Easiest & Hardest DPS Specs to play in Wow Dragonflight

I said I'd do it, so I did it haha. Made a tier list of the easiest & most difficult to play DPS specs in wow. It's based off of my opinion and feedback from friends, guildies, and new players. Let me know if you agree with me and I appreciate all of the support fam! #wow #worldofwarcraft #wowdragonflight

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00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Frost Mage
02:16 - Arcane Mage
02:40 - Fire Mage
03:50 - Devastation Evoker
04:37 - Havoc DH
05:19 - Feral Druid
05:55 - Balance Druid
06:45 - Elemental Shaman
07:32 - Enhancement Shaman
08:08 - Beast Mastery Hunter
08:36 - Marksmanship Hunter
09:19 - Survival Hunter
09:50 - Frost DK
10:21 - Unholy DK
11:05 - Windwalker Monk
11:57 - Retribution Paladin
12:37 - Shadow Priest
13:22 - Affliction Warlock
14:09 - Destruction Warlock
14:51 - Demonology Warlock
15:19 - Arms Warrior
16:10 - Fury Warrior
16:44 - Subtlety Rogue
17:19 - Assassination Rogue
17:49 - Outlaw Rogue
18:23 - The final verdict/Thanks for watching!!

[Matt-rwqn]

I agree that Arcane is like trying to figure out a Rubix cube even with a online guide. Fires rotation itself isn’t to crazy but trying to perform it and have everything line up while avoiding dmg is tough.

[codymeade]

When you judge the difficulty, is it based on a similar benchmark like say parsing in the top 50% or is it just base on ur exp while ur played the spec and which my not be a accurate representation of the current state of the spec?

[stevanmiric]

I wish i had confidence of this guy. Knows absolutely nothing about the game and comes out and makes a video like this. Truly inspiring

[terryfunk]

I think its crazy to see havoc in the "easiest" category rn. I have mained every melee spec at some point except feral druid and i really feel that current havoc in keys is the hardest melee ive ever played because u need to use fel rush and vengeful retreat CONSTANTLY as part of ur rotation.

[collinpietrowski]

This is awesome, the only clss ive played before was dps demon hunter during shadow lands and it was super easy, now that im trying to play all sorts of different classes i find that as i invest into classes its frustrating to find out after 30 or 40 levels that my class has a 14-20 button rotation (looking at arcane lol) and it can be kind of demoralizing as a new player having to guy thru all the specs in the game watching 20-30 minute long videos on each one before i can decide if its worth an investment, this is awesome, really helps me pick what i want to level next thank you.

[noonecares]

been looking for a vid like this for a while

[polybius]

I really disagree on the DH spot. Since they’ve been released, they’ve been like the easiest class to play… but in DF it legit can be a hard spec with the Momentum build. You have to keep track of buffs, throw glaives at the right time, time abilities for Essence Break, make sure to use the backflip for energy Regen… it really isn’t as easy as it used to be anymore.

Frost Mage can be harder than Fire and Arcane, Feral is definitely NOT an “easy” spec… same with WW monk.

[dirtygerd]

Interesting you found sub the hardest spec. Both my mage and rogue are over 2.5k and I dropped my rogue because I found sub so boring. Most of your cds can be put in a single macro and you spend 90% of the time basically casting arcane nova while doing disgusting damage. Feels kinda cheap to play compared to my fire mage which feels more satisfying to get good damage. Thanks for the video.

I would put Feral at B tier at best. Managing bleed snapshotting, Pandemic (bleed re-application timing), and energy pooling all at the same time is not easy, and is necessary to play it well. You alluded to this, but in my recent experience it's enough that I wouldn't tell a new player it's an A-tier easy class to play. Good vid though, it's helpful even to veteran players debating which alts to level that don't require too much additional effort or investment to play well.

