Midnight Level 11 Class & Spec Performance Rankings

[Rahn]

What I'll be putting forward has a lot of caveats, but should still prove useful for people who want to figure out what class and spec might interest them to use for twinking in the level 11 area. Upfront I'll say that warriors are still the quickest for clearing out trash due to them having the strongest AoE, even if against bosses they aren't the fastest.

First is these rankings aren't normalized, I simply used the best gear I had on the character, but I will give each run a gear score of sorts. This is determined by doubling the main stat gained from gear and adding them together with the secondary stats (minus mastery if it doesn't contribute to dealing damage). Obviously a higher gear score will result in faster times, which might mean some classes would beat others if I had better gear on them. Though comparing each classes' specs to each other is more fair since the gear will be mostly the same.

These rankings are based on a single run of normal Halls of Atonement, so RNG will effect the times a fair bit, and the only reason why I picked this is because I currently have my level 11 warrior in there in the TWing version giving a few shots at a speed TW necklace proc now and then (so I can compare the times between TWing and normal once I get the necklace or eventually booted out of the instance itself) so the warrior spot will be represented by my level 10 and level 12 warrior until I can get the level 11 to run the normal version. Additionally I don't have a level 11 shaman, so a level 10 one will be filling that lot.

EDIT: Added in my level 11 Warrior

Halls of Atonement doesn't have any pure DPS bosses, the https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/npc=165408/halkias will fear, https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/npc=156827/echelon will stun and has adds to deal with, https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/npc=165410/high-adjudicator-aleez will have you move around, and https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/npc=164218/lord-chamberlain will move around; so each classes performance does factor in how well they can deal with those particular boss mechanics.

All of these bosses were fought using https://www.wowhead.com/item=173125/revitalizing-jewel-doublet and is basically a requirement to even beat the bosses if they don't have a reliable healing ability. Additionally even with this gem in mind, some classes have difficulty surviving the 10s required for it to activate (which will be reflected in longer kill times as I would have to run to avoid taking damage waiting for the gem to proc).

Also there's the skill issue, as how well these classes do does depend on my ability to pilot them; but at the same time there's not many abilities to use at low level.

At any rate here's what I got in my tests, placed in order of fastest to slowest boss clears:

Gearscore: Main stat x2 + Secondaries
AoE Strength: How quickly they can clear out Echelon's adds. "Mid" rating is if they can clear them barely before first stun. Also a rough measure of how effectively trash can be AoE cleared. Some AoEs are spammable, others not so much; I put in a rough time of how often you can use them based on resource regeneration.

Evoker (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Preservation	419	11	16	14	17	58	Good	2000 / 30s
Devastation	419	13	19	17	24	73	Good	750 / 9s
Augmentation	419	23	31	19	30	103	Good	1500 / 30s

Shaman (10)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Restoration	359	17	21	19	20	77	Good	611 / 1s
Elemental	359	50	67	43	52	212	Mid	244 / 1s
Enhancement	234	93	X	135	127	Failed	Weak	58 / 1s

Warrior (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Fury	423	21	25	22	23	91	Good	428 / 1s
Arms	344	38	35	35	40	148	Good	445 / 3s
Protection	338	41	35	36	55	167	Good	336 / 6s

Priest (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Holy	314	30	28	28	27	113	Mid	137 / 1s
Shadow	314	33	49	31	32	145	NA
Discipline	314	79	58	54	66	257	Weak	67 / 1s

Druid (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Resto (Cat)	338	25	30	32	35	122	NA
Resto	338	49	54	36	42	181	Good	181 / 2s
Resto (Bear)	338	61	71	57	71	260	Good	230 / 6s
Balance	338	28	59	38	41	166	Good	168 / 2s
Balance (Cat)	338	58	64	59	66	247	NA
Balance (Bear)	338	80	93	75	97	345	Mid	200 / 6s
Guardian	270	47	43	36	40	166	Good	230 / 1s
Guard (Cat)	270	52	55	60	65	232	Good	165 / 3s
Guard (Caster)	270	100	105	96	93	554	Weak	52 / 2s
Feral	270	52	55	60	65	195	Good	196 / 3s
Feral (Bear)	270	52	70	58	75	255	Good	170 / 1
Feral (Caster)	270	195	210	201	182	788	Weak	46 / 2

Mage (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Damage
Frost	305	28	44	24	29	125	Mid	82 / 1s
Arcane	305	31	66	30	33	160	Mid	82 / 1s
Fire	305	40	57	36	35	168	Mid	82 / 1s

Warrior (12)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Fury	321	38	30	33	33	134	Good	381 / 1s
Arms	327	43	42	55	68	208	Good	360 / 3s
Protection	307	59	57	59	63	208	Good	386 / 6s

Monk (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Windwalker	275	31	35	32	38	136	Good	738 / 6s
Mistweaver	312	47	49	36	38	170	Good	258 / 1s
Brewmaster	275	40	49	46	58	193	Mid	123 / 1s

Warlock (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Destruction	269	40	47	26	37	150	NA
Affliction	269	49	64	44	53	210	NA
Demonology	269	69	77	65	57	268	Mid	167 / 5s

