Now that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands launched, the min-maxing has already begun with tons of people simulating their performance by using viable third-party tools. With Blizzard’s latest patch and class tweaks, the DPS output varied, bringing numerous classes at different spots on the DPS rankings. Without further ado, let’s see who holds the top single-target DPS spot.
The simulation of in-game characters is done by SimulationCraft, a known program that does all the necessary calculations with the best-in-slot gear, covenants, and conduits for the current 9.0.2 patch.
WoW Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2.37474 DPS Rankings
The damage output is simulated as a single-target Raid Fight in Patchwerk style, with a fight length of 240-360 seconds. You can find the simulations below.
Update:
| RANK | CLASS & SPECIALIZATION | DPS (Damage Per Second) |
| 1 | Shadow Priest |
4,834 DPS |
| 2 | Feral Druid Owlweave | 4,724 DPS |
| 3 | Shadow Priest Necrolord | 4,631 DPS |
| 4 | Feral Druid | 4,537 DPS |
| 5 | Balance Druid | 4,496 DPS |
| 6 | Frost Mage | 4,449 DPS |
| 7 | Subtlety Rogue | 4,439 DPS |
| 8 | Frost Death Knight | 4,436 DPS |
| 9 | Unholy Death Knight | 4,369 DPS |
| 10 | Outlaw Rogue | 4,352 DPS |
| 11 | Elemental Shaman | 4,327 DPS |
| 12 | Windwalker Monk | 4,283 DPS |
| 13 | Arcane Mage | 4,275 DPS |
| 14 | Arms Warrior | 4,227 DPS |
| 15 | Enhancement Shaman | 4,219 DPS |
| 16 | Affliction Warlock | 4,184 DPS |
| 17 | Enhancement Shaman VDW (Venthyr / Doom Winds Legendary) | 4,176 DPS |
| 18 | Fury Warrior | 4,170 DPS |
| 19 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 4,167 DPS |
| 20 | Assassination Rogue | 4,138 DPS |
| 21 | Marksmanship Hunter | 4,132 DPS |
| 22 | Fire Mage | 4,107 DPS |
| 23 | Destruction Warlock | 4,079 DPS |
| 24 | Retribution Paladin | 4,044 DPS |
| 25 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 3,928 DPS |
| 26 | Survival Hunter | 3,851 DPS |
| 27 | Demonology Warlock | 3,707 DPS |
| 28 | Protection Paladin | 3,314 DPS |
| 29 | Brewmaster Monk | 2,672 DPS |
| 30 | Guardian Druid | 2,549 DPS |
| 31 | Protection Warrior | 2,356 DPS |
| 32 | Vengeance Demon Hunter | 2,345 DPS |
| 33 | Blood Death Knight | 2,310 DPS |
The table above is much likely to be updated with each update in World of Warcraft Shadowlands. Stay tuned for more.
According to the list, it seems that Unholy DK is currently holding the top spot. It currently holds the strongest burst DPS with over 12,000.
you forgot BM Hunter on the list
Fixed
What does the VDW in enhancement vdw mean?
V for Venthyr Covenant and DW for Doom Winds legendary
What is VDW on enhancement shamans? slighty confused. should add an explanation of that.
Answer: (Memory of the) Doom Winds: Legendary item: Dropping Windfury Totem grants you 100% chance to gain Windfury Weapon and increases Windfury Weapon damage by 25% for 12 sec. This can only occur once every 1 min.
So, you are ranking Doomwinds lower… what is the legendary for the higher ranking
What base gear level is this list? Because I’m a 205 ilvl playing BM hunter and I run killer instinct instead of animal companion. I’m doing 4,700 dps average. And that ups another 103 with animal companion according to my sims. One thing I absolutely hate about the modern WoW community is how players use these ranking charts to pug. I’m sure people lfg in mythic plus aren’t being picked based on anything other than the spec they’re playing based on a freaking chart someone created. A chart that doesn’t give us any info on gear or secondary % stats. Even some bis lists I’ve seen sim no where close bis gear I’ve spent hours simming. Meaning I’ve found better gear combinations using the same simc as what say icyveins or wowhead tell me is bis. Besides the bis garbage.. Someone like me or even better than me(Bc there are plenty!) who has gamed a BM hunter since 2006 can pump as much dps than most players you’ll find running a MM hunter who run MM purely Bc these websites say it produces more dps. What these charts don’t consider is skill level and class familiarity which is super important for a complex mmo. And I have no trouble in duels or pvp either. Last season the BM hunter was frowned upon in pvp and I was making that work too. Back in the day WoW was created for a player to pick the class they think they will enjoy most then tailor the spec to suit the way you play. that still holds true. You get people running nothing higher than +6 dungeons trying to deny pugs who are arguably better than some random person playing a class and spec thats ranked higher on one of this tier rankings. That’s the issue with these rankings and tiers. I tried MM just to see and my dps was about 85 points lower than my BM build. Not Bc it’s a worse build but because I’m so familiar with BM it’s crazy! It would take me months to be as good at MM than I am BM. But yes! I would like my favorite spec get some upgrades that are on par with some of the other class builds, but no I’m not going to switch. With raider.IO people started declining players based on their IO score lol. Now these spec rankings have “casuals” acting like they are playing for money.. My main toon has always been a BM and that’s the way it’s going to stay, so if some moronic dummy wants to decline my request for a +10 and up.. so be it.. just know that I’m forming my own group and beating whatever time that other group declined me from 7 out of 10 runs .
Oh and a guildie who has always played fire mage as his main leads our guild is dps according to raidbots. According to this list the fire mage is even more worse off than BM hunter lol. Oh and I’ve yet to play with a MM who is pumping more dps than myself. But hey.. I’m not bragging.. I want to mind my BM hunter business and play the game