wow Castle Nathria DPS Log Rankings and Analysis Week 8

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With the Hall of Fame now filled (for Horde anyway) and over 110 guilds having fully cleared Castle Nathria Mythic, it's time to tale a look at week 8 of the raid. Unfortunately we'll have to wait a little to see the effects of the class tuning that went into effect yesterday/today (US/EU). We'll also be looking at a few of the bottom performing specs this week, as our guide writers comment on their positions.

In terms of actual logs registered, Marksmanship is at the top with 64K, with Fire close behind on 50K and Balance in third with 44K, but the bottom is still the usual suspects of Survival (193), Assassination (281) and Demonology at 723 logs counted.

95th percentile Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

All percentiles Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

Beast Mastery and Survival Hunter by Azortharion:

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Beast Mastery seems to suffer from its greatest strength, which is that it can cast its full DPS rotation while moving. The price for this quality of life benefit is low DPS in nearly all scenarios, with no strengths to speak of. It also does not help that its BiS Legendary, the Soulforge Embers, are widely disliked for its "clunky" playstyle, which has caused many players that would otherwise be playing BM to play different specs, simply because BM's best Legendary is so awful to play with.

Survival is in one of its roughest spots since the first tier after it became a melee spec. It is currently the least competitive it has ever been, and many of the existing Survival Hunter mains have been forced to reroll to Marksmanship or different classes because Survival is un-competitive for all raiding content. In the past, Survival had some strengths in the form of mass/burst AoE, or sustained single-target in Battle for Azeroth. It still has decent burst AoE, but it is nowhere near Marksmanship in this regard and so is not chosen for this reason.

Frost Death Knight by Abyssalwave:

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Currently Frost DK is middle to bottom of the pack in Castle Nathria. Since Unholy is performing so well compared to other specs you will not see many Frost Death Knights in competitive guilds. With the recent buff to Frost DKs you will see them with a higher parse position overall and they will still dominate fights such as Huntsman Altimor and Stone Legion Generals.

The benefit of Frost currently is that they have 2 different competitive builds in Breath of Sindragosa and Obliteration. A 5% damage buff does not put Frost DK above Unholy, but it makes it slightly more competitive, putting people who enjoy playing the spec in a much better spot.

In closing, let's take another look at the Heroic data as well, as there are a lot more logs present there and while the very top looks somewhat similar to Mythic, the rest is pretty jumbled.

All percentiles Heroic data by Warcraft Logs.

As always, if you want even more info on a spec, you can check out our class guides here.

[Unholyknight 9]

After 5% buff, then another 3% additional buff, Frost mage is still in the middle. sad.

Even sadder is BM is nearly at the bottom after 5% buff.

[Feldsomethin 2]

18 hours ago, Unholyknight said:

After 5% buff, then another 3% additional buff, Frost mage is still in the middle. sad.

Even sadder is BM is nearly at the bottom after 5% buff.

I would take these charts with a grain of salt.  We have a BM hunter that parsed 99%, top 5 world for BM on M Hungering Destroyer last night.

[Theharbinger 1]

On 2/4/2021 at 12:01 PM, Feldsomethin said:

I would take these charts with a grain of salt.  We have a BM hunter that parsed 99%, top 5 world for BM on M Hungering Destroyer last night.

This is comparing your BM hunter only to other BM hunters... The chart they are showing is comparing all classes to each other.