Paladin (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Holy	273	37	46	46	37	166	Good	300 / 4s
Protection	272	44	56	46	56	202	Weak	300 / 15s
Retribution	270	48	58	61	68	235	Weak	99 / 11s

Rogue (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Assassination	294	42	41	41	43	167	NA
Outlaw	294	38	44	37	57	176	NA
Subtlety	294	90	X	112	113	Failed	Weak	89 / 5s

DH (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Havoc	283	38	50	38	48	174	Good	1457 / 30s
Vengeance	283	48	47	47	53	195	Good	282 / 3s
Devourer	224	67	70	63	75	275	Mid	420 / 20s

Warrior (10)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Fury	297	52	43	35	47	177	Good	341 / 1s
Arms	297	53	40	44	56	193	Good	372 / 3s
Protection	313	59	56	57	62	234	Good	336 / 6s

DK (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Blood	261	42	44	47	53	186	Weak	336 / 15s
Frost	261	93	91	88	93	365	Weak	115 / 8s
Unholy	261	89	124	88	98	399	Good	434 (on kill)

Hunter (11)	Gearscore	Halkias	Echelon	Aleez	Chamberlain	Total Time	AoE Strength	AoE Details
Marksmanship	302	51	68	36	52	207	Weak	218 / 2s
Survival	302	53	81	52	62	248	NA
Beastmaster	302	90	81	75	81	327	NA

Full List by Spec	Gear Score	Total Time
Preservation	419	58
Devestation	419	73
Restoration (lvl 10)	359	77
Fury (lvl 11)	423	91
Augmentation	419	103
Holy	314	113
Restoration (Cat)	338	122
Frost	305	125
Fury (lvl 12)	321	134
Windwalker	275	136
Shadow	314	145
Arms (lvl 11)	344	148
Destruction	269	150
Arcane	305	160
Holy (Paladin)	273	166
Guardian	270	166
Balance (Caster)	338	166
Assassination	294	167
Protection (lvl 11)	338	167
Fire	305	168
Mistweaver	312	170
Havoc	283	174
Outlaw	294	176
Fury (lvl 10)	297	177
Restoration (Caster)	338	181
Blood	261	185
Brewmaster	275	193
Arms (lvl 10)	297	193
Vengeance	283	195
Feral (Cat)	270	195
Protection	272	202
Marksmanship	302	207
Arms (lvl 12)	321	208
Affliction	269	210
Elemental (lvl 10)	359	212
Guardian (Cat)	270	232
Protection (lvl 10)	313	234
Retribution	270	235
Balance (Cat)	338	247
Survival	302	248
Feral (Bear)	270	255
Discipline	314	257
Restoration (Bear)	338	260
Demonology	269	268
Devourer	224	275
Beastmaster	302	327
Balance (Bear)	338	347
Frost	261	365
Protection (lvl 12)	307	386
Unholy	261	399
Guardian (Caster)	270	554
Feral (Caster)	270	788
Subtlety	294	Failed
Enhancement (lvl 10)	234	Failed

Subtlety and Enhancement failed due to not having enough DPS to either take down Echelon's adds or himself before the adds became too much to handle.

Some of the times could be improved a fair bit with better gear, but I think this should give people a good idea of where the classes and specs stand when compared to each other.

I'll probably do my level 20s doing the same thing at some point, though this is certainly a bit time consuming to do; even if it's only one run per spec.

 

[Funnystrike]

When this man adds a profilpic, give him Guide Badge!

 

[Betcha]

Damn, thats some hella info.

Big ups on that.

 

[Penster]

Can you elaborate on what the gearscore integers are for secondary stats? Assuming either % values or stat amounts. Great write up!

 

[Rahn]

Can you elaborate on what the gearscore integers are for secondary stats? Assuming either % values or stat amounts. Great write up!

It's just the stat amounts, not percentages.

 

[lofi]

Evoker back on top!

 

[Henjitsu]

Is there a way to get evoker out of the starting area at 11?

 

[Rahn]

Is there a way to get evoker out of the starting area at 11?

Outside of Remix events, there's no easy way to get one. There is a roundabout way though: https://xpoff.com/threads/escaping-evoker-starting-zone-as-lv10.101257/

 

[toskosa]

I am curious about the gear you used for the rogue specs, also I feel like enh should be able to complete this. I am not 100% familiar with sland dungeons though so I could be super wrong.

 

[Rahn]

I am curious about the gear you used for the rogue specs, also I feel like enh should be able to complete this. I am not 100% familiar with sland dungeons though so I could be super wrong.

All my characters are in at minimum TWing gear, and the main disparity between them is how many sockets they have. My rogue currently has 16 sockets, where as my better geared characters will be closer to 25 sockets. All of them are using some SL gems for the life regen (usually around 6 SL gems).

