DPS rankings

Every specialisation simulated on its best-in-slot profile across four fight styles. Switch the scenario — the order changes, and that is the whole point. Every number links to the full report it came from.

Midnight Season 2 · 27 specs · SimulationCraft (Aug 16 2026) · uniform 334 gear · campaign talents · simmed 2026-08-18

Top three, single target

1. Elemental Shaman — 216,101 DPS
2. Subtlety Rogue — 204,298 DPS
3. Enhancement Shaman — 199,636 DPS

27 specs · top 216,101 DPS · median 175,762 · spread 234%

1 Elemental Shaman 216,101 report +23.0%
2 Subtlety Rogue 204,298 report +16.2%
3 Enhancement Shaman 199,636 report +13.6%
4 Outlaw Rogue 192,441 report +9.5%
5 Devourer Demon Hunter 186,824 report +6.3%
6 Arms Warrior 182,768 report +4.0%
7 Fury Warrior 182,317 report +3.7%
8 Feral Druid 181,570 report +3.3%
9 Beast Mastery Hunter 181,200 report +3.1%
10 Havoc Demon Hunter 179,871 report +2.3%
11 Devastation Evoker 178,741 report +1.7%
12 Marksmanship Hunter 178,663 report +1.7%
13 Balance Druid 176,485 report +0.4%
14 Windwalker Monk 175,762 report +0.0%
15 Destruction Warlock 174,883 report -0.5%
16 Assassination Rogue 172,772 report -1.7%
17 Shadow Priest 170,432 report -3.0%
18 Unholy Death Knight 168,841 report -3.9%
19 Survival Hunter 166,737 report -5.1%
20 Fire Mage 166,700 report -5.2%
21 Arcane Mage 165,594 report -5.8%
22 Demonology Warlock 163,350 report -7.1%
23 Frost Mage 160,536 report -8.7%
24 Affliction Warlock 160,220 report -8.8%
25 Retribution Paladin 159,878 report -9.0%
26 Frost Death Knight 154,074 report -12.3%
27 Augmentation Evoker · support 64,751 report -63.2%

27 specs · top 250,283 DPS · median 193,030 · spread 188%

1 Enhancement Shaman 250,283 report +29.7%
2 Arms Warrior 232,941 report +20.7%
3 Subtlety Rogue 229,558 report +18.9%
4 Elemental Shaman 227,062 report +17.6%
5 Devourer Demon Hunter 225,311 report +16.7%
6 Havoc Demon Hunter 220,741 report +14.4%
7 Outlaw Rogue 213,624 report +10.7%
8 Fury Warrior 212,007 report +9.8%
9 Arcane Mage 204,174 report +5.8%
10 Beast Mastery Hunter 195,447 report +1.3%
11 Balance Druid 195,256 report +1.2%
12 Fire Mage 194,963 report +1.0%
13 Survival Hunter 193,658 report +0.3%
14 Windwalker Monk 193,030 report +0.0%
15 Marksmanship Hunter 191,588 report -0.7%
16 Unholy Death Knight 189,495 report -1.8%
17 Destruction Warlock 188,915 report -2.1%
18 Demonology Warlock 187,253 report -3.0%
19 Feral Druid 186,634 report -3.3%
20 Shadow Priest 185,673 report -3.8%
21 Frost Mage 183,057 report -5.2%
22 Devastation Evoker 180,411 report -6.5%
23 Assassination Rogue 178,353 report -7.6%
24 Frost Death Knight 177,991 report -7.8%
25 Retribution Paladin 177,449 report -8.1%
26 Affliction Warlock 176,861 report -8.4%
27 Augmentation Evoker · support 86,826 report -55.0%

