Path of Exile

Which ascendancies the top of each ladder is actually playing, refreshed daily.

• SC Allflame 2,000 ladder characters.
• HC Hardcore Allflame 2,000 ladder characters, with per-ascendancy death rates.

How this is measured

The Path of Exile ladder ranks by experience, so this measures what people are playing at high level, not how well those characters perform — there is no score or placement to read. It is the same measure as the WoW class tier list, which counts specs among top-ranked teams, and tiers are graded the same way: relative to the most-represented ascendancy in the league.

Characters who have not ascended yet are excluded, since the ladder reports their base class and a levelling Witch is not a peer of a Necromancer. On hardcore ladders dead characters are excluded too — they have left the league, so counting them would measure what died rather than what is being played. Their death rate is shown separately.

There is deliberately no gear or passive-tree data here. Grinding Gear Games' character endpoints stopped serving those to unauthenticated callers, and the OAuth API that still exposes them is closed to new applications, so ascendancy representation is the whole of what can be measured honestly.