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Amirdrassil Weekly DPS Rankings - Dragonflight Season 3 Week 2
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28/11/2023 alle 09:08
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Today, we are looking at the DPS balance on Amirdrassil during the week of November 21st. For this analysis, we will use data provided by
Warcraft Logs Raid statistics
for Dragonflight Season 3.
Heroic Amirdrassil Statistics Page
Disclaimers and Source
The data for this article was taken from the
Raid Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs
for Heroic difficulty in the week of November 21st. We will be looking at data for the 95th percentile, plus showing the overall results to paint a better picture.
The idea of this article is to give a perspective of the current state of class balance for Dragonflight Season 3, meaning this is an
incomplete picture of balance
.
We say perspective, as there are inherent biases in looking at the data this way.
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.
Tier acquisition will skew how balance looks for the first weeks of Season 3.
We will look into Heroic data for a few weeks while the Mythic population builds up.
Dragonflight Season 3 DPS Rankings - Heroic Amirdrassil the Dream's Hope During the Week of November 21st
95th Percentile Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Overall Statistics
Overall Damage
Damage to Bosses
Position
Spec and Class
Population Size
Change from
Last Week
1
Assassination Rogue
63337
0
2
Havoc Demon Hunter
133581
↑1
3
Demonology Warlock
94337
↑1
4
Beast Mastery Hunter
168584
↓2
5
Arcane Mage
29119
↑3
6
Enhancement Shaman
61292
↑5
7
Balance Druid
89184
↓1
8
Unholy Death Knight
51683
↑1
9
Fury Warrior
58465
↑7
10
Subtlety Rogue
8501
0
11
Frost Mage
61932
↑1
12
Outlaw Rogue
36880
↓7
13
Arms Warrior
48812
↓6
14
Elemental Shaman
18263
↑4
15
Feral Druid
23869
↓1
16
Devastation Evoker
28265
↓3
17
Retribution Paladin
116441
↓2
18
Survival Hunter
7744
↑2
19
Shadow Priest
32494
↑3
20
Frost Death Knight
12762
↑1
21
Fire Mage
24688
↓4
22
Marksmanship Hunter
6444
↑2
23
Affliction Warlock
3391
↑3
24
Augmentation Evoker
79812
↑1
25
Windwalker Monk
25925
↓6
26
Destruction Warlock
18449
↓3
Class Writer Commentary
To help us better understand the balance for Dragonflight Season 3, we've invited some of our class writers to give commentary on the state of their spec at this stage of the season.
Havoc Demon Hunter
Currently, in Season 3 Havoc Demon Hunter has had an incredibly powerful showing across all content. The rework for Havoc came with removing or reducing many weak talent points and nodes in the talent tree, which has allowed for generally stronger talents to be taken in the tree. This has increased both the defensive and offensive power of Havoc, allowing it to stay alive in content more consistently while dealing incredibly high amounts of DPS.
For the offensive side, new talents have allowed powerful combinations such as
Fuoco Interiore
,
Inerzia
and
Fiamma Furente
to be taken in most talent setups allowing for easy access to extreme upfront AoE burst DPS. Fortunately, Havoc's best single-target setup is only a single talent point swap away from being a true AoE setup; by swapping
Sguardo Furioso
to
Fiamma Furente
while also being tuned in a way that allows it to still have a strong single-target damage profile despite the heavy amounts of AoE it has access to. When it comes to Heroic
Amirdrassil, Speranza del Sogno
in particular, it's incredibly beneficial that the raid build is also a cleave build with a small Single Target loss to be taken for AoE as 6 of the 9 bosses come with some form of AoE. The majority of the time the bosses in
Amirdrassil, Speranza del Sogno
also do not punish movement allowing
Inerzia
builds to be played with little downtime to cause DPS to be lost, unlike previous tiers.
As for defensive power, Havoc has kept the trademark sustain allowing it to leech itself to healthy hp consistently through ,
Lame da Guerra Bruciate
,
Lame da Guerra Bruciate
, and multiple other sources. In the rework however, it has gained free access to
Calcafatuo
which was difficult to take so far in Dragonflight, and
Danza Deviante
a new talent that is similar to the old and removed
Lame Danzanti
dodge. There are also new minor passive survivability gains such as
Cicatrici della Sofferenza
and
Pelle Demoniaca
. The high sustain mixed with good defensive tools has pushed Havoc to have better survival rates in raid encounters which helps to have statistically higher DPS.