[davidsheen]

This is his opinion, of course if your rotation is spot on it will make any spec harder. I personally find SP prob the easiest over all the class and specs but that is just me. Fire mage prob has the least spells and he has it as hard, I dunno

[arielr]

I'm going to have to disagree with you on enhance vs. Ele, I have played a shaman for 13+ years. To this day, Emhace is a keybind spec, with situational nuance that has to be exploited within a single GCD, because the next GCD brings a nrw fork in the road. You have to get very comfortable daddy long-legging your keyboard with an arsenal of spells on your left while using your right to position and aim them. By no stretch is it a clicker spec. Elemental on the other hand, it can be a click spec, as it gives you ample time to respond to props, and proc priority. Any disruption to swing counter on enhance is devastating, so anything with a cast accidentally used that is not instant completely resets swing/proc generation. Almost a 10% DPS loss every mistake. It is much harder to gear, since almost every other class even healers are in your loot spec.

I play all 3 specs, most comfortable as enhance when anraid leader knows how to use me correctly and tanks are aware of our limitations. There is a lot of nuance, that no guide can really prepare you for.

I like the complexity specs that need a high skill cap. Rogues and disc priest are my next faves for thier complexity.

[iSchoefli]

As a rogue main who plays all specs in above 20 keys and mythic raid I'd honestly switch around the specs completely. It depends if you talk about picking a spec up initially or getting to a decent level.
Sub is really easy especially in m+ after you got the basic few buttons and timings. Single target maybe a bit harder to time everything correctly. Same goes for assa but assa in AoE requires a lot more thinking to actually get the most out of it imo.
Funny enough with outlaw I see the most players struggling with getting close to their possible DPS output. To play around your random buffs optimally, learning what everything does and especially keeping up with the rotation and your energy full. Personally I feel it often has the most room to min-max by quite a margin. While the base level seems rather simple at first glance. Personally the spec also took the longest to properly learn for me by far.

[jantatyrek]

As a mage player who currently plays all 3 specs in progress ... currently on diurna.. arcane is by far the hardest to execute.. fire and frost are much easier .. fires rotation is always the same no brainer single target rng with pyroclasm procs.. the only difference between top fire mages and the rest is by far the amount of externals that they can get.. also fire gets free cheat death which is prob the only thing that makes it feel good to play in progress ... frost doesnt need any externals to perform good.. but suffers horribly from downtime (razageth oh god).. arcane is the better spec because of its damage profile but its much harder to execute correctly.. try casting your damage window in any type of dodge mechanic or when the boss pulls or throws you around .. while fire can just jump around his rune throwing instant casts

[evydence]

Almost every class is easy to play but hard to master, doing a rotation is easy but knowing with what and when to combine to min max everything is hard.

[synitarthrax]

Havoc can be difficult if you go with movement style damage and has more to do with quick thinking vs tons of key presses. Also, there is a huge skill difference between a Frost DK Breath Build vs an Obliterate Build. Obliterate builds are brain dead easy. Breath is more about timing and that increases the difficulty. I agree however where you put them since you're going class vs class instead of build vs build. Good list!

[EtherPump]

Elemental Shaman, feels so shit to have as a main character. You either have to choose to do good damage or having a good time in raids...
You could play a build which revolves around making your ascendance as good as possible, extending it's duration and other good shit.
But instead of that, if you want to do viable dps in raids you're forced into a single build which deals lots of damage but is boring as shit...

[bend]

I would put shadow priest in a difficulty tier of its own, way too many buttons, and being a class that loves haste the apm is nuts.

[havanakrater]

im havoc, ive been playing havoc for 2 years now, got M+ 0, 1% title, and let me tell you, current version of havoc aint the easiest class for sure, some of best havocs says quite the opposite, you have highest APM of any dps in game, you have fury management, track dot uptime, target swaping for debuff, you have to track momentum to have good uptime and not overcaping it while it can misposition you and you can bodypull or take some frontal/whirlie etc, your fury generator charges you to target wich can be deadly, you need to combine lot of spells to make proper dps, you are melee wich needs to cast and stay in one place for a while wich makes you vunerable.
Ive played lot of classes and i rank current version of havoc the hardest one to master (in my opinion)

[hart]

For info, Havoc has become 1 of the more difficult specs to play properly. The gap between a well played Havoc and an average Havoc player is maybe the largest in all the classes. Thanks for the good content though, I appreciated your thoughts & views!

[toemasmeems]

I wouldn’t say that Druid is a class I’d recommend to any new player “here ya go, 20 buttons per shape shift, yeah it’s okay don’t worry about it”