01-21-2009, 02:59 AM
Quote:Most people have been using SK-Gaming (it lists % of Top100 teams) as a summary for balance:
2v2 has Mages at #4. Above it is Rogue (10%), Death Knights (27%), and Paladin (31%). The Paladins are mostly Holy, that leaves Unholy DKs and Mut/Prep Rogues as the melee DPS above Mages.
Just going by the spec thing on the top right of the page, it still looks like there are a significant number of Ret paladins. Not quite as many as the holy paladins, perhaps, but when Ret is the fourth most popular spec amongst all players in its own right, you can hardly leave it out. So of the four major melee classes, three of them have at least one spec that tops all ranged.
It's different for 3s, but Ret and the most popular mage spec, Arcane, are in the same ballpark, whereas Unholy DK is definitely not.