Best WoW Midnight Specs — Full Breakdown & Transcript

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[01:51] today's video. link below if you guys want to try it out. Starting off first, shaman. Elemental has always been a very flashy DPS spec, and I got to say, I They've made wonderful changes to the

[02:06] builds, whether you want to go fire with lava burst or lightning with, of course, Tempest. For your fire builds, you have your flame shock being turned in voltaic blaze, where it makes you shoot out AoE lava burst, which feels amazing. Shaman

[02:20] also still of course has those nuclear damage cooldown windows with ascendance also being paired now with your fire elemental when you activate it. Their apex talents feel great. It's all about upgrading elemental overload and having

[02:32] you just shoot out a machine gun of abilities to even double up on it. Listen, when it comes to class pruning, I think both shaman DPS specs made it out very, very strong and anyone would be happy to pick up elemental as a

[02:44] Shaman is of course how much utility they bring. They got all their totems. They bring blood lust, crowd control, you name it, the shaman has it. And if you combine that with how much fun they are by themselves, they're going to be

[02:57] possible. So, I think they hit the nail on the head with elemental, a superstar spec so far on the midnight beta. Moving on, next, we got to talk about the frost mage because this is a class that is probably the biggest surprise on the

[03:10] entire list. Frost Mage is one of the very few classes that got pretty much a top tobottom rework, but it's easily amongst one of the best overhauls in the game by far. Your shatter mechanic works as like a debuff that you pop and

[03:23] explode on enemies with things like ice lance and some other abilities. Icy veins isn't your major cooldown anymore. It's replaced with ray of frost. So, you channel ray of frost and it deals a bunch of AoE damage if you talent into

[03:36] it, which feels nice. At the end of Ray of Frost, you can also cast Comet Storm you're Frostfire, that will also cast a meteor and shatter all your shatter stacks, which feel phenomenal. Also, whenever you shatter, you have a chance

[03:51] to summon your Apex Talent that shoots out icy frost from the ground toward enemies to explode and deal a nice little wave of damage. I am in love with cleaned it up, and I think it's very, very exceptional in terms of rotation

[04:04] and overall fun gameplay design. If you've ever been curious about playing frost mage right now could be absolutely the perfect time to try this spec. I premier spec right now. The other two, I think, are severely lacking. And you

[04:18] combine the amount of fun this spec brings with all the great crowd control you can have in mythic plus with slows and roots. Frost mage is absolutely back in Midnight World of Warcraft. Moving on into A tier, very close to S tier, we

[04:31] got to talk about Unholy. Now, Unholy is one of the biggest winners and honestly one of the hottest topic specs on the beta right now. Blizzard finally dropped the Festering Wounds, you know, miniame. Took all that BS out and put this spec

[04:43] into the direction we all wanted, which is a platewearing necromancer, summoning armies of the undead to do your bidding. That's what it's all about. Now, your loop is building up undead ghouls. You can detonate them and raise more

[04:56] damage. Whenever you detonate your minions, you can also raise them back again. So, you end up with a whole swarm of skeletal, you know, minions and casters just nuking things alongside your abominations. It looks sick. It's

[05:10] genuinely fun to play. Incredibly thematic and definitely direction. I think we were all hoping Unholy was going to go in. I will say I'm not yet, though. It upgrades Death Coil and

[05:22] Epidemic a little bit during Army of the Dead, but right now it just doesn't feel numbers and tuning is all going to be all over the place. It just feels mostly like they're just slightly amplified versions of Death Coil and Epidemic. I'm

[05:35] hoping that changes come launch day and things feel really good for them. So, if that's the case, I think this Apex talent will perform very, very well. Bottom line, though, is Unholy is now, of course, a true minion master blowing

[05:47] up your own ghouls to spread plagues. You summon these armies of the undead, and it finally matches the fantasy this class needed. I'm really excited to see option for me heading into the new expansion. Next up, talking about Druid,

