What WoW Creators Think Is Strong in Mythic+ for Midnight Season 2

Updated August 9, 2026

Tier lists are noisy on their own. Different creators test at different key levels, assume different group compositions, and sometimes use completely different tier labels. I wanted to see what the picture looked like when those lists were combined instead of treating any single video as the answer.

For this aggregate, I reviewed 29 YouTube videos published during the 30 days leading up to August 9, 2026. Sixteen comparable manual-play Mythic+ videos contributed at least one scored placement. General, Raid, Assisted Combat, partial, derivative, and parody lists were kept in the source audit but were not mixed into the headline Mythic+ result.

The final workbook contains 421 placement rows. Every creator list was normalized within its own board, then weighted by publication date using a 14-day half-life. More recent lists matter more, but older PTR testing still contributes.

The result is not a DPS or survivability prediction. It is a summary of where creators placed each spec relative to the other specs on their own lists.

Coverage: every tank has 8 ranked sources, healers have 6 to 7, and DPS specs have 6 to 8. Explicitly unranked specs were left out of that source score instead of being treated as last place.

Full research dataView the complete tier-list workbook in Google SheetsRaw placements, normalized scores, source dates, weights, and evidence links. Opens in a new tab.

Weighted aggregate tier list

For a readable tier-list view, the weighted scores are grouped into fixed bands:

  • S: 80 to 100
  • A: 60 to 79.9
  • B: 40 to 59.9
  • C: 20 to 39.9
  • D: below 20

The number after each spec is its recency-weighted aggregate score. Scores are best compared within the same role because role-specific and all-spec boards use different comparison pools.

Tanks

S
Blood Death Knight86.0
A
Protection Paladin65.9
B
Guardian Druid45.2Protection Warrior41.5Vengeance Demon Hunter41.5
C
Brewmaster Monk20.1
D
No specs

Blood Death Knight is the clearest tank favorite in the collected lists. Protection Paladin holds a distinct second place, while Guardian, Protection Warrior, and Vengeance are packed much closer together.

Healers

S
Holy Paladin87.4Restoration Shaman80.3
A
No specs
B
Mistweaver Monk55.7
C
Discipline Priest38.7Preservation Evoker35.9Restoration Druid28.4
D
Holy Priest10.3

Holy Paladin and Restoration Shaman are the two healer picks with the strongest creator consensus. Mistweaver sits on its own in the middle, followed by a closer group of Discipline, Preservation, and Restoration Druid.

DPS

S
Arms Warrior95.6Arcane Mage94.7Elemental Shaman85.1Frost Death Knight81.2
A
Devourer Demon Hunter78.8Balance Druid71.9Outlaw Rogue65.3
B
Windwalker Monk57.2Assassination Rogue54.6Unholy Death Knight52.6Havoc Demon Hunter50.0Destruction Warlock47.6Marksmanship Hunter47.5Affliction Warlock43.1Demonology Warlock43.1Augmentation Evoker42.5Retribution Paladin41.6Enhancement Shaman40.1
C
Feral Druid36.3Shadow Priest34.1Fire Mage33.0Frost Mage30.2Beast Mastery Hunter30.2Survival Hunter29.1Subtlety Rogue24.4
D
Devastation Evoker15.0Fury Warrior10.9

Arms Warrior and Arcane Mage are the strongest points of agreement across the DPS lists. Elemental Shaman and Frost Death Knight round out the S tier. Devourer lands just below the cutoff, although it has one fewer scored source because one creator left it unranked.

How the scoring works

  1. Each video keeps its original tier names and ordering.
  2. Tied specs receive the same within-list midrank percentile from 0 to 100.
  3. Explicitly unranked specs and duplicate creator/spec entries are not scored.
  4. Each normalized score is multiplied by the video recency weight.
  5. The weighted scores are averaged for each spec.

This avoids forcing every creator into the same S-through-D labels. It also prevents a creator with six tiers from having more influence than one who only used three.

The spread between a spec's best and worst placement is available in the workbook. A high average with a wide spread means creators disagreed, while a high average with a narrow spread is a stronger consensus.

Videos included in the Mythic+ aggregate

Reviewed but kept separate

These videos are still part of the source audit, but they are not blended into the manual-play Mythic+ result.

Caveats

  • PTR tuning can make a ranking stale quickly. Recency weighting reduces that problem but cannot remove it.
  • These are creator judgments, not simulations.
  • Different videos target different key levels and group assumptions.
  • Role-specific lists and all-spec lists create different comparison pools.
  • A missing ranking is not treated as a last-place vote.

The workbook keeps the raw tier label, normalized score, publication date, recency weight, evidence timestamp, and full source link for every stored placement.