"I'm a tank!""I'm a healer!""I'm... damage per second!" 🤪🤪🤪Seriously, what happend to the "DD / Damage Dealer" abbreviation? It was so much more accurate. ლ(ಠ ⌣ ಠ)
This tier list is based on zero evidence or fact. It's purely guessing. Imagine describing most fights as multi-target / cleave / burst aoe heavy and putting Elemental at C, and then putting Fire ahead of Destruction when Destruction will have high amounts of Flashpoint uptime and many 2-target situations in which to allow Havoc to shine.There are only a couple of overall underperforming specs, but otherwise most specs are equally competitive all-around with a few classes outperforming the rest on each fight depending on their niche. A tier list makes little sense for a raid scenario, and this article is essentially clickbait. The player doing the most DPS in your raid is most likely the one who has had the best luck with Corruption items, anyway, regardless of class.
This article is a bit disappointing. Many of the boss fights are poorly analyzed and the spec summaries are scatterbrained, arrive at the wrong conclusion, or arrive at no conclusion at all. This is an incomplete, ill defined, and poorly researched tier listing.No offense to the author, but I simply can't agree with a significant portion of the information here. Recommend you do more research both on the specs you describe and on how to create a helpful tier listing.1) The shadow priest section is optimistic for no reason. The traditional spriest scaling is broken according to the prominent discord contributors and if you look at T25 sims it does not compete with other specs. They have suffered roughly a 12% ST loss and a 23% split cleave loss.2) The author excludes 4 specs for no reason. If they are unable to categorize all dps specs then why are they writing the article?3) The Arcane mage section is noncommittal without good reason and the Frost Mage section demonstrates a lack of knowledge about Noil and Orb builds. This shows that the author is unfamiliar with current mage sims and how the strengths of each spec might apply to each boss fight. The author claims Fire will scale better than frost but alteredtime.com preliminary sims indicate the opposite is true once corruption is factored in.4) The author admits that frost mage is strong on 2 target cleave (which is prevalent situation on many of the bosses including N'Zoth), that split cleave is either not present or irrelevant to boss strategy on many bosses (including N'Zoth), yet rates spriest higher.The other specs are outside my expertise but have problematic descriptions that admit the author doesn't know enough about them or rate them poorly simply due to popularity either vs other classes or vs other specs available to the same class (which is an irrelevant factor).
Last time i checked in ww monk take a good buff in 2 skills for simgle target so how u said is not good in single target?
This article feels very rushed. I get it with the patch today, and there's a lot to cover, but maybe it would have been better to wait for the heroic tuning pass for this to come out. I'm not saying what is here is even necessarily wrong or inaccurate, just that there's very rough explanations of both the bosses and the justifications for each class. Compare this to the M+ DPS list or either Healer list for example where there's a lot more specific information laid out to help others understand the strengths and weaknesses of each spec. There's also only a single mention of corrupted gear at all which will play a big factor in how some specs play out.There's ultimately a lot of unknown here and an incredible reliance on the word "insane" instead of more concrete quantifiers. Perhaps this should have been split up among a few authors.
Q - What DPS Should You Play in Mythic Ny'alotha?A - The one you have the most fun with.Done.
I was playing Subtlety in EP and I still managed to be almost at top dps
Spec you are good at > flavour of the month
Wowhead really should stick to focusing on being the Master of what it does best (in a GOOD way), rather than the Jack of everything... or the whole organisation will consume itself in a paranoid psychosis of traffic FOMO; so what if other similar sources do some stuff better? Unless there's some hidden agenda to BE the Master of all sources, WoW related, why try to be...?
these rankings are soo far wrong its actually insulting to read this article … while yes DH is strong its not soo strong it should be taken over every single other class in the game PERIOD in every single case … which is basically what this article says... unholy DK is actually damage for damage stronger then frost DK atm yet ranked 2 teirs lower … unholy DK has thee strongest cleave in the game … given it is kinda a burst cleave whereas frost is more a sustained cleave … both have their strong points and weak points making them basically the same teir imo … AFF lock being ranked above shad priest and bal druid didn't make sense to me at all either considering ur talking about most fighting being cleave(multidot) and those 2 classes(bal druid/shad priest) are almost always the very top when it comes to multidot fights … this is just the few examples I came up with in 5 mins or less … once again this is beyond insulting to read this article b.c of how blantently false half of these "rankings" are
Everyone criticizing this doesn't seem to realize it's written in the context of the new raid... Also there is def a ranking to things - sure play what you want there isn't anything wrong with that and yes if you play a class a ton and really know your stuff you can usually make it work ok in the most difficult content (mythic raiding, high m+ etc). But there is rankings in all games with some aspect of being competitive and hence why there is a term called "flavor of the month" since bis classes for "X" content can change from patch to patch - expansion to expansion.