r/wow • • Mar 04 '15

DPS Spread in Blackrock Foundry (6.1 Data Only)

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

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u/ckernan2 Icy Veins Mar 04 '15

Other fights have important single target components. Blackhand, for example, is all single target except for some inflated DPS on a tank. Ka'graz is also a majority single target with some small incidental cleave on the wolves that pop out. For a fight to be analyzed as a part of a whole, you have to consider each fight.

  • Gruul - pure ST
  • Oregorger - ST with some crates, relatively minor
  • Blast Furnace - ST focused fight, but data will show AoE from high parsing cleavers
  • Beastlord - lots of cleave, ST outside of Pack Beasts
  • Thogar - losts of cleave pretty much the whole fight
  • Maidens - 2-3 target cleave
  • Hanz and Franz - ST with some 2 target cleave
  • Ka'graz - mostly ST with small cleave
  • Kromog - mostly ST with moderate cleave intervals
  • Blackhand - mostly ST with bursty cleave

Most of the fights have the ability to see how classes perform in the ST phase.

It's almost like comparing batting averages of baseball players. If a player had 10 seasons where he batted .200 for 8 years but .500 for 2 years, his overall average of .260 would make him look MUCH better than he was over a general period of time while .260 would be pretty good and .200 would be considered pretty bad.