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Shadowlands Healer Throughput Analysis in Mythic Castle Nathria - Patch 9.0.5
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21.03.2021 в 21:42
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During the Patch 9.0.5 PTR, we tried to provide context to class changes from our class guide writers so you'd know what to expect once Patch 9.0.5 launched. As a followup, we'll now review initial Warcraftlogs raid statistics to determine the actual ramifications of these changes. Specifically for this article we'll analyze Healer balance in
Замок Нафрия
during the first two weeks of Patch 9.0.5 and compare it to healer statistics from just prior to the patch.
For this analysis we will use data provided by
Warcraft Logs Mythic Castle Nathria statistics
.
Warcraft Logs' Castle Nathria Statistics Page
Disclaimer
The purpose of this article is to give perspective on the state of Healer balance for
Замок Нафрия
in Shadowlands Season 1 for Patch 9.0.5 using live statistical data.
We say perspective, as there are inherent biases in looking at the data this way.
Specs that are considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they actually are.
Performance-oriented players will tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing even further the gap between top and bottom specs.
Class balance between specs is very delicate and will likely change throughout Patch 9.0.5.
Healing statistics are especially volatile due to the variations in healing during progression versus farm. Underhealing, taking excessive damage, or sandbagging are all strategies that tend to become more prevalent for healer parsing during farm content.
Raid healer composition will have a large effect on overall throughput. (ie. 3 Discipline Priests in a single raid)
As such, these statistics should not be taken as an accurate view of what healing future content would look like. Instead, they should be taken as a brief look at how the Patch 9.0.5 changes affected healing
Замок Нафрия
.
As always, healer throughput is only one metric for Healer balance. It does not take into account utility toolkits, damage output, or your specific raid's needs. High throughput does not necessarily equate to the best healer and raid statistics do not necessarily directly translate to Mythic+ performance.
Sources
The data for this article was taken from the
Castle Nathria Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs
under the Shadowlands Season 1 Patch 9.0.5 partition at the 95th percentile for Mythic difficulty.
Overall Healer Throughput Rankings in Shadowlands Season 1 - Mythic Castle Nathria Patch 9.0.5
Overall Healer Throughput Statistics for Patch 9.0 (Left) and Patch 9.0.5 (Right)
Position
Spec and Class
Patch 9.0
Population Size
Patch 9.0.5
Population Size
Position Change
from Patch 9.0
1
Restoration Druid
20,873
30,322
↑3
2
Mistweaver Monk
8,821
12,423
0
3
Restoration Shaman
67,948
87,025
↑2
4
Holy Paladin
41,528
54,917
↓1
5
Discipline Priest
29,394
35,256
↓4
6
Holy Priest
27,285
37,110
0
Sludgefist Healer Rankings
We'll analyze Mythic
Грязешмяк
specifically as a difficult healer encounter but with a relatively scripted amount of incoming damage. There may be some variation in healing depending on how guilds handle the
Цепной удар
mechanic and subsequent
Кровавая цепь
, but since it equates to less than 5% of total incoming damage the variations should be minimal.
Sludgefist Healer Throughput Statistics for Patch 9.0 (Left) and Patch 9.0.5 (Right)
Position
Spec and Class
Patch 9.0
Population Size
Patch 9.0.5
Population Size
Position Change
from Patch 9.0
1
Restoration Druid
321
479
↑1
2
Restoration Shaman
2,408
2,850
↑2
3
Holy Paladin
1,486
1,796
0
4
Mistweaver Monk
79
116
↑1
5
Discipline Priest
1,582
1,657
↓4
6
Holy Priest
442
608
0
Sire Denathrius Healer Throughput Rankings
As the end boss of
Замок Нафрия
,
Сир Денатрий
is probably the most important encounter to analyze and also comes with a fair mix of incoming damage patterns. There may be some variation in healing depending on how guilds prioritize certain healer specs for each
Сквозь зеркало
phase. Healers accompanying tanks tend to do more healing simply due to the added incoming tank damage.
