[0:01] Are you tired to coming home from a long
[0:04] day at work, logging into your class and
[0:06] having to do dungeons and raids?
[0:09] Do you just want to enjoy a relaxing
[0:12] time in a delve, on a world quest, in a
[0:15] ritual, fishing for stuff in Zul'Aman?
[0:20] Then World of Warcraft has the perfect
[0:22] class for you, the solo class. Today
[0:24] we're going to be ranking all of the
[0:26] classes in their power of doing solo
[0:29] content. Which one is the best? Which
[0:31] one is the lowest? And there are a
[0:33] couple of things that you need to know.
[0:35] First of all, we're going to be ranking
[0:37] these classes based off of their sustain
[0:40] and survivability in long-term solo
[0:42] content, because any class can do any
[0:45] content if you're just going to stop
[0:46] after each pack, drink, or heal, or
[0:49] rebuff, or reflash, or just release your
[0:51] spirit and come back to your corpse.
[0:53] That's not fun, and that doesn't mean
[0:54] that a class is strong. Second of all is
[0:57] speed. Certain classes might not have as
[1:00] much sustain, but they might have speed
[1:02] getting from one point to another, and
[1:05] they're able to just clear content
[1:06] overall quicker, but they might have to
[1:08] occasionally stop to either heal
[1:10] themselves or eat, or maybe even use
[1:12] heal potions during their content. And
[1:15] lastly, we're going to have an extra
[1:17] layer of consideration for max gear
[1:19] characters. Although you might not see
[1:21] footage of max gear character, but that
[1:22] doesn't mean that they're different.
[1:25] Certain classes that are probably really
[1:27] bad at soloing once they get really good
[1:29] gear, which is probably most of them,
[1:31] are going to like plow through the
[1:33] content. So if that's the case, we're
[1:34] going to exclude that particular rating,
[1:37] because if everybody's good, then what's
[1:39] the point of a ranking?
[1:42] So we're going to start it off with
[1:44] Paladin. As probably to nobody's
[1:46] surprise, Paladin is a very S-tier
[1:49] class. And of course, now we can talk a
[1:50] little bit about the specs as well,
[1:52] because not every spec of Paladin is S
[1:54] class, and we're going to assume that
[1:57] you are willing to maybe swap to a
[1:59] different spec that your class has to
[2:01] maybe make your life a little bit easier
[2:03] or maybe you're going to gear that
[2:05] particular spec to clear the content. In
[2:07] this case, we're mostly talking about
[2:08] protection and red, but if I really have
[2:11] to rank one over the other, it would be
[2:12] protection being S tier, red being A
[2:16] tier, and holy being
[2:18] B tier, probably just because it's a
[2:20] plate wearing healer with a lot of
[2:21] heals. Now, protection being A tier has
[2:24] a lot to do with its damage and of
[2:27] course it being a tank. We all know that
[2:28] protection in end game is pretty squishy
[2:31] and that kind of sucks, but that doesn't
[2:32] really correlate that well with solo
[2:35] content. That's not that punishing for
[2:38] tanks. So, the tankiness is probably
[2:39] just about enough for you not to have to
[2:42] worry about ever dying. Not to mention
[2:45] that protection paladin probably has
[2:46] some of the highest amount of damage
[2:48] output out of all the tanks and during
[2:50] your cool downs, you're likely going to
[2:52] out DPS a lot of the DPS specs, period.
[2:55] Also, and that's a really good selling
[2:57] point if you're going to be doing
[2:58] delves, if you're going to be doing
[2:59] rituals with max tier and max challenges
[3:02] as well, and you want to like farm
[3:04] accolades or whatever you're into.
[3:05] That's perfectly fine. And of course,
[3:07] this doesn't change with max gear,
[3:08] obviously it just gets better. I leveled
[3:11] as protection and mostly red even though
[3:13] my main spec for paladin is holy. I just
[3:16] cannot see it any other way.
[3:18] That's just how it is.
