 Tenikitten what are you doing? Oh my god he's got a mouse. Tenikitten, did you bring a mouse in? Give me that mouse. Okay, let go of the mouse. Yeah, he fucking jumped the shit out of that mouse, bro. He literally just brought it in. The mouse tried to leg it and Tenikitten was like nope, jumped on it and just fucking munched it. Poor thing. Dude, I told you man, feral OP. This is my actual class. It's all spec rankings down here on the left and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look and this was my pre give us s plus tier, no. This is my pre runes tier list predictions, right? So we're gonna look on here and compare and see how we feel. This is this is tiers based off the abilities and talents that classes get and this is the tiers based off basically everything kind of is more heavily favouring the runes but yeah. So what would we change first of all? So arms warrior is in A already and I think that they will stay in A maybe later in the phase when they are like fully base and they're gonna do really high damage in group PvP then they can be quite oppressive potentially and maybe move up into S but I think for now that A is a safe pick for them. They're gonna have good mobility but may suffer from just generally lacking damage a little bit potentially slash rage. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. It's a hard one to call. Warriors scale really well so it's whether their scaling is kind of kicked in enough yet basically. Rhett Paladin has come down from S to A. I brought it down a lot because of their lack of new tools from abilities and talents. They got a lot of OP rune stuff that had them in S tier in the first phase and they're not really getting amazing runes for Rhett in the next in this phase. They're getting sacred shield which is I guess is the main thing which is going to be problematic and that's going to be problematic on all palaspects but offensively they're not really getting that much so I'm putting them down to A tier. So yeah where are we at? Let me see Rhett Paladin, Holy Paladin. So Holy Paladin had down in B tier but with the new runes I actually think they're going to be sick and maybe I'm overranking how strong sacred shield's going to be but 500 absorb a sacred shield proc seems insane every six seconds. I feel like that's so much healing so I'm putting them bang out in S tier. Like that's just that's yeah it's nutty and then Shocked in which isn't on the list but I actually think they're going to be around maybe A tier. I'm not sure exactly how much damage they're going to do yet they might be a little bit annoying but I don't think you're going to see that many of them. Yeah they're going to also have an aura mastery helm so it's like tanking is breaking back in. I think the default value from Wrath is 600 not 500. Is it actually 500? Let me see. Yeah no you're right. Maybe that's why it says 500 then. Maybe that's why maybe it won't be 500. It'd be interesting to see. Good check. This seems like a wee copy pasted tooltip thing 500 will be undone. Yeah I mean the a power shield is like 480 or something at level 40 base so having this thing proc every six seconds for more than a power shield would be spicy. Yeah I mean I've got powers in S tier at the moment. Powers might go up to A tier. S tier is potentially an overreaction but it's going to be around. I don't think it's going to be B tier anymore. I think they're getting stronger ever so slowly they're getting a bunch of nice new things so maybe you know what I think I'm going to put a mini. I think that the sacred shield is purgeable. I think I think S is an overreaction. I think disc still has way better tools and no just full magic on pallors but more raw healing, more efficiency. I think A is fair. Thoughts chat? I'm going to put a mini. I like it. Shocking it. Okay we didn't do MM Hunter so the thing with MM Hunter right and the thing with hunters in general is if they shift some of the power off the pet like they should onto just general attacks MM gets stronger, BM gets weaker. If that happens then BM will be A tier, MM will be S tier. If the pet stays the same then a BM will be S tier and it will be insanely insanely oppressive and MM won't be as strong because of the range of attacks on it strong. MM is getting more utility through things like scattershot. Survival is getting a lot more utility through all of the good stuff, health stuff, AoE stuff, slow stuff, all that crap in survival. I think survival has the potential. Again I said this last phase but the survival has the potential to be really really strong especially now that they're getting trap launcher and this is going to be 40 yards and allow them to do a slow trap and AoE trap independently both of which can proc entrapment which is going to be very very oppressive especially in things like warsong. So survival hunter getting a lot of good shit especially melee specialist as well, MM getting more damage through exposed weakness and BM more of the same plus they get an extra button push in steady shot. Vanilla entrapment rolling 25% every 2 sec during frost trap CVA life. Yeah I mean it's rough for sure. So yeah hunters gonna be pretty strong overall but it really depends on how they balance the damage as to what's going to be where but I think there's you know there's going to be definitely some specs in the end. BM is going to be very very oppressive if they don't nerf pets. It's going to be very very scary. So I think BM up here, I think I'm going to put survival up here as well with them, MM going to leave down here for now but it's hard to predict that one. We'll have to wait and see. And what have we got next? Subrogue. Subrogue already had an ST I think they have insane utility and damage burst. Now they're getting shadow step as well and master of subtlety for more burst so I think Subrogue is firmly an ST here. Yeah good class, good spec. Asa and combat are a little bit behind, a little bit less utility no prep things like that. So only one round of cooldowns. They have good sustained damage but not as much burst. They didn't have as good mobility but now they're both able to get step as well. So this actually brings them both up a little bit but if