All in all, the 10.2 Havoc Demon Hunter rework provided a lot of power (much of which was needed) allowing Havoc to have the tools to excel in most raiding scenarios. The heavy burst Havoc brings allows it to get a lot of AoE damage in on adds before other classes can while running builds that are still single-target oriented. This design is partially propped up by our current tier set,
Demon Hunter Havoc 10.2 Class Set 2pc
and
Demon Hunter Havoc 10.2 Class Set 4pc
causing our best talent setups to run cleave-only
Lancio Lama
talents in all scenarios such as
Lama Accelerata
,
Lanci Furiosi
,
Lama Dentellata
, and
Sfregio dell'Anima
. Very little exists to call a weakness for Havoc considering all that was gained in the rework both defensively and offensively, especially considering the current tuning of the spec putting it in the most powerful of positions for this patch.
Beast Mastery Hunter
Beast Mastery Hunters have had a very solid performance in the first few weeks of raiding. A minor redesign of a few talents, a very solid tier set and the introduction of a proper cooldown in
Richiamo Selvaggio
has tremendously improved our performance compared to the previous tier. These changes have also made us a viable target for
Infusione di Potere
, which helps us look impressive on logs, although we're not
the
top choice. Thanks to
Frenesia Sanguinaria
, we have had a notably solid performance on burst AoE encounters such as
Larodar, Custode della Fiamma
and
Tindral Saggiaspina
, which suit us very well. While we're mostly carried by our damage profile at the moment,
Marchio del Cacciatore
helps shore up our otherwise lacking raid utility.
On the topic of Augmentation Evokers, there have been and still are some flaws with how damage is being reattributed to the Evokers. For instance, the
Ordine di Morte
s from our 4-set bonus
Hunter Beast Mastery 10.2 Class Set 4pc
does still not get properly re-attributed, and the re-attribution to
Fendente Bestiale
and
Fendenti Assassini
is also imperfect and can break for the remainder of a raid night or Mythic+ key if the Hunter pets ever die. This means that while Beast Mastery is likely a very strong spec at the moment, our damage is still slightly overestimated in logs. Beast Mastery Hunters also tend to have strong performances early on in tiers when people are still learning the encounters. We generally drop off a little when other classes get more comfortable with the raid.
Arcane Mage
Arcane is performing exceptionally well in Heroic right now; there are a few reasons why that people should consider before forming a reaction to this. Between a solid profile and very fast gearing benefits, Arcane is running out of the gate ahead of a lot of other specs. However for reasons we'll review, I do think that this will be reigned in naturally without much, if any, tuning changes to fights or classes.
First, this raid's design is extremely favorable for Arcane's damage profile. There are multiple vulnerabilities or empowerment buffs which pair well with cooldowns like
Eruzione Arcana
and
Tocco del Magus
, especially important on
Torciradice
's
Agonia Sradicata
and
Ardiron
's
Essenza Incendiata
. There are multiple bosses which have adds up for a short period that can either be leveraged for funnel utilizing
Risonanza
, or just bursted down before others can, this is particularly important on every fight with adds in it. There are also a lot of downtimes,
Fyrakk
's phase transition despawning for seconds,
Tindral Sageswift
's flight intermissions,
Council of Dreams
's
Bomba della Metamorfosi
forcing you to be a duck, and
Torciradice
's root burning intermission boss damage reduction to name a few. Arcane does a very efficient job leveraging these types of situations. And on fights where Arcane doesn't really have an optimal toolkit, like
Volcoross
, the fight timings are so short that they basically mean Arcane gets one huge lusted cooldown usage followed by one lesser cooldown usage. In short a lot of the fight timings and styles are just right for Arcane to perform well on overall for many guilds at the moment.
