10.2 Tier List for MOST FUN Melee DPS

10.2 is the best time to play melee DPS because melee DPS is fun we're going to check out the most fun melee DPS at least uh in my subjective opinion because we're not ranking them with damage or meta or performance as well although that sometimes matter but what matters is the design the field the rotation the reward and actually a little bit of damage cuz if you do dog [ __ ] damage you're going to do dog sh damage it's not going to be good for anybody and as always we're going to be starting it off with arms such a big loser dude and it's one of my alltime favorite melees possibly thematically my favorite melee in World of Warcraft period and it hasn't been less fun to play than it has now I'm not a fan of the tier set and what it does to the rotation I'm not a fan of listen we criticized arms in BFA for having most of his damage profile into deep wounds and bleeds and that was not really what arms was supposed to be and now we don't have that but still I don't feel good about pressing execute it doesn't do the damage that I want it to do and this is not necessarily about the raw amount of overall DPS and performance of arms but when I press execute I want to feel like it executes my target it does less damage than mortal strike man how does that make sense it doesn't and that's part of the reason why I personally don't find arms fun sure it is a warrior it's still tanky and it still retains some of the things that I like about arms which is why it's not down in the dumpster D tier but it's fine it's in C4 can we get good arms back please cuz damn man I miss arms but let's move on to the more fun side of things and that's with Rogues and for assassination you know it's a blast in raids and an M plus but it's not an easy spec to get into especially if you want to main it after the rework the way I was able to work on my assassination and improve some kinks in my gameplay is by analyzing some dungeons I did after recording them without playay the app just makes it super easy to look over your gameplay and even cut Clips off to share them on your socials or Discord this makes it cool for people to watch your plays give you feedback or simply just a at your gamer chops I'll play this free and easy to get simply click the link in the description to get yours really quick and support the marcelian online team in the process thank you all play for sponsoring this video whether or not you're going to be good at assassination or some other specs assassination is still a fun spec how fun is well it's not D tier is it C tier for arms nah it's better than arms right B tier what are you doing beat your assassination AER baby oh man what they did to assassination this year is incredible it is so fun it is so fun it's the funnest I've ever played assassination and the Rogue rework is amazing I actually feel like a rogue and I really really enjoyed playing assassination CU we did some videos on it but it just feels right the bleeds feel right the poisons feel right the fact that I'm choosing a Target and I'm assassinating it and I still do AOE damage cuz you know it it just works I love it I love it assassination is the most fun it has ever been in 10.2 for me personally and I dare somebody say otherwise that has also played the current version of assassination because I bet you but you haven't if you don't think assassination is at least a tier we don't have higher than a tier cuz it is what it is Outlaw is also part of the Rogue Bonanza fantastic uh reworks is not as good at his assassination so I'm going to put it into a tier but it's dude it's so fun and I never really thought they could make Outlaw m more buttons faster than it does uh or than it did rather and last time I I I played it across wow of course but last time I really played it was at the end of shadowlands in The Faded season I played a lot of Outlaw Rogan I loved it but damn did I have to press buttons little did past flame know that future flame would be playing an even bigger piano spec with a current Outlaw and dude uh what is it crackshot dude crackshot whoever thought of crackshot is a genius genius reals that you man if you thought a crackshot you're a genius man please design my entire life real is if you don't know the one of the devs that actually works on Rogue and also Demon Hunter but Rogue in this case and crackshot just shooting between the eyes again and again and again and again back to back to back to back to back to back is fan fastic man I just feel really good doing Outlaw and now we have to uh stop talking about fun things and go back to mediocre things survival Hunter Survival Hunter is uh usually it has been for years but not anymore my second favorite melee spec if not sometimes my favorite in terms of how it plays but it just doesn't feel the same again I'm going to put it into into C here for for Kaka because I just the the problem with survival I feel it just stands in its overall design of the spec because the what's making survival really fun is there but it's kind of implemented very very weirdly I don't want to take shots at survivals cuz I feel like I've criticized this spec for over a year at this point and it just doesn't seem to get any better I love the theme of a super agile fast jumping in spear wielding melee DPS throwing bombs is fun cleaving things is fun fear of the eagle is fun but when that's kind of all you do and with no actual death because Wildfire infusion hasn't been super impactful since I feel like BFA where sure you might want to poison out when you do the green bomb and you might want to spread those bleeds when you get the blue bomb it just doesn't really feel like it you can probably ignore the effects of wild fire infusion and still do really good damage and that's not how the spec should be spearhead was one of the cooler things that the spec does and it's the least thing that the spec does in this entire expansion it not only is a bad design cool down you don't really want to use it with coordinate assault still maybe now but at least in the first season you never really wanted to use it in the second season you kind of didn't really want to use it and even now you probably shouldn't use it together with coordinate assault because the the design just contradicts itself and that's not what you want in a DPS spec building the spec takes way too much study and research and that's once again not what you need to do when you build a spec I'm sorry survival love you but nah nah which is n Enhancement Shaman also one of my favorite melee specs has actually retained to be one of the most fun mels in the game now it doesn't really come close to Rogue it is kind of fun but it feels like it's missing that impact