[3:21] Demon hunter is also probably I would
[3:24] probably put it ahead of paladin because
[3:26] what demon hunter also brings to the
[3:28] table is speed and glide. I guess they
[3:31] both kind of factor into mobility. And
[3:34] of course, I'm mostly talking about
[3:35] havoc here. You can of course do
[3:37] vengeance, but vengeance doesn't have
[3:39] the damage of protection paladin. So,
[3:41] I'll probably put vengeance in A and
[3:43] devour probably in C tier. So, it's kind
[3:47] of hard to rank demon hunter because if
[3:48] you're going to be looking to solo
[3:50] content clear, you're going to likely
[3:53] switch to the class that's easiest to
[3:55] solo content with. And this is why it's
[3:56] kind of difficult to rank these classes
[3:58] because we cannot go into each specific
[4:00] spec too much because if we just average
[4:03] everything out, all classes will
[4:04] probably be around B tier. But, if you
[4:05] are interested in
[4:07] potentially
[4:09] >> [laughter]
[4:10] >> Marceline is going to kill me.
[4:11] Potentially seeing a tier list where we
[4:13] rank all specs, all 40 of them based off
[4:17] of their capability of surviving, then I
[4:20] don't know, leave a like on the video so
[4:23] that we can tell I don't know if we get
[4:24] like
[4:25] 10,000 likes or whatever, maybe we'll do
[4:27] that cuz that sounds like a Herculean
[4:29] task. It is 40 specs. Wow, it's a big
[4:32] game, you guys. [music]
[4:33] But, with that out of the way,
[4:35] Demon Hunter is my main. I actually love
[4:37] all three specs and I'm at a tank at
[4:39] heart and I did not touch Vengeance
[4:41] whatsoever and I tried to level as
[4:42] Havoc. And if you have as well, you
[4:45] might know it is an absolute pain.
[4:50] Havoc was not meant to do solo content.
[4:52] Of course, you have the gear and you can
[4:55] And now with to be fair, with the Soul
[4:57] Emulation when I leveled it, it didn't
[4:59] heal you back. Now, it definitely heals
[5:00] you back. So, that's a good boon boon,
[5:03] not boon. Bonus, I want to say bonus.
[5:04] But, it's a good boon and that
[5:06] definitely helps. It's definitely better
[5:07] than before. However, you will still
[5:09] need to ramp your damage and you only
[5:11] need to be able to stay in constant
[5:12] combat so that you can transition your
[5:14] soul count from one pack to another,
[5:17] either it's delves or rituals or
[5:18] whatever so that you eventually can go
[5:19] into meta. The problem with that is that
[5:21] once you're in meta and Havoc, you're
[5:22] probably going to one-shot most specs.
[5:24] So, that's great for speed, but it's
[5:27] kind of like wasted power. It's kind of
[5:28] like hitting a fly with a bazooka,
[5:30] right? Yeah, that fly is gone, so, but
[5:33] you kind of wasted so much just for one
[5:36] little fly. However, Havoc just just
[5:38] blends everything. You're so tanky, you
[5:40] have so much sustain, you're so fast,
[5:42] you cannot die to fall damage and
[5:44] sometimes that happens. There are some
[5:45] knock-up somewhere somehow. Maybe you're
[5:48] farming treasures and you're, you know,
[5:50] up at top of the mountain and you got no
[5:52] more vigor points and you're just
[5:53] dropping down with glide. It's all good.
[5:55] Demon Hunter S tier.
[5:57] I've been debating a lot on where to put
[5:59] priest because obviously priest is the
[6:02] only class with two healer specs and
[6:04] healers are the worst usually at solo
[6:06] content. And the worst is not
[6:08] necessarily that they cannot survive.
[6:09] Obviously they can because they are
[6:10] healers. They can heal more than anybody
[6:13] else, but their damage is so abysmally
[6:15] low and I feel like in mythic night
[6:16] that's a new level. Of course, shadow is
[6:18] not too shabby, but shadow's also a
[6:20] squishy and immobile caster. So, I think
[6:23] I'm going to be maybe a little bit
[6:25] aggressive here and put priest into D
[6:27] tier. And I'll go over a little bit as
[6:29] to
[6:29] why D tier. I'm going to talk about
[6:32] shadow because that's probably what most
[6:33] people are thinking of doing if they're
[6:35] going to be selling with priest. And
[6:36] that's great. Shadow is cool. You cannot
[6:38] reliably heal for a lot as shadow and
[6:41] I'm not talking about vampiric embrace.
[6:42] I know vampiric embrace is pretty good,
[6:44] but I refuse to just going to like stop
[6:46] and then just heal. And I'm pretty sure
[6:48] this
[6:49] I don't even remember, man. Does flash
[6:51] heal even work in shadow form anymore? I
[6:53] think it probably does.
[6:55] And then that's about it. Plus, the
[6:56] problem with priest healing, shadow
[6:58] priest, and red paladin and a bunch of
[7:00] other hybrid specs is that you're
[7:01] limited by your mana pool. And yeah, you
[7:04] can heal. The heals are very, very tiny.
