I Ranked EVERY Ranged DPS EASIEST To HARDEST

Which Ranged DPS are the easiest in The War Within? Which Ranged DPS are the hardest in The War Within? After playing all Ranged DPS specs in the new expansion here is a tier list on my thoughts. Let me know what you think!
Hope you enjoy!

Intro: 0:00
Demonology: 0:17
Destruction: 2:37
Affliction: 4:35
Arcane: 6:55
Fire: 9:58
Frost: 13:33
Beast Mastery: 15:53
Marksmanship: 18:34
Balance: 20:42
Devastation: 22:44
Augmentation: 24:49
Shadow: 28:07
Elemental: 32:20
Outro: 35:44

#worldofwarcraft #thewarwithin #mythicplus

[Kronnikk]

I’m too damn old now to do anything besides the easiest spec. I used to be obsessed with playing the best dps, change mains for the guild, & sweat hard as hell. But older I get, I Prio the most relaxing time possible above all else

[diegopereira]

I lived enough to see arcane mage going from the easiest arcane blast, arcane missiles procs and arcane barrage burn/conservative rotation to a master degree bigbrain cooldown management rotation

[adarvold]

the fact you can play all of these specs and explain their rotations is super impressive

[Draevon]

Thanks for the list and explanation of each spec. For those who think Vesperal doesn’t understand a class/spec, check out his videos. He has a video for each of them and his dps is insane with them all.

[thatswhyidrink]

I've been coming back to this video multiple times when thinking about what alts to level, idk how accurate any of it is, but you seem to know your stuff.

[stux]

As someone who doesn’t know shit about wow retail anymore; I completely agree with everything you said. Mainly to disagree with the people raging in the comments claiming their specs are actually harder than you said they are lol

[hmgrraarrpffrzz]

Personally I like elemental the most. So many buttons to press, elementals here, lightnings and magma stuff flying all over the place, the little ancestors helping out. Fun times.

[Chimeraiam]

Been a mage main forever and I always describe fire as a "chess" spec. Just like the game of chess, you can learn fire in about 10 minutes but you could spend the rest of the expansion trying to master it

[Sanguivore]

Quite helpful vid! Thanks, Vesperal. Returning to the game after a few years away so this info is useful.

[johnlhotalify]

Great content man. Always a good moment watching your vids. keep em coming!! :)

[sagacious-nvzt]

Overall solid, good content. Watching this makes me realize that there are a ton of things that go into making something 'hard' or making something 'easy'. People are initially better or worse at managing movement restriction, dots, procs, speed of button presses etc that skews perception. Or just the amount of time playing- for instance I have played demo for so long I find it much easier than destro. Also, I find frost hard, but only because all of the buttons look the same and have similar names- frost, glacial, blah blah blah- I lose track of what does what and lost interest to learn hahaha.

[Norinot]

Been a mage main for a long long time now, and I to this day (ever since TWW came out) say that IMO Frost is probably the hardest spec to play at the highest level right now.
Fire is as you said, very simple to play, below 5 targets you are not even using any actual AOE rotation, above 5 you just do the same ol same ol stuff but instead of pyroblasts you spam flamestrikes, how cool is that.
Arcane is also extremely simple, you have an opener that you just have to learn, deal with it, and then you have to track 3 passives, you can look at your buffs or create a weakaura for yourself to track the stacks you have and based on the buffs you cast barrage, its honestly very simple once you get the hang of it and you do yourself the justice of making a weakaura to just not even tell you what to do, just to say in a larger icon hey you have 2 stacks of 10% stackable buffs on your next barrage, its not like you can't see that anyways its just easier with a larger icon.

