ty for viewing this post. Myself is a spriest player and spriest does rule last two tiers only because of favoured by boss design. If a dot caster doesn’t do well in CoS, then who will? Having said that, SP doesn’t even have a competitor in this tier. Where’s is other dot spec?
What makes no sense is only spriest can actually dot. While aff lock and bommie dot not even worth to cast, they appear to be ST dmg specs. Let alone aff ST dmg is barely more than mediocre.
Here’s the thing: should dot ability mean to be a damage method like spriest’s, or be a resource generation method like lock and boomie? I’m not comfortable with the idea that spriest being the exclusive dot spec, but is nerfing spriest the solution? Please be advised spriest is the only but also the last dot spec. Lest developers have the intention to eliminate multi-target play style, don’t remove spriest multi-target ability.
To sum up, developers need to buff aff and boomie to spriest level so that no spec can kingly rule a CoS like boss fight. Secondly, designers need to balance raid philosophy. For example, the burning throne is a good one. At the time we have too many multi-target boss fights.
For the sake of a healthy and enjoyable WoW, please leave comments and bump this post so that developers can see it. I understand how frustrated to be a bottom dps on meter because I’ve been through it and I whined for it. Let developers hear our voice so they will ruin the game no longer
I think people look way too much in chart bars, the actual difference between classes damage, are pretty minimal at best, and theres always a player element to it.
Charts and sims go under the impression the player on that class will be playing perfectly with 0 mistakes in the fight, and that’s just a silly thing to expect.
aff definitely was a classic dot spec while shadow spriest is more about void form rotation, and bdruid was meta to clean up spread adds. there’s still fields dot specs pro at
Statistics on Warcraftlogs are based on actual data from players and is segmented by percentile. By default it compares 75th percentile parses. You can also narrow it down to a small ilvl range to ensure gear is relatively equal. You can also choose specific boss fights to look at.
For the sake of OP’s argument, 75th percentile 409-411 ilvl players in Heroic CoS are pretty balanced. Until you look at the #1 slot, Shadow Priest, doing a solid 5k DPS more than everybody else. For both bosses. The gap between Shadow Priest and the #2 DPS is the same as the gap from the very dead last spec vs the #2 DPS.
It may change, as there aren’t very many parses yet for Heroic CoS, especially when you narrow it down to 1 ilvl bracket, but it’s unlikely to vary too wildly.
Because they changed Survival to a melee/ranged hybrid spec ( I kinda like it, though.) and Affliction to some weird burst spec instead of the rot spec it used to be ( I don’t like this.)
Shadow and Affliction basically swapped roles, but I miss devouring plague and shadow orbs for spriest, and Aff being a rot spec.
that’s true…but if they nerf shadow priest there will be no spec can deal with multi-target fight. what’s the point of making shadow, lock, boomie the same mech with other casters?