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title: 'How Good Is Your Class in Season 4 Mythic+?'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=AGzOJc0iBkY'
video_id: 'AGzOJc0iBkY'
date: 2026-08-01
duration_sec: 1033
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# How Good Is Your Class in Season 4 Mythic+?

> Source: [How Good Is Your Class in Season 4 Mythic+?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AGzOJc0iBkY)

## Summary

In this Skillcapped Investments video, the host runs a stock-market-style analysis of every class and spec in World of Warcraft's Season 4 Mythic+ meta. Because PTR tuning is chaotic, he avoids hard tier lists and instead rates specs as investment opportunities, covering tanks, healers, ranged, and melee DPS. Key takeaways: Vengeance stays dominant, Evoker is the safest buy, and specs like Destro Warlock and Ret Paladin are poised to outperform.

### Key Points

- **PTR tuning makes objective tier lists impossible** [00:01] — A trinket was doing 12% of a mage's total damage, so the host can't say with certainty which specs will thrive. Instead, he frames each spec as a stock to decide if you should invest.
- **The stock-market premise** [00:27] — The video is 'Skillcapped Investments': you should invest in specs that have strong fundamentals rather than chase temporary PTR outliers.
- **Season 4 market trends** [00:41] — Blizzard used a community poll, so most classes get more powerful tier sets; 40% of specs voted for certain sets. Dungeons shift back to big pulls with more swirlies, frontals, and spinny boys, which favors caster specs.
- **Vengeance remains the defining tank** [01:49] — No changes were made to Vengeance or any other tank, so Vengeance stays the meta anchor. It's like Facebook stock — strong enough to absorb traditional counters.
- **Guardian Druid is the main alt tank** [02:44] — Guardian can match Vengeance's survivability but requires the group to compensate for its shortfalls; other tanks are serviceable but don't stand out.
- **Penny-stock DPS specs** [03:24] — Hunters take too much damage and Elemental Shaman's target utility is weak; these high-risk specs are unlikely to change from Season 3.
- **Holy Priest gets a quality-of-life overhaul** [03:53] — The spec is more fun, damage is cranked, and it will see short-term interest, but it won't hold because Discipline Priests still exist.
- **Shadow Priest will own, but with nerfs** [05:02] — Shadow is almost certain to own, but MD and PI were nerfed and the Season 2 tier set that enabled instant burst mobility is gone, exposing LFG players.
- **Fire Mage is struggling on PTR** [05:41] — A pull with Stover shows Fire slowly gains on the damage meter and peaks at 85 seconds; it's workable in high keys but looks bad in low keys.
- **Destro Warlock is a top DPS pick** [07:02] — New tier set, potentially the highest AOE in the game, plus health stones, gateway skips, and high survivability; it will make Affliction and Demo obsolete.
- **Evoker is the safest class investment** [09:02] — The legendary weapon is buffed; Augmentation brings utility, Devastation has unhinged single-target, and Preservation may become a top healer again.
- **Resto Shaman is predicted to crank** [12:34] — Blizzard keeps buffing its raw healing; a chain-heal build answers burst damage and the returning tier set scales outrageously.
- **Ret Paladin is the melee to bet on** [13:39] — Stocks in Ret have climbed for months; its damage, defensives, and uncapped AOE make it the most likely melee to thrive.
- **Frost DK and Windwalker are sleepers** [15:42] — Frost's Obliteration build scales with gear and Breath could pop off; Windwalker gets its Season 1 tier set back and strong stat scaling.

### Conclusion

Season 4 Mythic+ has a clear tier structure: Vengeance leads tanks, Evoker is the safest class-wide investment, Destro Warlock and Ret Paladin are standout DPS, and Resto Shaman looks like the healer sleeper — but the volatile PTR means players should stay flexible.

