Posts with tag dragon-soul-dps-analysis

Patch 4.3 is well under way with all the buffs and nerfs that came with it -- including the extra 10% AP for melee classes from the raid buff improvement on top of all the class-specific changes. We've now had enough guilds do enough clears of Dragon Soul that we can begin to take a look at the DPS numbers that the classes are putting out and see just where they stand in 4.3. This is also a nice time to take a snapshot of the data, because the rogues do not yet have their legendary weapons, though of course more casters than ever have the 4.2 legendary.

As always, we draw our data for the analysis from the wonderful Raidbots.com, which in turn pulls its data from World of Logs, where raiders upload parses of their actual raids. This gives us the absolute best data source that we have access to. These numbers are exactly what thousands and thousands of real raiders are actually capable of putting out in the actual raid, averaged over all of the bosses this tier.

So did patch 4.3 bring about a new state of improved balance to the game, or are we going to see more chaos in the DPS spread? The only way to find out is to sort through all the data, and then make pretty graphs out of them.