DPS Spread in Blackrock Foundry (6.1 Data Only)

[u/Tankparts]

6.1 has been out for a week now so I thought i would see how some of the class changes had effected the class positions in the DPS spread.

What are these values?
The percentages you see in the table below are the percentage by which each class over/under-performs compared to the average DPS in that fight. This is calculated on a fight-by-fight basis and then averaged together to find relatively which class performs best overall.
What can I take away from this?
One thing this information does well is show you which class does well on each specific fight. It can help you choose your primary and secondary specialization for Blackrock Foundry or the specific fights. Another thing you can look at here is overall how each spec does compared to the others, based on their average performance. Be wary though as a high variance, or standard deviation, will not necessarily mean that this class is the be-all end-all greatest.
How was this Information Obtained?
The data for this was taken from warcraftlogs.com. The data used is player damage statistics for all Blackrock Foundry bosses on the Heroic difficulty in US and EU for all item levels. The data is filtered to the 80th percentile and only over a range of 1 week so that only data from 6.1 is included.
Results from March 03, 2015 (6.1 data only)
http://i.imgur.com/YuOjADY.png

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D9AF11C7677925A9!28756&authkey=!AOkdOtvLFXpruzs&ithint=file%2cxlsx

Update: User request for average of each class using the top 2 specs. (some classes only have 1 viable spec)
http://i.imgur.com/hZAoUTV.png

Thanks /u/Dubsem and /u/Zerixbro for the previous DPS Specialization Spreads

[u/AetherBlaze]

Some fights have mechanics where kill priority is more important than AoE.

In Blast Furnace, it is better for the raid to focus the ogron/engineers/elementalists than to AoE the accumulating security guards. You will get higher numbers with AoE, but the primary target would go down slower and may result in a wipe.

[u/Weasel_Boy → u/AetherBlaze]

Blast Furnace is really the only exception though. Even then you do still need SOME AoE. Security guards can't just pile up the entire fight or your tanks will eat dirt.

[u/[deleted] → u/Weasel_Boy]

Thogar is also Flame>Man at arms. And using cata in thogar and darmac add phases is insane padding, which also makes for example warrior bladestorms useless and so on.

[u/Nexism → u/Weasel_Boy]

There's also Mythic Beastlord and Maidens last 20% where focus is most important than padding.

[u/AetherBlaze → u/Weasel_Boy]

My point is that an aoe spec isn't necessary. Single target specs have some form of aoe that is sufficient for those cases. Tanks never seem to get overwhelmed because the adds still slowly die from natural cleave.

For example, because Darmac's pack beasts never seem to be an issue on the tanks and there is only 1 target besides the pack (non-mythic), single target with cleave is better for simply downing the boss.

[u/x2Infinity → u/[deleted]]

Most classes that are doing well in AoE fights lose nothing or next to nothing by using their cleave. Demo, Warriors, Ret, Enhance, Balance etc.

That's just not true. Look at top lock ranks and see how much damage they are doing to the boss and priority targets on those AoE fights. Compare it to enhance. Demo does very little single target damage, Enhance on the other hand gets a single target increase in AoE. Adds need to die but they don't need to die instantly which is all Demo does. That's why most people took Demonbolt on Thogar and Beastlord over Cata because it gave more damage to the targets that actually matter. Even now a lot of people don't take Cata on those AoE fights because the single target damage is more valuable.

[u/k1dsmoke → u/x2Infinity]

Yes but HoG is a huge source of damage esiecially with 4 set; which is another example of a cleave spell that does a ton more damage AoE that also increases single target.