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Phase 1 Warcraft Logs Analysis for Burning Crusade Classic - Arcane Mage Takes Top Damage
TBC
Pubblicato
17/09/2021 alle 12:10
da
Simonize
Phase 1 of Burning Crusade Classic has come to an end and raids have completed numerous clears of Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, and Magtheridon's Lair. Today, we will breakdown the DPS Rankings from Warcraft Logs for Tier 4 of Burning Crusade Classic.
We've seen some significant movement in the rankings compared to the first two weeks of the tier where the best DPS in TBC were undoubtedly Beast Mastery
Hunter
s and Destruction
Warlock
s. Now we have Arcane
Mage
s bringing some big damage, and Fury
Warrior
s showing us they are still a force to be reckoned with. For this analysis we have used data from
Warcraft Logs Statistics
pages for Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, and Magtheridon's Lair accessed on 9/14/2021.
Warcraft Logs Karazhan Statistics PageWarcraft Logs Magtheridon & Gruul Statistics Page
Disclaimers and Sources
The data in this article is taken from the
Warcraft Logs Karazhan Statistics Page
for the 95th percentile and
Warcraft Logs Gruul & Magtheridon Statistics Page
for the 95th percentile. There are a few things to take into consideration before we delve into the data:
Talent specializations that are believed to be weaker are generally played less, which causes them to appear slightly weaker than they actually are.
Performance-oriented players tend to choose the classes and talent specializations that are believed to be the best. This further increases the gap between the top and bottom talent specializations.
Considering only the 95th percentile means we are only looking at the top 5% of the representatives of each class and specialization - 19 out of 20 players will not perform at this level. This is done to filter out the people who enjoy the game without fully maximizing their character's effectiveness in raids. That is a totally okay thing to do, but not what we are interested in here.
We are looking at only boss damage. Classes with strong multi-target damage abilities will move up in the rankings when considering overall boss and trash damage throughout a raid.
Most of the absolute top parses involve a raid that rotates
Shaman
s into a particular group to give multiple casts of
Heroism
or
Bloodlust
in the same fight to certain players. It is very difficult to compete with those parses if you are not in a similar situation. A weaker class with that treatment would very likely outperform a stronger class without that treatment.
Magtheridon's Lair and Gruul's Lair
Joining the
Hunter
s and
Warlock
s at the top from the first few weeks we have Arcane
Mage
s and Fury
Warrior
s. As everyone's equipment and familiarity with the fights improves, kill times are reduced. This means the main limiting factor of an Arcane
Mage
- their mana pool - is less of a restriction and they are able to blast quite a bit of damage. As expected, Fury
Warrior
s scale extremely well with equipment and have moved up in the rankings as well. They have a very nice feedback loop where dealing more damage means generating more rage means dealing more damage, so of course they will scale up nicely with improved equipment.
We see most of the "support" DPS roles with fairly similar damage output. Elemental and Enhancement
Shaman
s, Affliction
Warlock
s, Combat
Rogue
s, Retribution
Paladin
s, Shadow
Priest
s, and Feral and Balance
Druid
s don't provide top tier individual damage output, but they all provide valuable buffs to a raid to increase everyone else's damage output.
Arms
Warrior
s and Survival
Hunter
s are bridging the gap between the top individual DPS classes and the support DPS roles, not quite up there with the top pumpers but noticeably ahead of the other support DPS. Some Arms
Warrior
s have started using a dual-wielding hybrid Arms & Fury talent specialization known as the "kebab spec". The kebab warriors still provide the
Blood Frenzy
debuff while gaining valuable individual DPS talents in the Fury tree.
Karazhan
With even shorter duration boss fights in Karazhan compared to Magtheridon's Lair and Gruul's Lair, we see Arcane
Mage
s completely eclipse the competition and it is not even close. There is no question that Arcane
Mage
s are the dominant class for damage on short encounters. A good number of multi-target fights like
Terestian Illhoof
,
Attumen the Huntsman
,
Moroes
, and a few more allow classes like
Warrior
, Fire
Mage
s, and Elemental
Shaman
to push higher than they would in the other raids due to their strong multi-target abilities.
Highlights
Some guilds and players have achieved some incredible feats in this first phase of Burning Crusade raiding. In this section you can see some highlights from Gruul, Magtheridon, and Karazhan raids.
