Most Popular Tank Specs in High Mythic+ Keys From Dragonflight to The War Within

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AttitudeAdjusterSE is back with a different kind of chart this time. He’s still digging through the Raider.io data, but now we get to see some historical data for tanks!

The Most Popular Tanks

The chart takes a look at high keys, specifically those that are outside the highest Great Vault reward requirement. This means +11s and higher for Dragonflight Season 4 and TWW S1, and 21+ for earlier seasons. We not only get to see the most popular tank specs in these periods but also how their popularity changed throughout the individual weeks of the season! The charts show the percentage of total tank slots a specific spec had in the given week.

A Good Time for Everyone but Brewmaster

As we can see Paladins are very much the stars at the moment, and were on top at the end of Dragonflight Season 1 and the start of S2 as well. The discrepancy between Paladins and the rest is pretty insane at the moment, with Warrior coming in second, but very close to the rest of the specs and a giant 50% lower than the pink ones.

Interestingly the War Within pre-patch looks to be the most balanced period for the tanks. It also seems that most of the specs had their time in the spotlight, with the solitary exception of Brewmaster, who has had a rough time for a long time. Whether that’s because of a weakness of the spec or perhaps that there are fewer players that want to/know how to play the spec in high keys is unclear.

So, how do these high-key stats line up with your tank experiences? Seen any Brewmasters lately?