PvP (player-vs-player) is a broad term when it comes to World of Warcraft Classic. Each class and specialization has a different niche, with some thriving in battlegrounds and others in World PvP and duels.

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Plus a good PvP set will need, depending on class a build some gear obtainable in PvE content. PvP only gear or PvE only gear will not be enough to be the best of the best. This is also true. Some builds require specific trinkets or weapons and/or necks/rings that can only be obtained through raids. Wow, almost 2 full pages and noone even mentioned that the TOP PvP gear is out of date compared to Raid gear. Of course ICC gear is better than PvP gear, the most recent arena system JUST ended, so the highest rank gear is months old. The new arena system starts today (most likely). Nov 05, 2008  PVE vs PVP gear. The itemization level of their equipment will be the same as that coming from the instances, and they'll be spending a lot of those points on stamina and resilience - worthless in PvE. Let them grab their 1337 purples. Then blow them off the damage charts with better itemized PvE gear. With the removal of pvp, and pve gear vendors (courtesy of pts obtained via wins in bgs, or completing a lfr), and the addition of ‘rng’ - this game has more, or less become a joke. Jugaa-arthas (Jugaa) 2019-07-15 03:46:52 UTC #9.

Gear is an important factor to take into consideration in Classic. The best classes and specs on the list aren’t as powerful without best-in-slot (BIS) gear or the appropriate enchants.

Here’s our class tier list for WoW Classic PvP. If a class is at the very bottom of the list, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad. A highly-skilled player should still be able to carry their weight in most situations and become a master of PvP.

S Tier

Mage, Rogue

Mage and Rogue are the premier classes in WoW Classic. They’re exceptionally strong in battlegrounds, World PvP, and duels, each having the ability to take on multiple targets with ease.

Frost Mages have some of the best crowd control in the game, combined with tons of snares and fierce damage. They can simply polymorph one target, freeze the other, and burst them down while kiting them around in circles. With the right amount of skill, a Mage is untouchable.

Rogues are in a similar situation. They have some of the best burst damage available in the game, but most importantly, they have an endless supply of stuns. It requires very little skill to stun lock a target and whittle them down to death. The best Rogues in Classic, though, will practically be gods.

A Tier

Warrior, Shadow Priest, Warlock, Holy Priest, Holy Paladin

Warriors are off to a slow start in Classic. They’re the worst levelers and they’re damage is nothing to write home about. Their only real redeeming factor is their top-notch tanking ability. This quickly changes when they get their hands on the right gear, though.

Fury is a subpar spec, but Arms is one of the best in the game. Once Warriors have scaled, Mortal Strike deals massive damage and their dynamic kit allows them to survive, outmaneuver, and overcome almost anything. How to remove advanced mac cleaner. In battlegrounds and World PvP, they’ll be almost immortal with a pocket healer or two. Their only real weakness is dueling. They’re a class that’s severely vulnerable to kiting.

Warlocks were extremely underrated in WoW Vanilla. A Destruction Lock with decent gear and good pet control could easily outplay their opponents. The class has one of the highest skill caps in the game, but once they’re mastered, they’re one of the best. Fear, Deathcoil, and an endless amount of dots give Warlocks the means to thrive in Classic.

Priest is another strong class. Shadow, Holy, and Discipline are all viable in one way or another, and if they’re not doing insane single-target damage, they’ll be healing to their heart’s content.

Shadow Priests, in fact, have one of the highest single-target DPS (damage per second) in the game. They’re not great in PvE, but they’re fantastic in battlegrounds, World PvP, and duels. They have the ability to dish out damage and crowd control and they’re self-reliant with healing.

Holy Priests and Holy Paladins are two of the best PvP classes where healing is concerned. They have the highest single-target healing, easily beating out Resto Druids and Shamans. Both of their kits are also great, allowing for shields, bubbles, and crowd control. They’ll also do well in duels, having the means to outlive their opponents.

B Tier

Hunter, Elemental Shaman, Restoration Druid

If it wasn’t for Hunter’s Dead Zone, they’d most likely be higher on this list. They’re a strong ranged class with mid-to-high damage, a wide selection of crowd controls, movement increases, a versatile pet, and the longest range in the game. But when an enemy hits the five-yard mark, they’re useless. They can’t use their melee or ranged abilities and have to rely solely on their pet. They’re powerful against a new player or a target without knowledge. When their Dead Zone is used against them, though, they can quite easily be outplayed.

Elemental Shamans have some of the best burst damage in WoWClassic. The Horde-only class has a good mixture of healing and damage along with a wide selection of totems, shocks, and healing spells. With the right set of gear, an Ele Shaman will have the ability to burst down an enemy with just a few spells.

Druids are unfortunately one of the weakest classes in WoW Classic. A skilled player will be able to power their way through enemies in battlegrounds and do a thing or two in duels. But generally, they’re weak. Resto Druid is one of the only exceptions. They have some of the best mobility in the game and combined with their instant spells, their HoTs (heal over time), and their CC, they’re extremely slippery targets. The spec isn’t quite as good as what it became in later expansions, but it’s still a good option for PvP play.

C Tier

Restoration Shaman, Feral Druid, Retribution Paladin

There’s nothing wrong with Resto Shamans. They’re great in PvE, but their immobility and long cast spells mean they’re vulnerable. They have the resources to aid their team and keep them topped off, but they just aren’t quite as good as Priests or Paladins.

