Originally Posted by
miffy23
Well, just about every other one to be quite fair.
Shadow is quite excellent in every aspect except maybe sustain AoE, Balance is better at mobility and spread cleave thanks to dotting. Hunter is the usual, Mage ditto. Warlocks are struggling a bit atm pending further tuning, but they'll get their spot regardless thanks to portals.
Elemental is pretty much at the mercy of having to deliver quite excellent overall DPS, or be outperformed in pretty much every niche situation except for ST burst (it's excellent, but sustain drops hard, so it ends up being average overall).
It should be noted that people have been reporting very positively about Elemental in Mythic+ thanks to Earthquake's Knockback, despite its weaksauce AoE. In a combo with some good cleave/AoE specs it does well thanks to its good ST burst damage.
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Which is why I said we perform well in that niche, and not outstandingly.
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If you want to min/max utterly, pretty much yes.
Ele is not alone in that regard, Mage outshines every other spec except perhaps Shadow for its cheesy Execute potential atm.