Sire Denathrius Healer Throughput Statistics for Patch 9.0 (Left) and Patch 9.0.5 (Right)
Position
Spec and Class
Patch 9.0
Population Size
Patch 9.0.5
Population Size
Position Change
from Patch 9.0
1
Restoration Druid
59
69
↑3
2
Holy Priest
20
20
↑4
3
Holy Paladin
957
1,059
↓1
4
Discipline Priest
809
902
↓3
5
Mistweaver Monk
19
17
↓2
6
Restoration Shaman
1,390
1,557
↓1
Healer Throughput Raid Analysis for Patch 9.0.5
With the
Patch 9.0.5 class changes
, we actually did see a fair shakeup in healer throughput rankings for
Замок Нафрия
. Where previously it was lower-middle of the pack, Restoration Druid has skyrocketed as the premier throughput healer in
Замок Нафрия
. Other throughput oriented healers like Mistweaver Monk and Restoration Shaman have seen a bit of a bump in the rankings but not quite to the extent as Restoration Druid. While these increases are partially attributed to
Patch 9.0.5 class changes
, the sizable nerfs to Discipline are also indirectly responsible.
For some context as to why we're seeing the above statistics, we've asked our Healer Class Writers to give more input about how the Patch 9.0.5 changes have affected their specs and why this may or may not correlate to representation in
Замок Нафрия
.
Restoration Druid
With 9.0.5, Restoration Druids received a ~12% buff to
Омоложение
and a ~8% buff to
Буйный рост
equating to a roughly 4-6% throughput increase depending on the fight. Combine this with substantial nerfs to Discipline Priests, a farm environment where underhealing is prevalent, and a Mythic+ meta that has allowed for some Restoration Druid growth in raid and it's sorta the perfect storm to enable Restoration Druids to excel right now in Mythic
Замок Нафрия
. Normally we're hailing our Holy Paladin and Discipline Priest overlords, a trend that stagnated the healing meta throughout all of BFA, now we're on top. To say this a welcome breath of fresh air would be a severe understatement.
Will it last? Well, unfortunately it's hard to say at this point. Without a 9.1 PTR and no direct communication from the devs, it's really anyone's guess. We're not so far ahead of other healers that you'll see 4 Restoration Druids in a raid, especially when you consider that we still lack a raid-wide damage reduction cooldown and have less than stellar passive damage contributions both of which tend to be highly valued in progression raiding. But that hasn't prevented some players from being apprehensive about the changes or to start preparing themselves for a potential 9.1 nerf. I wouldn't worry too much regardless. Enjoy it while it lasts however long that may be. Dust off your old Restoration Druids and dive into
Замок Нафрия
; there's a ton of fun to be had.
As for representation we've always maintained a relatively sizable population being one of the most popular of the 3 least popular healers. But at the absolute higher ends of progression raiding we've fallen off a lot. We just don't bring the most valuable utility and with no additional throughput there were few reasons to ever to bring a Restoration Druid when there was a more valuable alternative. Now with this buff, we're already seeing an increase in the number of Restoration Druids healing the toughest bosses of
Замок Нафрия
. Restoration Druids are still unlikely to unseat any of healing trinity of Restoration Shaman, Discipline Priest, and Holy Paladin in terms of popularity, especially once we return to progression healing in Patch 9.1 with the Sanctum of Domination; however, it's nice to feel like a little less of a detriment to our raid for playing a tree.
Mistweaver Monk
Mistweavers received minor changes in 9.0.5 and as such saw minor differences in their overall place in the rankings on WCL. We had the cost of
Оживить
reduced to 3.8% of base mana and
Заживляющий туман
reduced to 1.8% of base mana. This is a minor shift in mana consumption for Mistweavers, and translates to roughly 200 HPS depending on how much you utilized
Оживить
. This is a very minor increase and doesn’t materially change the overall power of the class.
In terms of HPS output, monks are generally underrepresented when it comes to Warcraft Logs. Mistweaver can produce solid healing, however, in terms of community, Mistweavers are not widely sought after. We do not have the strong damage reduction cooldown of Discipline or Restoration Shaman, and we do not have the high DPS Holy Paladin brings. This leads to there being a total of 250 Public Parses for the final 4 bosses of Castle Nathria for Mistweavers as of March 18th. This is contrasted with 750+ parses for Discipline, Paladin, and Restoration Shaman on Sire Denathrius alone. So while Mistweavers can produce comparable or even better healing output than other classes, we suffer a compounding issue of community perception and lack of player population.
