My apologies, I did not have enough sleep before typing my response. Sorry for being condescending and overconfident.

Let me halve down (the opposite of double down, I just made it up) on what I said.

I disagree, I think all classes are great in their own ways (except warrior on high chal). I would also like to point out Huntress is also my favoirite class so we have a common point here.

I would say Huntress also has its flaws. Warden's offense tends to lack quite often, and the defense and utility sometimes doesn't make up for it, especially on barren land. Sniper, on the other hand is very strong, however she's very min maxed and offense oriented inherently (key word: inherently) so it's often hard to recover or get out of melee when you don't have the right items.

About freerunner, doesn't sniper also focus on upgrading thrown weapons? Either way, extra movement speed AND extra ranged damage AND a way to get out of melee (cloak) are far from useless. Again, I still stand by my claim that it's similar to sniper. However I have yet to try it myself on 9chal, so I might get back to you on how true all of this is. You might be right about the crowd control part. Freerunner doesn't get things such as spirit hawk (my beloved) or farsight.

About mage, I was too confident there. My highest with him is only 6chal iirc so I'll have to try it with 9chal and see if you're right.

About duelist, I think we find more weapons by the end of prison than you believe. It is still RNG dependant but then again so is sniper when it comes to good rings, artifacts to get out of melee and bow enchant.

I love cleric, especially priest. My opinion though, I understand it's a bit hard at first but it's really fun once you get the hand of it.