Just did DPS round up `https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/m-dps-balance-per-spec-92/1237697 and I got what seems like non sense results with affliction warlocks and I can’t find any errors in what I’ve collected.
Basically it looks like affliction gained 1% in M+ DPS since 9.1.5 . ( %C column )
Is this the case and the tier set really hasn’t helped or was offset with other nerfs? Or am I missing something else?
It’s because Sow the Seeds Affliction was performing well last season, but this season it’s the worst of the three specs, so most people hard switched, especially those doing higher keys where the highest numbers are being pumped.
It’s not that Affliction didn’t gain damage, it’s that the players that brought the numbers up last season aren’t playing Affliction anymore.
For that to be true it would have to mean every single player that was good at affliction quit the spec and every player that remained is incapable of getting the most from the spec and they all ended up plateauing at about the same DPS.
I’m sure every spec has diehards that are potentially just as good at getting the best performance out of their spec as FOTM players that are always switching specs.
But “Sow the Seeds” is where you think performance was lost?
No; that was just the best Warlock build last patch. Affliction went from being the best warlock spec to the worst. I think that’s the primary reason. And maybe it has a few “diehards,” but most players that put performance first will have switched this patch.
This would be true of all the specs at the bottom but there’s significant variation in the performance improvements for all of them.
Feral was dead last last tier but improved 45%
Assassination which is dead last this tier improved by 23%
But Affliction only gained 1%
Affliction is dead, why would you play a spec that put you at the bottom no matter what you do?
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/25#dataset=100