A free for all battleground would fucking rock ass and socks off body. Every man for himself (ladies too) with lots of corridors.
A free for all battleground would fucking rock ass and socks off body. Every man for himself (ladies too) with lots of corridors.
you have to take into consideration that druid has 4 specs/roles. a warlock/mage is just a caster dps
if my calculations are correct there are 11 classes and 23 spec/roles.
if you really wanna see which is most populair you also have to take those things into account
Really nice to see the balance among class specs is mostly equal these days but the class poll frustrates me because the options are not sorted alphabetically.
Would also be interesting to resort the graph by class/role as well, since rogues seem under-represented, but partly because they can only fufill one role.
Comparing with previous expansion the most relevant things I see is: more hunters and warlocks, less mages and rogues.
Hunters on DS were really bad, warlocks this expansion are the most powerful class no debate there, rogues on DS probably were more because legendary and mages this expansion suck hard (light version of a warlock)
I wonder if blizzard is still unhappy with the warlock revamp. Looking at these statistics they've been a huge succes, they were the 2e least played class before that.
Now part of it is also that they gave warlocks a hero class treatment with lots of utility and making sure they perform really well on dps (mage and i'm allright with the latter not the former :P).
Hmm but this is raiding as well so it's a bit hard to tell compare the overal statistics i seen last. Paladin has always been the highest but druids probably beat them because SoO favours resto druids.
You can also notice that warriors and DK's arn't gaining the benefit popularity hybrids have. Probably has to do that the raidcomposition is extremely limited to the number of tanks. Combine that with raids prefering more ranged spots than melee and they have a lot of competition on their spots and resulting in a decline of desire to do that role.
I think it would be more interesting to see this typ of stats based on role. Tanks, Healers and DPS, that way we would get a decent picture of what classes/specs needs buffs/nerfs or reworks to make them more interesting to play.
If we take druids as an example (the example is completely made up), knowing that a lot of people plays druid doesn't say a lot, maybe if we looked at role we would find out that druid tanks is really rare compared to warrior/paladin/dk/monk tanks and that resto is far more common then priest/paladin/shaman/monk.
If we had that type of information we could start looking at what's causes it, does druid tanks need a buff? Or is they more boring to play compare to other tanks? If the first one, buff them, if the second one revamp them.
And if we look at dps, what if five times as many warlocks has killed Garrosh hc then paladins, then maybe warlocks needs a nerf, pallys needs a buff, retris is very boring to play and needs a revamp or maybe holy or prot is so op that paladins are forced to play that instead of retri and holy/prot needs a nerf.
Im not surprised Death Knights are on the lower part of the list. I would think its because the fact you have to level up your first toon to Lvl55 in order to play DK. By then, most likely that toon would already be your main.
Monks, well nobody rly likes a panda in this kind of games....I hope Blizzard gets a bit mature now...
If I was a betting man, I would wager that the majority of those druids, are feral. Thankfully I am not a betting man, and as such I won't lose whatever I would have had to wager. WTB more feral love.
I would love to see a separate 10/25 man chart, given I was surprised to see mages so far behind locks even if locks are (and have been) fairly beasty.
Because Monks *have* to be Pandas, right?Monks, well nobody rly likes a panda in this kind of games....I hope Blizzard gets a bit mature now...
Your monitor settings might be faulty. background is yellow-ish bar is white.
@Chaud: I think a black border around the white bars, equal to the white border around the other colors could make them easier to see.
@Twitter SPriest discussion: It's hilariously depressing to see how Blizzard fights teeth and claw against shadow priest getting proper single target damage. I really wished that one of those Blizzard DEVs was stuck with a shadow on a fight like H-Malkorok, so he can feel how utterly frustrating it can be to be so far behind.
would have put paladins higher druids at the top sounds right though (quad spec can be amazing for progression)
A lot of rogues / warlocks uesd for Garrosh heroic? Surprise....
So arcane slow is intentionally PvP nerfed. Glad to see stupid gameplay aka 5.4 warrior is still rewarded to play, yet people that actually want to use something semi-broken and make it work get fucked over.ž
After playing warlocks for 8 years I can safely say that the revamp made a 180 change and made me and a lot of old locks quit; the class mechanics have very little to work like they did in cata and all before.I wonder if blizzard is still unhappy with the warlock revamp. Looking at these statistics they've been a huge succes, they were the 2e least played class before that.