[06:01] for a long time, I've wanted them to clean up Feral. And in Midnight WoW, lot of the jank. They trimmed out all the button blow and leaned harder into that bleed and bite fantasy, which I think is really cool. They gave them

[06:16] access also to an AoE feral frenzy like ability, which is really nice. Has a really, really cool bleed sort of flicker clone animation, which is have faster combo point generation, smoother procs, better cleave options,

[06:31] and I think in general, man, I got to say, I think they did a really excellent job with this spec, and it's the first time I've been excited about feral for many, many expansions now. I will say when it comes to the Apex talent, this

[06:43] is my one downgrade about them. I think they're one of the most boring and bland Apex talents in the game. Pretty much it's just a chance to proc a flicker to deal some damage to a nearby enemy. I think it's very boring, pretty

[06:55] this and update it. Other than that, really happy. Feral still brings that, their cooldown windows. Solid off healing for Mythic Plus if you need it. bottom line is that if you thought about ever picking up Feral, this is

[07:09] for you to pick up this class and see how it feels for you, man. Really excited about Feral so far. Next up, I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. We have the brand new kid on the block, the Devourer Demon Hunter. This is the

[07:21] brand new spec coming for Midnight for Demon Hunter. It's a very unique and visually impressive play style. Vastly different from your typical, you know, Havoc Demon Hunter DPS gameplay style, and I think it feels great to play. You

[07:34] got collapsing stars popping off for hundreds of thousands of damage, void the celestial eye beams going out. The rotation is very, very burtheavy and setup reliant. So, with all that being said, you have a lot of big payoff

[07:48] moments. And I think if you're into sort of setting up and planning big burst, I very unique gameplay style, simple enough to pick up, but hard to master. And I think that's where it's going to earn its money in terms of design. Apex

[08:02] talents are all about, you know, fueling up those collapsing stars inside of void into the theme and the whole brand that forget, you also have chaos brand as your debuff. So you're definitely

[08:14] needed. You keep all the demon hunter mobility, which is good. good survivability in terms of self- sustain, big AoE burst damage, and of course, the midnight. Really excited for this spec. I think they're doing a great job. Needs

[08:28] excellent. Next up, we got to talk about affliction. And I'm going to be honest, Warlock. For the first time in a long time, this spec is back to being all about damage overtime spells again. They got rid of Malefic Rapture. They dialed

[08:43] up the knob on their damage overtime effects and they made them a lot more impactful. Also, your soul shard spenders are now seed of corruption for that AOE explosion and unstable affliction for that single target damage

[08:56] overtime effect. And boy oh boy, if you miss how affliction used to play, buckle up because this is about to go on a rocket and get ready for liftoff. I Shard spenders feel less punishing if you don't just spam them right away. and

[09:09] your damage actually ramps into big moments now once you get everything up be more happy that I'm getting away from that spamming malefic rapture 7 8 nine

[09:21] global cooldowns in a row. It was so annoying. It's that classic affliction over time and things look good. You also have a brand new dark harvest cooldown chunking everything down which has your dots on it feels really good and I think

[09:37] they're in an excellent spot. I also think their apex talent really amplifies their priority target damage a lot with haunt as well which is really really good and I think the spec has some solid potential with somebody that knows what

[09:49] they're doing if you're playing the spec properly. Very excited for affliction warlock overall. Definitely going to keep my eye on this spec. On next we do also have to talk about the other DPS shaman spec enhancement. I think this is

[10:01] overall probably the best design enhancement has had in many years. Elemental enhancement are neck andneck in terms of fun and perfect combination of pruning. And I think Blizzard nailed it with both of these specs. So hats off

[10:13] to them. Your filler abilities like storm strike and lava lash deal more damage now. They got rid of all the crazy button bloat. So they pruned them very nicely. And then you also have voltaic blaze as enhancement pretty much

[10:25] 24/7. So you don't have those weird windows of trying to spread flame shock and you're good to go. Also, Ghost Wolves isn't an activatable ability anymore. It's just a passive that is procked based off abilities you use. For

