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The Most Popular Tanks and Healers in Shadowlands Mythic Season 1

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A final look at the most popular tanks and healers in Shadowlands Mythic Season 1.

Mythic Season 2 starts next week, so it's time to look in retrospect at which tanks and healers were the most popular in Mythic+. We already looked at the most popular DPS specializations earlier in the week and you can find them here.

DATA RELIABILITY: The data used in this article comes from benched.me. Reddit user OtherwiseUniversity7 plotted all keys available from the Blizzard API (excluding the CN region) on a single ridge plot to gather the data.

This Week's Affixes (Week of June 28)

The following affixes are active this week:

  • Fortified
  • Bursting
  • Storming
  • Prideful

Player Activity

The following figure shows the number of Mythic+ runs recorded each week since Shadowlands Season 1 started. This week, players have completed 270K runs so far.

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Total Runs Recorded

Here are all the runs recorded from the beginning of Mythic Season 1 until now. We further process the data to determine the most popular tank and healer specializations in Mythic+.

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Most Popular Tanks in Mythic+

The most popular tank in Mythic Season 1 with more than 7 million runs is Vengeance Demon Hunter, followed by Protection paladin (5.2 million runs), and Guardian Druid (3.1 million runs). The least popular tank is Protection Warrior with just 1.8 million runs.

  • 1st: Vengeance Demon Hunter - 7,087,047 runs
  • 2nd: Protection Paladin - 5,282,468 runs
  • 3rd: Guardian Druid - 3,194,908 runs
  • 4th: Brewmaster Monk - 2,416,703 runs
  • 5th: Blood Death Knight - 2,302,522 runs
  • 6th: Protection Warrior - 1,833,274 runs

Detailed Look at Spec Performance

Here is a visual representation of the share of tanking specializations at each keystone level. The meta starts kicking in at Mythic+16, where most specializations begin losing their share of representation to the meta-classes.

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Share of Tank Specializations in Weekly Top 500 Runs

To observe meta shifts throughout the season, we sample the top 500 runs for each dungeon (a total of 6K keys) for each week. We then count the number of times each specialization appears in the weekly top 500 sample. 

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Most Popular Healers in Mythic+

The most popular healer in Mythic Season 1 is Restoration Shaman with more than 6.2 million runs completed. In second place is Restoration Druid (5.3 million runs), and the third is Holy Paladin with 4.4 million runs. The least popular healer is Mistweaver Monk with just 1.3 million runs.

  • 1st: Restoration Shaman - 6,243,321 runs
  • 2nd: Restoration Druid - 5,317,394 runs
  • 3rd: Holy Paladin - 4,427,062 runs
  • 4th: Holy Priest - 2,544,249 runs
  • 5th: Discipline Priest - 2,206,891 runs
  • 6th: Mistweaver Monk - 1,362,084 runs

Detailed Look at Spec Performance

Here's a visual representation of the share of healer specializations at each keystone level.

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Share of Healer Specializations in Weekly Top 500 Runs

The meta is really stable within a single patch, and spec representation within the top 500 barely changes. The data has a zig-zag trend. Spec numbers, especially the top specs, go up and down each week due to the Tyrannical/Fortified split.

On Tyrannical weeks, top pushers bench their meta-class mains and play non-meta alts, or don't play at all. As a result, the share of meta specializations in the top 500 drops on Tyrannical weeks. Similarly, the share of meta specializations rises to its max during push weeks.

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On 7/4/2021 at 12:36 PM, Baharok said:

I still will stay with my Blood DK as main. 😛

Nothing wrong with that. The tank meta at 25 is RUN anyway 😄

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