Enhancement was probably my worst geared of everything I ran with as most of it was TWing gear + SL sockets; but even if I had socketed AGI gear I doubt the performance would have improved that much as the spec simply doesn't have a powerful AoE option at level 11. Echelon's adds will build up in number if you can't kill them fast enough, and that's ultimately what resulted in the failure: Too many little adds that overwhelmed the passive healing from my gems. Specs with zero AOE options got past Echelon via DPSing him down fast enough before the adds became to large in number. Enhancement *might* be able to get past Echelon with way better gear and be able to DPS him down fast enough, but the spec isn't exactly a priority for me.

 

[DarcDragn]

My good sir... how did you do Halls of Atonement at lvl 10/11? I selected SL at Chromie, went to the dungeon on my 11 Warrior, and everything in there was ?? and one shot me.

 

[taj]

How do you make an 11 evoker?

 

[Rahn]

My good sir... how did you do Halls of Atonement at lvl 10/11? I selected SL at Chromie, went to the dungeon on my 11 Warrior, and everything in there was ?? and one shot me.

I believe it's a bug with the 2nd SL skip, it breaks the scaling for low level characters.

How do you make an 11 evoker?

Outside of waiting for another remix event to show up, there's a roundabout way of getting one https://xpoff.com/threads/escaping-evoker-starting-zone-as-lv10.101257/

 

[DarcDragn]

So I am screwed then on that toon... I wanted to see if a ring drop from in there would be socketable.

 

[Rahn]

So I am screwed then on that toon... I wanted to see if a ring drop from in there would be socketable.

The ring and neck drop from HoA still seem to be socketable for the time being, but yeah if you did the SL skip and the dungeon is level 50 you might need to do something like party sync or get summoned into a low level version of the dungeon somehow. I don't know what the workaround is for that situation.

 

[toskosa]

Enhancement was probably my worst geared of everything I ran with as most of it was TWing gear + SL sockets; but even if I had socketed AGI gear I doubt the performance would have improved that much as the spec simply doesn't have a powerful AoE option at level 11

I have a lvl 11 resto I can try it on, but I am guessing even at 11 with chain lighting talented it would depend ehavily on how fast you can get maelstorm procs. Without windfury or skyfury extra weapon procs it might be a bit difficult.

 

[Rahn]

You'd probably have to go down the DPS Echelon down before the adds overwhelm you route. When I tried spamming chain lightning on the adds a new set of adds would show up before I was done with the first set. When I went down the DPS route, I simply got mobbed by the adds before I could get him down to 0%.

 

[pokspell]

I just saw this post, and I want to say that it is wonderful that people are still gathering data and analysing them.
I do have a few points tho:
I think "Gear Score" means nothing in this context, as evoker and intel class in general will have for sure a higher score than agi/str users due to the weapons. Intel classes get way more intel from their weapon than agi/str class.
What you can do for that is to:

• Or add weapon damage to str/agi classes (AP gain from weapon damage = 6 * ((Min weapon damage + Max weapon damage)/Weapon speed)
• Or to go with average ilvl

Both options will put every classes on an equal footing.
Even then, I think the most optimal way to put everyone on an equal footing would be to have the same ilvl for all twinks. Evoker would still outperform due to their armor primary stat passive, but you could tolerate that as its in their kit.

Probably ranking them with ([Gear Score || ilvl]/ Time spent to clear) would gives us a better view to the ranking.

Again, what you did is incredible, continue that way pal!

 

[Grahamdab]

Solid Info Dude! Thanks for the analysis.

 

[Rahn]

I just saw this post, and I want to say that it is wonderful that people are still gathering data and analysing them.
I do have a few points tho:
I think "Gear Score" means nothing in this context, as evoker and intel class in general will have for sure a higher score than agi/str users due to the weapons. Intel classes get way more intel from their weapon than agi/str class.
What you can do for that is to:

• Or add weapon damage to str/agi classes (AP gain from weapon damage = 6 * ((Min weapon damage + Max weapon damage)/Weapon speed)
• Or to go with average ilvl

Both options will put every classes on an equal footing.
Even then, I think the most optimal way to put everyone on an equal footing would be to have the same ilvl for all twinks. Evoker would still outperform due to their armor primary stat passive, but you could tolerate that as its in their kit.

Probably ranking them with ([Gear Score || ilvl]/ Time spent to clear) would gives us a better view to the ranking.

Again, what you did is incredible, continue that way pal!

The main point of all of this was to give people a rough idea of what kind of result they'll get if they pursue a class/spec. That and to see how the class changes were shaking out at level 11.

If I was to normalize the gear, then I'd be using TWing gear; which would have the highest ilvl, but ironically would be the worst performing gear. This doesn't eliminate the complication of mastery which is useless for certain specs. It also wouldn't be fun or as informative for myself, as I grinded out the gear I might as well use the best I have, and also informs me of which class as the most room for improvement with better gear. Another way of looking at it I suppose is a 270 gear score is roughly what you get for all TWing gear at level 11. Numbers higher than that is basically a representation of how much time and effort I spent getting sockets and gems.

At the end of the day what class and spec you pick has a way greater impact on a clear time than the gear you have. Even within a class there can be wildly different times even though the gear is going to be roughly the same strength across the specs.

Glad people are finding the info... well informative!