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Castle Nathria Shadowlands DPS, Healer and Tank Tier List

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Castle Nathria opens today, and we have preliminary tier lists for the raid. Check them out to learn how your class and spec perform! 

DISCLAIMER: The tier lists are not final and they will change and be updated as often as necessary to account for tuning and balance changes and new tiers of content. The tier lists were written by Impakt, who raids for Big Dumb Golden Guardians. We will be looking at all three roles (DPS/Tank/Healer) separately.

Shadowlands DPS Rankings

The Shadow Priest revamp seems to have worked out really well, as they land in third place, but still S-tier, with Marksmanship Hunter at the very top, followed closely by Balance Druids, who also got substantial changes with Shadowlands. We have the exact same 2 classes at the very bottom, as Survival hunter "wins" the lowest ranking, followed by Feral Druids.

The top specs in Castle Nathria are:

  1. Marksmanship Hunters (S-Tier)
  2. Balance Druids (S-Tier)
  3. Shadow Priests (S-Tier)
  4. Unholy Death Knight (A-Tier)
  5. Frost Mage (A-Tier)

The bottom 5 specs right now include:

For the rest of the DPS specializations, check out the full DPS Rankings!

Shadowlands Healer Rankings

As for healer, Discipline is expected to be on top of the rankings, with its counterpart Priest spec at the bottom:

  1. Discipline Priest (S-Tier)
  2. Restoration Shaman (S-Tier)
  3. Holy Paladin (A-Tier)
  4. Mistweaver Monk (A-Tier)
  5. Restoration Druid (A-Tier)
  6. Holy Priest (A-Tier)

Shadowlands Tank Rankings

For tanks there's perhaps not much surprise to see Protection Paladins at the very top, as they've already been soloing Mythic0 dungeons, but it's good to see they're solid in the raid as well. Also worthy of note, there's actually no S-tier spec, at least for now.

  1. Protection Paladin (A-Tier)
  2. Brewmaster Monk (A-Tier)
  3. Blood Death Knight (A-Tier)
  4. Guardian Druid (A-Tier)
  5. Protection Warrior (B-Tier)
  6. Vengeance Demon Hunter (B-Tier)
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11 minutes ago, OxO said:

I don't get or believe that feral Druid ranking, more like people can't play the spec.

 

What do you mean? Average SIMS for the spec have been extremely poor, one of the lowest of all the specs. It's undertuned and has been since they tried to redo feral in BFA because for some reason Blizzard just doesn't understand what to do to fix it.

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22 minutes ago, OxO said:

I don't get or believe that feral Druid ranking, more like people can't play the spec.

 

The rankings are not opinion based and utilize far more data than the experience of one player. For a better understanding, I recommend reading https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/dps-rankings-tier-list which explains more of the how regarding the compilation of the rankings. 

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17 minutes ago, OxO said:

I don't get or believe that feral Druid ranking, more like people can't play the spec.

For starters, it has very low raid-wide utility. You do damage and not much else.

Also, it's gameplay based around pooling of resources can lead to doing extremely poor DPS if a priority add spawns at the wrong time during your rotation.

Aside from that it's got excellent mobility.

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Now that the raid is live do you have actual sims data of people in the raid?  There’s no shot I believe frost mage is in top 5.  Reading across the internet it seems Frost mages struggled to break into the top 10 of dps in their raids

Edited by GrandMoffJawn
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I don't think there are enough experienced players that know how to play survival to even write correct guides about survival, thus really skewing it's potential dps ranking

Edited by dudemeister

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