[7:07] You have to heal for quite a lot if your
[7:08] HP is almost down. So, you're probably
[7:10] still better off eating food in between
[7:13] packs if you need the little bit of
[7:15] sustain. And you're most likely going to
[7:17] need health potions to survive. Now, of
[7:19] course, if you're playing discipline and
[7:20] holy, that's no longer the case, but
[7:22] then you're super, super, super, super,
[7:23] super slow in clearing content. So,
[7:27] priest is D tier.
[7:29] Rogue, a personal favorite solo content
[7:31] class of mine. I wish I could put it
[7:34] into A tier.
[7:36] Um I also debated and put into B tier.
[7:38] Let's uh let's talk a little bit about B
[7:40] tier rogue. The problem with rogue is
[7:41] that its sustain is kind of poor. It's
[7:44] really poor, especially if you're in
[7:46] back-to-back content. The certain specs
[7:48] do a little bit better. For instance,
[7:49] I've had the hardest time with Outlaw
[7:51] for some reason because its damage is
[7:53] just I guess really consistent and it's
[7:55] kind of like Devour. It doesn't ramp,
[7:57] but you kind of want constant fights and
[8:00] big fights to kind of roll your balls
[8:02] from one pack to another, especially if
[8:03] you play keep it rolling, haha,
[8:05] ironically. I had a bigger
[8:08] relief when I played I think I we might
[8:10] have some footage here on screen where I
[8:13] did
[8:14] four or five challenges of rituals like
[8:17] day one with rogue with a very under
[8:19] gear rogue 240 something item level tier
[8:21] five. It was very difficult. And
[8:23] assassination just made that work really
[8:25] well because I could just go in, take
[8:26] the big target down one at a time. It
[8:28] was still slow, but it was definitely
[8:30] doable. Now, rogue also has other
[8:33] utilities. You have a lot of crowd
[8:35] control that will bump it past A tier
[8:37] and stealth is a very underappreciated
[8:40] skill to have in solo content because
[8:43] you can dodge stuff or you can
[8:44] pre-position stuff or you can go
[8:46] stealth, you can sap one of the two
[8:48] dangerous mobs that are going to be a
[8:50] pain. You can kill one and then take the
[8:51] other one into another pack. There's
[8:52] there's all sorts of stuff you can do.
[8:55] Crimson Vial also gives you a little bit
[8:56] of sustain, but outside of that you're
[8:58] just not not A tier. And I'm probably
[9:01] being a little bit generous putting it
[9:03] into A tier, but I'm putting it just
[9:04] because it has really good mob control
[9:06] and [music] that goes really well when
[9:08] you're doing solo content. It doesn't
[9:09] matter once you're like geared to the
[9:11] teeth 290 item level. That doesn't
[9:13] matter anymore. But until then, that's
[9:15] where the journey and the struggle is.
[9:18] Speaking of struggle, dear god, how the
[9:21] mighty have fallen, dude. Man, mages
[9:25] have a hard time in solo content. Of
[9:28] course, we're always talking about, you
[9:30] know, gearing up 210 item level to 240
[9:34] item level 250 item level. You shouldn't
[9:36] of course if you're a good mage, you
[9:37] might make it work.
[9:39] Not everybody's a good mage, okay? Not
[9:41] everybody plays mages a main to have to
[9:43] struggle in solo content with. Mages
[9:45] have taken a big hit in their defensives
[9:48] in Midnight like
[9:49] >> [laughter]
[9:49] >> it's
[9:51] it's not even funny until it is actually
[9:53] funny when you realize you went from
[9:55] about
[9:56] five strong defensives to one and a
[10:00] half. That is
[10:02] wild when it comes to the class identity
[10:04] and flavor. And of course, the best solo
[10:07] spec is still Frost Mage. The most
[10:09] obvious reason is probably because
[10:10] you're just slowing everything, and you
[10:11] have a lot more frozen Frost Novas, I
[10:13] think. I don't know if the other specs
[10:15] run with two charges of Frost Novas. I
[10:16] don't even know if Frost Mage can run
[10:18] with two charges of Frost Nova, but you
[10:20] know, Blizzard and Frozen Orb and all of
[10:23] that already applies slow, so that's not
[10:25] the point. But, the better reason to
[10:27] play Frost is because its damage is so
[10:29] accessible. It's not so conditioned by
[10:32] combustion and Touch of the Magi or
[10:35] Arcane Power, right? Arcane and Fire as
[10:37] well, similarly to Devourer as before,
[10:39] once you pop your cooldowns, you're just
[10:41] annihilating everything. It doesn't even
[10:42] It's not even funny. You're just killing
[10:44] everything. But, outside of those
[10:45] cooldowns, it's just very poor. While
[10:46] Frost doesn't really have that problem.
