Analysis of Shadowlands DPS in Mythic Castle Nathria - February 2nd Week

Moderna Publicado 09/02/2021 a las 01:41 por Anshlun

buffs were given to 10 specsWarcraft Logs Mythic Castle Nathria statisticsDisclaimers and SourceCastle Nathria Statistics Page on Warcraft Logsbuffs to 10 under performing specs

Specs that are considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they actually are.

This happens as many performance-oriented players will tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing even further the gap between top and bottom specs.

The balance between specs is very delicate and will likely change throughout Season 1, as player acquire more gear, different classes and specs tend to perform better with more secondaries.

For more information on specs in the Shadowlands Season 1, check out our Class Guides!

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Balance DruidFeral DruidGuardian DruidRestoration Druid

Augmentation EvokerDevastation EvokerPreservation Evoker

BM HunterMM HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest
Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

DPS Rankings in Shadowlands Season 1 - Mythic Castle Nathria Feb 2nd Week

Balance Druid

49415

Affliction Warlock

42766

Windwalker Monk

16078

Fire Mage

54421

Shadow Priest

24083

↑1

Demonology Warlock

767

↑4

Marksmanship Hunter

68266

↑1

Destruction Warlock

2399

↑12

Unholy Death Knight

38647

Outlaw Rogue

18707

↓3

Frost Mage

3265

↑3

Elemental Shaman

10295

↓1

Retribution Paladin

14202

↓1

Fury Warrior

10666

↑1

Feral Druid

3214

↓10

Havoc Demon Hunter

15796

Frost Death Knight

1520

↑2

Enhancement Shaman

4436

Arcane Mage

946

↓6

Arms Warrior

16582

↑2

Beast Mastery Hunter

4184

↑3

Assassination Rogue

864

↓1

Survival Hunter

216

Subtlety Rogue

7274

↓7

Spec Analysis for February 2nd Weekmany specsFeral DruidWhile Feral continues to remain in the upper quartile for overall castle nathria bosses, keen eyes may have noticed that it did drop a solid chunk of rankings. Now with no feral changes having occurred this might prompt people to wonder what might have caused this, especially with high feral ranks beginning to show towards the top of overall on some bosses (Maystine holding a respectable position on shriekwing, and hungering destroyer, while 索尔迦雷欧 currently holds number one on artificer). Looking through the earlier bosses in the instance (much as we did last time) Feral does appear to be broadly in the same position as it was before, it excels on single target bosses while falling behind on those bosses where AOE can inflate things, namely Council of blood, and Sun King's salvation. So what could have prompted such a drop?

Using warcraftlogs statistics tool and reviewing data across the whole tier we can see that the drop occurred exactly on the 4th of February. So what happened on that day? there weren't any hotfixes? Looking further at what occured on that day we see that the first public logged Feral kill on Stone Legion Generals happened! (Congratulations to Cvert of Country Club on that) and that almost solely is what has dragged the average down! This is not the first time this has happened this tier as Discipline suffered much the same when the first Discipline priest killed Sun King.

Now there are two things to take from this, firstly it is likely that feral will climb up a few more ranks as more ferals kill the boss, secondly is Stone Legion Generals such a bad fight for feral? Much the same as earlier bosses where feral has looked weaker stone legion has a solid amount of AOE, in particular burst AOE, and priority target damage. AOE as we have seen in earlier fights is where feral falls a little flatter compared to other specs. In my opinion this is certainly not one of Feral's best fights.Destruction WarlockWith the 5% aura buff to Destruction this reset, more people have tried it out in both dungeons and in raids, and Destruction has seen much more play now then before. As forseen, it's still behind Affliction in more or less every scenario for raiding, but it's able to compete more now than in the past. Cleave has always been the strong point of Destruction and this is still the case. Many of the encounters in Castle Nathria offer good Havoc windows and it's likely we'll see more people try out Destruction on specifically these encounters.Arcane MageNothing has actually changed for Arcane to effect its popularity - rather, the game has changed around it, in the form of overall Mythic raid progress.

You'd expect the number of Arcane parses to increase as more guilds enter Mythic Castle Nathria, and they have - but nowhere near as much as the other two specs. Since its recent number tuning, Frost is putting in a respectable showing for a middle-of-the-pack spec, while Fire - with all of its tools like mobility, short cooldowns, great cleave, execute and a cheat death - is THE meta spec. Arcane's niche used to be frequent burst, but with Kindling and Shifting Power taking Combustion to a one-minute cooldown, the spec brings nothing that Fire can't do more easily.

Arcane does reasonably well on Shriekwing and Huntsman Altimor, but later bosses accenuate the spec's weak points. It revolves around damage during cooldowns and, unlike Fire and Frost, has to stand and cast rather than using instant procs. Encounters like Hungering Destroyer, Stone Legion Generals and especially Artificer Xy'mox really don't allow that rooted style of play. Unless something changes in either Blizzard's design philosophy or the spec at a base level, Arcane will be lucky to get a single competitive fight in a tier.

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