Analysis of Shadowlands DPS in Mythic Sanctum of Domination - Week of August 10th

Live Pubblicato 19/08/2021 alle 00:14 da Anshlun

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

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

The balance between specs is very delicate and will likely change throughout Season 2, as player acquire more gear, different classes and specs tend to perform better with more secondaries.

DPS Rankings in Shadowlands Season 2 - Mythic Sanctum of Domination Week of August 10th

Position

Spec and Class

Population Size

Change from Last Week

Affliction Warlock

1309

Arms Warrior

24641

Demonology Warlock

11642

↑1

Windwalker Monk

9833

↓1

Fury Warrior

3374

↑6

Outlaw Rogue

2754

↑4

Frost Death Knight

2656

Subtlety Rogue

9172

↓2

Feral Druid

2454

Elemental Shaman

9704

↓5

Havoc Demon Hunter

22779

↓3

Marksmanship Hunter

21436

↑1

Assassination Rogue

11210

↓1

Survival Hunter

385

↑7

Retribution Paladin

8220

Beast Mastery Hunter

14733

↓2

Balance Druid

34368

↑2

Unholy Death Knight

15175

↓2

Arcane Mage

12027

↓1

Shadow Priest

18638

↓3

Fire Mage

4688

↑2

Destruction Warlock

21747

↓2

Frost Mage

20487

↓1

Enhancement Shaman

6170

Spec Analysis for Week of August 10thDemonology Warlock

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A month into Mythic raiding Demonology is still performing near the top of statistics for all specs and although is technically below Affliction is actually the vastly more popular and used spec between the two. With progression over for quite a number of guilds Demonology's one minute damage profile (thanks to Sigillo di Wilfred dell'Evocazione Superiore) becomes stronger as kills become faster and faster as each cooldown cycle becomes that much more impactful.

Demonology is the predominant Warlock spec to play on 6-7 of 10 bosses in Sanctum of Domination because of the impactful cooldown cycle. Most groups are also going the route of buffing us through the use of Infusione di Potere to buff our Tiranna Vincolata as much as possible. Power Infusion stacked with the on use effect of Spawn - Cosmetic makes the Demonic Tyrant dish out very high crit rate at a very quick pace.

There is of course the giant caveat for Demonology to do this good in damage and that is of course Infusione di Potere. If you aren't getting this buff for your raid you will see a significant drop off in your overall damage making Demonology a somewhat less desirable spec to stack. Your damage is still middle of the pack without Power Infusion but at that point you should possibly consider playing Destruction or Affliction depending on the fight.

I would suspect that as kills become faster and faster you will start to see Demonology continue to dominate especially as other specs and classes will want to absorb the cleave damage for their own parses which in turn will push Demonology's niche single target "to the moon". This is more of the same and you should except to see more players rotate around all the specs during farm (as we are already seeing with Aff parses rising) but for those that are really looking to parse they'll be playing Demonology.
Frost Death Knight

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The Frost Death Knight is performing really well in Sanctum of Domination when looking at overall logs. The reason for this is primarily our ability to exceptionally well on short add cleave.

Breath of Sindragosa and Frostwyrm's Fury do a ton of cleave damage and allows the Frost DK to inflate its damage numbers on multiple bosses. Soulrender, Painsmith, Fatescribe, Kel'Thuzad and Sylvanas all present great opportunities for that big cleave damage.
Just to highlight how important this is, if one sorts by damage to bosses, frost drops a ton of places!
Fury Warrior

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With nearly ten times as many parses, Arms is the most played Warrior specialization by a large margin, but there are still a number of Fury holdouts, and as they clear through Mythic Sanctum of Domination, they're beginning to show the specs capabilities in a way which has largely gone overlooked up until now. It's no secret that Arms is in a commanding spot this tier, with many of the early progression fights (The Eye, the Nine, & Remnant in particular) playing to the spec's 2-target strengths, it was predicted that Fury would grow in power over time, and we're finally starting to see that come to pass.

In terms of single target boss damage, Fury still lags slightly behind Arms, but now performs very similar to Arms on fights such as Remnant, Guardian, and Soulrender, while actually pulling ahead slightly on Painsmith. It still falters on The Eye, the Nine, and Remnant, though those are also very early fights which more progressed guilds have on farm. Multitarget is where Fury really shines however, repeating what we saw in Castle Nathria as Fury began pulling ahead first on Stone Legion Generals, before several buffs saw it pull ahead of Arms in other parts of the raid - in Sanctum, this is most apparent on Soulrender and Fatescribe, two fights with frequent waves of adds, which Fury excels at bursting down.

It is worth noting that Arms also excels at multitarget though, and has gained significantly increased Mythic+ representation this tier as a result of improvements to the Kyrian covenant specifically, so it isn't quite as clear cut as separating the two into single target and and multitarget specs. Cooldown timing aside, the biggest difference between them is that Fury is a heavily thoroughput focused specialization, which requires constant uptime and multiple cooldown cycles to maintain its damage, while Arms is much burstier and can more easily find gaps in their rotation for the frequent bits of "micro downtime" found in many raid encounters - this is well represented in Normal and Heroic parses, where Fury lags behind as one of the absolute worst performing specializations.

There also still aren't any public Sylvanas Windrunner parses as Fury, a fight which is not at all well suited to the Warrior toolkit. Despite the seemingly dominant performance of Arms Warriors in the Race to World First, it has also fallen considerably - only barely middle of the pack for all damage including AoE, while dropping even lower in pure boss damage. The high amount of adds in phase 1 and 2 means Fury could actually perform rather well there, even if it falls behind in Phase 3 boss damage, and while that's not a great idea for progression, it won't be an issue for guilds in deep farm, so it may not be surprising to see a lot more reclears with Fury Warriors chasing ranks in the coming weeks.
For more information on specs in the Shadowlands Season 2, check out our Sanctum of Domination Class Guides!

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Balance DruidFeral DruidGuardian DruidRestoration Druid

Beast Mastery HunterMarksmanship HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

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