## Transcript

season 4 content and boy are we going to give it to you just a small problem the tuning on the PTR right now is an absolute mess like here's a log of a trinket doing 12% of mage's overall damage that's probably getting fixed um
like just stuff that makes it impossible to make any like objective you know tier look like I can't say with any certainty if your spec is going to thrive in season 4 but a question that I can answer is if my spec were a stock would
you invest in it so that is what we're going to do today welcome to skillcapped Investments we're going to find all the the hottest tips and advice on what the hottest tips and advice on what classes to invest in for season 4 of
subis but before you can make any specific Investments you need to understand the the the the broader you know market trends and what's really going on in the World of Warcraft season 4 is weird blizzard
a community poll so players naturally gravitated towards their most powerful tier set that means every class is going to be getting more powerful in season 4 well almost everyone 40% of specs voted for are
to see the majority of notable changes another key factor to consider before investing are the dungeons themselves as we spoke about last week older dungeons and a lot of those older dungeons that we've seen recently have had you know
downward pressure on big pulls it's very annoying to do a big pull in vortex pinnacle for example versus any other key ever trash pools in season 3 gravitated towards smaller pools that involve like
things season 4 is going to see The Return of big pools with more of put on swirlies and frontals and spinny boys what that means is that stocks in melee going to be affected on that front and uh you know range DPS are going to have
maybe a hard time with positioning but stocks in good cast is way up because let's start with tanks because the entire tank meta can be very succinctly summarized in one question is Vengeance going anywhere to answer that I have
here a list of every change made to Vengeance in season 4 um it's a blank page but that's okay because I have here a list of all the changes made to other tanks in season 4 it's also blank it's the same page they're changing nothing
so vengence is going to remain like the defining tank in the meta so far um now bit like investing in Facebook like yeah like they've been doing really well for the last couple of of of Cycles now but surely they're about to crash and to
fundamentally strong right now that I think it can absorb like all traditional going to go away unless blizzard actively assassinates it so investments in Vengeance very sound let's say that
you're into alternative Investments what else is out there well Guardian Dro is probably the only tank that can really match Vengeance in terms of it survivability the downside is that while they can pull as big as Vengeance they
can so that puts a lot more onus on the group itself to make up with that slack for that reason we expect Guardian to improve in season 4 but ultimately get other tanks the rest of the tanks are serviceable but there's very little
Vengeance Demon Hunter Warriors might do some interesting things with SP reflect that's the kind of Fringe stuff we're expecting listen this is the free market brew master monk that is your Titan given right and I respect it I I wish
you nothing but success but if you're going to invest in in Risky volatile specs you need to be informed these DPS specs are the penny stocks of season 4 season 3 and we have no reason to expect anything's going to change um and these
familiar with you know Hunters take too much damage Elemental Shaman's Target utility it's all boring stuff for the most part but you know just like penny invest it in anyway it's going to go poorly and you're going to get really
poorly and you're going to get really mad at me about it leave me changing let's talk about the one spec that is seeing real change in season 4 holy priest holy priest got a pretty pretty decent overhaul in season 4 but
the changes can best be sised as quality of life stuff U most reports are that the spec is a lot more fun to play now and its damage is is cranked right now that's going to spark a lot of initial curiosity so I'm I'd be willing to
invest in holy priest but mainly in the form of like zero day options which is to say um short-term stuff not expecting it to really hold because ultimately really been fixed which is that discipline
priests exist hly priest Mains will enjoy the changes and you know they'll see a bump in their performance But ultimately this is a winfall for incentive for new buyers so on that subject then disc
priests discipline was the smallest of the big three last season but they remain a very very strong healer and they are on their own merits a very that uh discipline does face an existential
crisis right now not not from without this isn't Resto Druids or mwe monks but from within Shadow priests Shadow priests are almost certain to own in season 4 but it's worth noting that it won't be four for precisely the same
reason as those previous Seasons um a lot of the utility that was so good in God comp you know the MD and Pi that stuff's received uh a bit of a Nerf um to their season 2 tier set which while it's it is their favorite set um the
movement wise it allowed them to do their main burst rotation entirely instantly um so we're expecting that quite a few lfg guys are going to get punished by by that they're going to be exposed um so that's fun if you have any
