Shadowlands 9.2 DPS Raid Tier List for Sepulcher of the First Ones - Dratnos and Tettles Predictions

Welcome to Dratnos' and Tettles' Patch 9.2 Shadowlands DPS Tier List predictions for the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid. They've made some predictions for raiding in Patch 9.2 based on PTR testing and current knowledge of the raid encounters, giving their thoughts on what the strengths and weaknesses of each DPS spec will be and how each spec will perform.

Disclaimers About This Tier List

This tier, we’ve changed a few things about how the Tier List was created. Rather than attempting to synthesize the opinions of all of our Class Writers, we’ve instead enlisted the aid of Dratnos and Tettles, who’ve done extensive PTR testing and preparation designed to get a good idea of where everything stands. Predictions in advance of a raid tier are difficult, so treat this as an interesting overview of what we think the metagame will look like, but don’t consider it the final word on anything.If you want to make an argument that your spec should be in a higher tier, you are saying that you do not believe it deserves a buff!

Patch 9.2 Shadowlands DPS Tier List Predictions for Sepulcher of the First Ones

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DPS Tier List Definitions

We’re defining each tier as follows for DPS:

S: Specs that we expect to dominate the compositions and the damage meters of raid compositions. The average number of copies of specs in this tier is usually three or higher, as they bring tremendous amounts of damage with useful damage profiles and often other helpful pieces of utility or defensive options. There are no DPS in this tier. A: Great specs that can work well in multiples, we’d be surprised to see raid compositions that are missing at least one copy of these. High single target damage output is almost always a Read more on wowhead.com