[10:48] Not to mention, I guess depending on the
[10:50] level that you are, you might have two
[10:51] charges of Ray of Frost. Either you're
[10:53] Either if you're leveling,
[10:55] that might be a little bit harder to get
[10:56] through. But, if you're max level and
[10:58] you're just doing delves and rituals,
[10:59] two charges of Ray of Frost just gives
[11:01] you access to
[11:02] a very flexible damage profile that can
[11:05] take care of pretty much anything. And
[11:06] of course, two charges of Ice Barrier,
[11:08] two charges of Ice Cold. Um it sucks
[11:11] that you even lost the heal from Ice
[11:13] Cold, bro. God damn it, they hit mages
[11:15] so hard. It feels It feels personal
[11:17] sometimes.
[11:19] Now, Monk is a hybrid class, and I feel
[11:22] Monk is one of those classes that
[11:25] really, really relies on tuning. It's It
[11:28] cannot be A-tier. It is definitely
[11:29] S-tier because it's kind of like a worse
[11:33] worse havoc. And I'm saying havoc, not
[11:35] necessarily demon hunter. Of course, you
[11:36] can play brew, but um
[11:38] I'm sure. I feel like you don't really I
[11:41] feel like brew is overkill. You you're
[11:43] Windwalker is not that squishy.
[11:44] >> [music]
[11:45] >> And your energy regenerates way quicker
[11:47] for your vivifies as opposed to let's
[11:49] say mana for red paladin. You are faster
[11:52] than paladin, let's say, but I don't
[11:54] know if Windwalker has the the type of
[11:56] damage profile flexibility that red has.
[11:58] And also, red has way more
[12:01] utility in terms of survivability.
[12:02] Blessing of protection is god. I mean,
[12:04] you're just immune to damage period,
[12:06] most likely melee. Of course, you remove
[12:08] bleeds. Monk doesn't really have that.
[12:10] You have bubble with paladin. So, I'm
[12:11] kind of comparing it to paladin just so
[12:13] you know, okay, it's S tier, but it's
[12:14] not really the same level. And I cannot
[12:16] really put it into A tier because it's
[12:18] definitely better than rogue to play the
[12:20] overall, of course. You can even go
[12:22] Mistweaver, man. Mistweavers are not
[12:24] doing too shabby, actually. If you can
[12:26] actually pull really really big, you
[12:28] might be able to just do even less
[12:30] damage than a Windwalker, but you're
[12:31] going to survive with the amount of
[12:32] healing that you can do. But, you know,
[12:33] that's based off of everybody's own
[12:35] preferences. Monk is one of the few
[12:39] classes I feel, which is what is making
[12:41] it to S tier, where you can reliably
[12:42] play even the healer spec of it and do
[12:45] probably better than most other healers
[12:47] out there. Probably the best healer out
[12:49] there. Is it the best healer? Close. I
[12:50] think there's one better.
[12:52] I once thought that hunters are the
[12:55] kings of solo content. And
[12:58] I don't know anymore, man, because I've
[13:01] been leveling my hunter. I've been
[13:02] playing it through some difficult delve
[13:04] pulls because I wanted to level through
[13:05] that you know, the the the good delvy
[13:08] blast things.
[13:10] Uh what was it? The calamitous
[13:13] voice from delve where I just pulled the
[13:14] whole packs at the beginning with
[13:15] survival because
[13:18] I guess you do more damage.
[13:21] The thing is, unless you're using
[13:23] misdirection on your pet, your pet will
[13:24] not be able to hold aggro. And even if
[13:26] you're using misdirection on your pet,
[13:27] it's unlikely that the pet can hold
[13:28] aggro for very long. And if you're if
[13:31] you're not a survival, that has even
[13:33] less of an effect. I mean, Beast
[13:34] Mastery,
[13:35] it's maybe Beast Mastery can hold aggro
[13:38] on the pet a little bit more because the
[13:39] pet does a little bit more damage. But
[13:41] then again, you reach a point where your
[13:43] pet will probably die or you might have
[13:44] to use just a few too many mend pets to
[13:46] kind of make it work. And of course,
[13:48] Marksmanship doesn't even have that
[13:49] luxury, period. Hunter still A tier
[13:52] because of its kit, because Feign Death
[13:54] is really good. You are relatively fast.
