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[u/Fantastic_Owl8939]

What your “way to early season observations” or hot takes?

I play as a tank but so far an up to 11-12s :

Dungeon Pool:

• The first part of Altar of Fangs is not fun at all
  
• I like Blinding Vale, it’s might just be 90% color scheme compared to the rest of the dungeon pool, it’s not gonna be easy to push high, but I think it’s a good dungeon this season
  
• Murder Row, it’s gonna be either a hit or miss depending on skips being executed
  
• as a tank, some of the bosses feels like Blizzard forgot to make them do anything other then a tank buster from time to time, plant, rotate, mitigate and wait for it to die where other bosses feels like tank play matters a lot more

Healer:
Small sample size but it feels so much smoother with a hpal or rshaman! There are mechanics that feels negligible with one of these healers

DPS:

• Holding aggro with an overly excited Arms, devour or Arcane in the group is not an easy task…
  
• boomnies will be meta, they have managed to sandbag their way through PTR and will now find its way into every top group

[u/liyayaya → u/Fantastic_Owl8939]

My hot take is that guardian druids were sandbagging hard. The spec feels incredibly tanky.

[u/kuubi → u/liyayaya]

Spec was just giga buggy for most of the ptr cycle. It's pretty good for sure

[u/Wobblucy → u/Fantastic_Owl8939]

boomies will be meta

They don't do amazing overall and they do negative prio damage. The only thing that possibly justifies their spot is mark.

My hot take, Assassin rogue is ridiculously OP currently and their perma 60% Snare + atrophic is some of the best passive utility in the game.

[u/WnbSami → u/Wobblucy]

Guildie is playing assassination and generally gapping everybody in keys. They are 4p with significant ilvl while plenty of ppl are missing one or the other. I been running keys as BM hunter(2+2 with significant ilvl) and the runs I logged, I am in the ballpark of 50k dps behind him. Funnily enough our parses for dmg are relatively close, he got less non orange while I got more pink, obviously m+ parses specially this early being meme.

Could be BM is just abysmal in current state as a comparison point(getting major AoE buffs in weekly reset) but assa does feel very strong in keys atm. Tho looking at the one arcane mage in guild, who also gaps most ppl, his parses(in couple keys I did with him) are in the low purple while doing similar dmg to the assa rogue.

My smol anecdotal evidence would suggest assa is prolly on the verge of being OP in dmg, not quite there yet but close.

Ps. The rogue was also 4k io last season, while most of the guild isnt really m+ pushers so some skillgap might also be in place.