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Shadowlands Tank Damage Analysis in Mythic Castle Nathria - Patch 9.0.5
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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 Tank Damage balance in
Schloss Nathria
during the first two weeks of Patch 9.0.5 and compare it to damage 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
offensive
Tank balance for
Schloss Nathria
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.
Defensive
Tank balance analysis will not be included due to the difficulty in quantifying that information. Our guide writers may provide some context on a specs defensive capabilities, but it largely falls beyond the scope of this article.
As always, damage output is only one metric for Tank balance. It does not take into account survivability, utility toolkits, or your specific raid's needs. High damage does not necessarily equate to the best tank 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 Tank Damage Rankings in Shadowlands Season 1 - Mythic Castle Nathria Patch 9.0.5
Overall Tank Damage 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
Protection Paladin
10,989
14,723
0
2
Guardian Druid
6,972
9,839
0
3
Brewmaster Monk
22,274
28,260
0
4
Protection Warrior
5,543
8,245
↑2
5
Vengeance Demon Hunter
34,260
45,063
↓1
6
Blood Death Knight
9,522
12,955
↓1
Sludgefist Tank Damage Rankings
For a single-target oriented snapshot we can look at
Schlickfaust
. Though the data may be skewed in favor of specs that can fit additional damage within the
Zerstörerischer Einschlag
12s windows, it should real raid scenario of Tank single-target damage, especially on a fight where optimizing damage is key to success.
Sludgefist Tank Damage 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
Protection Paladin
114
136
0
2
Guardian Druid
82
95
0
3
Brewmaster Monk
957
1,113
0
4
Blood Death Knight
129
162
0
5
Protection Warrior
123
178
↑1
6
Vengeance Demon Hunter
1,138
1,353
↓1
Sire Denathrius Tank Damage Rankings
As the end boss of
Schloss Nathria
,
Graf Denathrius
is probably the most important encounter to analyze and also comes with a fair mix of damage patterns. From bursts of mass AoE on the
Echo der Sünde
in Phase 1, to the split-cleave on
Remornia
and
Blutroter Kabalist
s in Phase 2, and the final single-target sprint to the end in Phase 3, this encounter has it all.
Sire Denathrius Tank Damage 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
Protection Paladin
26
34
0
2
Guardian Druid
27
32
0
3
Blood Death Knight
57
57
↑2
4
Brewmaster Monk
700
765
0
5
Vengeance Demon Hunter
780
872
↓2
6
Protection Warrior
34
54
0
Offensive Tank Analysis for Patch 9.0.5
Although there were a fair amount of
class changes for Patch 9.0.5
, they didn't cause huge shakeups in the overall Mythic tank damage rankings. Protection Paladin and Guardian Druid still continue to dominate; however, despite their high damage output they've struggled to find significant widespread representation, especially at the highest levels of progression. Brewmaster Monk and Vengeance Demon Hunter still maintain the highest representation in Mythic
Schloss Nathria
.
For some context as to why we're seeing the above statistics, we've asked our Tank 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
Schloss Nathria
.
Blood Death Knight
Blood's state of affairs regarding tank DPS has been largely unchanged, both in terms of covenant ranking, and globally when compared to other tanks. With a 15% buff to
Fesseln der Unwürdigen
's damage and the rework of
Blutrote Runenwaffe
being the only changes of importance, Kyrian Blood Death Knights will have noticed a small (< 2%) single-target buff, and all Blood Death Knights can now finally enjoy the use of a legendary that isn't a passive damage source... with all the caveats and difficulties that this may bring. Logs have highlighted this further, showing a net trend up of Kyrian of 5% relative DPS between 9.0 and now.
The population representation has also broadened, with more and more Blood Death Knights getting into Mythic Nathria. And, with it, comes a greater diversity in covenants coming from people not necessarily aiming for the absolute best for raiding. From offspec DPS players dipping their toes into tanking to people primarily focusing on Mythic+, we're seeing a bit of a melting pot in terms of parse count, with Necrolords having the biggest relative uptake (nearly doubling compared to 9.0!). Some of it could be down to the
Fleischformung
rework, but as it is relatively unimpactful, it may just be the alluring appearance of an additional damage reduction cooldown drawing people in, although practice quickly shows that
Fleischformung
is still a very, very niche spell to use as a tank.
In terms of representation compared to other tanks, there is little change on the Blood front. As expected, there are more tanks in Nathria (purely down to the tier being well on its way and cross-realm being open!), and there are many more Protection Warriors than before thanks to the flurry of reworks and tweaks the spec has seen. Blood hasn't changed and is still firmly fourth in representation; the biggest "losers" and potentially the source of the population shift to Protection Warriors being Brewmaster monks.
Vengeance Demon Hunter
Vengeance Demon Hunters have taken a small hit in 9.0.5 due to the blanket 10% nerf to the three competitive Covenants of Kyrian, Night Fae, and Venthyr targeted at the spec, while the reworked Necrolord remains behind the others. However, this hasn't particularly affected our standings as we were never taken as a high DPS tank in the first place. Looking at WarcraftLogs historically, we can see that Vengeance was either the lowest or second lowest damage tank overall on the majority of fights, and in the bottom half on every fight except Sun King's Salvation. Personally, I don't agree with the nerf as we received no compensation to our base kit when it's clear we are not doing nearly as much damage as other tank specs overall.