[13:58] You have range on a lot of the
[13:59] abilities. I mean, you're not competing
[14:01] with with other people in the DPS. So,
[14:03] even as a survival, you can just sit at
[14:04] range and then just throw your bombs if
[14:06] you're in danger. You can kite really
[14:08] well with a lot of crowd control. So, it
[14:09] kind of has, let's say, the crowd
[14:11] control of rogue, probably with slightly
[14:13] better survivability because you can
[14:15] offset some of the damage that you take
[14:16] to your pet. On single target
[14:19] encounters, let's say, like a big rare
[14:20] or stuff like that, you might do better
[14:22] than a lot of other specs because you
[14:23] can more reliably keep your pet alive if
[14:25] you're just fighting like one boss, like
[14:26] one rare or super rare. Your pet might
[14:28] still die, but you can reliably res it
[14:31] back. You have Aspect of the Turtle to
[14:33] kind of revive your pet. An old-school
[14:35] tactic for experienced veteran hunters
[14:38] that have suffered those long ganking
[14:40] days of Stranglethorn Vale.
[14:43] Death Knight, I have found surprisingly
[14:45] A tier. I always thought Death Knight
[14:47] was a pretty good Do I
[14:49] put it in front of I I think I want to
[14:51] put it in front of Paladin, too. And
[14:52] I'll tell you why. Mostly it has to do
[14:54] with Unholy, I believe. So, Death Knight
[14:57] is is a very good solo spec for very
[14:59] good reasons because it just has
[15:01] sustain, your Death Strike, right? The
[15:03] good part about it is that Death Strike
[15:05] doesn't really eat mana. Obviously, it
[15:06] eats runic power. It's not really free,
[15:08] but you can essentially cast an infinite
[15:10] amount of them, right? You're not going
[15:11] to run out of runic power and then take
[15:13] forever to regenerate runic power. You
[15:14] can just generate that runic power
[15:15] really quickly. Not to mention, Unholy
[15:19] has the sustain
[15:21] of
[15:22] I think it's just a better red. I'm just
[15:24] thinking about it. Dark transformation
[15:26] is a 45-second cool down and that is
[15:28] enough to kill anything that is, you
[15:30] know either
[15:32] a nightmare prey that's coming to hunt
[15:33] you down or a delve boss. Maybe you're
[15:35] going from prey to prey or you're
[15:37] getting ambushed a lot. You just have
[15:40] dark transformation almost always and if
[15:41] you really need to take a big target
[15:43] down like I'm thinking
[15:46] the Runestone event in Eversong Woods,
[15:50] the big boss that spawns. Sometimes if
[15:52] you're the only one doing that content,
[15:54] it's going to be tricky. So, armies just
[15:56] you're just going to delete that. And a
[15:59] good thing about Death Knight is that
[16:01] your pets will not die the way that a
[16:03] hunter pets would die. So, you don't
[16:04] have to worry about that. They're not
[16:06] tanking either, but AMS makes you it
[16:10] just immune to magic damage. You can
[16:11] even immune prey mechanics with AMS.
[16:15] Fancy that. You also have Icebound
[16:17] Fortitude that can secure a stun.
[16:18] Nightmare prey is famously stun you when
[16:21] you're getting ambushed or the one that
[16:23] can get out of that. It's not always
[16:24] lethal, but sometimes if you're fighting
[16:26] something that's just putting it's
[16:28] putting a circle down beneath you that's
[16:30] going to take a big hit out of your HP.
[16:32] And then just at that time you're also
[16:34] getting ambushed by your prey. By the
[16:36] time you naturally get out of the stun,
[16:37] you're going to get hit by at least one
[16:39] of those circles. Sometimes that can be
[16:41] lethal. It happened to me especially
[16:42] while you're leveling up whilst you're
[16:44] just starting your max-level adventures.
[16:47] And of course you can play blood and
[16:48] frost, but I feel like unholy is
[16:50] definitely the king right now in in
[16:52] Death Knight solo [music] content.
[16:55] Warlock, my second main right now has
[16:59] seen me have some of the worst
[17:03] survivability in end game and there's a
[17:05] reason why I'm putting it to C tier.
