wow The War Within Pre-Patch Raid DPS Log Rankings, Week 1: Beasts Still Mastered

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It's finally time to take a more serious and stable look at the DPS situation in the pre-patch! We have almost the full week behind us and the numbers have settled, so it's time to see where the first wave of War Within class changes puts the specs. We're still in Amirdrassil and BM is still pulling some insane numbers, so let's take a look.

Note: We are using Normalized scores instead of raw DPS for the Warcraft Logs rankings. The u.gg rankings at the bottom are raw DPS. Normalized scores take into account the outlier boss fights where certain specs could stack massive DPS (due to the nature of the fight, whether it's AoE spam or something else), which would then affect their overall score for the whole raid.

Mythic

Overall Damage 95th Percentile

It's all Beast Mastery all the time, even after the early nerf, as the spec is miles ahead of everyone else! Here's our BM Hunter guide writer, Azortharion, to explain:

First of all, it is worth noting that Beast Mastery's obscene level of power - particularly on single-target, is not limited to the Pre-Patch. Numbers are very high on the Beta as well. The War Within introduced two key talents. First there's Huntmaster's Call, which simply causes every 3rd Dire Beast summon to summon an additional pet (either Hati or Fenryr), which gives you either 6% pet damage, or 8% Haste. On top of this, Hati and Fenryr do serious damage on their own, making this talent obscenely powerful on its own, but especially with our Dragonflight Set Bonus summoning extra Dire Beasts whenever we Bestial Wrath . The other powerful talent is Basilisk Collar - a flat 10% pet damage increase for every DoT we have active. Beast Mastery has a lot of DoTs in its kit, and being able to harness these for a near-permanent 30-40% pet damage boost is very strong. There is one bug affecting all of this, which is that Laceration (a DoT that deals damage based on pet crits) is doing too much damage. This is adding another 10% or so that is not warranted.

Everything else is very similar to our day 1 look-in, with only Arms managing to move at all in the top 8, as it takes down Fury for the silver. Down in 9th we see Augmentation making its way up, with some of the pre-patch fixes to logging helping it show closer to its actual numbers!

95th percentile Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

Overall Damage All Percentiles

Everything mirrors the top percentiles here, with the changes starting down in 8th, where Assassination moves ahead of Feral, while Windwalker makes its way into the top 10, pushing Unholy aside. The bottom sees two Warlocks and a Rogue languish, with Outlaw joining the two non-Destruction 'locks, although Destro isn't exactly doing a lot better either.

All percentiles Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

Boss Only Damage All Percentiles

The boss chart is literally identical to the day 1 version, with Unholy and Balance taking Subtlety down just outside the top 10.

All percentiles Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.

Heroic

Overall Damage All Percentiles

Heroic sees Beast Mastery still at the top, but with a much more reasonable gap before Arms in No.2. Retribution takes down Elemental for 3rd, while Windwalker moves one up into 7th.

All percentiles Heroic data by Warcraft Logs.

U.GG Raw Mythic DPS Rankings

U.gg's rankings are based on actual DPS taken from Warcraft Logs data, focusing on the top players and span the past two weeks. This chart is for Mythic only.

The raw DPS chart is mostly the same, although it leans more on the day 1 situation - with Fury taking Arms down in 2nd, Frost DK taking down Elemental in 4th, and Assassination ahead of Feral in 7th.

Mythic chart by u.gg.

 

Meanwhile, if you're looking for more information you can check out our class guides, updated for the pre-patch, or the Vault, Aberrus and Amirdrassil boss guides, the raid DPS tier list, as well as more data from Warcraft Logs here.