Secondly, Arcane's 2-set and 4-set bonuses from
Costrutto del Cronomante Ribelle
are very potent, especially in cleave situations which, like we discussed above, is very prevalent this tier. They are potent enough to give Arcane an edge in gearing as the bonus contained quite a bit of the power Arcane was tuned around having this tier. I do expect this power disparity to level out a bit as people get optimal gearing and the other Mage specs to fair more evenly with each other (or even beat Arcane out in a few fights). Having an early boost in power relative to other options can often sway the decision making people make on spec choices early on.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, community perception. Arcane has been a top progression choice for the world first race and other Mage's looking to push PvE and PvP content early in the tier for all three tiers in Dragonflight and two of the three of the raids in Shadowlands. When people see
Imfiredup
and
Gingi
run Arcane for every fight, they gravitate towards that judgment and the people who are left playing other specs are often the people who care less about optimization. For top tier players this choice weights a lot of things for early progression, and early jumps in power are definitely one of them. However, this choice may or may not be justified for each individual player who makes the decision to 'pick a spec' for a fight, but it's how many people are measured on if they're playing the 'right spec' or not.
Overall, Arcane is a solid spec with good tools for raiding, I don't expect it to remain the top Mage spec on every boss; as of writing this, Frost is already showing promise on
Larodar, Custode della Fiamma
and
Council of Dreams
on Mythic difficulty. I think a lot of Mythic raiders also understand that Melee are very good this tier as well as other Ranged DPS that are perhaps doing better than Mages and I believe a lot of Fire and Frost mages will prove that their specs are viable or very valuable as the tier progresses.
Assassination Rogue
Assassination Rogue is the spec of the tier right now, and everyone's eyes are on it for it's very high burst and strong versatility in the new Raid, but why is that and what makes it so strong? I'm going to try and run through some of the reasons why Assassination is such a strong spec right now and hopefully shed some light.
Big Burst
The first thing to understand is that Assassination currently is one of the biggest burst specs in the game currently. The entire combination revolves around multiple talents all coming together in a perfect storm. In terms of cooldowns, Assassination currently plays
Rovina dei Re
and
Danza dell'Ombra
, alongside the main 2 minute cooldown
Stigma Letale
. Each of these then have their own interactions, which I will quickly outline:
Stigma Letale
is doubling poisons and bleeds, which when combined with
Lame Temprate dei Draghi
gives an additional 2 poisons,
Garrota
and
Perforazione
, all contributing to
Dose Letale
. Doubled poisons also directly buffs
Rovina dei Re
Danza dell'Ombra
is a great pairing with
Maestro Assassino
and
Garrota Migliorata
on the spec tree, and
Predatore della Notte
is required to take
Danza dell'Ombra
.
Predatore della Notte
snapshots its damage benefit onto any damage over time effect, which simplified means +10% damage during burst
Rovina dei Re
utilizes all of these,
Dose Letale
,
Stilettata Migliorata
,
Lame Temprate dei Draghi
, all the duplication from
Stigma Letale
, the Critical Strike Chance from
Maestro Assassino
,
Predatore della Notte
, and also the Mastery buff from
Tè di Sboccialesto
on top of all of that
As you can probably tell, there's a lot of talents working together to make it all come together. But it goes even deeper than that. Because poison applications are a flat percent chance, simply generating more raw hits means more poisons to fuel
Rovina dei Re
.
Fendenti Furiosi
happens to do that
very well
, and helps the spec benefit greatly from
Totem della Furia del Vento
,
Brama di Sangue
and
Infusione di Potere
.
The final piece of the puzzle is that this raid additionally also has a higher amount of increased damage windows than normal.
Torciradice
has
Agonia Sradicata
Ardiron
has
Essenza Incendiata
Tindral Saggiaspina
has
Essenza del Sogno
Big Burst Round 2
With the rework in 10.2, Assassination Rogues learned a new trick and now have
Vortice di Lame
... I mean
Spruzzo Corrosivo
! Jokes aside, these talents actually do behave quite similarly, but the tooltip on
Spruzzo Corrosivo
can be a bit difficult to interpret on first glance. "45% of your Poison damage" can be reasonably interpreted as "45% of your
Nature
damage". That means that it indeed works with
Rovina dei Re
, but also less intuitive things like the damage dealt to the main target through
Bomba di Veleno
and our 4 piece tier
Envenomous Explosion
, as well as
Affondo Venefico
. Although we don't talent into these talents, It would also apply to
Sepsi
and
Veleni Malvagi
.
