Updates

What changed

Every update to SimSBA, newest first.

The Ranking opens on our button builds, by DPS, in tiers

11 Nov 2026

The Ranking now opens on the best talents we found for the button, sorted by damage per second. "% lost vs manual" is still one click away.
Builds are grouped in tiers S, A, B and C, each 5% wide, measured from the best spec SimulationCraft fully supports.
Specs whose Mythic+ fight SimulationCraft does not support (Elemental, Frost Death Knight, Havoc, Devourer, Balance) are now in the list with a "less certain" tag instead of a separate section.
Specs with no button build yet keep SimulationCraft's talents, marked "simc talents".

11 Nov 2026

SimulationCraft's talent strings for Frost Death Knight (both hero trees), Feral Wildstalker and Devourer Void-Scarred are not builds the game accepts. They now use the closest legal build, in every fight.
Frost Death Knight and Feral move by 0.3% or less. Devourer Void-Scarred loses 2 to 3% with the button, because the legal build gives up Soulforged Blades for Star Fragments, as every top Void-Scarred player does.

10 Nov 2026

A talent search for the button now runs on the raid boss too. For 31 of 49 specs and hero trees it finds a better build than the one we used before: a median +2.2% damage with the button, up to +10.3% for Fury Mountain Thane. Defensive talents are locked, as in SimulationCraft's builds: the search never trades them for damage. Each spec page lists the other talents a build drops.
The Ranking's raid view with Talents: Best for the button uses these builds, and each spec page gives the raid talent string to import. Perfect manual play keeps the old build.
The two Devourer hero trees could not be searched yet: SimulationCraft crashes during the search.

7 Nov 2026

Balance Elune's Chosen and Devastation Scalecommander were simulated without some talents every other spec has. Fixed: Balance −3% → +4% (with our button talents), Devastation 0% → +3% against a typical +15 player.
Balance Druid and Devastation Evoker added to the Ranking. SimulationCraft has no profile for them, so they use the median gear of real +15 players and the build most players use. Balance is not ranked in Mythic+ (SimulationCraft does not support that fight for it); Flameshaper is not ranked yet (the simulator never casts Unbound Flame).
Real dungeons: 15 spec and hero pairs used SimulationCraft's own talents in the button view, and those are tuned for one target. They now use the best Mythic+ build we found for the button. For example Beast Mastery Pack Leader goes from −22% to +1%, and Assassination Deathstalker from −38% to −4%, against a typical +15 player.

5 Nov 2026

Real dungeons now uses every timed +15 run from the 27 Oct class tuning to 4 Nov: 11,152 runs on the standard routes (was 2,941).
36 specs and hero trees shown (was 30). Specs that had few runs move the most; every spec that had 100+ runs moves 2 points or less.
No game change since 30 Oct, so old and new runs are counted together.

3 Nov 2026

Each spec page now shows how the button does against real +15 players of that spec (Real dungeons).
Home page: the best and worst specs against real players.
Real dungeons shows only specs with 100+ real runs by default; the others are one click away.
Why some specs are not ranked in Mythic+ on the Ranking page but are on Real dungeons.
Button players: fights since the 27 Oct class tuning, next to the 14 to 26 Oct fights (pick the period at the top). So far 8 fights from 2 players.

31 Oct 2026

Real dungeons now plays Unholy San'layn's button with the same Blightfall fix as the Ranking: −29% → −18% against a typical +15 player.
A new check stops any Ranking fix from being missed in Real dungeons again.

30 Oct 2026

Every spec re-simulated with the tuning (SimulationCraft game data 12.1.5.70575).
Ranking: most specs move 0.1 point or less. Marksmanship (best talents for the button) −6 points, Survival −5, Devourer +2. Tanks do not move.
Real dungeons: every timed +15 run since the tuning: 2,941 runs on the standard routes, 6,803 players of the specs shown, with up to 3 standard routes per dungeon.
Real dungeons shows what is measured and what is simulated, the lowest and highest route of each spec, SimulationCraft's manual rotation against real players, and a full worked example.

26 Oct 2026

Ranking: Arms Colossus and Outlaw Fatebound use a raid build on the raid boss (they used their Mythic+ build).
Real dungeons rebuilt on each dungeon's standard route, each spec and hero tree compared with its own real players.
Button players: more raid kills.

24 Oct 2026

New page: real players who play with the one button, against players of the same spec and against the sim.

23 Oct 2026

Ranking, Real dungeons and tanks re-simulated on SimulationCraft c5fea93 (game data 12.1.5.70529).

22 Oct 2026

Tanks added to the Ranking, with the defensives the button never presses, and one page per tank.