"Editor Steve" brings up a good point about how this data should be used. Does a higher incidence of human, bow-wielding rangers than gnome barbarians mean that those with higher or lower numbers should be the focus of future content. I am going to be honest here and probably be flamed like a minion packed in the center of my 8 closest mini friends with a grinning controller staring at them and say I would honest prefer to see a balance between popular and less-popular options. I don't think all options should go to the least popular options, but neither should they be neglected. As Editor Steve mentions, these options might be less popular due to the lack of love they receive from feat-smiths and other option-jockeys. I like the idea of choices. Even though I play an 8 hour session of DnD with the guys every friday, I can guarantee it I spend at least, if not more, time in character builder trying out combinations that will never see play trying to find one that I find compelling enough to not only want to play, but need to play, sometimes enough that I think of convoluted plans that will see my beloved shadar-kai rogue/swordmage hybrid bleeding out his lifeblood on the floor of some dank temple just to give rise to my bizarre creation. Having a reason to experiment with a less opted race or class gives me more fodder for my obssession with the builder.
I think that for the races that have received a number of unique (if not always optimal) racial feats the development team deserves some serious kudos. I am find if the bulk of them don't make great fodder for the char-op boards. I'd argue, though, that extending these out more evenly to all the races would go a long way to making all the races a bit more attractive. Just my overly long opinion.
Everyone should make a gnome paladin ASAP so their figures report that gnome paladin is the most popular build.
Gotta love the character with a 4 speed.I don't know why I never thought of it, but it seems I should have realized that with all of our character data in the "cloud" that Wizards would be able to analyze it and try to contrive a sort of crystal ball or magic 8 ball of player content desires.
"Editor Steve" brings up a good point about how this data should be used. Does a higher incidence of human, bow-wielding rangers than gnome barbarians mean that those with higher or lower numbers should be the focus of future content. I am going to be honest here and probably be flamed like a minion packed in the center of my 8 closest mini friends with a grinning controller staring at them and say I would honest prefer to see a balance between popular and less-popular options. I don't think all options should go to the least popular options, but neither should they be neglected. As Editor Steve mentions, these options might be less popular due to the lack of love they receive from feat-smiths and other option-jockeys. I like the idea of choices. Even though I play an 8 hour session of DnD with the guys every friday, I can guarantee it I spend at least, if not more, time in character builder trying out combinations that will never see play trying to find one that I find compelling enough to not only want to play, but need to play, sometimes enough that I think of convoluted plans that will see my beloved shadar-kai rogue/swordmage hybrid bleeding out his lifeblood on the floor of some dank temple just to give rise to my bizarre creation. Having a reason to experiment with a less opted race or class gives me more fodder for my obssession with the builder.
I think that for the races that have received a number of unique (if not always optimal) racial feats the development team deserves some serious kudos. I am find if the bulk of them don't make great fodder for the char-op boards. I'd argue, though, that extending these out more evenly to all the races would go a long way to making all the races a bit more attractive. Just my overly long opinion.
The problem with that kind of data mining, is that there is a hard cap(a very low one) on the number of character you can make and save with the new online CB.
This doesn't even cover the fact that the new CB is really bad and full of bugs(more so then the old CB). I'm still using the old CD for most of my character creation unless I just have to use the online one due to not being able to rules rule things via the old CB(like new classes or themes), and even then 60% of the time I just switch to doing it the old school pen and paper way, because it's faster.
Lack of use, because the online CB, frankly sucks(next to the off line CB, which is saying something) is going to throw off the data returns as well.