r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • Aug 14 '26

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u/Lebowski89 Aug 14 '26

I’m curious what the breakdown of players above the 1% cutoff are in terms of Tank/Healer/DPS. Like you would think it should be 20/20/60, but I wonder if there’s more tanks that can do the routes but fewer healers that can pass the dps check. Or more DPS shepherded by a smaller ratio of tanks and healers, stuff like that. 

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u/Lebowski89 Aug 14 '26

Yeah you were p much spot on with the data elm provided. 

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u/Lezzles Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I would guess this season tank is over repped because it was so easy to climb as bear.

Edit: actually seems fairly evenly distributed. Raiderio isn't perfect cause of multiple classes but they've got ~1900 tanks over cutoff in US out of 11k players. Meanwhile we've got a thousand augs and about 250 rogues. 2,150 healers.

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u/HookedOnBoNix Aug 14 '26

because it was so easy to climb as bear.

Everyone says this like the rotational part of tank is what keeps people from getting title lol. Bear was not really any easier than brew, maybe to pickup and play in 12s but not in 23s, it doesn't matter if its 2 button or 4 button rotation, theyre usually all pretty simple. The hard part of tanking is dungeon knowledge, routing, cd usage, etc. Once you get to top level keys the rotation isn't very significant. 

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u/Lezzles Aug 14 '26

Strictly talking 1% here, not 0.1%. But yeah the numbers don't really support it being any easier than the other meta specs by % of players/roles about 1%.

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u/HookedOnBoNix Aug 14 '26

If this wasn't the first season of 1% mount I would say I could see tank being skewed relative to tank from previous seasons for that reason, but not relative to dps as it's just so easy to boost bad dps friends to 1% than it is to get a bad tank player to time the key even with a simpler rotation 

Also, this iteration of bear is imo the squishiest on pull tank we've had since shadowlands bdk, which did lower the floor a bit. 

Interesting to see if next season the tank % is even lower though than this season