Sara Jensen Schubert posted a comprehensive breakdown of the different character classes and their numerous changes and game balances throughout the different Live Patches for the game. The charts shows the different buffs, nerfs, bug fixes and changes per character class.

These are crappy charts. Google Docs doesn´t give the sick-at-home wanna-be statistician a lot of tools to work with. Most distressingly, the count and time scales are different on each chart. This is terrible chart design. Be sure to pay attention and not directly compare the bars between charts.

On the bright side, publishing this stuff with Google Docs means that you can go straight to my spreadsheet and copy the data to the professional-grade spreadsheet, database, or charting application of your choice. It´s all open source and Web 2.0 and stuff, and if I learned anything at AGDC, it´s that that´s cool.

I charted "buffs" and "nerfs" alone because it was easier to read. (Also, I like to make community managers cry.) Again, the classifications are by this guy and these guys, and I didn´t change anything. There could be parser errors too. And don´t forget the Nyquil. Really, take all this with a big grain of salt.

I still think the results are pretty neat.

Of course, these numbers are merely statistical analogies and should still be taken with a grain of salt. At the least, you can see the differences between nine characters.

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