[17:06] Okay, it's a pet class. Pet class are
[17:08] not usually that bad. Maybe I'll bump it
[17:10] back into B tier by the time I'm done
[17:12] talking myself out of it. So, I've
[17:14] leveled a warlock because, you know, I'm
[17:15] playing
[17:17] warlock in a push group with my friends.
[17:19] We even have a video on it that you can
[17:20] check at the end of this one. And
[17:23] I wanted to, you know, I made I I got to
[17:25] 90 and I just wanted to jump into
[17:27] Nightmare Preys because
[17:29] >> [gasps and laughter]
[17:30] >> why why do anything else, right? And it
[17:33] has been so far the only class that has
[17:34] struggled with it because with low gear
[17:36] your damage is just not enough to kill
[17:39] something most of the times when Azshara
[17:42] calls you out to do it. Like I didn't
[17:44] really have a problem getting ambushed.
[17:46] Still talking about Preys. I obviously
[17:48] didn't have a problem CC'ing the little
[17:50] ghost that follows you around. I of
[17:51] course didn't have problem collecting
[17:53] and doing all open world content
[17:56] whatsoever or delves, but Nightmare
[17:58] Preys have been so bad. It took me about
[18:00] 30 to 40 minutes to finish my first
[18:02] Nightmare Prey. And it's the only class
[18:04] that I've had to go through that right
[18:06] now. It's just not very flexible. You're
[18:08] very immobile. If you're flying and
[18:10] you're just commanded by Azshara to kill
[18:12] something and you land and there's
[18:14] nothing there was there's just like one
[18:16] mob. By the time you actually build
[18:17] enough damage to destroy the thing cuz
[18:19] pretty much all three Warlock specs have
[18:20] some sort of ramp, you might die. You
[18:22] might die a lot until you get more gear.
[18:24] Of course, with gear gets a little bit
[18:25] better. And because it's so much better
[18:27] in delves and rituals and so on and you
[18:29] have the flexibility of three specs with
[18:31] different tanking pets. I guess I can
[18:33] put it into B tier. It is tankier than
[18:35] mage for instance. It has way more
[18:37] sustain than mage. It has way more crowd
[18:39] control. That's good in open world
[18:40] content. Mortal Coil one of them. Uh
[18:42] than mage. And curses are not that bad
[18:45] either, but I feel like that one major
[18:47] drawback which you're probably going to
[18:49] encounter with a lot of these classes as
[18:51] you level up is going to be felt the
[18:53] most with Warlock which is maybe even B
[18:56] tier. I feel like it's a little bit
[18:57] generous. Although I love the class and
[18:58] I really enjoy playing it.
[19:01] Warrior is an interesting case. I think
[19:04] it's definitely going to be in A tier.
[19:06] And it's maybe one of the few classes
[19:08] where I would super recommend playing
[19:10] protection. Maybe I have a soft spot for
[19:12] protection as a spec, but it's just
[19:14] really good in solo content.
[19:17] Warrior is above other classes that have
[19:19] like no inherent sustain because it has
[19:22] impending victory in the way it works
[19:24] with open world content. Even if you
[19:25] play DPS specs, you're more likely going
[19:27] to be able to play into impending
[19:29] victory, which is kind of the same thing
[19:30] that rogue has right now if I think
[19:32] about it with the new crimson vial
[19:33] talent that gets the ability reset once
[19:35] you kill a target. But impending victory
[19:37] does that way more reliably. So, you can
[19:39] actually play all three warrior specs.
[19:41] Protection does a lot more damage than
[19:43] let's say, I don't know, I guess I don't
[19:45] know if it does more damage than
[19:46] brewmaster. But protection warrior can
[19:48] just go go go. Not to mention you can
[19:50] just carry your ignore pain from one
[19:52] pack to another and that's also really
[19:53] good. But even if you're not going to do
[19:55] that, if you're going to play fury,
[19:56] you're probably the tankiest out of all
[19:58] the warrior specs. If you're going to
[19:59] play arms, you might be able to take one
[20:01] or two targets down way quicker than all
[20:02] the other warrior specs, although that's
[20:04] debatable with the with the current
[20:05] tuning that we have right now. But
[20:07] warrior is just a juggernaut. It's very
[20:09] very tanky, tankier than paladin,
[20:12] weirdly enough. It doesn't have as much
[20:13] sustain, but it is decently fast. Leap
[20:16] is actually a really good tool in open
[20:17] world content if you want to, I don't
[20:19] know, jump to a bridge and you don't
[20:21] want to mount cuz the mob is on the
[20:23] bridge and you don't want to have to go
[20:25] all the way around. It's it's just those
[20:27] little things definitely do a lot of
[20:29] legwork. You can charge from pack one
[20:31] pack to another. If you're playing arms,
[20:32] die by the sword just makes you more or
[20:34] less immune to attacks for foreseeable
[20:37] future. It does have a lot of utility
[20:39] and a lot of good stuff going for it.
