Here we are at the dawn of a new patch and meta. We’ll be taking a look at some EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY logs, just to get a feel for what might be happening later in the full week’s overview. We call these “day 1 logs” as we want to have both NA and EU guilds get at least a full day’s raiding in to contribute, in case you were wondering about our ability to tell time.
Augmentation’s Mess
There’s also the matter of the new spec and how it will be contributing. Augmentation Evokers don’t do damage themselves, but instead enhance other specs to do so. Warcraft Logs has developed a way to track that granted DPS and log it as the Augmenter’s own! It’s not perfect yet and doesn’t quite calculate all the benefits given, but it’s really cool we get to see their own numbers. So don’t be surprised if you see them around the bottom, as they aren’t fully calibrated yet.
This lack of calibration is also reflected in the logs of the other specs as well, so they’re even more preliminary/unstable than usual!
Mythic
Overall Damage 95th Percentile
The chart leaves little room for discussion, as Fire is extremely ahead of everyone. Unholy and Demonology are also outperforming the rest, but all the non-Fire top specs are quite close. It’s pretty obvious what’s happening here, as at least Fire, UH and Demo are getting most of the Augmentation Evoker buffs, and skyrocketing ahead of everyone else. But not only that, the buffs themselves are giving an even bigger-seeming advantage in the logs than they actually are, as our Mage guide writer Dutchmagoz explains:
First of all, Fire is performing well. However it is inflated on logs for a couple of reasons:
The attribution of Augmentation Evokers is not properly being recorded. One pretty big example is Ignite. Any damage buffed by Evokers is not counting the additional Ignite damage. Compare for example your logs to in-game damage meters like Details. You will see that Ignite damage is always the same between logs and the DPS meter, even though Evokers are buffing Ignite by a significant amount which should count for the Evoker’s damage, not the Mage’s.
There are many other attribution issues, e.g. the way logs are handling spells with guaranteed critical strikes, the mastery buffs, and various other complex issues. Current logs with Evokers in them are anything between like 5-15% off.
The damage buffs from Evokers have pretty big ranges, which further compound the above issues.
Due to those above issues, any Fire Mage being buffed by an Augment Evoker is logging higher than they should (and the Evoker in turn is logging lower than they should), which frankly is every single Fire Mage in the top logs, but even in most lower logs.
We don’t know which other spec got some Evoker love, as Affliction and Frost DK are pretty high up too, so they may have as well. Devastation and Enhancement are also good targets, and we can see that having a big effect on Enh, but Deva may not have gotten the buffs in these early runs, considering it’s somewhat lower position. It’s also possible the really good Devastation players went and switched to the new spec. And so Augmentation is pushing everyone into the very top slots, but as we mentioned before, it’s not getting its full credit. We find it down in the bottom 3, joining Survival and Retribution.
A lot of Warlocks in the top 10, almost all of them, in fact, as both they and two Mages having 2 specs in there with the third just outside! Shamans are in a good spot as well, and we only see one Rogue down in 11th. Obviously and especially for the high percentiles, this is all very much in-flux, as not all top guilds have even played yet, so stay tuned for the full weekly summary.
95th percentile Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.
Overall Damage All Percentiles
Th generalist bracket is a little different, except for the No.1 augment receiver, Fire. Affliction pushes its way past Demo and Subtletly surges quite a bit compared to the top percentiles. Frost DK is another anomaly here as it’s doing much better than its counterpart, perhaps due to Unholy not getting as much of a boost as in the higher percentiles. Shadow manages to push into the last top 10 spot, while Augmentation is just generally last.
All percentiles Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.
Boss Only Damage All Percentiles
The boss damage chars are surprisingly similar to the overall ones, with the only real outlier being Assassination down in 9th. Meanwhile it’s all Warlocks and Mages, with a splash of DK all over the place!
All percentiles Mythic data by Warcraft Logs.
Heroic
Arcane manages to hang on in Heroic, but Fire is right there breathing down its neck. Marksmanship is a very fresh new face compared to Mythic, and Feral is also flying high in the lower difficulty.
All percentiles Heroic data by Warcraft Logs.
Meanwhile, if you’re looking for more information you can check out our Dragonflight class guides, Aberrus boss guides, the raid DPS tier list, as well as more data from Warcraft Logs here.
