Deadmanfred here and it’s time for my Tanking Allstars of the week for 2/4/2015. With feedback from last weeks Allstars I’ll be scrapping any sort of tank survivability metrics for the moment, however this week I’ll be taking a closer look at damage. I’ll be looking at the top damage parses for each class starting with Mythic Gruul and go over what the players talents, glyphs, trinkets, potion timing, whatever can be discerned from logs.

Weekly Allstars!

Deathknight

Druid

Monk

Paladin

Warrior

Current Overall Tank Dps Standings

Mythic Gruul damage Breakdowns

I’m taking a look at Gruul because it’s one of three bosses most guilds kill first, as well as being the closest “patchwork” single target fight in the raid. Keep in mind I’m in no way trying to call people out or say that X player is better then Y player, this is simply an analysis of the data given.

Deathknight

Links to logs: Verestrasz, Jellosdk, Nnogga

For their talents all three take Blood Tap and Breath of Sindragosa

Nnogga seems to be a bit more conservative with their runic power and had near 100% uptime on Breath of Sindragosa. The other two had to cast Breath of Sindragosa only one extra time, and this correlates with when they had low runic power; not that this seems to have affected their damage much. All three are also using the Glyph of Icy Runes for more runic power.

All three use their Bonus Armor potions on the pull with Lust and again around 20%. Jellosdk seems to have been saving his pot for when his on use trinket was going to be up but his guilds kill was a bit fast and he wasn’t able to take full advantage of the buff. Verestrasz on the other hand was able to line up his pot with Dancing rune weapon, and his random proc trinket, then just before the pot wore off his ring and weapon enchant managed to also proc; I’ve highlighted this segment.

All three were using Rune of the Fallen Crusader as their weapon enchant.

Tinkets: Verestraszis was using Vial of Convulsive Shadows and Forgemaster’s Insignia. Jellosdk and Nnogga were using Blast Furnace Door and Vial of Convulsive Shadows.

Druid

Links to logs : Анзул, Problim, Thaeluz

: Анзул, Problim, Thaeluz For talents they seem to be all using Soul of the Forest and Bristling fur. Анзул and Thaeluz are using Dream of Cenarius, while Problim used Heart of the Wild.

Using Heart of the Wild gave Problim massive burst dps at ~130k beating out both the others burst at ~88k. I believe that if Problem’s kill was a bit faster he would actually have had the higher parse due to the burst. In order to do this Problim is going into cat form pre-pull and popping an agility potion instead of a BA potion, he also started to tank ~31 seconds in so ~15 seconds of the HoW was also wasted.

Problim was using the Mark of Blackrock, while the others were using the Bleeding Hollow weapon enchant.

All three pop their second potion with their on-use trinket when Bersek is up.

Trinkets: Problim and Thaeluz were using Blast Furnace Door and Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork. Анзул was using a stage 4 Knight’s Badge and a non-warforged 685 ilvl Pol’s Blinded Eye.

Also Thaeluz died once on his parse, obviously it would have been slightly higher.

If you look at their rage you’ll see that it caps fairly often, this is because they are rarely using or ignoring altogether savage defense.

Monk

Links to logs : Alestørm, Manager, Ephrin

: Alestørm, Manager, Ephrin All three took Power Strikes, Invoke Xuen the White Tiger, and Chi Explosion. Alestørm and Manager were using Chi wave, while Ephrin was using Zen Sphere. I assume Ephrin purely wanted the greater healing from Zen Sphere as it did more the twice as much as the others chi wave.

All three use their second pot ~20% and seem to be trying to line it up with a trinket and/or Legendary ring procs. Even though Alestørm had the highest parse his pot actually lined up with less buffs then the others.

All three used Mark of the Thunderlord as their weapon enchant.

Trinkets: Alestørm and Manager were using Blast Furnace Door and Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork. Ephrin was using Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork and Humming Blackiron Trigger.

Paladin

Links to logs : Fayz, Xíó, Ancamira

: Fayz, Xíó, Ancamira Talents here seem cut and dry, all three take the same. Seraphim, Execution Sentence, and Holy Avenger. Fairly simple here, all three use all their CD’s on the pull with lust. Seraphim uptimes: Fayz 46.13%, Xíó 48.79%, and Ancamira with 48.42%.

Xíómight have popped his 2nd potion slightly early, but he did have a Mark of Blackrock, Legendary ring proc, and Seraphim just after so It wasn’t entirely wasted. The others seemed to have saved their 2nd pot, their on-use trinket, and Seraphim for when Holy Avenger was back up.

Fayz was using the Mark of Warsong weapon enchant, while the others were using Mark of Blackrock.

Trinkets: All three were using Blast Furnace Door and Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork.

So Fred, if all three seem to have been doing roughly the same thing what makes Fayz parse so much better then the others, especially being that he even died ~20%? Well two things: luck with RNG and timing his procs, also his kill was very fast making his parse higher simply due to the speed. The RNG on procs he had on this kill was amazing, even a dps would be jealous. Check it out, I’ve highlighted most of his dps buffs and you can clearly see that they stack amazingly well, on pull literally everything proc’d. Would have been perfect if his weapon and other trinket had proc’d during his 2nd pot.

Warrior

Links to logs : Dean, Трайбекс , Frozensrage

: Dean, , Talents: All three take Sudden Death, Dragon Roar, Bloodbath, and Ravager.

Dean saved his second pot near sub ~20% along with his other dps CDs. Трайбекс used his 2nd pot ~50% with his dps CDs. Forzensrage seems to have used his 2nd pot for mitigation for a third stack of Inferno slice.

Weapon Enchants: Dean was using Mark of Bleeding hollow, Трайбекс Mark of Blackrock, and Mark of the Thunderlord for Forzensrage.

Trinkets: All three were using Blast Furnace Door and Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork.

If you check out Dean and Трайбекс extremely close parses you’ll see that they are using their on-use abilities/items are relatively the same. Трайбекс actually has slightly better uptimes on most of his proc buffs so he actually could have had a higher parse, however Dean’s use of his 2nd pot sub 20% and the uptime from Mark of Bleeding hollow let him do that 659.2 more dps.

I’ll be updating new Allstars every week as well as continuing boss dps breakdowns, next week Mythic Oregorger! As I find this information highly valuable I will eventually be moving this to a more permanent home, so don’t forget to check back here and follow me on twitter for more! As always comments, complaints, and criticisms are welcome.