The mage-hunter: dual daggers riding arcane rifts, packing a striking 8 defensive effects — built to close on casters, cut through their spells, and survive the answer.
Reactive, anti-magic melee with off-tank bones.
Your Primordial Blast and Smolder now refresh a charge of Runeblade. In addition, every 3rd Runeblade restores AP mana, boosted by 20% while Runic Tattoos: Water is active.
Plays like an Enhancement Shaman with a dash of Frost DK rune-mechanics: elemental-flavored weapon strikes (Smolder, Fracture, Hoarfrost, Hurricane) feed a proc-chain filler, Runeblade, itself relit by Windsage, Surging Slash and Spellfire Runes resets, while Primordial Blast and Zenith/Primordial Fury act as Lava Burst/Elemental Blast-style burst spenders. It's explicitly not a retail healing-spec analog — nothing like Chain Heal/Riptide anywhere — its 'support' reads closer to Enhancement's utility-bolted-onto-DPS identity (self-dispel via Magebreaker, a hard interrupt via Ley Lock, a Nature AoE zone via Turbulence) than to any dedicated healer profile.
How is this number calculated?
World bosses only (Conquest of Azeroth has no instanced raid yet) — Snowgrave, Setis, Lord Kazzak, Azuregos, The Will of Soggoth, Kaldros Depthbreaker.
These numbers come from Ascension Logs’ public combat logs, not an in-house guess.
The index compares each spec to the median player — the one sitting exactly in the middle of the ranking — on the same boss and the same group format: 1.00 matches that median player, 1.40 means 40% more damage than them. Only each player’s best fight counts, never their average — otherwise a player posting fifty fights would count as much as fifty different players, and averaging would mostly reward beginners still learning the spec rather than those who’ve mastered it. The comparison always happens on the same boss and the same format: a two-minute fight and a seven-minute one aren’t comparable, and a flex raid doesn’t give the same support as a 25-man.
Tiers (S, A, B…) aren’t picked by hand: the cutoffs are calculated from the real spread of every measured spec. A spec under 15 distinct players or 30 fights isn't ranked at all, rather than given a made-up grade.
How is this number calculated?
Mythic dungeons only — Ascension CoA has no Mythic+ tier yet (216 tracked encounters).
These numbers come from Ascension Logs’ public combat logs, not an in-house guess.
The index compares each spec to the median player — the one sitting exactly in the middle of the ranking — on the same boss: 1.00 matches that median player, 1.40 means 40% more damage than them. Only each player’s best fight counts, never their average — otherwise a player posting fifty fights would count as much as fifty different players, and averaging would mostly reward beginners still learning the spec rather than those who’ve mastered it. The comparison always happens on the same boss: 92.4% of dungeon fights are played in 5-player groups, and splitting by group size as well would discard more usable damage rows (4.5% lost against 1.4% when comparing by boss alone) for zero additional publishable spec — group size is therefore not part of the comparison.
Tiers (S, A, B…) aren’t picked by hand: the cutoffs are calculated from the real spread of every measured Dungeon spec — this column has its own distribution, it doesn’t reuse Raid’s cutoffs. A spec under 15 distinct players or 30 fights isn't ranked at all, rather than given a made-up grade.
Each performance above links to its own real combat report. Ascension Logs, however, doesn’t offer a rankings page covering every Mythic dungeon — unlike Raid, there’s no « View the source rankings » button here.
In practice everything revolves around Runeblade: it's the filler that feeds the proc chain, and every third charge pays back mana and hits harder — the real skill is tracking that counter while slotting in the elemental strikes (Smolder, Fracture, Hoarfrost, Hurricane) and burst cooldowns at the right moment.
A true melee spellblade: Smolder and Hurricane carry the early auto-rotation while Hoarfrost freezes targets that Frost Spectre, Leyfrost and Fracture then punish for bonus damage; Warpdagger, Phase Out and Blade Rift form a stealth-burst gap-close opener that's great for solo and duo leveling.
In groups it's a burst melee DPS that also brings Runic Power's damage aura and a genuinely reliable interrupt via Battle Engravings' instant-cast Ley Lock.
- Core loop — weave Runeblade between elemental weapon strikes and cooldown detonations.
- Signature (Riftblade): Your Primordial Blast and Smolder now refresh a charge of Runeblade. In addition, every 3rd Runeblade restores 388 + 30% AP mana, boosted by 20% while Runic Tattoos: Water is active.
- A rich elemental-strike toolkit (Smolder, Fracture, Hoarfrost, Hurricane) that feeds the Runeblade proc chain and pays back resources, giving strong self-sustaining single-target damage with a real burst layer via Zenith and Primordial Fury.
- Genuine utility for a melee DPS: a hard interrupt (Ley Lock, instant under Battle Engravings), a self-dispel (Magebreaker), and a mana-burn strike (Fracture) that punishes enemy casters.
- Scales up in a scrum: Primordial Fury cleaves your strikes onto extra enemies, Turbulence's AoE zone rewards being surrounded, and Phase Out with Rift Clones gives a strong juke/disengage.
- Zero repeatable self-healing — only Echo Rune's teleport-heal and Runeblade's small resource return bring health back; once both are on cooldown, recovery only comes from disengaging (food/bandage/vendor).
- No hard CC break and no passive CC-duration reducer — nothing clears a stun or silence once it lands, and the only counterplay is preventive: Warding Rune strips harmful magic before impact, and Granite Resolve mitigates physical damage while stunned without breaking the stun.
- A mana cost on nearly every ability — without the Runeblade every-third-cast return and Fracture's mana burn running continuously, sustained cooldown use can strand it empty mid-fight.
Approachable, with a couple of systems to learn — proc driven, with few moving parts.
Enormous mastery ceiling — it's all about reacting to and chaining procs.
See also: all Ascension builds · the talent tree builder
Talent data: ascension.gg
· Spec tiers & analysis: ascensionsidekick.com
Editorial rewrite, interactive talent tree, tooltips and fact-checking: KAMI LABS
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