A brand new meta is evolving within the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Mythic+ scene. In current days, high-level groups have begun to desert conventional Mythic+ compositions in favor of staff comps that includes 4 DPS gamers and one tank. This new wave within the meta leaves behind the Healer function and focuses on finishing dungeons even sooner than standard by pummeling bosses and trash packs with extra harm than earlier than.
Whereas solely sure dungeons on this season’s Mythic+ rotation are suitable with this four-DPS technique, professional WoW gamers are proving that Healers may not be as obligatory for Mythic+ runs as was beforehand thought.
The four-DPS technique was first delivered to public consideration throughout this season’s Mythic Dungeon International, and was popularized this weekend when professional WoW groups Echo and Cheese went head-to-head within the Courtroom of Stars, with each groups operating 4 DPS and one tank of their staff composition. Cheese would go on to win the map, finishing the run in 13 minutes and 136 seconds (13:26 after accounting for dying timer penalties).
Which courses are viable in a 4 DPS Mythic+ staff comp?
To this point, MDI groups have solely run sure DPS courses as a part of their four-DPS technique, with Devastation Evoker, Unholy Loss of life Knight, and Feral Druid being mainstays within the compositions. Shadow Priest, Havoc Demon Hunter, and Enhancement Shaman had been additionally utilized by MDI groups in healerless comps.
One thing all of those courses have in widespread is an abundance of self-healing, in addition to some group therapeutic throughput that may hold allies alive at a reasonable charge. Excessive-throughput single-target heals are uncommon in compositions that function 4 DPS, as are conventional Healer cooldowns, however these skills are willingly sacrificed in favor of courses who can mend reasonable wounds, as long as gamers can play at a sufficiently expert stage.
A significant contributing issue to the four-DPS technique is the ability stage of your group. If gamers are unable to dodge skills or are persistently standing in “swirlies,” there are going to be apparent points with compositions that don’t function a devoted healer to compensate for errors. To this point, some of these comps have solely been viable at excessive ranges, with reasonably expert gamers nonetheless choosing a standard 1-1-3 composition.
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Within the skilled scene, one dungeon has emerged because the go-to testing floor for this composition: the Courtroom of Stars. Many of the harm you’ll be taking in Courtroom of Stars is totally avoidable, making the necessity for a Healer lessened in comparison with different heavy-hitting cases the place “obligatory harm” is current. Bosses like Patrol Captain Gerdo and Talixae Flamewreath function avoidable damaging skills, whereas the harm from Advisor Melandrus’ Slicing Maelstrom (one of many few non-avoidable boss mechanics within the dungeon) will be negated with a defensive.
Whereas the one dungeon to function a viable four-DPS technique within the skilled scene to date is the Courtroom of Stars, gamers have begun testing the technique’s viability in different cases, as nicely. WoW streamer Nerf and his teammates within the guild Twitch Primeates have run excessive Mythic+ keys within the Halls of Valor and the Temple of the Jade Serpent with out a Healer.
It’s unclear right now if Blizzard has any plans to present all Healers a flat buff to make them extra intriguing to professional gamers, though it’s extra seemingly {that a} nerf to sure DPS courses’ capacity to heal is extra obligatory. When a fourth DPS can successfully hold gamers topped off simply in addition to a devoted healer can, an apparent downside is current, as no Healer ought to should really feel like their place on a staff is in jeopardy.
