Phase 2 Warcraft Logs Analysis Burning Crusade Classic - Arcane Mages Still on Top
Today we've got a wrap-up of the tier 5 raiding DPS rankings. For the absolute highest parses and most damage done, there is less diversity than there was during tier 4. Arcane Mages are hogging over half of the top 200 spots across both Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern. The remaining spots are taken by Destruction Warlocks, Fury Warriors, and both Survival and Beast Mastery Hunters. For this analysis we have used data from Warcraft Logs Statistics pages for Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep, accessed on 1/26/2022 for both Phase 2 and Phase 2.5. Warcraft Logs Serpentshrine Cavern & Tempest Keep Statistics Page
Disclaimers and SourcesThe data for DPS ranking is taken from the Warcraft Logs Serpentshrine Cavern & Tempest Keep Statistics Page for the 95th percentile. There are a few things to take into consideration before we delve into the data:
Talent specializations that are believed to be weaker are generally played less, which causes them to appear slightly weaker than they actually are. Performance-oriented players tend to choose the classes and talent specializations that are believed to be the best. This further increases the gap between the top and bottom talent specializations. Considering only the 95th percentile means we are only looking at the top 5% of the representatives of each class and specialization — 19 out of 20 players will not perform at this level. This is done to filter out the people who enjoy the game without fully maximizing their character's effectiveness in raids. That is a totally okay thing to do, but not what we are interested in here. We are looking at only boss damage. Classes with strong multi-target damage abilities will move up in the rankings when considering overall boss Read more on wowhead.com
