2H styles suffering. What are people's thoughts?

[Cynaidh]

I am able to look at the data for a certain level or level range, or blood god gladiators only.

Hmm can you do say the top 50 glads of blood gods and do the same 12 by 12?

That's what i personally look at to see how styles are doing, to me these are glads who have their legendaries or who are excelling without having all of them, and i don't want to count glads that are fresh to the blood gods who don't have any gear and might still not be full builds.

Looking at the top 10, top 25 and the top 50 of Blood Gods right now you have:

Top 10:
Speed Theatrics (blade and exotic) - 3
Power Theatrics (mace) - 0
Shield Theatrics (any weapon) - 1
2H Warrior - 0
Pole-arm Warrior - 1
Sword Duel Warrior - 0
Mace Duel Warrior - 2
Shield Warrior (any weapon) - 1
sword duel rage - 1
mace duel rage - 1
2h rage - 0

Top 25:
Speed Theatrics (blade and exotic) - 4
Power Theatrics (mace) - 3
Shield Theatrics (any weapon) - 2
2H Warrior - 0
Pole-arm Warrior - 1
Sword Duel Warrior - 0
Mace Duel Warrior - 4
Shield Warrior (any weapon) - 3
sword duel rage - 3
mace duel rage - 2
2h rage - 3

Top 50:
Speed Theatrics (blade and exotic) - 13
Power Theatrics (mace) - 4
Shield Theatrics (any weapon) - 4
2H Warrior - 1 (Bruce Willis hanging in at 42nd place)
Pole-arm Warrior - 3
Sword Duel Warrior - 0
Mace Duel Warrior - 6
Shield Warrior (any weapon) - 5
sword duel rage - 7
mace duel rage - 3
2h rage - 4

So whats drawn attention to the "speed builds" is that they make up 40% of the top 50 (speed theatrics + agility rages) and like Kreegen pointed out with how critical effects, knockdowns, and just not attacking if your glad gets hit several times before his time to act, it does get quite old going against them all the time. That seems off balance since these are 3 builds (sword rage, sword theatrics, exotic theatrics - but even then most sword and theatrics build are the same basic build just different weapon, you could argue that is 1 build really) out of 12, so they should have a 25% share of the top 50 if everything was completely even across the board.

Now as for what should be beating these guys being under-represented there are some clearly under-represented builds.... duel sword warriors well there isn't a single one, 2H warriors, duel mace rages, and Pole-arm Warriors are the ones that have 3 or less in the top 50. I don't see any of these doing that great vs a speed theatrics except for maybe the pole-arm warrior if he can get some hits in, and who knows on the duel sword warrior, i know Prinny tried numerous builds on one with amazing stats and couldn't get him above 1000 ranking in blood gods, but i don't have a lot of faith there that they would counter the speed builds. Two-Hand warriors i have seen get eaten alive by speed builds and as for the duel mace rages maybe I should un-retire my army of duel mace rages in AB Gold just to see how they would do.