This is a summary of the most played specs/classes in S2 DF M+
The information is going to be off raider. io as I am only directly looking at statistics for M+
Specs and classes will be listed individually where classes themselves will have ONLY the DPS specs they have added to the total count.
This is data acquired from ALL keys levels.
Greatest-Least (INDIVIDUAL DPS SPECS)
- 154,276 - Retribution Paladins
- 109,907 - Shadow Priests
- 98,580 - Beast Mastery Hunters
- 89,305 - Fury Warriors
- 87,693- Devestation Evokers
- 78,937 - Destruction Warlocks
- 76,160 - Havoc Demon Hunters
- 70,457 - Marksmanship Hunters
- 64,936 - Balance Druids
- 62,782 - Frost Mages
- 62,289 - Demonology Warlocks
- 55,019 - Enhancement Shamans
- 49,738 - Subtlety Rogues
- 47,812 - Windwalker Monks
- 46,239 - Elemental Shamans
- 39,948 - Unholy Death Knights
- 37,202- Fire Mages
- 37,112 - Arms Warriors
- 31,972 - Feral Druids
- 28,776 - Frost Death Knights
- 25,157 - Outlaw Rogues
- 24,435 - Survival Hunters
- 23,228 - Arcane mages
- 12,772 - Affliction Warlocks
- 9,752 - Assassination Rogues
TOTAL CLASS REPRESENTATION FOR DPS CLASSES (DPS SPECS COMBINED)
- 193,472 - Hunters
- 154,276 - Paladins
- 153,998 - Warlocks
- 126,417 - Warriors
- 123,212 - Mages
- 109,907- Priests
- 101,258 - Shamans
- 96,908 - Druids
- 87,693 - Evokers
- 84,647- Rogues
- 76,160 - Demon Hunters
- 68,274 - Death Knights
- 47,812- Monks
Note: Individual characters, not total runs to clear up any misunderstandings. Also, each spec only counts for 1 singular character regardless of whether you multi-spec, the higher io spec gets determined instead.
Probably worth mentioning this looks to be across all key levels.
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It’s not that different if you filter to above 20’s.
Ret is still the most popular spec above 20 by miles because of the current busted state of DP and SoV having only 1 minute cooldowns on a class with immunities, LoH and self sustain options.
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I’m curious though, is that every run tallied? Or is there a cap on what you can retrieve?
Is that by run or character? If character, if I run as feral and balance do I show up in both tallies?
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It is unique character count, meaning no character is counted twice.
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Yes the very easy spec that can’t die is still popular
You can filter unique such that the same char in a different run doesn’t show twice, but I don’t know how it works per spec.
For example I’d show twice, once in the enh and once in the ele leaderboards. Which is interesting too as that 50k enhance number OP has is like that on the all runs leaderboard, but there are over 100k+ enh on the “spec” leaderboard. I prolly just need to relearn how raider.io leaderboards operate
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Each character is counted individually on all runs leaderboard, the reason why you see 100k enh on spec leaderboard is because it is not counted individually for spec leaderboards. A resto shaman who off plays enhance will get counted in the spec leaderboards thats why the number is so high. Hope that makes sense.
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Paladin 
I fell prey to the remake as well. That’s what I’m usually playing when I login.
Clink clang wooosh! Let’s go!
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That makes sense initially until I think about if my IO were equal on two specs, I guess only the higher one is counted in all runs? Good to know.
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Ret pally was my first ever character (this one I post on)… the rework in DF made the spec fun again. I had given up hope of being competitive and started running a MM Hunter in M+ for a while, but glad I can play my favorite toon again! 
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Thank you! I added it in, forgot to include that in the post. 
Yes, that is true, the higher one gets counted. When I was on my holy priest I had both shadow and holy rating but since my holy rating was higher, raider. io just automatically assumed that I was a healer main. There may be situations where the io may be the same for your specs but situations like this are rare and, in that case, it counts total runs instead to determine which spec is your “main”
This data says hunters are #1, so I’m going to blindly agree with it. 
I was actually thinking about trying windwalker, how is it? I always mistweave on my monk but never really tried the dps spec.
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I used to play Windwalker as an alt when I was maining Warlock pre Dragonflight before swapping to Mistweaver and remember it being really fun 
From what I’ve heard of the spec in Dragonflight though it is apparently very good at like AoE/Cleave but struggles in Single Target damage and going off what I’ve seen in the Monk forums suspect there’s likely more issues I’m just not aware of.
Like I’d recommend at least giving it a try in solo or low end content as it is quite fun to play but before you consider maining it or taking it into higher end content probably do some research and maybe make a post in the Monk forums asking WW monks about their experiences and thoughts.
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It’s like basically every other spec, which is fine except for meta sweatlords trying for 0.1% titles or fighting against insane pug requirements.
Break the meta was the most refreshing week of the entire season see assassination rogues and affliction locks in timed 28-29 keys during a non-push week (fort + bolstering).
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I enjoyed it! Tbh though I wasn’t sure why WW monk wasn’t included for break the meta. It is definitely considered one of the least played specs as far as I know… even the data here proves it.
I feel like the monk forums only ever talks about MW… BRM and WW are always shelved off lol… idk why. But ya I’ll def give it a try and see if I like it.
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