On average, which classes would you rank from strongest to weakest? Lore prospective.
I think things have become a little more blurred than compared to a few years ago, there are more classes, and more feats of power from each class, but i think the general gist is.
1: Warlock
2: Mage
3: Priest
4: Evoker
5: Dh
6: Druid
7: Shaman
8: Dk
9: Paladin
10: Monk
11: Rogue
12: Warrior
13: Hunter
What do you think?
Hard to tell without examples. What places monks above rogues, hunters, and warriors?
Monks are effectively a type of enhanced warrior, they use spirit, which is essentially a form of magic, to enhance their attacks.
The average monk, is likely quite a bit stronger than the average warrior, hunter or rogue.
Reasons: A novice Warlock is significantly more powerful than a novice Mage. However a master Mage is vastly more powerful than a master Warlock.
Mages are universally/cosmically powerful. They can alter matter at will, manipulate time and space and can create matter from nothing. Warlocks who delve into Fel start out strong and then plateau quickly. While mages only get stronger.
Illidan who is the most powerful Demon Hunter has lost to Arthas the most powerful Death Knight twice. And that was before Arthas became the Lich King. It’s 2/0 Death Knight.
Druid vs Shaman. Wild God magic vs Elementals. We know that even the Elemental Lords are weaker than the Wild Gods. We saw this when Cenarius, Maulfurion and Hamul were able to defeat Ragnaros who is said to be the strongest of the Elemental Lords. Cenarius is a Wild God of sorts (demi-god… small g) and the other two are just master Druids.
And Shaman don’t borrow power from elementals anywhere near as strong as the Elemental Lords, but Druids harness the power directly from the Wild Gods.
Xera who is a prime Naru had her hold on Illidan broken through shear willpower and physical strength and then was destroyed with a single (mind you, powerful) attack. Which suggests that The Light isn’t as strong as people want to believe it is. Priest is above Pally because of the connection they have to the Old Gods.
Monks have chi and training from the August Celestials. I’m not sure whether or not they actually use any of their power or if it’s all chi based.
Rogues are higher than Warrior since stealth is now canon as proper invisibility.
And then armour and weapon mastery beats out arrows.
Not historically it doesn’t.
It does in a universe where a regular human dude has enough super strength to take down a fel reaver by himself. (Varian before he dies.)
I’m not really up on my lore, but Arthas was a regular DK between being a pally and being the LK?
No, a master warlock is basically as strong as a master mage.
You’re overestimating dk, from what i remember Arthas was significantly empowered, you’re also ignoring that there are shadow priests, which are definitely extremely powerful and i think you’re also underestimating normal priests simply due to the illidan thing.
For all we know, illidan might have become way more powerful by that point too.
this list is legit but i would at least put warlock above druid
mage warlock evoker for me are top 3 though i dont know where to put them at 1, 2, 3 respectively
I’m these rankings we should have a disclaimer in “average member of the class in lore” or are we ranking “strongest known person of that class”.
Because otherwise thrall’s history (and others) with shaman would have to move shaman up the list.
He was. When he picked up Frostmourne it turned him onto a regular DK. That scene where he returns home and kills his Dead, he’s just a regular DK at that point. Then he returns back to Northrend to find the frozen throne and don the helm turning into the lich king.
And he fought Illidan twice before becoming the Lich King.
I put Warlock over Mage simply because if you throat punch the Warlock its minions can still kill you while the Mage is rolling around gasping for air.
Saurfang soaks like three arrows in that BfA cinematic and still leads the counter charge. Fantasy fiction doesn’t work quite the same way as historical non-fiction. If it did our tanks would look like they went through a can crusher on the pull.
I don’t believe that. A master of Arcane magic can create literal other dimensions. See Malygos’ Eye of Eternity.
They can bend space, time and gravity. Even the player mage can do this.
Warlocks can summon powerful demons, sure, but they’re not all THAT powerful. Mannoroth who was said to be one of the more powerful Legion generals was killed by a dude with an axe.
He had Frostmourne. I’ll give you that. But a DK that’s not the most powerful form being able to take out a DH who is the most powerful still sais a lot.
Who? Natalie Salene? Talanji? Neither of them are top tier powerful.
The Naaru are the literal physical embodiment of The Light. Like the Titans are for Arcane and the Wild Gods are for Nature. They’re literally the most powerful light users in the physical universe. Xera being a prime puts her on the top. And Illidan merked her so fast. No priest or Pally is as strong as her and therefore don’t stand a chance against even DH.
This is conjecture at this point. It’s not even an argument.
Twice?
They were evenly matched their first fight.
Arthas won their second fight but I want to see the rematch.
Thanks! 
Have you seen Malfurion? Dude held together an entire zone from breaking off into the ocean with like… wind and tree roots.
Blizz had to actively create a quest line where he gets sidelined for an entire patch because he would have single handedly solved the entire Fyrakk and Druid of the Flame issue. Lol.
Yea Malfurion is crazy strong.
Warlocks have the edge when it comes to pure destructive power though.
Mages are far more versatile, but raw destructiveness is pretty much what fel magic is good at.
I think you’re definitely underestimating warlocks, there is a reason why so many mages swapped from the arcane to the fel.
A master mage is likely just as powerful or almost as powerful as a master warlock but more versatile, but a master warlock in terms of the amount of raw damage they can do, they are crazy strong.
Are you ranking them by raw destructive power or just overall power. Warlocks are strong but they cant really do anything but destroy, the strongest show of warlock(not a demon the managed to summon in, theyre different) power being draenor and that was partially an accident.
Mages can manipulate time and existence while also having the destructive force to solo the avatar of sargeras if we’re looking at the strongest examples, who would be the guardian, aszhara and jaina.