Having played the ranged DPS specs, this is my “tier” list of difficulty and the skill-cap ceiling of each spec from hardest to master to easiest. I’m sure there are other more knowledgeable experts here on GD - let me know where you would shift things around.
S (hardest difficulty and hardest to master): fire, shadow, arcane
A: aff, demo
B: boomie, ele
C: frost, destro, MM
D (braindead): BM
I would say change D to F or even Z rank. BM deserves to stay alone on that tier though. The training wheels babymode DPS spec.
Agreed. I did find BM to be really simple without much depth.
All of them are brain-dead
Destro should be S. It’s a lot of work to click Rain of fire over and over. I had to buy a finger brace for that spec… It ain’t easy!
vanilla frost mage s tier
Brain Dead difficulty = most reliable DPS.
Less chance to screw up = less of a liability to everyone else.
They’re relative to each other. Unless you’re saying playing a fire mage at a high level is the same difficulty as playing BM at a high level?
Yes, and they laugh at your tiers, evaporate your tears, and salt yo momma’s fries with them.
I have no further input. 
Ele is very simple to play so I’d drop it to C.
I think MM should be D tier or lower, it’s a really fun spec that doesn’t have all the useless nonsense that ruin many other specs. Yes it’s harder without the tier set and current bis legendary, but right now it’s perfect aside from two buttons that don’t need to exist and not being able to lust without pet. I think it is why the spec is popular as well, little button bloat, no nonsense.
Clunkmaster or hard doesn’t mean good. For example, shadow.
I’d honestly put boomy in C or maybe even D. When I first started, doing AoE was the only thing I had trouble with.
The 4pc made boomy even easier this patch.
Feral is the hardest to master, BM is the easiest.
That’s because you probably don’t know the micro managing BM requires to do good damage.
The issue with BM is even if you are bad at the game you can still push KC and do decent damage.
I’d not go too deep into the comment. Getting a DK to grip in pvp believe it or not can be hard to do. ITs their one job. when on my fdk…I am there for grip. Grip and slappy hands. Not all accept this. Emphasis on the grip though.
then you make it harder…you ask them to grip one thing specifically. and they don’t do it. The one thing they have to do.
I love a good ranged feral druid
I can’t put ranged as the hardest to master, that’s against the melee creed.
Which one has the least buttons or sequence that can be macro for low input high dps?