this chart shows a huge chunk of mages and hunters swapped to demon hunters when they came out.
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WW is a superb spec. Clueless talk here. It's just not that popular among others classes perhaps and has been a bit weak only in raids. More like a medium bracket dps while it excels decently in PvP, M+.WW however has a bit higher skill ceiling then some of the other Melee DPS.
Thanks Babs! I hate to see our green at the bottom but attention needs to be out there!
so why it any form of mage a thing except fire? oh... i guess mages have to playt something at the statr oif every xpac to then be forced out of to end up fire by the end since fire mysteriously is GOAT every xpac, but not until about 2/3 through every xpac? where else would frost and arcane be without good old fire to give them a reason to exist and to give everyint egame something to chastise any non-fire mage over
Looking at both graphs and the trends over time I see that DH, Paladin, and Priest are generally overrepresented (Only have 1 dps spec, the only missing class in this group is WW monk) and that DK and Shaman are usually underrepresented (each have 2 specs but only have ~1 spec worth of players).Obviously some of these are more egregious than others *cough* DH *cough*, but they they all represent a case where a class is not being brought to raids as it statistically should be if everything were equal. Curiously, these are also classes that have recieved major reworks in SL, so I'm led to believe that Blizzard is seeing similar data on their end.Although, Shadow Priest was already overrepresented, and are now being played more.
These charts weren't very colorblind friendly :<
Monks reached their lowest popularity yet it's largely unchanged since MoP. They're just not that visually appealing.