12.0.5 Tier List: BEST Solo Classes in WoW Midnight

[00:01] Are you tired to coming home from a long

[00:04] day at work, logging into your class and

[00:06] having to do dungeons and raids?

[00:09] Do you just want to enjoy a relaxing

[00:12] time in a delve, on a world quest, in a

[00:15] ritual, fishing for stuff in Zul'Aman?

[00:20] Then World of Warcraft has the perfect

[00:22] class for you, the solo class. Today

[00:24] we're going to be ranking all of the

[00:26] classes in their power of doing solo

[00:29] content. Which one is the best? Which

[00:31] one is the lowest? And there are a

[00:33] couple of things that you need to know.

[00:35] First of all, we're going to be ranking

[00:37] these classes based off of their sustain

[00:40] and survivability in long-term solo

[00:42] content, because any class can do any

[00:45] content if you're just going to stop

[00:46] after each pack, drink, or heal, or

[00:49] rebuff, or reflash, or just release your

[00:51] spirit and come back to your corpse.

[00:53] That's not fun, and that doesn't mean

[00:54] that a class is strong. Second of all is

[00:57] speed. Certain classes might not have as

[01:00] much sustain, but they might have speed

[01:02] getting from one point to another, and

[01:05] they're able to just clear content

[01:06] overall quicker, but they might have to

[01:08] occasionally stop to either heal

[01:10] themselves or eat, or maybe even use

[01:12] heal potions during their content. And

[01:15] lastly, we're going to have an extra

[01:17] layer of consideration for max gear

[01:19] characters. Although you might not see

[01:21] footage of max gear character, but that

[01:22] doesn't mean that they're different.

[01:25] Certain classes that are probably really

[01:27] bad at soloing once they get really good

[01:29] gear, which is probably most of them,

[01:31] are going to like plow through the

[01:33] content. So if that's the case, we're

[01:34] going to exclude that particular rating,

[01:37] because if everybody's good, then what's

[01:39] the point of a ranking?

[01:42] So we're going to start it off with

[01:44] Paladin. As probably to nobody's

[01:46] surprise, Paladin is a very S-tier

[01:49] class. And of course, now we can talk a

[01:50] little bit about the specs as well,

[01:52] because not every spec of Paladin is S

[01:54] class, and we're going to assume that

[01:57] you are willing to maybe swap to a

[01:59] different spec that your class has to

[02:01] maybe make your life a little bit easier

[02:03] or maybe you're going to gear that

[02:05] particular spec to clear the content. In

[02:07] this case, we're mostly talking about

[02:08] protection and red, but if I really have

[02:11] to rank one over the other, it would be

[02:12] protection being S tier, red being A

[02:16] tier, and holy being

[02:18] B tier, probably just because it's a

[02:20] plate wearing healer with a lot of

[02:21] heals. Now, protection being A tier has

[02:24] a lot to do with its damage and of

[02:27] course it being a tank. We all know that

[02:28] protection in end game is pretty squishy

[02:31] and that kind of sucks, but that doesn't

[02:32] really correlate that well with solo

[02:35] content. That's not that punishing for

[02:38] tanks. So, the tankiness is probably

[02:39] just about enough for you not to have to

[02:42] worry about ever dying. Not to mention

[02:45] that protection paladin probably has

[02:46] some of the highest amount of damage

[02:48] output out of all the tanks and during

[02:50] your cool downs, you're likely going to

[02:52] out DPS a lot of the DPS specs, period.

[02:55] Also, and that's a really good selling

[02:57] point if you're going to be doing

[02:58] delves, if you're going to be doing

[02:59] rituals with max tier and max challenges

[03:02] as well, and you want to like farm

[03:04] accolades or whatever you're into.

[03:05] That's perfectly fine. And of course,

[03:07] this doesn't change with max gear,

[03:08] obviously it just gets better. I leveled

[03:11] as protection and mostly red even though

[03:13] my main spec for paladin is holy. I just

[03:16] cannot see it any other way.

[03:18] That's just how it is.

