Warcraft Logs' Mogu'shan Vaults Statistics
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ToES & HoF DPS Rankings in MoP Phase 2 - October 21st
95th Percentile Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Overall Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Biggest Changes This Week
One big shift from Phase 1 and the earlier stages of Phase 2 is that Tanks are no longer number one across the DPS rankings. We asked our Protection Warrior and Blood Death Knight Guide Writer for their thoughts on what has caused such a large shift in the rankings.
Tanks
When glancing over the rankings, it may seem strange to see tanks towards the bottom when they dominated much of the earlier phase. I think this doesn't quite paint the full picture of how well tanks are performing offensively, as they still dominate the rankings on 6 out of the 10 bosses in Heart of Fear and Terrace of the Endless Springs.
That said, all tanks have slightly fallen from grace when looking at numbers as a whole, and kill times as most raid groups approach full Best-in-Slot and fully upgraded +8 item level in every slot is the main reason for this.
Tanks and DPS have an inverse relation when it comes to pushing damage, where DPS generally prefers shorter kill times and tanks generally prefer longer kill times.
There are a few reasons for this. The primary reason is that longer kill times allow for playing mechanics in a way that maximizes the amount of Vengeance you can get. On a fight like Blade Lord Ta'yak, you'd ideally like to soak five Overwhelming Assaults and two Blade Tempests before phasing the boss into phase two. Another reason is the Warcraft Logs rule set, which removes portions of fights where tanks would otherwise top the meters by far, such as the adds on Grand Empress Shek'zeer.
I expect this pattern to repeat throughout the expansion, with tanks performing exceptionally well early on, then falling off as a whole later in the phase, with a few outlier tank players dominating the top rankings on certain fights.
Mogu'shan Vaults DPS Rankings in MoP Phase 2 - October 21st
95th Percentile Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Overall Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Disclaimers and Source
The data for this article was taken from the Terrace of Endless Spring, Heart of Fear, & Mogu'shan Vaults Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs. We will examine the data for the 95th percentile and show the overall results to paint a better picture.
The idea of this article is to give a perspective of the current state of class balance for Mists of Pandaria Phase 2, meaning this is an incomplete picture of Mists of Pandaria balance.
We refer to perspective, as there are inherent biases in examining the data in this way.
Specs considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they are.
This happens as many performance-oriented players tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing the gap between top and bottom specs even further.
Position of specs for the 95th percentile might be skewed by alternative strategies and parse funneling. We're including the chart showing all percentiles' results to paint a better picture for all specs.
Statistics displayed below show data for 25-player heroic difficulty. For 10-player difficulty, please visit Warcraft Logs.
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