Despite what the tab name suggests, this isn't a tank — it's an arcane blade-dancer. Fan of Knives and Starsunder crits build Scattered Stars stacks, and Astral Blade spends mana for precision Arcane strikes. Think night elf assassin, but running on starlight instead of energy.
A critical strike with Starsunder now applies an extra stack of Scattered Stars, which your spells can consume for bonus Arcane damage. Lasts 30 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.
Closest analog is Havoc Demon Hunter — a hyper-mobile melee DPS built around glaives, burst mobility, and a transform cooldown: Sentinel Glaive is the classic thrown glaive, Shooting Star plays the Fel Rush role as a speed burst, Avatar of Vengeance is the Metamorphosis moment (a transform that teleports you to your target and empowers you), and Halt fills the Disrupt slot as the interrupt — all wrapped in a Maiev-flavored Warden fantasy (Maiev's Discipline, Vigil of the Watchers). As a secondary comparison, the melee-weaving-with-instant-procs feel (Aspect of the Warden's bonus-attack chance, mana-scaled Starsunder/Astral Blade) plays like old mana-based Enhancement Shaman.
How is this number calculated?
Measured scope: Zul'Gurub, all difficulties — High Priest Venoxis, High Priestess Jeklik, High Priestess Mar'li, Bloodlord Mandokir, High Priest Thekal, High Priestess Arlokk, Jin'do the Hexxer, Hakkar, Gri'lek, Gahz'ranka.
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 (229 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.
Ranking updated on August 17, 2026
These talents are a PvE configuration. The Arena and Battleground grades shown above rate the specialisation’s PvP potential — not this tree.
Astral Blade's Spell Power coefficient outweighs its Attack Power term even inside a weapon-swing builder-spender loop, so this crit-focused blade-dancer still wants Spell Power stacked alongside Hit/Expertise to land Aspect of the Warden procs and Shadowsong's Mandate crits.
See also: all Ascension builds · the Ascension talent 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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