any photom Shadow priest friends maybe divest of them real quick one little wrinkle with Shadow is that it's been propped up in these last two seasons by the value and Synergy of of Pi with fire Mage and um i' I've got bad news skill
cap exclusive fire Mage not doing very good on the PTR right now hey editing better context to this claim because I don't want to give you the wrong fire Mage let's look at a pull from the PTI with Stover who consulted on this
into the pull this is where a normally would expect him to start popping off overtake the tank on the damage meter but as the combat continues stov slowly gains ground on the L DPS and when the combat ends at the 85 second Mark he's
at the top of the damage meter for the Mage this feels bad it's not a good damage profile but it's workable in high Keys when you consider how absurdly over likely that the spec will muscle its way into high keys in low keys where the
pull ends here fire ends up looking very bad it's an example of how different tiers of content some people might ask like is this an opportunity for for Arcane or Frost quarter eyes really is that strong
like just I don't I don't think Arcane and frost are going to really like do much in the meta um this is a common issue with with DPS balancing often like one or two of utility can just completely shut down certain specs and
another key example of that is going to be Destro warlock you know Destro warlock is going to render Affliction and demo obsolete in season 4 for real deathro is going to pop off in season 4 you think you know you watched MDR and
pop off in season no bro they're getting a new tier set the single Target's going to cop a bit of a hit but the AOE might just be the highest in the game and then utility you know you've got your health ston your gateway skips and all that
sort of stuff and they're and they're indestructible for some reason I forgot immune to death that's that's a good benefit then you have the Imp season 4 has a lot of magic dis spells and things to worry about and MD
being nerfed means that there's a bit of a a hole that Destro can potentially fill because that empty spell can substitute for the MD in a lot of good ways they're just so damn powerful and and they're going to get nerfed but like
Vengeance I'm looking at it and it's like you can Nerf that by what 30% they'll be fine they'll be fine like it's they'll be fine invest in Destro locks and then there's moonans
who uh so so for Dragon flight's launch blizz increased the cost of star surge for for a bit and it killed the spec all Vibe the spec was temporarily mended with a free proc of star Surge from their the T set bonus um but in patch
10.1 the vibe got fixed and the T set was immediately nerfed to to compensate moonkins bless him just assumed that they' get the original version of their T like they opened up the poll they read the text they comprehended what they
were looking at and then Pikachu faced when that was the teer set that they got and like if that's not if that doesn't summize the moonin experience I don't know what does me it's such it is classic moonin
Behavior Uh so that teer set despite being buffed on PTR still seems to suck so hard that it has griefed the entire spec but look I'm playing this up for effect M's going to be fine it's just this wouldn't happen with any other spec
man but enough M talk they they enjoy the attention too much let's let's talk about evokers if I had to bet my life on one class being ubiquitous next season it would be aoka you're going to want them in every key invest in them and
when I say evoker I didn't I didn't mispronounce augment all three specs are going to be real the the evok legendary weapon just to start is getting Juiced in season 4 so that's back in play and it's just a huge buff for the class as a
that while augment undeniably brings the most utility a lot of the strengths of augment are sort of Baseline evoker talents augmentation value in season 4 where they're going to be a net DPS loss to bring but bring a lot of very
that or's popularity will depend on how survivability ends up playing out if the incoming damage scales out of control then or will be mandatory if not they may be considered you know dead weight Devastation has been all over the PTR in
season 4 it's looking like this is going to be its moment not for any complicated reason they just do unhinged amounts of single Target damage and combine that the utility we mentioned and it's just they're looking really really they're
looking really good bro this one scary thing is is the very well documented threat issues um that's very scary to consider when pairing it with vengeance' own threat issues but hey there's there's always an outplay
angle boys finally preservation of ochre uh we spoke earlier about how open the healing meta was in season 3 three and I think it's fair to say that preservation will at minimum be looking to break into that top three but there's a real chance
that it'll make a play at being number one Healer again like we saw in season 1 for dealing with dragon flight's uh good at the at the burst damage that's what they're built to do their their
the season one t set that they're getting back is is built for R Base Healing that solves their major weakness healing profile wise um so when you combine that with the B L of OA stuff as one consultant put it the question isn't
why should you bring a preservation it's why shouldn't you bring a preservation of OA and and there are reasons why you shouldn't right like maybe augmentation ends up being mandatory like we mentioned um we also know famously that
