The Deathmatch reward system, bias against fixer? edit:- The system is discriminating against fixers

No offense, but the perception from a single player would be greatly trumped by stats. I'm not saying that Defender was definitely better than Shooter in the event. All I'm saying is that I would not be surprised AT ALL if Defenders had the highest star average per game.

I played Shooter almost the whole time and did well. Didn't play enough to get more than one perk. And I don't have Defender leveled up yet.

Were you still playing at your normal gear score?

 

What I honestly think happened is that when you were playing with your best gear, you were facing the upper echelon of players that didn't care about dropping gear score. In this realm, Shooters and Enforcers obviously dominated. That is probably a very small percentage of the total players though.

Most players I know had far more success slightly reducing their gear score by removing/replacing a couple of items with slightly more efficient items. Rare items that you've trained heavily for turned out to be very efficient for their power.

From my observation of the event, Defenders did very well around 8k gear score. I think the devs should give us some stats on this event so we can see what really happened across each gear score range.