Now part of it is also that they gave warlocks a hero class treatment with lots of utility and making sure they perform really well on dps (mage and i'm allright with the latter not the former :P)
Anyways, they are a PvE fotm for the whole xpac and require a small amount of brainwork for LFR porpuses to reach top dps, so not much will change.
While the information isn't nearly as comprehensive, seeing as it's drawn from parses voluntarily posted, raidbots has some info by spec that looks at this. It doesn't seem to have data for heroic kills past Thok, so we'll use that as the furtherest in we have data for.
The average percentage for a DPS spec is ~4.3%, for healers ~16.7%, and for tanks 20%. Thus we can see that for this fight (Thok 25H) Arms Warriors, Demo Warlocks, and MM Hunters are incredibly under-represented, but as other specs in those classes aren't, this is probably because they've all changed spec. We can be comfortable saying that this isn't the case with the unpopular WW Monk, and nor is it the case with the popular Shadow Priest. It's more straightforward with tanks (Warriors and Paladins good, DKs and Druids bad), and healers (Monks and Holy Priests are out, Disc is in).Code:DPS Spec # parses Percent DK Frost 1293 5.4 DK UH 368 1.5 Dru Bal 1481 6.2 Dru Cat 586 2.5 Hunt BM 1057 4.4 Hunt MM 44 0.2 Hunt SV 1986 8.3 Mage Arc 977 4.1 Mage Fire 1551 6.5 Mage Fr 394 1.6 Monk MM 680 2.8 Pal Ret 1614 6.8 Pr Shad 1670 7.0 Rog Ass 568 2.4 Rog Cbt 1905 8.0 Rog Sub 273 1.1 Sham Ele 862 3.6 Sham Enh 642 2.7 WL Aff 1378 5.8 WL Demo 133 0.6 WL Dest 2144 9.0 War Arms 86 0.4 War Fury 2203 9.2 Total 23895 100.1 Heal Spec # parses Percent Dru Resto 1844 17.3 Monk MW 930 8.7 Pal Holy 1960 18.4 Pr Disc 2394 22.4 Pr holy 701 6.6 Sha Resto 2846 26.7 Total 10675 100.1 Tank Spec # parses Percent DK Blood 476 15.8 Dru Bear 330 11.0 Monk BM 517 17.2 Pal Prot 866 28.8 War Prot 821 27.3 Total 3010 100.1
Here is the DPS, this time by class:
The average percentage is ~9.1%, so we can see that all pure DPS classes are 'over' represented, with Warlocks way over. We can also see that Monks are really suffering, of the other hybrids Warriors are doing well and everyone else is about average (for a hybrid). Thus the apparently very popular Shadow Priest is actually of average popularity when you allow for the pures being spread over several specs (the same goes for Retribution Paladins).Code:DPS Class # parses Percent DK 1661 7.0 Druid 2067 8.7 Hunter 3087 12.9 Mage 2922 12.2 Monk 680 2.8 Paladin 1614 6.8 Priest 1670 7.0 Rogue 2746 11.5 Shaman 1504 6.3 Warlock 3655 15.3 Warrior 2289 9.6 Total 23895 100.1
Obviously whether pures should be more highly represented to allow for their lack of role flexibility is arguable, and one would need to use data from more than one fight to get a good picture, and so on, though a cursory look shows DPS following broadly the same pattern over the whole raid.
Maybe if Blizzard buffs S priests, all the warlock re rollers will dust off their priest? Never seen so many struggling locks that clearly have little grasp on the class despite the class overhaul / simplification out and about in the world, in pug raids and bg's etc.
I'd suggest adding another boss or doing a different breakdown by bosses. Little confused on the reasoning behind Dark Shamans especially, as it isn't a major milestone or step up in difficulty or roadblock.
Suggestion: Immerseus, Malkorok, Thok, Garrosh. Anyway, Malkorok and Seigcrafter are major milestones or step ups in difficulty and was hoping a better way to represent the bosses perhaps, or heck just do all the bosses if you can fit it.
Idk an accurate way to measure spec representation, but if you can find a way to report it, it would be far, far more useful than class representation in for heroic raiding.
I could only comfortably fit 3 bosses, so the first, last, and one in the middle were what I picked. I could grab data for all of them, but I'm not sure it would show anything very interesting.
If I could tell what spec someone was at the time of a kill I would! There just isn't any super reliable way to do so.