Not The Year of the Spear - The War Within Season 3 DPS Rankings for Mythic Manaforge Omega Week 11

Posted 2025/10/29 at 11:14 AM by Anshlun

Manaforge Omega Raid Tier Lists The War Within Season 3 DPS Rankings

Overall Damage

Damage to Bosses

Overall Damage

Damage to Bosses

Position

Spec and Class

Population Size

Change from
Pre-Turbo Boost

Elemental Shaman

30288

Arcane Mage

43672

Marksmanship Hunter

8292

↑4

Beast Mastery Hunter

66267

↓1

Assassination Rogue

11113

Frost Death Knight

56663

↓2

Fury Warrior

34323

↑1

Destruction Warlock

45938

↑2

Fire Mage

3169

↓3

Subtlety Rogue

8408

↑1

Windwalker Monk

9995

↓2

Augmentation Evoker

5432

↑1

Unholy Death Knight

5814

↓1

Balance Druid

21779

↑1

Shadow Priest

18685

↓1

Retribution Paladin

39271

Devastation Evoker

13336

Havoc Demon Hunter

38089

↑1

Feral Druid

6165

↓1

Survival Hunter

1672

↑6

Demonology Warlock

6408

↑3

Affliction Warlock

1781

↑3

Frost Mage

9029

↓2

Enhancement Shaman

3112

↓2

Outlaw Rogue

1878

↓5

Arms Warrior

1542

↓3

Class Writer CommentaryAfflction Warlock

Kalamazi

Affliction Warlock started off the season looking to be one of the top specs in 11.2, but that's ONLY if you were not looking too closely. Affliction received numerous buffs to abilities such as Xavius' Gambit and Focused Malignancy, which increase the damage of Unstable Affliction. While this kind of tuning does often happen between Patches, our Tier Set from 11.1 (Liberation of Undermine) was not nerfed before Manaforge Omega went live. This tier set Warlock Affliction 11.1 Class Set 4pc gave us the ability to apply multiple Unstable Affliction effects, which had been buffed a very large amount, in the first week of 11.2 and Manaforge Omega. This led to Affliction seeming quite dominant on a handful of fights, especially The Soul Hunters.

Blizzard answered this by sadly aura nerfing Affliction by 5%, and not breaking/nerfing the tier set from 11.1. Even before the 5% nerf was applied to Affliction, it was not on the same overall power level as Destruction once you acquired your 11.2 Tier Set. While it does have some relevancy on a few fights with stacked cleave or burst windows, Destruction is simply the better option for its overall damage and profile. We had hoped for a reversion to the 5% nerf in 11.2.5, but that did not come to fruition. The better answer would have been to break interactions with the Liberation of Undermine bonus, but c'est la vie.
Survival Hunter

Doolb

Despite having a great offensive kit with flexible cooldowns and potent defensives, Survival Hunter once again finds itself towards the bottom of representation and output in recent Mythic statistics for the current raid, Manaforge Omega. Thankfully, there's no sort of grand conspiracy or detective work needed to see why—Survival has low output for a few very simple reasons. First and foremost, we somehow dodged tuning buffs many other underperforming specs received throughout the season. Compared to last season, we also became a much less appealing Power Infusion target, our tier set gains weren't particularly high, and both Marksmanship and Beast Mastery's shared hero tree, Dark Ranger, received an extremely powerful rework and continued buffs throughout the entire season, catapulting our sister specs into the spotlight.

The final nail in the coffin for Survival's poor performance and play count this season is the extreme melee hostility in Manaforge Omega, specifically in the harder encounters. Many of these fights benefit from having less melee, so it can be hard to justify bringing a Survival Hunter. While our cooldowns provide reasonable AoE and burst output, both damage styles pale in comparison to what Beast Mastery or Marksmanship is capable of, especially with damage amps and AoE windows being as prominent as they are. With the difference between Survival and its offspecs being so large that even the most dedicated Survival Hunters have gravitated to the stronger specs.

All in all, the simplest answer is the most correct one here. Survival is tuned low.
Enhancement Shaman

Wordup

Enhancement’s situation in Manaforge Omega boils down to a simple word: tuning. Mechanically, it’s fairly suited to most of the raid - low cooldown burst AoE for fights like Forgeweaver and Dimensius, and extremely powerful 2-minute cooldowns for both final encounter burn phases. The problem is that, even though those cooldowns can be explosive, the damage across the board just has weak numbers behind it. Pair that with a set bonus that amplifies RNG to the point where it’s an unavoidable reality of the spec and you end up with this situation.

While having a very strong set bonus that provides extra time inside Ascendance (alongside additional Tempest procs) is great in theory, having it be completely unpredictable is a problem when you compare it to the field of equally powerful sets. It also comes with the problem that any interesting gameplay it could add by holding these windows is impossible - you can’t simply go AFK when it’s on the cusp of proccing in the majority of situations. Unlike previous seasons as well, this is exacerbated by the fact that the flexible alternative in Totemic is tuned so poorly that it’s functionally unplayable in all situations, amplified by just how weak its set bonus is in comparison to Stormbringer.

When the spec seems intentionally tuned to be toward the bottom of the stack, and it’s spec competition had an enormous inflated tuning pass right before the patch launch, it’s no surprise the spec has seen a limited showing in the raid. Disclaimers and SourceRaid Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs

This bias comes from players generally flocking to specs perceived as "better", be it either easier to play or dealing more damage, or a combination of both.

The other side of the coin is specs that are too hard to play or too weak will be underrepresented and appear lower than they actually are.

Competitive players will generally prefer specs perceived to do more damage, making the best specs appear higher than they actually are.

While not as prevalent in modern days, strategy differences and parse-funneling may impact rankings. Specs that excel in AoE, spread cleave, or burst windows will appear higher in the total charts.

Comment by LemistioI'm tired outlaw brosComment by EtahielShow this to the mongrel responsible for enh tuning, bet he will not understand half of it xDComment by KaraelIt's funny and sad at the same time how monk is BY FAR the least represented dps class in mythic raiding atm.Comment by MoorningwoodIt never was the year of the spear.Comment by parad0xerOh no, enh is dumpsterfire as always! Anyways...Comment by fillwi've no idea why ppl play melee hunter when you have better melee specs and better ranged hunter specs.
survi should be reworked to ranged trapperComment by YouraSmiddyI'm tired outlaw brosComment by d3zmondIt's okay, Year of the Shotgun next year, I can feel it.Comment by imdopeyGood thing they nerfed Frost Mage and Affliction Locks before the raid even started. That 3% would have made them OP.Comment by SybylI do love this title, well doneComment by Zeaketi've no idea why ppl play melee hunter when you have better melee specs and better ranged hunter specs.
survi should be reworked to ranged trapperComment by PveMannoWhy didn't they shut down the sv/hunter discord? We would surely be top 10Comment by bannyvaderWhy didn't they shut down the sv/hunter discord? We would surely be top 10Comment by holylight99put out remix numbeers who cares about manaforge anymoreComment by ScaryfoxIt never was the year of the spear.Comment by Auzsi17Shadow priest should get an emergeny nerf it’s not in the bottom 3.Comment by MixineI never see so much balanced classes and specs in wow so far and ppl yet cry over it why is not on top1 as dps but almost all do same dps xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD pls uinstall game just do it dont play if u care that much of being no1Comment by lovelywazMM Hunters swinging up and down on the rankings thanks to RNG gods who smile at them one week and laugh in the other. 🤣Comment by MarkElfWhy didn't they shut down the sv/hunter discord? We would surely be top 10Comment by YoungillidanHow many seasons of TWW will shaman be in the top spot?
Every?
Cool.