[10:38] example, like Sundering and Doom Winds, which feels fine. And overall, they just them properly with which is what I've been begging Blizzard to do for years. So, the toemic warrior enhancement shaman is absolutely back. They feel

[10:50] enhances their crash lightning ability to deal more damage and amplify some of your other combat capabilities while also giving it a proc every so often to be able to use it without going on cooldown which feels quite nice. I will

[11:04] say it's not the most impactful Apex talent ever, but it does get the job done. Once again, don't forget shaman brings insane utility, very short cooldown kick, all their totems, blood lust, strong crowd control, you name it,

[11:16] heading into midnight. definitely looking to be my main so far. Moving on talk about devastation. And this class is in an excellent spot right now as a range DPS. They cleaned up a lot of the awkwardness in the talent tree. They

[11:31] smooth out how your empower abilities fit into your rotation and gave you more without feeling like you're waiting forever for a certain burst window, changes that there's a talent to where you can deep breath back to back, which

[11:46] Not only that, you pair that with some of the talents that amplify your damage breath. Especially if you play scale commander, you're constantly shooting You're using deep breath. You're applying those debuffs and you have a

[12:00] ton of time on all these powerful buffs on you and it feels fantastic. I would say devastation really feels like a devastation evoker where you're just exploding the battlefield with fire and azure damage. And I think the last thing

[12:13] this spec needs is probably just some good customization in terms of transmog. hands right here. Their apex talent also amplifies their burst window with their cooldowns substantially more which fits devastation perfectly. And I think if

[12:27] you like high impact spells, big crits, explosive thematic spell effects, devastation is one of the better specs for you heading into midnight for sure. Moving on to our first tank, we got to talk about the vengeance demon hunter.

[12:39] Now, the biggest improvement I would say is how survivability is going to be worked around with vengeance. Right now, defensive power is now frontloaded and very reliable now. Not something you have to ramp up into while you're just

[12:51] hoping you don't get deleted at the start of a poll. Fiery Brand is now a true tank defensive on yourself. It's not a debuff you have to spread. Frailty is simpler and more consistent. TLDDR is you pretty much you press your buttons

[13:03] and you're just tankier. Feed the demon now rewards proper fury spending, letting you maintain demon spikes uptime more naturally without any weird juggling. And the apex talent is essentially a cleaner, smarter evolution

[13:16] of demonic. Spending fury can proc a free metamorphosis for you that doesn't put your real metamorphosis on cooldown, fixing fury capping issues and giving you a very powerful controlled spikes of durability every once in a while. It's

[13:29] not super flashy, but it is massively improving the consistency and removes a lot of the old jank from Vengeance's gameplay loop. Hero talent-wise, both Aldrai and Annihilator feel very viable. But Annihilator in particular leans hard

[13:42] into a high impact, you know, damage uh I would say first, heavier aggressive tank fantasy that does feel distinct rather than the other spec. I would say overall the bottom line is that Vengeance feels like a real durable tank

[13:56] first. Now, it's very responsive. It does strong damage and doesn't require a bunch of tracking, uh, you know, all the nonsense to be able to survive. If Vengeance Demon Hunter is easily one of the best feeling tanks in Midnight right

[14:09] now heading into the new expansion. Next up, with a massive surprise, we have Blood Death Knight. Now, finally, this spec feels like it was dragged into the modern era of World of Warcraft. A massive amount of button bloat has been

[14:23] gone and changed. A lot of maintenance talents are deleted, and that cleanup did wonders for this spec. I'm loving it right now. Blood no longer feels like it's juggling outdated systems on top of each other. Instead, the gameplay loop

[14:37] is clearer, smoother, and way more satisfying moment to moment. The core fantasy is still intact. You're still a self-healing, you know, juggernaut that just refuses to die. But now, the survivability is less spiky and less

[14:49] dependent on perfect timing. damage intake is, I guess, more predictable and just less spiky. That's what Blood Death Knight needed and that's what it looks like they're getting. Death Strike still feels very impactful and you're no

[15:02] longer punished for playing proactively instead of reactively when it comes to taking your damage hits. I would say where blood really shines right now in Midnight is AoE control and flow. Death and Decay feels better to breast.

