Frost Death Knight Starts Climbing the Charts - MoP Classic Phase 1 Heart of Fear DPS Rankings

Posted 2025/09/03 at 3:09 PM by Passion

Warcraft Logs Heart of Fear & Mogu'shan Vaults statisticsDPS Rankings in Mists of Pandaria Phase 1 - September 2ndHeart of Fear

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Mogu'shan Vaults

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Biggest Changes This Week Frost Death Knight

Mogu'shan Vaults was perfect for Unholy. There were a lot of opportunities to spread amped diseases, like Elegon and Stone Guards. Heart of Fear reaches closer to where Frost performs best, fights with lots of adds, and has a single target focus.

The new gear available also means there is a lot more Mastery, which is a power spike for Frost. Combine that with the 2-piece tier bonus on Battlegear of the Lost Catacomb is also just a straight damage increase to Frost's main abilities, and it should be clear why Frost is climbing rapidly. At this point, Frost is equal, if not slightly ahead of Unholy on single-target sims.

Fury Warrior Balance Druid

Balance Druids in Phase 1 have several issues that cause them to be behind the competition. We have a very front loaded damage profile with almost all our damage coming out during the burst. In both Mogu'shan Vaults and Heart of Fear, several bosses have you hold Bloodlust until the end of the fight, which punishes us heavily. Mogu'shan Vaults also has the Will of the Emperor fight, where Balance are often placed onto root duty, which drags down our average for the entire raid.

In addition to damage profile issues, we are also simply a spec with worse tuning than the competition. We rely heavily on our secondary stats in order to get working and we aren't able to gather enough of them for now.

There's also a bit of a knock-on effect. Balance is already doing lower damage than the others, and already had the expectation set in Mogu'shan Vaults that we are there to perform non-damage related duties, and so you will often see Balance Druids be assigned to tasks to help raid success outside of DPS, which again causes the result to skew even lower.

Elemental Shaman
Elemental's strengths lean very heavily toward mass AoE, ideally with a priority target in the mix. This means that they can absolutely blast on bosses like Stone Guards and Elegon. On the other hand, they fall behind in Heart of Fear due to the fights being largely single target, or for bosses like Garalon, having multiple targets that are out of reach for Elemental AoE.
Disclaimers and SourceHeart of Fear & Mogu'shan Vaults Statistics Page on Warcraft Logsincomplete picture of Mists of Pandaria 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.

Statistics displayed below show data for 25-player heroic difficulty. For 10-player difficulty, please visit Warcraft Logs.

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Comment by GorilitaTank topping the metrics is actually hilarious. Sorry to the MoP enjoyers (I’m not one), but I would actually be so pissed off.Comment by copege7These devs need to make some major changes to tank damage and how its exploited. They also need to buff some of these lower end dps. Looking like Cata rn with most of the same classes in the bottom (Shamans). Nerfs resto sham, barely buffs shamans. Uses stormlash totem as the excuse, even though that applies to everyones damage and is separated in logs anyways. Actual bad design by actual bad devs.Comment by NagisaStreamsYea I don't play MoP but seeing this is funnyComment by hazzxThese devs need to make some major changes to tank damage and how its exploited. They also need to buff some of these lower end dps. Looking like Cata rn with most of the same classes in the bottom (Shamans). Nerfs resto sham, barely buffs shamans. Uses stormlash totem as the excuse, even though that applies to everyones damage and is separated in logs anyways. Actual bad design by actual bad devs.Comment by vlprgs>muh tank damage
you have 2 tanks, 1 for some encounters. Having more won't magically upscale your damage. It's perfectly fine for a tank to be actually contributing with dps to a fight since they're limited role anyway
also logs for high percentiles ale skewed heavily due to low amount of 95+ parses and logs from full clears. Like you have 12k destro locks, 2-3k affi and... 300+ demo.Comment by needforsneedcan warlock get an aggrend buff yet?Comment by PlusTechyou have 2 tanks, 1 for some encounters. Having more won't magically upscale your damageComment by 2550147you have 2 tanks, 1 for some encounters. Having more won't magically upscale your damage