[20:41] So, maybe I'm biased, let us know if you
[20:43] think otherwise.
[20:45] Now, shaman is a class that is a hybrid
[20:48] class and hybrid class I would rank
[20:51] fairly highly
[20:52] as it's I I cannot put it together with
[20:55] red and monk for some reason. Shaman is
[20:58] just also still very squishy and they
[21:00] have changed a little bit of their
[21:02] tankiness. We don't have the bulwark
[21:05] totem, which wasn't a great defensive in
[21:07] iron but it was really good in solo
[21:09] content, and you can fill in the gaps in
[21:11] between pulls where you didn't have to
[21:12] like stop and heal or stop and drink. My
[21:14] main problem with Shaman being any
[21:16] higher, and even at eight tier, maybe
[21:18] I'm a little bit too generous,
[21:20] is that uh the heals are very poop, and
[21:22] they just deplete the mana drastically.
[21:24] Enhancement probably has a little bit of
[21:26] a leg up because you can juice up your
[21:27] heals with Maelstrom Weapon, or what is
[21:29] it called now? Overflowing Maelstrom, I
[21:31] think, at the moment. So, you can just
[21:33] have like really, really juicy heals.
[21:35] I'm I'm pretty sure they still cost
[21:36] mana, so you're still going to run out,
[21:37] but you might not have to cast as many
[21:39] as, let's say, Elemental would have to.
[21:41] Not to mention, all Shaman specs except
[21:43] Elemental have lost a Thunder's Struck.
[21:46] Is that what it's called? It's not
[21:48] Thunderstorm. It's not It's the knock
[21:49] up. Well, it's no longer knock up, it's
[21:51] just knock back. All Shaman specs lost
[21:53] the knock up, actually. You do have a
[21:55] lot of a lot of crowd control with
[21:56] totems. You can root them with Earth
[21:58] Grasp. You can slow them with Earth
[21:59] Bind. You can stun them with Capacitor
[22:01] Totem. Um I don't know if necessarily
[22:03] fears are going to be a problem. One
[22:05] thing that Shaman does have other other
[22:06] class over other classes is that
[22:08] Restoration is the only healer with a
[22:09] kick, and kicks are actually important
[22:12] in in open world content, especially if
[22:14] you're playing praise once again,
[22:16] because the thing that chases you around
[22:18] can just be kicked. I mean, you can also
[22:20] dispel it, I suppose, or purge it, which
[22:22] also works, I guess. But you sometimes
[22:25] might not have that that luxury to do.
[22:27] It's not a bad class, and it does have a
[22:29] lot of damage for solo content. It's
[22:31] just not mobile, either. So, I'm I'm
[22:33] still debating, but I feel like if I had
[22:35] to choose which one between Mage and
[22:37] Shaman would be better for solo content,
[22:38] it would probably be Shaman. So, I guess
[22:39] that's why it cannot be on the same tier
[22:41] as Mage.
[22:43] Evoker is a wild card because it has a
[22:46] lot of good things that are going to
[22:47] prop it up, and a lot of bad things that
[22:48] are going to pull it down.
[22:50] >> [gasps]
[22:52] >> If I would have to solo content,
[22:53] obviously I would probably play
[22:54] Devastation,
[22:55] no questions asked. I don't think
[22:57] Augmentation can cut it.
[23:00] Uh the power of Augmentation is by just
[23:03] maintaining long uptimes on Evan Might,
[23:05] and that's just a slow combat. And
[23:07] that's mentioned that you have to
[23:07] constantly be in combat to do so. It's
[23:10] not impossible,
[23:13] but I don't know if it's necessarily
[23:14] that good considering that the Visage
[23:16] can just destroy pretty much everything.
[23:18] Now, of course, all DPS specs are better
[23:20] with cooldowns on. You should probably
[23:22] just put this up as well.
[23:24] Um all DPS specs are good with cooldowns
[23:27] out, but I feel like the Visage doesn't
[23:28] suffer as much without cooldowns as with
[23:30] other specs as well. And one thing that
[23:32] Evoker has over everybody is soar, and
[23:35] that it's it's not necessarily a mount.