you can actually get away from either of these you're going to be able to deal with them. So I'm personally going to be more scared of Subrogues but I think Asa and combat can still do good stuff. Next we've got disc priest. Disc priest I think is going to remain ST here. They didn't get great belt runes but they got pain sap and dispersion on boots. So you have the options to run either which is going to be really really really powerful. You're going to have a really hard time killing priests in the next phase as a result of this and then yeah empowered renewal or renewed hope for more healing basically and mines bike for some nice ranged damage. It's got a 35 yard range on this bad boy so pretty easy. Yeah and you've got the tailoring boots as well don't forget. And then shadow priest we also have in the end getting mines bike on the belt and then either pain sap or dispersion on the boots is going to probably start with pain sap when it's on cooldown rotating to pier. Sorry start with disperse and when it's on cooldown rotate into pain sap. One sec my cat is trolling again. So basically the benefits of PS are that you can use it on teammates right whereas dispersion is giving you mana back and is usable in CC. So most likely you're going to as disc like start the fight in warsong with the PS on throw it on someone and then rotate out into dispersion when you get an option and push in with the dispersion so that you know you can absorb a little bit of damage yourself and potentially pull back and this is going to you know allow your team to to play more aggressively because you've absorbed some of the enemy team's damage. Pain sap will be usable on self as well just the standard pain sap tool to shadow fiend. Yeah shadow fiend is going to be on legs I haven't included it on here but basically everyone's going to have shadow fiend which just only buffs all the specs basically. I'm going to put a holy priest in here I think man like I really don't want to but it's like it plays out so similarly to disc and it's just more of a heal bot than than a damage boy I think it's I think you've got it right just because how good spirit of redeemer is shadow fiend can be quality of life so I mean we'll see I'd be surprised man I'd be surprised if it is but this redeemer thing needs to get deleted from the game ASAP it's super toxic for the game the thing is right if you look on here right yeah here now I don't know if anyone has any like conclusive information on shadow fiend right but if you look on here in gray pants shadow fiend right says that it's a rune right but if you search for shadow fiend there's this random ass scroll as well so it's like you don't know which one it's going to be you know so flip a coin who knows man it's it's going to be one of the other right the leg runes are already in right it's the one that homies and pom is on yeah there's a new trinket in a common boys called but yeah you need to watch out for that anyway continuing with the tier list we're doing some adjustments so I think I'm going to put a holy priest in here I'm just trying to think in duels in wild pvp you're probably going to play it relatively similar they similarly to disc in war song you're probably running spirit of the redeemer you can really you can potentially you know switch it on in in certain fights so just be annoying waste time wait cooldowns I wait your fear of all these kind of things so definitely potential there for it I I don't think it's fair that I don't rank holy properly just because I think the rune is fucking toxic you know like yeah I don't even know what to say honestly like it's it's it's not a fun ability to press it's not a fun ability to play against overall I don't think it should exist I don't know what else to to say about it's just a mess so we're going to move on disappointing hopefully it won't be in the game basically the next up we've got enhance shaman in a which we have already no we've got a b right now so I think moving up enhanced a enhance still going to have some mobility issues and I think that's what's kind of keeping out of s potentially although decoy tome will help them a little bit with the freedom maelstrom weapon obviously giving them a little bit more range potential kind of same with fine over and then the 200 mastery 200 enhance might just be really really scary so that's one to watch out for as well so I've moved the enhance up to a then rest of shaman actually coming down into b because they didn't get riptied they haven't got any decent runes really they they're going to be running maelstrom weapon as well and the belt or power surge both of which aren't that reliable for them and then decoy term okay the freedom is nice and mostly rest of shaman's going to be about utility but they don't really have a dispel so it's like how much value it really is that you know so rest of shaman's coming down for me because they're going to be casting a lot you know the chain heal is decent but it's a longer cast time same with healing wave so they're very easily stoppable so offensively they're pretty good you know on a utility level they're pretty good but healing wise they're not great so that's why they're down in b because most of the utility they bring can also be brought by ellie and enhance and enhance can basically run these same things except do a better rate so rest of down here next up we've got frost mage and frost mage i rang to a because we didn't know the runes yet but seeing the runes with things like spell power missile barrage and all the the good stuff that frost is getting i've actually decided frost is in esti i think frost is going to be very strong i'm going to have a crazy crazy damage crazy utility crazy survival crazy control so i've moved it up i skipped ellie you may well be right ellie we thought was going to be in sailing strong maybe the best best group spec in the game it also now i've got some stuff to deal with smaller scale combat with maelstrom weapon so like duels and things like that where they won't be able to cast as much this is going to give them a lot more damage potential in those duels so yeah ellie shaman firmly in esti very very very strong spec fire mage is we had it in a