Holy Paladin
In 9.0.5 there have been relatively minor changes to Paladin's overall HPS. The primary change was the mana cost increase of
Шок небес
, which has shifted things slightly making it possible to run out of mana. But it has ultimately had a negligible impact on Paladins outside of occasionally needing a mana potion. The largest change to Paladin HPS in 9.0.5 was simply the nerf(s) to Discipline Priests; Paladins and Priests tend to overlap cooldowns often due to
Щит души
’s 1min cd and
Гнев карателя
’s 2min cooldown, meaning there is a bit more healing that needs to be when a priest uses
Щит души
.
Overall Paladins are represented well in Castle Nathria due to their high overall raw HPS. The numbers in total may be potentially lower than possible as paladins do not scale as well into farm (without under healing), and a large portion of cooldowns such as
Пепельное освящение
going into overhealing. Some paladins have also taken to doing obscenely large amounts of damage for farm bosses. All that said, there is no doubt that paladins are one of the highest potential HPS healers in 9.0.5.
Discipline Priest
The 9.0.5 patch has resulted in some sizable nerfs to Discipline, a reduced
Искупление вины
to
Щит души
conversion rate and a reduced cap that now scales with Spell Power instead of health this has resulted in Discipline dropping from the highest throughput healer back down to earth to be more in line with others. That said, just looking at statistics of each healer's successful 95th percentile doesn't tell the whole story. By Discipline's nature, mass absorbs reduce your co-healers output by absorbing damage before others have a chance to heal it, a 95% parse of a Resto Druid likely won't have a 95% parsing Disc Priest in on that fight with them.
Representation wise, Discipline has maintained fairly solid representation both before and after the nerfs. Their absorbs, damage reduction in
Слово силы: Барьер
, and their passive damage still make for one of the top healers in Mythic raiding.
Holy Priest
With 9.0.5, Holy received slight buffs to utility and output with
Божественный гимн
providing a stacking, longer, and stronger healing bonus. There is also a significant buff to
Быстрая концентрация
's duration to make it easier to maintain and more accessible for the average player. While 5 seconds doesn't seem like much, it is very helpful on a number of high movement encounters, saving the Priest extra mana and allowing them to consistently cast more efficient
Исцеление
s. These buffs, along with reduced absorbs from Discipline have given a sizable bump in Holy's output according to WCL's stat page.
Many Holy players are generally dedicated Holy mains, and their representation did not swing significantly between Disc and Holy after these 9.0.5 changes. That said, farm content is in full swing for hardcore mythic guilds and there seems to be a steady increase of Disc mains giving Holy a try to shake things up on farm kills, potentially bolstering Holy's representation between now and 9.1.
Restoration Shaman
Restoration Shaman has seen no significant changes in throughput or popularity, which isn't surprising as 9.0.5 only buffed weak covenant and legendary options to not be terrible anymore. Overall the statistics of 9.0 and 9.0.5 for the spec are remarkably identical, remaining with good throughput and being the most played healer spec.
Despite the balancing, covenant distribution has not changed a whole lot regardless of raiding difficulty - Necrolord and Venthyr combined popularity didn't even drop a percentage point. That is less than I expected but it is pretty late into the raid, maybe next season will shake things up more in that regard. Looking at a few of the ones that did go either Night Fae or Kyrian, they do seem to be doing fine now.
For more information on specs in Shadowlands Season 1 Patch 9.0.5, check out our Class Guides!
Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK
Havoc DHVengeance DH
Balance DruidFeral DruidGuardian DruidRestoration Druid
Augmentation EvokerDevastation EvokerPreservation Evoker
BM HunterMM HunterSurvival Hunter
Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage
Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk
Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin
Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest
Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue
Elemental ShamanEnhance ShamanRestoration Shaman
Affliction WarlockDemo WarlockDestro Warlock
Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior
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