[23:37] I don't know if that helps that it's not
[23:39] a mount. I mean, you still have to cast
[23:41] it, but you do have glide as well. And
[23:43] the overall open world crowd control is
[23:46] really good. The landslide is just
[23:49] insane if you accidentally found
[23:50] yourself pulling too many, or if you
[23:52] want to make a big pull, but you just
[23:54] have to kind of kite a little bit.
[23:56] That's just incredible to do.
[23:58] Not to mention deep breath, stunning
[24:00] everything is just peak.
[24:02] >> [sighs]
[24:03] >> I guess you could play preservation. I
[24:05] feel like preservation has had its time
[24:07] in the sun where now its damage is so
[24:08] low that I don't know I don't know. I I
[24:10] guess they're they're buffed. I Well,
[24:12] actually, I don't know if I've seen a
[24:13] preservation buff in like months now.
[24:16] Not even a devastation buff, actually. I
[24:18] think everybody is just focused on
[24:20] augmentation, but that's mostly because
[24:21] of end game.
[24:22] It's also a very kind of squishy class,
[24:24] and its range being
[24:26] 25-30 yards is is not that great as
[24:29] opposed to let's say being a frost mage
[24:30] and shooting a glacial spike from like
[24:32] almost 40 yards away. But, despite mage,
[24:35] your defenses are slightly better,
[24:36] you're way more mobile, and you can
[24:38] glide. So, I guess that's why we're
[24:40] going to have it into A tier.
[24:42] Last but not least, uh is this the king?
[24:45] So, this is the hardest one to rank,
[24:47] because obviously this is an S tier
[24:49] spec, but how S tier is it? I think
[24:52] Druid is probably still the king of solo
[24:55] content, but I'm having a hard time
[24:57] putting it ahead of Havoc, and this is
[24:58] for a very good reason.
[25:00] On paper, Druid is the best. You have
[25:02] access to all ship ship forms that give
[25:04] you tools for anything that happens in
[25:06] combat. You can pretty much play all
[25:07] specs, even the healer spec. This is the
[25:10] other here that I that I was mentioning
[25:11] that has really good damage cuz you can
[25:12] just owl weave or cat weave with resto.
[25:15] Of course, you're not going to do as
[25:15] much damage as feral or balance, but you
[25:18] can do that while never having to worry
[25:20] about dying cuz your heals are going to
[25:21] keep you up. Not to mention, you can
[25:23] even play talents that convert damage
[25:24] into healing, which right now are pretty
[25:26] strong, but they're probably going to
[25:27] get nerfed. The only reason why I'm
[25:29] hesitant in putting it ahead of Havoc is
[25:31] because Havoc is tuned to a point where
[25:34] even though it doesn't have actual
[25:36] heals, even though it's a DPS specs and
[25:37] it's not a tank, it's tuned just above
[25:40] where that would matter. And that's
[25:42] mainly it. If Havoc would would have
[25:44] been slightly squishier, if Havoc's
[25:47] leech would be slightly weaker, I think
[25:49] Druid would hands down be the king right
[25:52] now. But because and I I don't know if
[25:54] if we should rank these based off of
[25:56] tuning. I think Druid is still going to
[25:57] be ahead because you have a lot more
[26:00] specs that are going to be good at solo
[26:02] content as opposed to the Demon Hunter
[26:03] that just has the Vengeance. If, for
[26:05] instance, you're a Havoc player,
[26:07] you're the best. You don't care. But if
[26:08] you're a Vengeance player, you're going
[26:10] to struggle more. So, that kind of
[26:12] difference in perspective will probably
[26:14] see Druid overall, by and large, be a
[26:17] better class to solo content. But what
[26:19] do you think? Let us know in the comment
[26:20] section down below. What has your
[26:22] experience been with soloing some of
[26:23] content because I've had some of the
[26:25] easiest time and some of the hardest
[26:27] time this season. Uh and I'm talking
[26:29] about uh Demonology, of course. And uh
[26:31] by the way,
[26:33] you can watch our Demonology video
[26:34] because that's one of the videos that we
[26:36] made to talk about what it means to
[26:38] change your main. Well, I didn't really
[26:40] change, I just picked another one. And
[26:42] what it means to play meta class and how
[26:44] you learn from it and how you improve
[26:46] and how that affects your overall, let's
[26:48] say, enjoyment of end-game content.