Warriors Remain Firmly Ahead of the Pack in Blackwing Lair - Classic Phase 3 DPS Rankings

Posted 2025/05/07 at 9:00 AM by Passion

Warcraft Logs Blackwing Lair statisticsDisclaimers and SourceBlackwing Lair Statistics Page on Warcraft Logsincomplete picture of Phase 3 balance

Specs considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they are.

This happens as many performance-oriented players tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing the gap between top and bottom specs even further.

Position of specs for the 95th percentile might be skewed by alternative strategies and parse funneling. We're including the chart showing all percentiles' results to paint a better picture for all specs.

DPS Rankings in Phase 3 - Blackwing Lair Week of May 6th

Overall Damage

Damage to Bosses

Overall Damage

Damage to Bosses

Best in Slot Lists for Phase 4

Balance DPS

Feral DPS

Druid Healer

Druid Tank

Hunter DPS

Mage DPS

Paladin DPS

Paladin Healer

Paladin Tank

Priest DPS

Priest Healer

Rogue DPS

Elemental DPS

Enhancement DPS

Shaman Healer

Warlock DPS

Warrior DPS

Warrior Tank

Comment by FoxburnInsane titleComment by GreasyballsWow! What an exciting, informative, and useful article.

Wowhead writers are just memeing on us at this point.

And yes I did take the click bait just to respond to the title.

If you say you actually read the article... I don't believe you.Comment by Daedrith"Warriors Remain Firmly Ahead of the Pack"
In other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, etc.Comment by NeijiSFUh duh!Comment by BirdimanThis is when you truly know there's nothing going on in WoW right now lol.Comment by SinR*Insert Shocked Pikachu meme here*Comment by BranmundThis got a chuckle out of me ;D

Tho there is a good point for all the classic fresh Caster players - ditch that crapy version of the game and Join SoD player base where you will be apreciated and sought after.
Bored of being denied Boomkining or Shadowpriesting?
Bored of pressing shadow bolt or frost bolt all day, every day?
Fed up with farming gnomeragen for crowd pummelers, ditch the classic fresh and come to SoDComment by DaddysharkA better title would be "Warrior tanks finally overtake all dps other than Rogue and 5 Gnomer farming Ferals"Comment by Outerspacewater is wetComment by SinRThis got a chuckle out of me ;D

Tho there is a good point for all the classic fresh Caster players - ditch that crapy version of the game and Join SoD player base where you will be apreciated and sought after.
Bored of being denied Boomkining or Shadowpriesting?
Bored of pressing shadow bolt or frost bolt all day, every day?
Fed up with farming gnomeragen for crowd pummelers, ditch the classic fresh and come to SoDComment by DontpanikWhat a wild predicament that no one saw coming. On a side note I couldn't imagine spending any amount of time raiding 40 man BWL and soon AQ over any other version of wow or video game for that matter. Classic wow is amazing don't get me wrong but miss me with hitting one button over and over for a couple hours and not getting loot.Comment by scaryseizure"Water remains the preferred habitat for fish "Comment by valax9HOW COULD THIS BEComment by Rofleboy, if only we had this information back in 2020Comment by holylight99well duh warrior is bisComment by Grianicethere's nothing new, these charts are completely pointless.Comment by jschon93OMG. Warriors are topping the meters in classic? Say it's not so! It's only like.....we could ... Look....at the logs for 5 years ago to see the same exact thing. /GaspComment by orryerRent must be dueComment by MasRemlapIn similar news, the sky is blueComment by Shahaman95Stop posting these missleading statistics. You still look at Vanilla server with very Retail oriented mindset and create wrong impression about class efficiencies. Damage isnt the only defining thing in Vanilla when it comes to raids, there are other utility and support abilities that bring bigger value. There are active/passive buffs (resistances, mana regeneration) , active/passive debuffs (armor reduction, spell penetration) threat management, resource conservation and etc - those are defining things of classic RPG. And you never ever mentioned. You keep reposting these DPS statistics that doesnt tell anything, but just keep accumalating that toxic atmoshphere

Very unprofessional from Wowhead. It makes sense to post DPS statistics for SOD, because SOD introduced radical changes that brough game design philosophy closer to the later expansion/retail. Vanilla WoW is still a standalone game with unique game mechanics, but you keep looking from absolutely wrong perspective.