Alright time for my Tanking Allstars of the week for 3/24/2015. It’s been a little while since my last Allstars, right as guilds started progression into BRF Rankings were unbalanced simply because you had killed more bosses. With progression smoothing out we’re seeing more logs from more tanks, and this means the data is much more fair to look at. With the help from some feedback I’ve put some work into revamping these posts! Now showcasing the top three overall tank dps and KRSI rankings by class for the Mythic level Blackrock Foundry raid. Source

This week I’m also going to take a look at comparing the tank classes. I’ll be looking at current overall damage and survivability. check it out *please keep in mind that KRSI is still being created/evaluated as a tool and not a perfect tank ranking metric. With advanced knowledge of class and mechanics it can be easily cheesed, but of course so can dps rankings. Also keep in mind that the rumor-mill says that these may be taken down or greatly affected in the near future.

Monk

Damage

KRSI

Druid

Damage

KRSI

Deathknight

Damage

KRSI

Paladin

Damage

KRSI

Warrior

Damage

KRSI

Tank Comparison (last 2 weeks of logs)

Keep in mind that this data is based on high parsing Mythic players, i.e. players on average playing their class at or near the best of its capability.

Damage

The score at the bottom represents how high a players parsed DPS was in comparison to to everyone else. So what this tells us is that DK’s, in Myhtic BRF, seem to be parsing much higher then the other tanks. If you were to go to every individual fight you would see mostly DK’s near the top. This is interesting because if you check out Heroic you’ll find that Brewmaster Monks are still at the top.

KRSI

Monk> Paladin> Deathknight> Druid> Warrior

The score at the bottom represents a players KRSI in comparison to others. KRSI, or Kihra’s Resolve-weighted Survivability Index, is basically the amount of external healing required to a tank combined with several other tanking metrics. A lower KRSI is better as this means it took your healers less work to heal you. This metric is still being worked on and has some pros and cons. A high score can also be achieved by a bad player receiving all of his raids externals and them taking less damage then a good player with similar gear. A good tank who has a small % of uptime tanking the boss will have a lower score even if they some how mitigated 100% of the damage. If you went in and found logs of tanks who taunted at the same time, wore the exact same gear, and had the same exact raid composition then you could rank them based on KRSI scores with no issues.