Welcome to Wowhead's DPS Hunter Class Classic Guide, updated for! This guide will help you to improve as a DPS Hunter in all aspects of the game, improving your knowledge to face the hardest Dungeons and Raids from Classic WoW. Aug 17, 2018 You may be wondering what the best DPS class in WoW: Battle for Azeroth is. We've taken the time to rank them for you to help you decide how you will choose to take part in the wars to come.
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- Targets1
- Item Level445
- Encounter TypeMax
- 1Arcane MageView Breakdown48,112 DPS
- 2Beast Mastery HunterView Breakdown45,900 DPS
- 3Enhancement ShamanView Breakdown44,628 DPS
- 4Marksmanship HunterView Breakdown44,274 DPS
- 5Unholy Death KnightView Breakdown43,594 DPS
- 6Elemental ShamanView Breakdown43,383 DPS
- 7Balance DruidView Breakdown43,106 DPS
- 8Survival HunterView Breakdown42,588 DPS
- 9Havoc Demon HunterView Breakdown42,250 DPS
- 10Frost MageView Breakdown41,427 DPS
- 11Frost Death KnightView Breakdown41,237 DPS
- 12Windwalker MonkView Breakdown41,230 DPS
- 13Assassination RogueView Breakdown40,681 DPS
- 14Subtlety RogueView Breakdown40,619 DPS
- 15Fire MageView Breakdown40,606 DPS
- 16Feral DruidView Breakdown40,526 DPS
- 17Retribution PaladinView Breakdown40,424 DPS
- 18Destruction WarlockView Breakdown39,808 DPS
- 19Demonology WarlockView Breakdown39,749 DPS
- 20Affliction WarlockView Breakdown39,078 DPS
- 21Outlaw RogueView Breakdown38,814 DPS
- 22Shadow PriestView Breakdown35,864 DPS
- 23Arms WarriorView Breakdown28,754 DPS
- 24Fury WarriorView Breakdown28,511 DPS
DPS Rankings Overview
These rankings are created using SimulationCraft, a program that is highly tested and trusted for simulating in-game encounters with characters.
We use SimulationCraft because simulators permit a high degree of control by allowing us to use specific talents, rotations, gear, possible boss mechanics, etc. to arrive at repeatable results that can be compared across specs and time. Also, simulators allow us to average out results from thousands of fights to get a feel for how a spec performs all of the time and not in one amazing fight.
If you are curious to learn about the simulation fight encounters of Max and Real, we recommend to read our past articles that describe them in Part I and Part II.
Common Questions
The damage meters for my boss fights look very different than these rankings. Why?
There are any number of reasons why in-game results will differ from simulated (or log based) results. A few common differences include the following.
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- Fight Length: Dungeons and LFR raids often have shorter fight durations which can result in much higher DPS as the value of DPS cooldowns is greatly increased in short fights.
- Multiple Targets: The current DPS rankings offer strictly single-target and splash-AoE (1 main target+2). There are scenarios in-game where there are a lot more targets which can allow for much more aggressive AoE.
- Player Variables: Skill, latency, gear, a lucky string of crits, etc. can all significantly impact in-game DPS. Rankings can help represent general trends, but they’ll rarely predict the outcome of a specific encounter with all its unique factors.
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How do these rankings compare to other sources that use raid logs to show spec comparisons?
Raid log sites offer a perspective on how some of top players are performing with each spec. These rankings can be helpful to understand how specs are faring in the current raid tier and often reveal unexpected synergies between specific specs and boss encounters. However, log based sites are subject to their own data problems including players who artificially boost their DPS by employing technical or social exploits, changes in popularity of specs, uneven sample sizes, and generally unrepeatable or uncontrolled results.
While simulators allow us to get a feel for how a spec performs all of the time through averaging out thousands of fight results, it is important to note that simulators are generally weak when modeling specific fights in a raid tier, and additionally they rely on data that is as good as the theorycrafting community is able to produce.
Overall, no single DPS ranking is perfect and they should all be considered when evaluating specs. Simulators and log based solutions both offer value to the WoW community.
- Targets1
- Item Level445
- Encounter TypeMax
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SimulationCraft DPS
(Beta) DPS Rankings Breakdown
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Enemy Targets1
Item Level445
EncounterMax
DPS41,427
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When creating DPS Rankings, we simulate every combination of talent builds for Frost Mage's to find the maximum DPS under various settings (Targets, Item Levels, Encounter type etc.) Below is additional information from the simulations that resulted in the highest DPS (41,427) using the above settings. This can help give a visual on certain abilities, buffs and talents you may be curious about when min/maxing your character.
Warning: Due to a bug with SimulationCraft, some abilities do not get logged despite being used in the actual simulations.
As a result some spells may be missing in these reports.
- Damaging Abilityavg. % of total damage done
- 1 Glacial Spike54.325%⇣ more
- 2 Ice Lance19.259%⇣ more
- 3 Frostbolt9.631%⇣ more
- 4 Leviathan Chomp Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this!7.827%⇣ more
- 5 Potion Of Unbridled Fury Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this!3.402%⇣ more
- 6 Shiver Venom Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this!2.861%⇣ more
- 7 Frost Blast Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this!1.35%⇣ more
- 8 Tidal Droplet Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this!1.346%⇣ more