Phase 3 Trial of the Crusader Tier List Predictions - WotLK Classic

WotLK Publié 19/06/2023 à 11:20 par NerdEgghead

Disclaimers About This Tier List

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 morts and Nova de feu from Enhancement Chamans 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 Druides and Eventail de couteaux from Assassination Voleurs 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.

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