You guys and your simplifying of the Bungie statisticians (Destiny)

by Earendil, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 15:28 (3776 days ago) @ BeardFade

someotherguy: I suspect Bungie looked at the number of players bringing ARs into the Crucible but not the number of AR kills. Lower-level Crucible might be chock full of ARs and I wouldn't know, but at least at mid-high level Crucible play all the best players seem to use Handcannons, not ARs.

BeardFade: I don't think Bungie interpreted their data correctly. While there were probably lots of people using ARs in the Crucible, I think they should curved the data to look at what weapons the better players use and adjust accordingly. For the most part, the best players in the game don't run with ARs that often anymore and haven't for a while.

First off, Bungie is the KING of data and analysis. They may do things for the wrong reasons, but it's rarely based on bad data.

To quote them on auto rifles:

Bungie: "Looking at raw DPS [damage per second], the Auto Rifle is the most lethal primary weapon class across all of Destiny’s activities.

Here’s a breakdown of kills by Primary archetype for the top players [filtered to focus on the top-half of the scoreboard] in Destiny.

[...] If you look at the top ten lethal weapons over a period of thirty days, six of them are Auto Rifles."[/i]

I'm sure you guys read the entire thing and just forgot, but go check it out and the fancy graphs to be reminded that Bungie doesn't do anything as simple as "ARs are used the most by all players, so let's nerf it with the goal of getting people to use it less".