Definitive, Undisputed, Unbiased Class/Spec Tier List

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S Tier- Meta Defining/Warping

Holy Paladin
Fire Mage
Arms Warrior
Retribution Paladin
WW Monk

A Tier- Very strong specs with some counterplay or weakness preventing S tier.

Balance Druid
Shadow Priest
Disc Priest
Sub Rogue
Elemental Shaman
Enhancement Shaman
Resto Shaman

B Tier- Good as a support to the meta classes, has some sauce but not the main dish. Mostly average.

Frost DK
Feral Druid
Frost Mage
Prot Paladin
Holy Priest
Affliction Warlock

C Tier - Under tuned but not unplayable. Always better options but youre not a complete troll

Unholy DK
Havoc Demon Hunter
Resto Druid
Marksmanship Hunter
Survival Hunter
Fury Warrior
Assassination Rogue
Destruction Warlock

F Tier- Yucky ducky tier. Avoid unless you’re a ride or die fan.

Bm hunter
Arcane Mage
Outlaw Rogue
Demonology Warlock
MW monk
The other tank specs

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Havoc Demon Hunter

holds back demonic sobbing

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:frowning: So sad…

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Arcane too low, assassination too low, WW POSSIBLY too low.

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Ww too low, assassination too low, AFF too high

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I feel like ww/balance druid, mm hunter could go up a tier and frost mage/aff lock could be brought down one.

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WW/Ele are S, Enhance is B by your definition. Its main role is to support an S Tier spec. Its very, very good at doing that but there’s a reason it has like 1 great comp.

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While I agree with WW and Ele being high A low S. Enh is definitely A tier. It has literally the melee version of combust. Every 1.5 min nuke entire team, every 1min doom winds to do insane burst and then every 3min with doom winds you can global someone.

Yah enh is disgusting.

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Heartstop chains is on the same level as every other defining melee according to everybody with eyes that I know

I’m sorry if dk isn’t fun but pretending it’s worse than the other broken melee is disingenuous

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If there was a tier between A and S WW, and Ele would be there.

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arcane isn’t actually that bad

if you’re not super aware of what they’re doing they can set up 20-25k arcane barrage dumps

there’s no destro atm to enable that entirely but arcane godcomp has teeth forsure

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Its super telegraphed and predictable though, in perfect conditions yeah its disgusting but on its own its a lot more manageable than the pressure from most other melees atm. It needs the support from a melee with more consistent pressure and powerful CC to initiate goes. Aka Warrior (i imagine WW/Enhance could work too, Beastcleave could also potentially be back later if Blizzard fix the pet issues).

I don’t play it, idc about defending it. Just the way i feel playing agains’t it versus arms/ret/ww.

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Destro c tier and feral a tier lmo

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Changed WW to S tier they was A tier by mistake.

I don’t think ele is S yet but next patch with the buff to fleshcraft they might be

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Enhancement Shaman does not belong in the same tier as Disc, Rsham, Spriest, Boomy, or Ele. There are 6…SIX Glad Enh Shams while there are 580 Glad Disc Priests, 419 Spriests, 257 Boomies, 221 Eles, and 189 Rshams.

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I understand that. But their go isn’t as much set up as Ele or hunter and definitely not telegraphed any more than just pressing windfury totem and getting doom winds.

While they are squishy for a melee, they do have insane healing potential and function on many comps. Enh/destro, Enh/MM (there’s a 2.8k on ladder), Enh/war, Enh/ret, Enh/WW, Enh/spriest. Turbo is just the easiest thing to play because of how oppressive it is, but Enh is literally an A tier spec because they do not need to leech off an S tier spec to be good. Turbo is just their absolute best comp due to synergy and toolkits.

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Fair enough. Might just not have enough experience agains’t it. Def never seen half the comps you mentioned.

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this can’t possibly be true

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spriest, boomy, ele, and sub should be bumped up to s tier imo everything in s tier should be s+ tier

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Rep doesn’t always paint the whole picture. All three specs of shaman are viable, and enhancement is historically the lowest repped spec of shaman, even when viable. Demon hunters, for example, were “low rep” through a lot of legion and BFA, even when the general consensus was that they were OP. Hunter is also generally lower rep, even when good. I agree with enhance being A instead of B because it actually does more in turbo than just support the warrior. I would actually argue that the warrior does more to support the enhance than the other way around in that comp.

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