27 specs · top 513,409 DPS · median 267,878 · spread 461%

1 Demonology Warlock 513,409 report +91.7%
2 Subtlety Rogue 367,492 report +37.2%
3 Enhancement Shaman 366,659 report +36.9%
4 Fury Warrior 330,387 report +23.3%
5 Fire Mage 329,852 report +23.1%
6 Elemental Shaman 314,031 report +17.2%
7 Unholy Death Knight 308,688 report +15.2%
8 Outlaw Rogue 297,634 report +11.1%
9 Arms Warrior 297,490 report +11.1%
10 Frost Death Knight 295,237 report +10.2%
11 Devourer Demon Hunter 294,282 report +9.9%
12 Arcane Mage 280,415 report +4.7%
13 Havoc Demon Hunter 280,087 report +4.6%
14 Windwalker Monk 267,878 report +0.0%
15 Survival Hunter 252,100 report -5.9%
16 Balance Druid 242,527 report -9.5%
17 Shadow Priest 242,370 report -9.5%
18 Frost Mage 242,232 report -9.6%
19 Beast Mastery Hunter 235,301 report -12.2%
20 Affliction Warlock 229,733 report -14.2%
21 Retribution Paladin 228,114 report -14.8%
22 Destruction Warlock 219,352 report -18.1%
23 Marksmanship Hunter 215,299 report -19.6%
24 Devastation Evoker 211,650 report -21.0%
25 Assassination Rogue 198,160 report -26.0%
26 Feral Druid 193,654 report -27.7%
27 Augmentation Evoker · support 91,524 report -65.8%

27 specs · top 254,393 DPS · median 200,266 · spread 211%

1 Windwalker Monk 254,393 report +27.0%
2 Arcane Mage 238,930 report +19.3%
3 Subtlety Rogue 234,905 report +17.3%
4 Frost Death Knight 231,080 report +15.4%
5 Unholy Death Knight 221,324 report +10.5%
6 Outlaw Rogue 221,055 report +10.4%
7 Enhancement Shaman 219,249 report +9.5%
8 Devourer Demon Hunter 218,764 report +9.2%
9 Elemental Shaman 217,903 report +8.8%
10 Fire Mage 212,613 report +6.2%
11 Arms Warrior 212,348 report +6.0%
12 Demonology Warlock 210,884 report +5.3%
13 Assassination Rogue 208,876 report +4.3%
14 Havoc Demon Hunter 200,266 report +0.0%
15 Shadow Priest 194,981 report -2.6%
16 Beast Mastery Hunter 193,434 report -3.4%
17 Frost Mage 192,435 report -3.9%
18 Marksmanship Hunter 192,176 report -4.0%
19 Survival Hunter 185,503 report -7.4%
20 Affliction Warlock 184,313 report -8.0%
21 Feral Druid 183,402 report -8.4%
22 Destruction Warlock 177,356 report -11.4%
23 Retribution Paladin 171,444 report -14.4%
24 Devastation Evoker 167,104 report -16.6%
25 Balance Druid 166,972 report -16.6%
26 Fury Warrior 162,392 report -18.9%
27 Augmentation Evoker · support 81,900 report -59.1%

How to read this

These are our own campaign sims: every spec on the best-in-slot list our generator builds for it, at a uniform 334 item level, with the campaign's tuned talent build for each scenario. They are not a tier list. Real fights have movement, priority targets, downtime and mechanics that punish some kits far more than others, and none of that is modelled here. The "report" link on each row opens the full human-readable sim report — ability breakdown, timeline, the lot.

Augmentation Evoker is last here, and that means nothing

Augmentation is a support specialisation. Almost all of its contribution is damage it adds to other players, and a solo sim measures exactly none of that. Its own damage being lowest on this chart is a fact about the measurement, not about the spec. It is greyed out and marked above for that reason. Do not read this chart as a reason to play or not play it.

Treat gaps under about 3% as noise. The sims converge tightly, but a different gear split or talent choice would move a spec further than that. Use this to see the shape — who scales into multi-target, who falls off — not to pick between two neighbours.

Per-spec detail is on the spec pages.

Gear is the part you control

A spec three percent behind on this chart is worth far less than three item levels you did not plan for. GearPath maps the whole season — crests, vault choices, sparks — so the gear side is not where you lose.

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