which I know a lot of people will argue with because enhancement is actually in a very good State both meta wise and actually funwise and design wise I feel like it's just a smidge below row it's a good spec I want to put it so bad into a tier I just cannot bring it close to outla in terms of fun even though usually uh enhancement Is My Jam I feel like the design is good but it's just missing that oomph that whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here because I think the pro if if you take Rogue out of the picture enhancement could be an easy s tier fun DPS but now that you have Rogue in the it it just raised the bar for everything um I'm not the biggest fan of Elemental blast on enhancement it's fun but it doesn't feel like it's that impactful enhancement for me in terms of what I considered fun has always been wind fury weapons and big storm strikes or even really fat lava lashes but for an as like enhancement you got to have that big big moment and that usually most of the time came with either storm strike or wind Fury considering that lava lash kind of works around doing not necessarily doing Dot damage but you spread flame shock around sure Laval hits hard but that's usually the storm strike roll so that's kind of why it's in Bat here I'm not knocking it off it's still a good spec it's probably one of the best melee specs in the game and it is fun I admit it just doesn't come close to the other ones frell however has surprised me in how fun it has been as opposed to enhancement frell kind of has some of some of those oh cool moments when you just get backto back procs backto back combo points playing with incar is just a combo Point flood of Bonanza and the fact that that you can also squeeze in some convokes every now and again is really fun and I hope that convoke makes a comeback for the entire Druid class Ferell is actually really really cool with the Apex procs you kind of get I I don't want to call it a budget rle cuz it's maybe a little bit of a budget Rogue but frell does other things cuz you know frell has always been compared with assassination it's not as fun as assassination and is not as indepth as assassination but it's more more reactive or more actually man ing your resource a little bit more properly assassination plays more into the planning part FAL plays more into the execution part although execution can be said about all of the specs but you're a druid at the end of the day Ferell is the best way to DPS as a druid and this is coming from a balance main mind you he just missing that little bit of a single Target to be a main for me but that's what Ferell is on hly Decay is not next it's actually Frost Decay I was hoping it would be on holy Decay so I can see some good things about DK but unfortunately it is Frost Frost after so many good class reworks just feels like a like a leftover spec my dude I I don't particularly mind the play style of frost and I don't think the tier set makes it any worse if anything makes it a little bit better but the fact that it's still the same spec as it was for like three expansions straight dude what are we doing with frost Decay I was almost sure we're going to get a rework in 10.2 obviously that didn't happen and we're just getting chill streak to kind of like keep us busy until they actually rework Frost it's unbelievably atrocious compared to Rogue not even talking about red it was already falling behind after the red rework and showing us what a melee DPS can do but now when you look at Frost Decay is just Bland it's like a flavorless ice cream it just doesn't bring it anymore man breath is the same oblation is the same and that's about it all of the talents that you could have and mind you has better Talent designed than than survival Hunter and still it kind of Falls flat on its face very big travesty when it comes to frost Decay and I really hope that they bring back the flavor of the frosty boys I feel like this spec from a a flavor perspective lore perspective and what it can actually accomplish with big obliterate crits has so much potential that is just wasted in what Frost has to do with these days Fury Warrior is maybe slightly different I want to put it in maybe in front of arms I'm going to put it into B tier it's a little bit more fun obviously the the tier set is very spammy and I'm not a fan of the tier set however I don't feel like the tier set is hurting it as much as it does arms in terms of overall fun of course not we're not talking about damage here but it just adds more spam to it and to be fair at the end of the day that is what Fury is it's spam I'm not saying you mindlessly press your buttons and things just happen I'm not saying that but I'm saying that you're not you don't really have to think too much about your you just go you just push the pedal to the floor and you go go go and you don't stop until the boss is dead or you're dead which is what Fury usually does best sure it could use a little bit more sure it could use some proper proper design U proper burst Talent diversity more more awesome things that Fury could potentially do but I think right now it's just when you want to take a break I think it's just fine Havoc Demon Hunter has also taken a big leap when it comes to its design it's definitely a lot more fun and it definitely has a lot more interesting Talent design it doesn't ring as high for me as the other specs though now this is definitely as personal biased as personal biases go that's just where Havoc is at the moment it's a good spec I feel obviously it's the best melee DPS at this point of recording of the video it's a little bit recording recorded ahead of time I don't know if they just hit the Nerfs hard on Havoc while this uh video is in production but in terms of fun you know nerves don't really have anything to do with it in terms of fun it's there it's fun to Zip Zap around it's probably the most fun Havoc has been ever it just feels like the other specs just do it a lot better and still it's top of the B tier B tier is not bad B tier is B is for better than all the rest more than anything it is fun you'll have if you've enjoyed Havoc at any point in time in the past couple of expansions you're definitely going to love it now and it's fine for me it's just not as good as the other ones red Paladin however will always remain a very solid spec now I don't know if red is in front maybe it's a little bit in front of Ferell it's a little bit more fun than Ferell I feel like it's definitely designed better than Ferell you're still very tanky you're still very responsive it's nice to deal that damage it's nice to be a paladin and have a lot of utilities to you know help your group out that actually that's actually a source