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The War Within Season 3 DPS Rankings
This week, we're taking a look at specs that have been in a strong position for the past few weeks: Marksmanship, Frost DK, and Fire.
Marksmanship has consistently ranked either #1 or #2 throughout the entire tier, showing impressive results. Fire and Frost DK, on the other hand, had a bad start, but tuning hotfixes in the first few resets cemented the specs near the top ever since.
Without any new tuning or changes, all changes in rankings for this week are just noise changes, with specs that are close-enough balance-wise just swapping positions.
95th Percentile Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Overall Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
PositionSpec and ClassPopulation SizeChange from
Pre-Turbo Boost
1Elemental Shaman296990
2Marksmanship Hunter7084↑1
3Arcane Mage41111↓1
4Beast Mastery Hunter684230
5Assassination Rogue109420
6Fire Mage3123↑3
7Frost Death Knight56478↓1
8Destruction Warlock451610
9Fury Warrior33967↓2
10Windwalker Monk9675↑1
11Subtlety Rogue7551↓1
12Unholy Death Knight5581↑1
13Augmentation Evoker5368↓1
14Balance Druid211740
15Shadow Priest175680
16Retribution Paladin403590
17Devastation Evoker125570
18Feral Druid5689↑1
19Demonology Warlock5777↑2
20Havoc Demon Hunter37266↓2
21Affliction Warlock1681↑1
22Enhancement Shaman2967↑2
23Survival Hunter1585↓3
24Frost Mage9021↓1
25Outlaw Rogue17490
26Arms Warrior15590
Class Writer Commentary
To help us better understand the charts above, we invited our Class Writers for Fire Mage, Frost Death Knight, and Marksmanship Hunter to provide insights about their specs and explain their specs' great performance in Manaforge Omega.
Fire Mage
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Warcraft Logs tracks overall raid statistics for damage dealers, based on the highest performing logs in Manaforge Omega. Position in this chart is based on average spec performance for each encounter with a large enough sample size. How each spec is graded depends on the specifics of what Warcraft Logs determines is eligible damage. In recent weeks Fire Mage has trending upwards. Since Mage has an essential raid buff (Arcane Intellect), the performance of Fire is tied mostly to how it performs vs the dominant Mage spec (Arcane). Lets take a moment to discuss some the reasons why:
First off, the raid is easier and faster than ever. As guilds enter farm, the requirements to play completely optimally to secure a good rank are lessened. Trying out a spec that might not be completely optimal is normal as weeks go on, and sometimes the difference between spec performance is less than the meta makes it out to be. To add to this, we have also seen recent nerfs to Arcane. Passive damage increases via the Turbo boost item-level increase, percentage damage increases with Manaforge Vandals renown levels, and changes to "push times" that guilds shoot for also factor in.
When you are no longer holding damage to hit certain encounter transitions (Dimensius Phase 1 and 2, Forgeweaver Araz damage amps), some of the the timings that Arcane enjoyed are less optimal. Warcraft Logs eligible damage is also a factor. Some of these adds that are excluded are targets that Arcane does collateral damage to while funneling damage onto the priority target. Typically Arcane does a lot of damage to adds like this. One example is the Shielded Attendant on Forgeweaver Araz.
Fire was already dominant on The Soul Hunters week one. On encounters like Plexus Sentinel and Loom'ithar it was close, but these changes have pushed it ahead of Arcane. Arcane is still dominant on Dimensius and Nexus-King Salhadaar due to encounter design and very strong overall. It is unlikely that Arcane is dethroned without nerfs, but it will have to share some of the spotlight with Fire now.
Frost Death Knight
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Frost is riding high in the Manaforge Omega rankings thanks to two things: good tuning and easy execution. Frost is no exception to the rule that freshly reworked specs get favorable tuning. One of Blizzard's goals with the rework was to enable better ways to tune Frost independently for different target counts. Frost's previous design had no distinction between single-target and AoE abilities, leaving Frost unable to bring compelling single-target without its AoE profile being completely busted. Blizzard fixed the issue by removing cleave effects from Obliterate, and then buffed it to the moon (landing at ~40% stronger than in 11.1). Frost is now tuned to do strong single-target damage, while retaining many of its passive cleave effects with Remorseless Winter. With some help from good tuning, Frost easily excels in raid content.
Frost players are living in the future, playing a spec already adapted to the class design that will come with Midnight. Active abilities were pruned, and buff tracking was pulled back to make the spec more intuitive to pick up and play. The simpler design focuses on a few key rotational abilities and pressing cooldowns as often as possible rather than forcing players to solve how the cooldowns need to align with the fight. The smooth execution makes it easier to play the spec to its full potential, propelling Frost to a nice spot in the rankings.
Marksmanship Hunter
TheAzortharionMarksmanship performs exceptionally well on Mythic statistics because each character only gets one entry on WarcraftLogs Statistics; the best one. MM has the highest DPS potential in the game by a long shot, and because the statistics only count the singular best parse per character, the statistics are biased towards high-roll logs of heavy RNG specs like Marksmanship and Beast Mastery Dark Ranger. Fights getting shorter also mean more variance, greatly exacerbating this effect.
This is true all the way down the percentiles; everything gets shifted/biased towards high-roll parses, even if you decide to look at the 50th percentile. All the low-roll logs are simply not part of the statistics.
Disclaimers and Source
The data for this article was taken from the Raid Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs for Mythic difficulty during the week of October 21st. Overall, the numbers shown above represent data for the 95th percentile. For charts, we also included data for all percentiles and boss damage to better represent the current state of balance.
The data presented, however, isn't free of bias, as it is representative of the current meta of the game, which, in itself, is biased by community perception of specs.
This bias comes from players generally flocking to specs perceived as "better", be it either easier to play or dealing more damage, or a combination of both.
The other side of the coin is specs that are too hard to play or too weak will be underrepresented and appear lower than they actually are.
Competitive players will generally prefer specs perceived to do more damage, making the best specs appear higher than they actually are.
While not as prevalent in modern days, strategy differences and parse-funneling may impact rankings. Specs that excel in AoE, spread cleave, or burst windows will appear higher in the total charts.