preservation struggles with its 25 yard healing range um they may not want to be able to deal with you know pugs or mixed DPS groups with melee en ranged um you we're talking about here and in that casee you're going to see a preservation
get get uh replaced by something else probably a of the big three last season and they were exceptional that shouldn't change in season 4 um rest of jids can handle Dragon flight's healing profile just
fine although notably it isn't easy for them um many Resto Droids that you meet some form of anxiety disorder from The Experience uh that that makes them hard stock and Resto Droid I think you're fine um but if you're a perspective
buyer maybe shop R something a little bit more accessible like mistweaver monk the big three healers last season mistweaver has never truly shined in M plus before but they really feel like they belong Miss weaves bring three
gives them insane carrier potential they've also become a very approachable quality of life changes the spec just received in this patch basically mistweaver is a really strong option for someone looking for a spec that's simply
Plug and Play Oh Holy Paladin yeah uh there's no market for Holly paladins um no one wants to play them right now no one wants to play with them sort of bums me out really screw it hear me out rester
Shaman is going to crank in season 4 for a year and a half now blizzard has been the spec by simply turning a big dial labeled healing it's at the point now raw healing throughput of any healer they just can't translate it to success
chain heel build may be a viable answer to the meta's burst damage and Resto is going to scale outrageously with the returning tier one tier set now is there of the metah healers we've covered
here's a better question don't you deserve happiness just this once I lost video I don't want to talk about it we're doing it like a regular video now let's talk about the melee the Havoc Demon Hunter there's always to damn many
there was demand for the spec in season 3 they spent most of the Season as one of the top DPS specs but between Nerfs and the rising popularity of Vengeance Havoc has slowly worked its way down the tier list we don't see any reason for
don't think they're going to be as particularly desirable meta class so at of these guys and are playing something else like a rep Paladin for instance stocks and R have been climbing for months now retribution success in season
which of course is sticking around their damage is awesome and pairs with the defensives and notably for melee uncapped AOE for all of these reasons and more we reckon that if any melee is going to thrive in season 4 it's going
to be rep Paladin easy invest Outlaw was the other dominant melee in season 3 and they look great on PTR however there was lots of little niggles I guess you'd call them that look set to compound obviously there's the eight Target cap
breaker but what's really picked our interest is Outlaw stat scaling in season 4 we're expecting to soft cap all our secondary stats a spec like Frosty K equally they can spread it around and avoid Dimension returns they're going to
scale really well by contrast Outlaw only cares about two of the four secondary stats so it's either eat the Dr or invest in garbage in both cases much as the other DPS I should be clear that we aren't cold on Outlaw it's a
going to do well we're just expecting the dominance of Outlaw to decline by some unknown amount the spec will remain exceptionally powerful and well equipped for keys but if things get really weird there's always sub Rogue while Outlaw
profiles in the game sub is one of the most bursty the AOE is uncapped which is a huge check right there and they have the capability to either burst for Pure AOE or priority single Target it's easy to forget this but like sub was all over
powerful spec we don't talk about it in Keys much but like sub is a real thing there's a genuine possibility that we'll see sub emerge as the dominant Rogues spec is that likely I don't know but like screw it I'd invest I love enhance
and in early season 3 we saw enhance find some success but they slowly because ultimately they're just kind of a squishier version of Outlaw Rogue with the worst Target cap I'm I'm sorry but I I would not invest I want to talk about
the same it's good but not great if you're holding stock and Unholy I think you fin to hold it honestly though the spec I'm more excited to see is Frost DK we saw murmur on the PTR that the frost May explode in season 4 that makes sense
the obliteration build is going to scale with gear combine that with a Frack frost is at minimum going to be pretty good but then you start fantasizing pools and like man if there was ever time for the breath build to pop off an
look I'm a Walker guy so I don't want to overhype this necessarily but we are so fck backman like season 1 obviously wind Walker's very good season two yeah and we're getting our season one t set back so stand to reason we are so [ __ ]
back um you combine that with good stat scaling and we're seeing Windwalker do know we been talking about like the wizard mattera this whole time talking up the the value of Shadow priest and Destro warlocks like Melee is still
this comp don't you just want to stop what you're doing and go cue this comp it's amazing I'm going to I'm going to go queue it up right now um if wind season it's going to be in the sort of melee comp that really makes the most of
his Mystic touch ability I'm I'm investing but that's all I've got for did you make of the uh the style there was it fun was it stupid I'm really sad a bit of fun so I'll I'll get over it um if you enjoyed the video please give it
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