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Phase 3 Trial of the Crusader Tier List Predictions - WotLK Classic
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Publié
19/06/2023 à 11:20
par
NerdEgghead
We've prepared PvE Class and Specialization Tier Lists for Phase 3 of Wrath of the Lich King Classic. These Tier Lists for Tanks, Healers, and DPS Classes are broken down by specialization performance in Trial of the Crusader, based on throughput and utility. These Tier Lists go into much more depth in their own individual guides, which can be found below --
Tank PvE Tier List Healer PvE Tier List DPS PvE Tier List
Disclaimers About This Tier List
Tier lists can be very controversial, as no one wants to see their favorite spec rank poorly and because no two raid teams are optimizing for exactly the same thing when it comes to their class composition. For this reason, it is simply impossible to come up with a truly universal class ranking that is applicable for all raiding environments, so this list is deliberately narrow in scope based on the following criteria:
Classes will be ranked assuming that the group is optimizing primarily for killing
L'épreuve du croisé
bosses
as quickly and efficiently as possible
. Compared to
Ulduar
Hard Modes, which offered a meaty challenge for most Classic guilds to progress through over several months,
L'épreuve du croisé
is considerably easier even on 25-man Heroic difficulty, due to a combination of the boss tuning being much more lenient overall plus the hugely inflated player power level going into the phase from the item level buffs that were applied to Phase 2 gear. As a result, most reasonably competent guilds are expected to have
L'épreuve du croisé
on farm within the first few weeks of Phase 3, and the primary avenue of skill expression in the phase will be boss kill times. This has a few implications for how specs will be tiered in this guide:
Every single encounter in
L'épreuve du croisé
features sources of mandatory AoE or cleave damage, but not all forms of AoE/cleave are equally
efficient
for killing bosses quickly. Specifically, DPS specs that bring
passive cleave
, defined as cleave damage that comes at zero or minimal cost to the player's single target boss damage, are substantially more valuable to a raid composition than specs that might have insane AoE DPS potential but give up a lot of single target DPS to realize that potential. For example,
Mort et décomposition
from Unholy
Chevalier de la mort
s and
Nova de feu
from Enhancement
Chaman
s are excellent examples of efficient passive cleave abilities, since they are already cast as part of their spec's single target rotation and are therefore completely "free" sources of AoE damage. Conversely, abilities like
Balayage (félin)
from Feral
Druide
s and
Eventail de couteaux
from Assassination
Voleur
s are highly inefficient despite being
extremely
powerful, since using them in lieu of their spec's single target abilities incurs a large boss DPS penalty, making these specs much less valuable to a competitive raid composition.
Unlike our
Ulduar
tier list, "soft" sources of DPS utility, such as high personal survivability or strong burst windows, will not factor in significantly to how specs are rated for
L'épreuve du croisé
, since these characteristics are primarily valuable in a progression environment and not as important for kill times when the content is on farm.
When scoring the utility of each specialization, extra weight is given for
stackable
sources of raid utility when multiple members of a given class/spec are present in a raid comp. In WotLK, mostly highly impactful raid DPS buffs were made raid-wide (compared to party-wide in TBC) and were given multiple redundant sources, meaning that it is easy to bring the full suite of impactful buffs in pretty much any 25-man comp. As a result, simply bringing a mandatory raid buff no longer elevates a spec to S or A utility like it did in TBC, since several classes not only provide one or more such buffs but
also
provide significant value beyond the first member that is brought. For example, each
Druide
brought to a raid provides an additional
Innervation
and
Renaissance
, and each
Voleur
brings with them an additional
Ficelles du métier
, whereas a second Frost
Chevalier de la mort
for example brings far less value to the raid than the first.
These rankings are min-max evaluations under the assumption that players of each spec are executing their rotations perfectly and fully maxing out their character's performance via professions and consumables. Remember to keep in mind that
player always trumps class in any realistic raid environment
, and in practice, your raid team will benefit more from simply recruiting and retaining the top players you can find regardless of the spec they play, rather than hyper-focusing on a single meta comp. In
Ulduar
and
L'épreuve du croisé
, player skill is more important than ever before in Classic, both during progression and for achieving competitive clear times, since a player's real DPS contribution on a fight is disproportionately influenced by their ability to maximize the benefit of encounter-specific buffs like
Puissance du Néant
and
Acquisition de puissance
while still dodging all dangerous boss mechanics.
DPS Tier List Predictions for Phase 3 of WotLK Classic
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S
A
B
C
D
To go more in depth for Tier List Predictions regarding DPS, with a full breakdown of each class and specializations tier explanations, check out the complete guide below --
DPS PvE Tier List
Tank Tier List Predictions for Phase 3 of WotLK Classic
S
A
B
To go more in depth for Tier List Predictions regarding Tanks, with a full breakdown of each class and specializations tier explanations, check out the complete guide below --
Tank PvE Tier List
Healer Tier List Predictions for Phase 3 of WotLK Classic
S
A
B
C
To go more in depth for Tier List Predictions regarding Healers, with a full breakdown of each class and specializations tier explanations, check out the complete guide below --
Healer PvE Tier List
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