
• Inquizitor of Nagrand - 75.9%
• Ampere of Hydraxis - 75.1%

While the highest 3 DK's are:

• Ferdenen of Dreadmaul - 50.83%
• Ariathe of Moon Guard - 50.18%
• Brxx of Bloodscalp - 49.46%

Max Stats

Melee Attack Power
Gydeon of Kil'Jaeden (Druid) - 8246 atk pwr

Ranged Attack Power
Tlatoa of Azjol-Nerub (Hunter) - 6330 atk pwr

MH DPS
Thelatejc of Frostmourne (Death Knight) - 800.6 dps

OH DPS
Blayden of Feathermoon (Rogue) - 447.7 dps

Ranged DPS
Tlatoa of Azjol-Nerub (Hunter) - 852.9 dps

Melee Crit
Nana of Ner'zhul (Druid) - 45.87%

Ranged Crit
Katonak of Kilrogg (Hunter) - 45.26%

Haste
Zornee of Silver Hand (Mage) - 836 rating

Healing
Pothole of Crushridge (Shaman) - 2761 healing

Spell Power
Teknikillz of Stormscale (Paladin) - 2691 spell pwr

Spell Crit
Tengen of Draenor (Mage) - 57.31%

MP5 in-combat
Buumong of Kil'Jaeden (Shaman) - 493 mp5

MP5 out-of-combat
Symmetrian of Blackrock (Priest) - 1097 mp5

Resilience
Carp of Uldum (Priest) - 1212 resil


I'd planned to do a section on glyphs and gems but I messed up some code and imported wrong data. So I'll do those when I do more in-depth look at each class and talents etc. I plan to do Druids and Paladins this week. I have the data, but it takes time to massage the whole thing into a post format which is easy to digest. Meanwhile, the arena import will be ready to go as soon as the Armory lets me download more the team files (Armory was down all weekend). Once I have enough teams to work with, I'll run the report for which team plays well against with team, and more details about talents etc in the 2200+ bracket.