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Castle Nathria Shadowlands Day 1 DPS Log Rankings

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The above image is taken from the "All Data" Normal difficulty set.
 

The first raid of Shadowlands has finally opened and Castle Nathria is proving to be quite the challenge on Heroic difficulty! We're going to be taking a look at the VERY PRELIMINARY Warcraft Logs gathered so far from day 1, so obviously take all of this with a giant grain of salt.

While the EU side of things only having had the raid open since this morning, all of the top guilds went in very early/immediately, so the high percentile numbers won't be quite as problematic for the EU side (although they're still going to be low as most regular guilds haven't started yet). We'll be coming back to check the numbers in a few days when it's all calmed down a little, but we wanted to take a look at the chaos that day 1 and the lack of hotfixes brings, especially with crazy stuff like the massive exploit that (presumably) still hasn't been fixed.

So if you're looking for a good overview of the DPS spec performance, this very likely isn't it and you should wait a few days, but it's an interesting look at what's happening in the chaos of day 1! Luckily we've also asked our own Publik to shed some light on the numbers. You can also check out our actual tier list of all specs and roles here for a more speculative overview and of course our class guides for the most in-depth information.

We're starting out and will mostly focus on the 90th percentile, as that's where the top guilds are and those will be the more reliable stats due to the EU disbalance, and we'll be looking at both Heroic and Normal, as Heroic is turning out to be quite difficult for most guilds.

Heroic 90th percentile (with one final note that some specs are EXTREMELY low representation, with 24 logs to their name for the 90th percentile):

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Data by Warcraft Logs.

Heroic all data:

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Data by Warcraft Logs.

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With the release of Castle Nathria we can get a small glimpse into performance of specs early in the gearing process. Since most people are holding on for balance changes and not crafting a legendary. certain specs performance might look lower than expected, but once people get their Legendary and full Soulbind + Conduit combinations things should stabilize more.

That being said there are certain specs that are pulling ahead of the pack, due to their universally good toolkits that work for a range of bosses and fight types. With the more limited data set we have in Heroic, things will be a bit more skewed to the opening bosses that are more single target, rather than the later bosses that include more AoE or cleave which certainly has impact on specs like Balance Druid that have exceptional spread AoE with Starfall. Inside of Heroic specifically we can see that the expected Unholy Death Knight, Shadow Priest, and Marksmanship Hunter are performing exceptionally well, with Affliction Warlock and Elemental Shaman close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum we can see that a good chunk of the melee specs are struggling to compete in this tier, with Fury Warrior and Havoc Demon Hunter almost being bottom of the charts, if it weren’t for Assassination rogues being extremely behind everyone.

- Publik

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Normal 90th percentile:

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Data by Warcraft Logs.

Normal all data:

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Data by Warcraft Logs.

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Looking at Normal logs, where we have a bit better representation of fight styles we still see the same top performers, with Balance Druid handily in the top section now that we have a variety of fight styles. On a more interesting note, Feral Druids are also joining their Balance counterparts near the top of the damage meter. One thing is clear in that certain specs are performing better at lower gear levels without lots of borrowed power than others, as no doubt spec balance was done after we get full Legendary powers and better gear, but time will tell how things shake up as we get into Mythic Castle Nathria next week.

- Publik

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We'll be back in a few days to check in on things when they've evened out a little, with some hotfixes definitely coming in the next days and with more data available, the numbers will be more relevant.

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Yeah we had 3 unholy DKs in raid last night.    One of whom was new to the class in the last week.

#1,2,3 on the dps meter all 4 fights we got down.

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Wut, feral being in the top tier ? Haven't seen this in a long long time 😮

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Im happy that my main is at the top or just not bottom tier. But it also gives me anxiety....

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All of the Pontifcators said Frost Mage was a top 5 DPS class.  What happened there?  That's a big miss there.   Mage is in the top 10 with 1 spec.  Meanwhile Druid and DK are in there 2 times and they can both Tank, and Druid can heal?  Wtf devs messed up on this one. 

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Nice to see new faces on the top, about time it wasn't just mages and locks up top. I would say the bottom 5 specs need a buff they're too low behind even the other average dps.

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Honestly pissing me off that I can play my class perfectly (shadow priest) on burst, and 2 unholy dk's just mashing buttons and not knowing fights whatsoever are leagues ahead of my dps. Like wtf. It's not a gripe that I need to be #1, it's a gripe about overturning a class. It's broken easy

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  On 12/9/2020 at 7:48 PM, GrandMoffJawn said:

All of the Pontifcators said Frost Mage was a top 5 DPS class.  What happened there?  That's a big miss there.   Mage is in the top 10 with 1 spec.  Meanwhile Druid and DK are in there 2 times and they can both Tank, and Druid can heal?  Wtf devs messed up on this one. 

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What do you mean they screwed up? Hybrid classes are not supposed to do dmg? This isn't classic.

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I don't like the fact that unholy dks can spam a button with no target restriction and get top dps on every boss :)) this unbalanced and very very sad making other classes look very low, or a druid that presses 2 buttons the whole encounter and does more dps than majority of the raid.

Nerf the unholy dk, it's very sad and it makes me feel like there is no reason to play anymore.

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  On 12/10/2020 at 4:02 PM, shokill said:

I'll never understand how glass cannons can get out-dpsed in raids by other classes. Isn't that literally what the classes are designed to do? 

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There haven't been true glass cannons since TBC, Imo. Every class has niche utility (Mage has VERY powerful burst survival tools in Ice Block, Barriers, Shimmer, etc, Warlocks have self-heal and pets, etc). DPS is more just "what spec has had their numbers increased" rather than "what class has the least utility" lol. 

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I love how in the imagine Havoc DH isn't even on it xD They are just beyond useless now which upsets me considering thats my main class 😞 Every class has at least 1 good performing spec but being that DH only has the 1 spec kinda makes it hard to shift up the playstyle 

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