Specs Rating BEFORE and AFTER Shadowlands release: What Changed? Were the predictions right?



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Let’s look back at the predictions before the release of Shadowlands; Which were the specs supposed to be very strong, which weren’t, have the specs maintained their promises? Who are the surprises? Have any bold predictions paid off?

0:00 The pre-release buzz
1:20 The FOTM
2:15 The Underachievers
3:00 The Middling
4:48 Correct Predictions: Hunter & Rogue
6:40 Wrong Predictions: UHDK & Mage
9:31 Balance Druid?
10:18 Tanks
12:11 Healers & Healing Profile
17:03 MWM
18:02 Your calls?

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50 thoughts on “Specs Rating BEFORE and AFTER Shadowlands release: What Changed? Were the predictions right?”

  1. Video in the background pretty much sums up why I changed back to BM from MM at the start of Xpac. Both you and druid pumping more straight up, but during the boss encounter BM ends up being great value.

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  2. shit video when world first guyilds are running prot warrior and vengenance DH for their tanks and u have them at a D. why would the best of the best run the worst of the worst?

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  3. You know what is the problem with this expansion? How impactful is the covenant to the spec, of course, i like they give me the signature armor, but i don't like they give me a borrowed power system, and this is so unbalanced, for example, the best right now for enhacement is venthyr because it syncs good with ms weapon, but the best for elemental is necrolord

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  4. As a warlock main. Demo is super slept on. Destro is stupidly underwhelming however. Sure aff is ofc the best of the 3 specs for raid due to the single target damage. But in a medium-big pack in f.ex. mythic+ demo reigns supreme. I play demo in every single dungeon and ive yet to be beaten in aoe by an aff warlock.

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  5. I just don’t understand why they are not buffing warrior. Both specs are actually fun and their kits feel good to use but just the numbers are off. Like they give fury 5% buff when they do 50% less dps than the top specs. Ye that 5% will do it sure great balance.

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  6. I think it's also worth noting with Mistweaver that the percentage of players who have a monk ready to reroll to is also far lower than that of other classes, so even if they were FOTM, I think they would still struggle to see similar play percentages compared to other popular classes. The playstyle is also quite different so that makes them less likely to be a spec that is rerolled to as well – essentially even if they were really strong, I don't think they would see a high play percentage.

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  7. My biggest surprise this expansion was feral druid. One of my friends plays feral for a couple of expansions now and they were always a very niche, anime weeb furry spec. I guess they finally can show off their teeth. 😅 Personally I am not surprised about the other specs. I main shadow and offspec discipline and I expected priest to overall be very played.

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  8. 16:00 That's what I'm worried about for prot pally. Same as bfa. High keys, we will get slapped. Will have to switch to a defensive lego and lose our damage. At that point just get a druid or brewmaster.

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  9. Shadow priest not S tier, Pi is confusing on warcraftlogs. Majority of sp's pi themselves but Pi to hunter is better dps gain. Top rguilds have zero Sp right now in their team.

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  10. I really hope Frost scales very well with more gear. It's fun as hell to play. I find it odd that Fire is doing so well this early into the new xpac. Usually they start average and get godly later when the crit secondary starts stacking more. As of right now i'm keeping BM and Frost ready since those are only 2 specs i enjoy playing. Also don't agree with your rating of prot warrior and Veng DH. Both are being used in mythic world first races for a reason. They are actually pretty dam solid…

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  11. wow addicts are so obnoxious… "wahhhhh these spreadsheets say my class is bad wahhhh" Yall are obviously substituting wow achievements for your lack of real life ones.

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  12. Outlaw rogue is straightforward only for those who don’t try to use its full potency. Otherwise it is the most dynamic and difficult to adapt with changing priorities. Subtlety is easier.

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  13. I was also wrong, i saw unholy and wanted to main it because it looked fun to play. Had no idea the damage would be so solid, although i would like to not see another Dk nerf because tbh unholy hasnt been the best dps since WotlK. And even then it was tough to be top dps against fire mages or fury warriors.

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  14. BM is quite a bit worse than people suggested it would be. https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26# https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#difficulty=4 https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#difficulty=3 https://thelootdistrict.com/pvphub/representation/role/?rating=1800 It's bad enough that I'm being forced into MM in my raids. Am I the only one? NO A 'B' is suspiciously high for a spec that's likely to get you inst-kicked from M+ groups or Heroic Raids. On top of that, I'm extremely disappointed it's not doing better in Arena. I wanted to main my Hunter in PvP and PvE, but it's not great for PvP unless I want to go MM (which I hate, and which isn't what it was a couple weeks ago).

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  15. I love how every YouTuber just ignores how they fucked frost mage over so hard by talking about how strong it was gonna be even though they just got nerfed over and over again!

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