Feral Druids are terrible at DPS in Classic. They’re a worse version of Rogue without damage or sufficient CC. They do have high mobility and healing, though, giving them a few options. A tanky Feral Druid in bear form is a different story. They’re fantastic for carrying flags in Warsong Gulch, but that’s about it.

Retribution Paladins rely on gear. A decked-out Paladin with full raiding gear will wreak havoc, but anything less is lackluster. Most of their damage is white and if they don’t have a hefty weapon, they’ll hit practically nothing. They’re slow targets and are easily snared and CC’d to death.

D Tier

Enhancement Shaman, Balance Druid

Enhancement Shamans are similar to Ret Paladins in that they require a good amount of gear to excel. Windfury can proc off of itself, adding up for a ton of damage. But without a good weapon or gear, they’re underwhelming. They have decent heals and a great snare, but there’s always going to be better classes.

There’s a good reason Balance Druids were nicknamed Oomkins. They have decent damage, CC, and healing, but their mana is a huge issue. Balance was never optimized in Vanilla, and because of this, they’re at the bottom of the list.

For the enchant, see [PvP Power].

PvP Power is an attribute found on pre-Warlords of Draenor gear that increases damage dealt and healing done to other players in PvP situations. It is the counterpart of PvP Resilience, which reduces incoming damage from players. PvP Power can be found on PvP-focused weapons and armor, and can also be added through enchantments and gems. PvP Power is part of the combat rating system.

Described as 'a stat on PvP gear to allow PvP gear to be better than the ilvl it shows'^[1], PvP Power is not included in items' item level 'budgets', allowing PvP gear to provide additional bonuses for players in PvP compared to non-PvP gear of the same item level. This includes items scaled down by the PvP item level cap. Note that PvP power is only beneficial when attacking other players. For attacking monsters and bosses, attack power and spell power are the desired stats.

With Warlords of Draenor, substantial changes such as the introduction of alternate PvP item levels made PvP Power no longer necessary as a means of empowering PvP gear in PvP situations. As a result, it is not found on gear from Warlords onwards.

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Notes

Damage

• 1% extra damage requires 400 PvP Power.

Healing

PvP Power's bonus to healing is based on class and specialization:

• Healing specializations receive a 100% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
• Damage specializations for druids, monks, paladins, priests, and shaman receive a 70% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
• All other specializations and classes (including tanking) receive a 40% bonus to healing from PvP Power.

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Official explanation

From the 'Dev Watercooler – Mists of Pandaria Stat Changes' blog post:

• If you have a lot of Power, you'll do more damage to other players, but they likely have Resilience as well. If you fight players in lots of PvE gear, they'll take more damage. Likewise, a player in PvE gear won’t have enough Power to effectively penetrate your Resilience.
• PvP gear will be lower in item level than PvE gear of an equivalent tier, however the Power and Resilience stats will make sure that PvP gear is more powerful in PvP (both offensively and defensively) than PvE gear. In our budgeting system, the PvP stats will be free rather than causing other stats, such as Strength or haste, to be smaller as a result of including Power or Resilience.
• The goal of this change is to make it easier for a PvP player to participate in PvE, or for a PvE player to get started in PvP. Currently, we feel it is too large a barrier to go from one to the other, and the result has been that we see more and more players choosing to focus exclusively on only PvP or PvE. In earlier expansions, it was more feasible to use PvE gear in Arenas or Battlegrounds until you acquired the more useful PvP gear. The same was true of being able to use your PvP gear in a dungeon or raid until you acquired something better. In Cataclysm, stepping into PvP with no PvP gear would result in a player being so ineffective that it was difficult to even make progress towards acquiring PvP gear.
• For the higher-end of PvP or PvE (say Gladiators or heroic raiders), we believe those players will still gravitate towards the dedicated PvP or PvE gear. It is the players who are working towards those two end games that will benefit more from some cross over.

• PvP Power will not work in instances but does work in the world.

Patch 5.3 brought significant changes to PvP in general, and several changes to PvP Power:

The design intent on PvP Power was to allow us to have a stat on PvP gear to allow PvP gear to be better than the ilvl it showed. The intent was not to make it the one and only stat that PvPers want.

PvP Power as they were budgeted was strong, so it was easy to take a PvE piece and gem it and make it the BIS piece. We wanted to avoid that, something players really wanted. In terms of the stat concern we changed it from 265 pvp power for 1% to 400 pvp power for 1%. That was a point where a fully geared pvp player had 60% more damage. A common complaint is that the fully geared guy is really exploding the people that’s 1 tier behind it. We just thought this was really an opportunity to change this, adjust the gap a little bit, reduce damage a little in PvP and make the experience better.^[1]

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): PvP Power has been removed from the paper doll.
  
• Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21):
  • PvP Power conversion ratio to obtain 1% damage at level 90 has been changed from 265 to 400.
  • PvP Power bonus to healing is now based on class and specialization.
    • Healing specializations receive a 100% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
    • Damage specializations for Druids, Monks, Paladins, Priests, and Shaman receive a 70% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
    • All other specializations and classes (including tanking) receive a 40% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
      
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Spell Penetration has been replaced by PvP Power on existing items.
  

See also

References

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