[03:21] Demon hunter is also probably I would

[03:24] probably put it ahead of paladin because

[03:26] what demon hunter also brings to the

[03:28] table is speed and glide. I guess they

[03:31] both kind of factor into mobility. And

[03:34] of course, I'm mostly talking about

[03:35] havoc here. You can of course do

[03:37] vengeance, but vengeance doesn't have

[03:39] the damage of protection paladin. So,

[03:41] I'll probably put vengeance in A and

[03:43] devour probably in C tier. So, it's kind

[03:47] of hard to rank demon hunter because if

[03:48] you're going to be looking to solo

[03:50] content clear, you're going to likely

[03:53] switch to the class that's easiest to

[03:55] solo content with. And this is why it's

[03:56] kind of difficult to rank these classes

[03:58] because we cannot go into each specific

[04:00] spec too much because if we just average

[04:03] everything out, all classes will

[04:04] probably be around B tier. But, if you

[04:05] are interested in

[04:07] potentially

[04:09] >> [laughter]

[04:10] >> Marceline is going to kill me.

[04:11] Potentially seeing a tier list where we

[04:13] rank all specs, all 40 of them based off

[04:17] of their capability of surviving, then I

[04:20] don't know, leave a like on the video so

[04:23] that we can tell I don't know if we get

[04:24] like

[04:25] 10,000 likes or whatever, maybe we'll do

[04:27] that cuz that sounds like a Herculean

[04:29] task. It is 40 specs. Wow, it's a big

[04:32] game, you guys. [music]

[04:33] But, with that out of the way,

[04:35] Demon Hunter is my main. I actually love

[04:37] all three specs and I'm at a tank at

[04:39] heart and I did not touch Vengeance

[04:41] whatsoever and I tried to level as

[04:42] Havoc. And if you have as well, you

[04:45] might know it is an absolute pain.

[04:50] Havoc was not meant to do solo content.

[04:52] Of course, you have the gear and you can

[04:55] And now with to be fair, with the Soul

[04:57] Emulation when I leveled it, it didn't

[04:59] heal you back. Now, it definitely heals

[05:00] you back. So, that's a good boon boon,

[05:03] not boon. Bonus, I want to say bonus.

[05:04] But, it's a good boon and that

[05:06] definitely helps. It's definitely better

[05:07] than before. However, you will still

[05:09] need to ramp your damage and you only

[05:11] need to be able to stay in constant

[05:12] combat so that you can transition your

[05:14] soul count from one pack to another,

[05:17] either it's delves or rituals or

[05:18] whatever so that you eventually can go

[05:19] into meta. The problem with that is that

[05:21] once you're in meta and Havoc, you're

[05:22] probably going to one-shot most specs.

[05:24] So, that's great for speed, but it's

[05:27] kind of like wasted power. It's kind of

[05:28] like hitting a fly with a bazooka,

[05:30] right? Yeah, that fly is gone, so, but

[05:33] you kind of wasted so much just for one

[05:36] little fly. However, Havoc just just

[05:38] blends everything. You're so tanky, you

[05:40] have so much sustain, you're so fast,

[05:42] you cannot die to fall damage and

[05:44] sometimes that happens. There are some

[05:45] knock-up somewhere somehow. Maybe you're

[05:48] farming treasures and you're, you know,

[05:50] up at top of the mountain and you got no

[05:52] more vigor points and you're just

[05:53] dropping down with glide. It's all good.

[05:55] Demon Hunter S tier.

[05:57] I've been debating a lot on where to put

[05:59] priest because obviously priest is the

[06:02] only class with two healer specs and

[06:04] healers are the worst usually at solo

[06:06] content. And the worst is not

[06:08] necessarily that they cannot survive.

[06:09] Obviously they can because they are

[06:10] healers. They can heal more than anybody

[06:13] else, but their damage is so abysmally

[06:15] low and I feel like in mythic night

[06:16] that's a new level. Of course, shadow is

[06:18] not too shabby, but shadow's also a

[06:20] squishy and immobile caster. So, I think

[06:23] I'm going to be maybe a little bit

[06:25] aggressive here and put priest into D

[06:27] tier. And I'll go over a little bit as

[06:29] to

[06:29] why D tier. I'm going to talk about

[06:32] shadow because that's probably what most

[06:33] people are thinking of doing if they're

[06:35] going to be selling with priest. And

[06:36] that's great. Shadow is cool. You cannot

[06:38] reliably heal for a lot as shadow and

[06:41] I'm not talking about vampiric embrace.