[15:14] There's more interactions with your talents with it. Blood boil is very hard-hitting now and your AoE feels very strong. So for large poles, death knight feels very rewarding and not stressful like before. The apex talent also pushes

[15:28] this further. It leans into that dancing rune weapon uptime, plague stacking, explosive moments for when you would press your dancing rune weapon, you feel very, very powerful. Now, you don't get the massive amount of cooldown reduction

[15:40] sucks, but you don't need weak auras to going on. you just play your rotation correctly and power up naturally would say overall the end result is a blood death knight that is tankier

[15:54] without being clunky, has a clear damage profile now without a bunch of awkward without gimmicks, and the spec feels, I would just say, more rounded and modern, and just aggressive overall than ever before. I'm really, really loving Blood

[16:08] tank to play right now. Big shout out to them. Okay, moving on to our first healer. We have the restoration druid. Now, Midnight didn't completely reinvent this spec, but they did prune and change a few things that we got to talk about.

[16:22] A lot of the extra maintenance buttons are gone. Some of the old ramp style has clearly being pushed toward more reactive gameplay instead of a healing focused on like pure heal overtime effects. That shift is, I would say,

[16:38] start playing restoration. Regrowth is doing a lot of your work now, way more than it used to. Talents like Nature's Bounty turn into a, you know, pseudo AoE heal that splash heals everyone. Uh, Swift Men is stronger, more central to

[16:52] the gameplay and now actively ties into tree spawning and cool down generation. Now, I will say rejuvenation and traditional hot centric styles of gameplay, they're not as dominant as they used to be. And if you fell in love

[17:05] with Resto purely because of the, you know, long rolling heal overtime effects, that part has been toned down a bit. The soul of the forest changes especially push you away from juicing one massive spell and instead it puts it

[17:17] towards spreading value across multiple targets more evenly. I would say the bottom line is that Resto Druid may not be, you know, pure heal overtime effect monster that it a lot of people may know it to be, but in terms of overall feel,

[17:30] responsiveness, cohesion, it's a very welldesigned healer right now. I think overall it's the best designed healer. That being said though, the spec still flows, things feel really good to press. There's always meaningful buttons to pop

[17:44] off. Life Bloom is stronger and more flexible through Apex talents and stuff. feels a lot more forgiving and responsive when you're in those high healers, we have to talk about surprisingly the preservation evoker.

[18:00] It's one of the healers that simply feels better to play in the midnight beta. Now listen, I'll say right off the bat, losing Spirit Bloom scares a lot of people. But once you actually play it, it's clear Blizzard is shifting powers

[18:12] into things drastically like Dream Breath, making your echoes substantially stronger and verdant embrace. Their Apex talent is really nice. It replaces your reversion with a smart like bouncing heal that jumps to low health allies. It

[18:26] gives you extra spot healing when you're already doing your normal rotation and it auto procs whenever you cast a dream breath. So, it makes it more impactful, get two stacks of that. The hero talents

[18:38] shaper and chrono warden feel like two genuinely different play styles. Flame shaper leans into more frequent breaths and sustain throughput, while Chrono Warden is kind of about reactive healing and spot healing, I would say. Um, and

[18:53] doing with Chrono Warden and more clutch moments when things go wrong. But of Bottom line though, I would say Preservation traded some raw complexity for just really smooth flow right now, man. The spec feels very cohesive. It's

[19:08] responsive. It's rewarding with a lot of build variety now and a very strong identity. Right now, Preservation is easily one of the most satisfying Very, very excited to see what this spec can do come launch day. But yes, ladies

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