Frost on the other hand is different, firstly you have a fuckton of procs, your AOE rotation starts at like 3 targets, be mindful that your cone has to hit the target and its a cone, I've sometimes missed those, shatter mechanics are generally speaking not that hard, but minmaxing the shattering for glacial + comet is where this becomes more complicated than the other 2 specs especially if you have the muscle memory of flurrying right after the glacial because remember, you can shatter a comet, and AOE and ST rotations are already different, but with this becomes even more different, don't much fingers of frost, keep your things on cooldown, don't munch ice lance procs, keep in mind of your comet, target count is also important, you do start AOE rotation in a 3 pack scenario but you would depending on talents still go for single target cleave rotation there still, then the shatter + comet, keep in mind you can munch the shatters by accidental ice lances, also frost nova, is actually a thing you can use to make the target frozen, not shattering, but still a damage bonus that is there, overall there is just a lot of buttons to press, and then you have the shifting power there which depending on talent as you said can be a CD in itself. Also if you look at the statistics, frost has the lowest minimum DPS from the 3 mage specs, indicating also that there is a lot more than what meets the eye and its not all that easy, oh just shatter your abilities and keep everything on cooldown, yeah I guess but it won't give you amazing results, and for the latter 2, the core of the character is much much simpler, in terms of what to press and when to press simply because there is just less buttons to press in general, especially for Fire, for that I legit use like 6 buttons, fireball, blast, phoenix, Combustion, shifting, meteor and I guess you can also add flamestrike and scorch but both are situational, and one of them might not even be necessary to use at all based on talent choices, and my point isn1t even the buttons you have to press its more of the mental stuff, about what you have to keep in mind, first and arcane is literally braindamaged, you do the same thing regardless of AOE or ST, and you basically only deal damage inside your burn/big CD or miniburn/SKB and the rotation doesn't really change there also, just keep that 2 buff in mind and you are good to go, frost is definitely a thing I feel like a lot of people downplay because it was for a very long time considered the easiest and people say oh its very easy because lot of procs oof and I feel like it doesn't get the respect it deserves.



Also, I'll not play frost for this reason also, why would I shoot myself in the foot to have to constantly be on edge? Fire is said to be the hardest because you are on a really high APM, but realisticall you are pressing like 3 buttons on that maximum 17 second window where you have a high APM? lest call if 21, because you get SKB back from the 17second most optimal scenario during combustion itself so yeah. Frost is hard.

Edit: Honestly, I'm open to debate this, I could be wrong, but it does feel like this a 100% for me.

[robusmc]

That's a lot of work, thank you ❤

[bquirky]

i believe arcane after a missile, blasts then blasts(barrage), that way the 2nd blast + barrage combo both benefit from the 2nd nether precision . its gets bonkers with sunfury when they benefit from nether precision + burden of powder stacked :D Great breakdown on all the specs btw !

[Siferiax]

Love how in depth you went here! I need to choose a new spec to play as Balance Druid is causing me cognitive overload. It doesn't flow naturally and this raid tier with its insane amount of mechanics/movement is making it hard for me. I felt the insane difference after doing heroic BRD on my outlaw rogue for the first time (had only doing heroic with my Druid before) and feeling such incredible peace 😅 heck even my ele shaman that I now do normal palace on felt so much better. And I've been struggling with that shaman since forever, so it was very satisfying 😂
Seeing the placement of dev evoker makes me excited though. Really love the idea of the race/class. Will definitely level that further!

[JosephJohnson-gufw]

I play Elemental Shaman. I suck at every other class and spec. The Tauren Shaman Moocy has never let me down. We've been buds for 15 some years off and on.

[gehrillagaming]

I started playing elemental in Legion, which was also my first proper expansion in WoW, so I never really understood button bloat till I started playing other classes
I legit thought it was normal to have 50 places where I have spells, are bound to random keys or just SHIFT, CTRL or ALT combinations of numbers, where I have 6 of each of those btw
I'm at the point, where I have almost everything bound (except buff spells) and started unbinding other stuff, like the spell book and character buttons, so I don't accidentally blind myself with the map when I'm trying to put down a tremor totem

[nyth]

BM also has Master Handler now, which means you need to spread barbed shot dots in AoE to get maximum KC CDR. I think with that added the skill ceiling goes up a bit.
BM is still one of the easiest specs, but there is a bit more depth then people see at first sight. I love it because the rotation, while simple, is quite good; and I don't always need to play 3D Chess. I mean I like playing some of the more difficult classes too, but sometimes a solid simple approach is more fun. People just like to hate on it because of the low skill floor.

[janijani]

Note, i'm not a ret or bm main. (I play fury because i like to ZUG-ZUG) but BM is harder than ret imo. With BM you have to have better target selection and what i mean by that on AOE you gotta select your targets on a way that your beast cleave hits the most targets. And as you know on pugs all the mobs tend not to be all grouped up nice. On ret, it didn't seem to matter at all you can just roll in and push your buttons and dps meter goes brrr...

[grandaddy]

I've played about half the specs 'seriously' and I completely agree with your list!