[06:42] I know vampiric embrace is pretty good,

[06:44] but I refuse to just going to like stop

[06:46] and then just heal. And I'm pretty sure

[06:48] this

[06:49] I don't even remember, man. Does flash

[06:51] heal even work in shadow form anymore? I

[06:53] think it probably does.

[06:55] And then that's about it. Plus, the

[06:56] problem with priest healing, shadow

[06:58] priest, and red paladin and a bunch of

[07:00] other hybrid specs is that you're

[07:01] limited by your mana pool. And yeah, you

[07:04] can heal. The heals are very, very tiny.

[07:07] You have to heal for quite a lot if your

[07:08] HP is almost down. So, you're probably

[07:10] still better off eating food in between

[07:13] packs if you need the little bit of

[07:15] sustain. And you're most likely going to

[07:17] need health potions to survive. Now, of

[07:19] course, if you're playing discipline and

[07:20] holy, that's no longer the case, but

[07:22] then you're super, super, super, super,

[07:23] super slow in clearing content. So,

[07:27] priest is D tier.

[07:29] Rogue, a personal favorite solo content

[07:31] class of mine. I wish I could put it

[07:34] into A tier.

[07:36] Um I also debated and put into B tier.

[07:38] Let's uh let's talk a little bit about B

[07:40] tier rogue. The problem with rogue is

[07:41] that its sustain is kind of poor. It's

[07:44] really poor, especially if you're in

[07:46] back-to-back content. The certain specs

[07:48] do a little bit better. For instance,

[07:49] I've had the hardest time with Outlaw

[07:51] for some reason because its damage is

[07:53] just I guess really consistent and it's

[07:55] kind of like Devour. It doesn't ramp,

[07:57] but you kind of want constant fights and

[08:00] big fights to kind of roll your balls

[08:02] from one pack to another, especially if

[08:03] you play keep it rolling, haha,

[08:05] ironically. I had a bigger

[08:08] relief when I played I think I we might

[08:10] have some footage here on screen where I

[08:13] did

[08:14] four or five challenges of rituals like

[08:17] day one with rogue with a very under

[08:19] gear rogue 240 something item level tier

[08:21] five. It was very difficult. And

[08:23] assassination just made that work really

[08:25] well because I could just go in, take

[08:26] the big target down one at a time. It

[08:28] was still slow, but it was definitely

[08:30] doable. Now, rogue also has other

[08:33] utilities. You have a lot of crowd

[08:35] control that will bump it past A tier

[08:37] and stealth is a very underappreciated

[08:40] skill to have in solo content because

[08:43] you can dodge stuff or you can

[08:44] pre-position stuff or you can go

[08:46] stealth, you can sap one of the two

[08:48] dangerous mobs that are going to be a

[08:50] pain. You can kill one and then take the

[08:51] other one into another pack. There's

[08:52] there's all sorts of stuff you can do.

[08:55] Crimson Vial also gives you a little bit

[08:56] of sustain, but outside of that you're

[08:58] just not not A tier. And I'm probably

[09:01] being a little bit generous putting it

[09:03] into A tier, but I'm putting it just

[09:04] because it has really good mob control

[09:06] and [music] that goes really well when

[09:08] you're doing solo content. It doesn't

[09:09] matter once you're like geared to the

[09:11] teeth 290 item level. That doesn't

[09:13] matter anymore. But until then, that's

[09:15] where the journey and the struggle is.

[09:18] Speaking of struggle, dear god, how the

[09:21] mighty have fallen, dude. Man, mages

[09:25] have a hard time in solo content. Of

[09:28] course, we're always talking about, you

[09:30] know, gearing up 210 item level to 240

[09:34] item level 250 item level. You shouldn't

[09:36] of course if you're a good mage, you

[09:37] might make it work.

[09:39] Not everybody's a good mage, okay? Not

[09:41] everybody plays mages a main to have to

[09:43] struggle in solo content with. Mages

[09:45] have taken a big hit in their defensives

[09:48] in Midnight like

[09:49] >> [laughter]

[09:49] >> it's

[09:51] it's not even funny until it is actually

[09:53] funny when you realize you went from

[09:55] about

[09:56] 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.