Given the explanation of our strong single target burst earlier,
Spruzzo Corrosivo
simply allows that same burst to happen in AoE for very little downside aside from talenting into
Spruzzo Corrosivo
in the first place. As it happens, the raid is also full of situations that can take advantage of this:
Tindral Saggiaspina
with
Intrappolamento di Massa
Larodar, Custode della Fiamma
's
Treant Ardente
adds
Phase 2 of
Fyrakk
with
Colosso In Fiamme
and
Anima Urlante
Torciradice
with
Pianta Sferzante Contaminata
and
Treant Contaminato
adds
Igira la Crudele
with
Lancia Rovente
It's quite an extensive list of fights and in a lot of these situations,
Rovina dei Re
lines up quite well to take advantage of the AoE from
Spruzzo Corrosivo
. With how strong the burst is in single target, this then just adds another strong layer on top for those AoE situations. Assassination has long held a spot as a great single target spec, with the downside of being unable to AoE effectively. Now it has the tools to do both, and do it well.
The Uncomfortable Conversation
It's that wonderful time of year where we get to talk about external buffs once again. Many people will already have their minds made up about how these affect or don't affect balance, whether or not they should exist, their impact on the meta, on and on. I'm not looking to sway any opinions regarding them (and I most likely can't if I tried), but not at least highlighting them would be a disservice.
I quickly want to cover
Infusione di Potere
. It's very good on Assassination, and a lot of Assassination Rogues will be receiving
Infusione di Potere
in their raids. The benefit of this is around +5%, but the question of "should specs be balanced around getting
Infusione di Potere
?" is not something I'm trying to answer. We've seen that point re-hashed for many raids now, but it is part of the game. Not every rogue will be getting it, and trying to estimate its impact on a specs performance is a troublingly difficult problem. I personally find myself not particularly worried about the impact of
Infusione di Potere
on the statistics. I admit it exists, and it is non-zero, I'm just not really interested in arguing for or against the couple of percent that its adding to the balancing discussion.
The bigger issue in my opinion is Augmentation Evokers. Not the players, but the Log Issues that have burdened the spec.
I want to shoutout the great work from the WarcraftLogs team to compile all known issues into one concise place.
You will notice going down to the Rogue section that our old friend
Spruzzo Corrosivo
makes an appearance, as well as another talent we take in all content with
Lame Sanguinarie
. The old tier bonus that some are still using this early into the tier
Lame Avvelenate
also does not re-attribute. On "normal" fights like heroic
Igira la Crudele
this can add up quickly to over 20% of the total damage done from the rogue. On a more "pad" heavy fight like
Tindral Saggiaspina
it can almost reach 30% in some cases. That's a huge chunk of damage that is getting inflated and not attributed properly to the Augmentation Evoker, and it does not make balancing any easier as a result. Talents that aren't reattributed, in this case
Lame Sanguinarie
and
Spruzzo Corrosivo
, are simply not as strong as logs would make them appear on first glance. This is less of an issue in single target where these aren't as prevalent, but it is universal and muddying the waters on very targeted abilities.
Conclusions
None of this is to take away from the fact that Assassination Rogue is one of the strongest, arguably even the single strongest spec in the game right now. Highlighting why and trying to increase accuracy in our data as a community should always be a goal to strive towards, regardless of the state or balance of any single spec. I would hope that the issues around Augmentation Evokers are being looked into and fixes are considered a priority for the reasons of balancing, raid planning, and self-reflection on performance.
We've seen this play out before with Venthyr Balance Druid in 9.1, with Unholy Death Knight in 10.0 and 10.1, and now with Assassination Rogue in 10.2. Opinions on the matter are volatile and very mixed. These specs often have to contend with other external factors unrelated to their kit, such as cheesing raid mechanics, cooldown timings and fight lengths. Removing that niche from those specs can quickly remove them from the meta, but if they are meta and can abuse the fight design they very quickly become problematic.
Is it the raid fitting the spec really well? Is the spec just crazy overtuned? Can we use the raw power of copium to blame external buffs when we play badly? Is burst of this caliber simply too much for the current game state? There's many moving parts in any conversation around balancing, especially when it comes to top meta specs. I don't have the solutions to be fair, and the spec is looking insanely good. I'm eager to see what Blizzard decides to do tuning wise now that the race is over (and fixing Augmentation Evoker combat hooks please). Biya!
Class Guides for Season 3
For more information on every spec during the Dragonflight Season 3, check out our Class Guides!
Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK
Havoc DHVengeance DH
Guardian DruidFeral DruidBalance 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 ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman
Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock
Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior
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