tier i think that stays in a tier same with arcane mage they're going to have really good damage overall but they're going to lack a little bit more that survivability that frost has and a little bit of the utility that frost has so i think even though frost is probably slightly less overall damage it has really good burst maybe more burst than the other two maybe not arcane arcane just really really pumpy overall single target not as good aoe fire with a little bit more aoe but the frost just has so much control to it that it kind of just has this all-round power rather than you know the more focused damage power that the other two have so the other two in a tier frost in esti a healer mage is kind of a mess right now i haven't got it on here but i would put healer mage roughly in b tier it has good aoe healing but the new rune kind of looks weird i feel like they've maybe worded it weirdly i don't know if the data mining is correct or incorrect or what so we'll have to kind of wait and see on that one not not um not a big fan of the way that healer mage is looking at the moment looks a bit awkward and next is the kind of the big surprise we thought affliction lock was going to be in the esti but the runes are so bad the runes are basically they give you a little bit more damage on a couple of them or an extra tick on your dot or a pretty bad aoe dot in terms of pvp so i'm bringing affliction lock down into a tier the affliction lock overlords are moving down slowly and sl lock is in b tier and yeah it's going to be very tanky and there's definitely going to be some niches for it potentially in warsong something like that just to be really annoying with soul link and meta however and drain as well of course however the damage of the spec is going to be relatively bad they're not going to have access to instant corruption so agony is kind of being going to be their main damage source which also isn't great so it's going to be like agony slash soaring pain spam and it's just overall they're not going to put out a lot of pressure and then it's going to be really annoying and then lastly destrolok which i think also is going to be in b tier due to they get some more damage but again they have to cast a lot and it's kind of awkward and the runes kind of suck right and it's just like you gotta it begs the question why destrolok went ellie you know they both kind of have the same options to cast stuff roughly the same cast times but if ellie does it they get insane reward for it and destroid doesn't really so yeah you you're going to have a hard time getting enough casts off to actually get much done on destro and unless it's something like a bg and then again if the ellie got the equivalent of you know shits going down and the last class is going to be druids and again i feel like this was a little bit of a surprise but feral druid got insane runes right they got berserk which is basically a 50% energy reduction on their their their abilities yeah i'll show you so reduces any energy cost for all cat form abilities by 50% and also removes fear and makes you immune for 15 seconds which is just insane right and then on top of that they got king of the jungle which is making tigers fury increased damage by 15% right it's off global and it instantly grants you 60 energy on only a 30 second cooldown so this is like insane burst potential for right now so ferals are definitely going to be scary if they open up on you so watch out for that they're going to be a little bit squishy and that's going to be their main main downfall they don't have more strike and they're a bit squishy but they have really good mobility and they have really good burst damage so yeah keep an eye out for ferals they will be more prominent in this patch balance druids still on the s tier speaking of i need to move ferral up to s2 i'll put them over here and balance druids are still firmly in s tier until star surge gets nerfed i can't see them moving out of s tier eclipse might even work on star surge with the wording of it since it buffs if you wrath it gives the starfire a 30% crit and it also stacks so if you suddenly are able to give your star surge a load of crit by using wrath it's going to absolutely pump so that's very very scary but i'm putting in a if it does affect star surge is definitely an s tier s tier rune nourishes another option if you want to play it a little bit more defensively and then dream straight is is great if you create you get mana regen which is nice for for balance druids who will also be getting inner bait and then finally we've got rest of druids who are in a tier the other a tier healer with holy palace and their pots are starting to scale they're gonna get more healing power they got nourished so they got that niche flash heal that they didn't really have before that's kind of filled and then obviously the option to do it you the dream state if they want to wrath try and get a crit and do some regen with the the free wrath ring there's the option for that or survival instincts if they think they're going to be targeted a little bit more they can go bear and and pop that wall and be tankier but they're not that game changing in the way of the runes so yeah if if rest of druid got better runes i think they'd probably be up in a tier and i think later phases we might see them moving up into s tier when they get more bonus healing so yeah that's it for now that's the tier list changes so we've got disc holy shadow all in s tier frost balance ellie feral subrogue bm hunter and survival hunter and then in aid tier we've got holy palace rest of druid and we've got arms warrior enhanced shaman rep pala we've got asa rogue mm hunter fire mage arcane mage affliction lock then in b tier we've got rest of shaman combat rogue destroy lock demo lock and then in c tier slash na i don't think anyone's going to play fury pro or other pro but remains to be seen maybe somebody comes up with something creative but it's hard to predict so i'm leaving those out for now and that is the tier list updated for the rune leaks i hope that is helpful i am getting a drink of war and poached thank you and you need to stop mate leave a beat when your venue dried how are you going in