Despite being one of the lowest DPS tanks overall, we have extremely good snap threat due to the front-loaded power of
Infernoeinschlag
,
Zeichen der Flamme
,
Feuerbrandaura
, and any of our Covenant abilities. In combination with the ability to quickly pick up adds, Vengeance provides the raid a 5% magic damage debuff through
Chaosbrandmal
which is critical as most raid comps are heavily magic-based and Havoc is currently in a state where it isn't often taken. With strong cooldowns for survivability and high passive magic damage reduction, thus reducing the burden on healers, as well as utility through sigils and mobility that allows kiting which is a lynchpin in many of the progression strategies that are currently popular (Council and SLG), Vengeance is a well-rounded tank that continues to see much play in 9.0.5 regardless of damage output.
Guardian Druid
9.0.5 has not really changed much in terms of Guardian DPS output in Castle Nathria, the only small buffs we received this patch were to the Necrolord and Venthyr covenants, neither of which were particularly popular raiding covenant choices with Night Fae being the clear front runner. Necrolord is however rising in popularity as the
Fleischformung
changes and
Adaptiver Schwarm
buffs have made it quite competitive single target. The biggest flaw of Necrolord is that it is severely lacking good soulbind tree options for PvE bears, all of the start and end tree options are just either extremely weak or poorly designed for raid environments and if we were to see minor tuning in that department the viability of Necrolord for bears would rise drastically.
Guardian remains the second highest DPS tank behind prot paladin, however we are the second LEAST played tank in raid behind warrior, so we are a bit of a mixed bag in terms of correlation between DPS and representation and this is largely swung by the lack of buff/debuff that warrior/monk/demon hunter tanks bring. Our primary utility being only
Anstachelndes Gebrüll
, excellent defensive capabilities, and quite high tank DPS make us a great choice in Castle Nathria if your raid already has buff/debuff slots covered and slowly more people are seeing the upside of the big bear.
Possible changes to the mandatory required buff/debuff system in the future would see a huge spike in bear representation and would be a fantastic choice for the game in general as these have quickly become quite an expected nuisance, creating an unhealthy environment where tank players primarily are forced to play tank specializations that they may not want to just fill out optimal raid compositions.
Brewmaster Monk
Brewmasters basically received no meaningful changes with Patch 9.0.5. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, the only real weakness that Brewmasters have is sustained spell and bleed damage (this does put them at a serious disadvantage against a certain final boss of Castle Nathria).
In terms of damage output, Brewmasters have consistently been a top-of-the-middle-of-the-pack option thus far in Season 1 of Shadowlands.
Waffen der Ordnung
and
Niuzao den Schwarzen Ochsen beschwören
are great offensive cooldowns that perform well both in raid and Mythic+.
Versengte Leidenschaften
is a great single target DPS legendary for raid parsing, and
Sturmbräus letztes Fass
is a great AoE DPS legendary that adds a good amount of tankiness. Monks deal solid sustained DPS and have good offensive cooldowns for burst windows. They don’t have the meter-incinerating burst potential of Paladin, nor do they have the versatility and sustained DPS potential of a Cat-or-Owlweaving Bear Druid. That being said, Monk is still doing well, and remains the second most-popular tank in Castle Nathria, well behind Vengeance Demon Hunter.
Protection Paladin
Unlike other tanks who saw changes to legendaries or tuning, Protection Paladin received no real changes of substance to their dps output (or even survival) in 9.0.5. Assuming no additional hotfixes or nerfs, Venthyr Protection Paladin tanks were already the highest damage tanks for raiding and will continue to be so for the remainder of this tier.
But the damage a Protection Paladin brings has not affected their representation this tier compared previous tiers. In fact it’s gone down if you compare it to similar points in Ny'alotha and Eternal Palace. I would explain it by the general perception that Protection Paladin does not bring anything unique to trivialize any encounter that could offset the risks that come with their damage reduction profile.
Protection Warrior
Protection Warriors received numerous buffs in Patch 9.0.5, including a redesign to
Revanche
that has made it the leading option in Mythic+, and a very competitive option with
Der Wall
in raids -- although it can be a lot to manage, and the frequent movement can be annoying to your DPS. Protection Warriors also received a 10% damage buff, and an extra 10% damage buff to
Donnerknall
on top of that base boost. The redesign to
Banner des Eroberers
has made Necrolord a more competitive option, but it has only seen a moderate uptick in terms of popularity. Kyrian is still by far the most popular option, and the best performer in raids. In Mythic+, Kyrian is again the most popular option, but Night Fae is arguably the strongest choice. Ultimately, Necrolord is not able to add as much damage as you sacrifice by not being a superior covenant at this point in Shadowlands Season 1. Perhaps this will become a go-to choice in future tiers, but not yet.
All these changes have pulled Protection Warriors out of a distant last place in terms of raid damage among tanks, and put them into a highly-competitive battle for last place against Blood DK’s. In terms of Mythic+ popularity, they are still in last place, but have become a much more appealing and fun option than their prior iteration. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better.
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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