It's along the same lines of the Summonmancer, a perennial Hardcore favorite, which is in the same range with the Necromancer at 3.133 (11.4%).

What signals a possible change for the meta is that Druids came in third with 3.496 (12.7%), which may represent the popularity of the Summon Druid build and its reputation as being a safer build for Hardcore. Like with Normal, Paladins came in second with 5,936 (21.5%), although it was much closer on Hardcore than on Normal. Sorceresses are a very risky choice for Hardcore, given their squishiness, but they were still the top pick with 8,103 (29.4%). The Hardcore Expansion server was a much smaller percentage overall, but still second most populous with 27,567 characters over level 20. With early Magic Find being so important to long-term Ladder success, it's no real surprise that Sorceresses and Paladins would remain top choices. The biggest difference was the gap between Amazons and Barbarians, with Necromancer, Druid, and Amazon pulling very similar numbers. Druids (20,170) slightly edged out Amazons (5.0% 19,988) for fourth place, though both came out to 5% of the total, with Barbarians at 4.1% (16.334) coming in sixth and Assassins coming in last at 3.9% (15,753). Necromancers were the top of the 'and the rest' category with 5.2% (20,888). There were 403,044 characters on the Normal Expansion server above level 20 on our survey, with 211,959 Sorceresses and 97,952 Paladins taking up over three-quarters of the character slots at 77.4% of the total population.

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