High King Maulgar
The Russian guild <Эксодус> (translated: "Exodus") on the server Пламегор (EU) achieved a record-setting fastest kill of
High King Maulgar
way back on July 31st. More recently their record has been tied but not beaten by six other guilds, <Next Week For Sure> from Fairbanks (US), <Ace> from 匕首岭 (CN), <PvE is Hard> from 火锤 (CN), <圣域> from 安娜丝塔丽 (CN), <Trinity> from 碧玉矿洞 (CN), and finally <听香水榭> from 布鲁 (CN) who put up the highest raid DPS while still remaining at a 9 second kill, with 86,134 total raid DPS.
Some of you might be scratching your head wondering, "
how that is even possible?
" In Blizzard's own code, the
High King Maulgar
encounter officially ends when
High King Maulgar
dies - the other ogres can be left alive and you can still progress to
Gruul the Dragonkiller
. Эксодус chose to forget about regular group structure and brought a team of essentially all damage dealers. Эксодус stacked up 11 Arcane
Mage
s supported by 4 Elemental
Shaman
s and a few others to create the bulk of their damage.
This Warcraft Logs report
shows their amazing achievement with a crazy 83,888 total raid DPS during the kill.
Gruul the Dragonkiller
The top ranking DPS parses for
Gruul the Dragonkiller
are taken up almost entirely by Beast Mastery
Hunter
s and a few Destruction
Warlock
s. The top 100 DPS values range from 2,257 DPS at the 100th ranked parse, all the way up to 2,577 for the top ranked parse. That very top ranking is not a Beast Mastery
Hunter
or even a Destruction
Warlock
though, it is a Fury
Warrior
by the name of Ahlaundoh from the guild <bipolar> on Herod US server. It is pretty exceptional because not only is Ahlaundoh the top DPS on
Gruul the Dragonkiller
, they are the only Fury
Warrior
in the entire top 100 rankings!
Ahlaundoh's PoV for world #1 DPS on Gruul the Dragonkiller
Magtheridon
Typically, the control cubes in the
Magtheridon
encounter are used to prevent the boss from casting
Blast Nova
and wiping the raid. It did not take long for players to realize that use of the control cubes also
doubled
Magtheridon
's damage taken via the
Shadow Cage
debuff that is applied to him when all five cubes are activated at once. Many high performance guilds began using the cubes as a damage boost, with the hope that they would kill the boss before they would need them to prevent a
Blast Nova
.
This Warcraft Logs report
shows the world-record speed kill of Magtheridon by the Chinese guild <听香水榭> (translated: "Listen to perfume pavilion") from the server 布鲁 (CN) in an astonishing 2 minutes 1 second. For this kill,
Shadow Cage
is applied 5 times in a row back to back while the other 20 players in the raid pump out as much damage as possible. They brought only 2 dedicated healers to this boss that many teams take 4 or 5 healers for, and many of their players scored 100 parses for this amazing kill!
Karazhan
Warlock
s can use
Enslave Demon
on a
Dreadbeast
from the Servant's Quarters in
Karazhan
. This demon will deal a huge amount of damage and while it does not count directly to the
Warlock
's individual damage total, it certainly speeds up boss kills. Check out
This Warcraft Logs Report
from Herod US server where the raid brought a
Dreadbeast
to
Maiden of Virtue
,
Moroes
, and
Attumen the Huntsman
. Here is the damage meter for
Maiden of Virtue
where the
Dreadbeast
is the 2nd highest individual damage source in the whole raid!
Netherspite
in
Karazhan
can be positioned so that one player can occupy two different power beams at the same time. For
Rogue
s, this is incredibly valuable as both beams provide damage increase.
This Warcraft Logs report
has the rogue Jozh from <New Horizons> on Arugal US occupying both the Serenity (Green) and Dominance (Blue) beams on
Netherspite
and putting out an absurd 5,465 DPS.
About the Author
Simonize
is a long-time Rogue player from original Vanilla, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King. Primarily focused on PvE, he is the author of rogue gear comparison spreadsheets for Classic Vanilla, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King. If you enjoy Simonize's work, you can join his
Discord
or follow him on
Twitch
and
Youtube
.
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