wow Castle Nathria Week 1.5 DPS Log Rankings and Analysis (Mythic and Heroic)

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We held off on the DPS logs earlier in the week due to the class tuning, but now we also get the opportunity to check in with the Mythic Race to World First, as we peek into the very top guild's performances! We also have some commentary from our own Publik on the Mythic situation and check in with the more bountiful stats in Heroic as well.

MYTHIC

We'll start with where the action is at the moment, but with a GIANT disclaimer that Mythic representation is VERY low at the moment, with only 1000 or so guilds even IN Mythic to begin with. Most of these logs are focused around the very early bosses like Shriekwing, Huntsman Altimor and Hungering Destroyer, as those are the only ones enough guilds downed. The differences between the top parsing specs and all parses will be pretty huge this time around, with so few data points and the top guilds really pushing it during the race:

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Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

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Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

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We can gleam a small amount from the first few bosses that have been killed in Mythic. These bosses are predominantly single target encounters, with the exception of Huntsman Altimor, which will heavily favor multi-target specs. With these single target heavy encounters we still see Unholy Death Knight very high up in the charts, with Affliction Warlock up there as well, showcasing the strength of the spec on these opening encounters. The opening week of Mythic has also brought on the power of Arcane Mage, which had some fun parsing with some interesting scaling on Huntsman, which was fixed in a recent hotfix.

Removing this bugged outlier it looks like Fire is the top Mage spec, however still lagging behind the other ranged due to their lack of single target damage relative to other classes. Outliers aside, you can  still see that specs like Shadow Priest performing well, with Balance Druid and Marksmanship Hunter not too far behind. I expect Balance and Marksmanship to pick back up towards the top end of specs once we get past the more single target encounters.

HEROIC

And now it's on to the more relevant data for this past week, as Heroic has plenty of representation and some more stable stats.

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Going into these rankings we had some smaller changes from Blizzard, most notably nerfs to Marksmanship Hunter, Unholy Death Knight, and the dominant Balance Druid Legendary, Balance of All Things. On the surface these changes are actually quite minimal and do not have large impacts at all for these specs, and you still see them performing very well in Castle Nathria. They also buffed Havoc Demon Hunter, Assassination Rogues, and both Warrior specs. These were definitely among the bottom tier of specs, but unfortunately most of these are still very much struggling to perform as well as other specs. The last notable changes that came were with a small buff to Destruction Warlock’s Chaos Bolt and also a large bug fix for Unstable Affliction for Affliction that is certainly contributing to their solid performance. 

95th percentile:

Heroic data by Warcraft Logs.

All percentiles:

Heroic data by Warcraft Logs.

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Heroic Castle Nathria is a much better look at the date, now that a larger chunk of people have cleared the raid. This will make looking at the range of specs easier since the later fights have significantly different damage patterns than the earlier ones. Now that Mythic has released the recent clears also include most people using a Legendary Power. These can give significant boosts of damage for some specs, like Balance Druid, but only be small upgrades for others, like Shadow Priest. Looking at Heroic logs you can clearly see a large trend of the captain of DPS, Unholy Death Knight. The recent nerfs have done little to harm their top spot, and now that Balance Druid and others have their legendaries, the top specs are extremely clear. 

Other observations that are interesting here are that there are several wild card specs that are performing above expectations, with Windwalker Monk and Feral Druid both performing better than expected, although still with a very low representation from both specs. The recent buffs to Havoc Demon Hunter and Arms Warrior also seemed to have helped as well, putting these specs just barely at the middle of the pack.

We'll be back with a look at the full week 1 Mythic stats on Wednesday, but it's looking like the raid will not be finished by then, so we'll also cover Heroics once more.

[LeonardoDeQuirm 0]

Well I felt like a fool believing all the sites that frost mage would be the top dog. At least I like the aesthetics of my new Night Fae home.

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10 hours ago, LeonardoDeQuirm said:

Well I felt like a fool believing all the sites that frost mage would be the top dog. At least I like the aesthetics of my new Night Fae home.

We were a top dog before they chain nerfed us to the ground. Hopefully we will get a buff after mythic raid is cleared by the top guilds.

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