Strongest melee spec so far?

What do you think is the strongest melee spec?

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Zorch

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Alright, we’re almost two months into Shadowlands... at least to the point where we’ve observed enough to have an opinion of how everything is performing.

Also, what are your sleeper melee specs? I saw a WW Monk and Subtlety Rogue fucking people up... don’t know if they were just really good players or the specs themselves are just underplayed — or both.
 
Mahvet said:
Define strongest? Throughput, surivability, pve/pvp, control? What’re we talking?
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PvP — Best combination (or “balance” maybe) of damage, survivability, and control.

Fair question, because when you take all three into consideration rather than just balls out damage, the answer [likely] changes.
 
Warglave said:
Can still get the 44 staff until that gets fixed as well... big boost if RNG is on your side.
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Big boost as in if the staff drops period for you? Or big boost if it procs epic?

Also, what item level would that staff be if it proc’d epic when you got it?
 
I voted arms warrior because I forgot surv was melee rofl, surv is def top followed by arms and then WW? I might be biased towards WW they look strong to me.
 
Zorch said:
Big boost as in if the staff drops period for you? Or big boost if it procs epic?
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To my knowledge is cant proc epic, it's just flat ilvl 44 with chance to proc socket and/or tertiary. I never got either.

And just having it drop, it's supposedly a 40% chance and for that rare you only get one. You can reroll new toons over and over to get one or to get a better one, up to you whether it's worth it (especially since it'll likely get fixed).

edit- i think someone said it can warforge to like 46? So that's possible too. Minimal difference there tho.
 
Survival Hunter for sure. That spec is just golden.

I find it funny how the same spec can have such a big performance variation when you switch the content over. It is horseshit in PvE (well, high end PvE at least), but owns in PvP.
 
I had no idea Survival was so good apparently! Don’t know if I’ve come across a Surv twink in BGs yet (I have seen levelers spec’d for it, but levelers are levelers lol).

I’ve seen at least one big, scary Ret in the BGs I’ve been doing lately and they seem hard as fuck to take down and do sick damage.
 
It is just who is behind the wheel... I've seen enhancement shamans do 100k+ in BGs... that is about 4x as hard to do than with a survival.

If you are just looking at the numbers its Survival out right... it is pure easy mode (deflate your giant head and get over it) and simple. That does not mean though you can't have people take it to the next level... it just means that the baseline damage and op skills/1 button presses can carry any random player to high numbers with or without skill in the equations.
 
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Zorch said:
I had no idea Survival was so good apparently! Don’t know if I’ve come across a Surv twink in BGs yet (I have seen levelers spec’d for it, but levelers are levelers lol).

I’ve seen at least one big, scary Ret in the BGs I’ve been doing lately and they seem hard as fuck to take down and do sick damage.
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Ret does alright. Pumps out some bit hits with Crusader procs and swaps. It can certainly survive and sustain itself in big fights and wings looks badass when it goes off. Biggest detriment is the lack of a 15-second cooldown interrupt.
 
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