of fun that not a lot of people talk about the fact that oh my God I'm a red I can actually help that guy that gives me a fun little snippet of what the red can do and I think it's pretty good it doesn't have that big of a talent diversity which is probably what's keeping it from being closer and maybe better than Outlaw Rogue I feel like Outlaw is definitely better which is why I play Red behind Outlaw but it's definitely one of the best melee specs designed still to this day it's just missing that o that the RO has and speaking of O I have never thought I would do this ever ever usually this is what marcelian does marcelian just puts up above everything else because why wouldn't he it's it's so predictable so son but damn what did they do to subtlety I feel like this is the perfect melee spec for me currently it doesn't do as much damage granted and that kind of really matters and I've always loved in terms of flavor and fantasy I've Loved assassination more which is always this conflict between assassination and sub but in terms of pure design and execution subtlety has to be it the fact that you can play shadow dust builds and actually reduce the cooldowns on a lot of abilities and kind of match him to the fight oh I need my coold Downs slightly faster this time or I need my cool Downs a lot faster this time I can do both depending on how I execute my spec and actually have burst more or less when I need to instead of just oh I guess I just have to wait for the clock to tick and just wait for my cool Downs to come back up sub is definitely the way you do it the design of sub is really good I think it would be perfect if I could also play gourma because I loved gourma and I'm also a DPS horse so I have to wait until gorma gets buffed to be able to play it and uh it's just doesn't do it right now however sub is f it's very close to assassination by the way it's so close it's so close to lose out to assassination if they Nerf um I don't think they're they're going to Nerf the damage of subtlety but if they Nerf Shadow dust for some reason or if they don't buff the other ones really soon it could be that assassination might overtake it slightly but at the very least these are the most fun melees so far in the S year we still have two more but if I would have to recommend anybody any melee DPS spec to play in 10.2 subtlety and assassination are definitely the first I will go to Unholy DK has also seen very little change in Dragon flight I'm going to put this into B tier I love it a little bit more than Havoc a lot more normally onho is usually an a tier level of fun for me a very good all that I always go to but it just feels slightly Bland I think the biggest issue that I have with unho is twofold in terms of its fun first of all it's the damage um although the damage is not necessarily a big Criterion to considering how fun it is the fact that on hly kind of work Works a little bit for its rotation and it's not getting the payoff that it needs or it needs pi to actually feel relevant is atrocious I don't think that's okay considering the amount of cooldowns that you have to juggle the resources that you have to juggle and so on it's not as difficult as it used to be in the past but it's not super easy either definitely the maybe easier than than enhancement definitely easier than enhancement but harder than pretty much all of the specs uh in BC and D tier for sure but I feel like in the second thing is and this is part of my main issue with Unholy bursting sords is no longer a thing bursting Source Felts like some of the the highest skilled thing that you can do as an Unholy DEC and just using that quadratic scaling to deal Giga damage that was the most fun I've ever had in Unholy and that was back in BFA they've systematically nerfed it since because some people in the MDI can pull it off while 99% of the other un holies cannot fathom to be able to do this cuz it's so specific and so restrictive I feel like that was what was missing from the spec that's what subtlety has and what Unholy doesn't subtlety has that level of oh if I can just Master this one thing I'm just going to knock all of the other sity Rogues out of the park and on hly used to have that and that's very fun for me I like to feel like if I invest time dedication and loyalty to the spec I'll be rewarded with a much better performance than everybody else cuz it's fun to you know do big Giga damage but it just feels like very flat I'm not a big fan of the disease build even though I love the theme of unho so much and I love Gargoyle the other things just kind of keep it levelheaded for me instead of just it being like a tier or I think only a rework can put it into a tier right now but at least it could be a tier with a little bit more love wind walker is part of the please give us a rework gang and although it is part of the give us a rework gang I don't feel like it needs a rework as bad as fr Decay or survival Hunter and it is probably slightly more fun I'm going to put it into SE here because usually I like survival a little bit more and wind walker kind of feels clunky after playing Mis Weaver which is obviously not the same thing but misser is in melee misser has Fine stomp as well misser rotates around and punches things a little bit and if that's more fun than current wind walker then wind walker has an issue it's still a spec that can have some massive potential in his design and the cool things that it can do probably be better than Rogue if handled properly maybe by the same design I'm I'm not going to say anything about that but the fact that it's missing the mark on a lot of these things and Miss weever feels more satisfying to to play than than than than wind walker that just knocks down a peg a lot for me and it's not fair to compare uh wind walker to a Healer DPS spec but that that's the reason why I like both of these specs is because of what they can both do very similarly be in melee punch move move around a lot with mis Weaver I heal with Windwalker I just double down on the punches and the kicks and that's just doesn't feel like that does it for me in 10.2 I'm sure a lot of people love it I'm sure you enjoy wind walker but it's not the same as the other specs and definitely not the same as subtlety Rog which is my current top favorite melee DPS specs and hey if you're not convinced you can check this video out and see why subtlety Rogue is so good click it on the screen and you'll get all the tidbits as to why the spec is good with a dash of bias of course but at least more objectiveness than uh than this tier list has for sure

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Length: 20min 45sec (1245 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 05 2024