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TBC Classic DPS Tier List & Rankings

Compare TBC Anniversary DPS by raid and boss. The current board is built from top-100 Warcraft Logs parses and refreshed automatically every week; earlier raids show their final end-of-phase standings.

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DPS rankings

BT & Hyjal
All bosses
Black Temple & Hyjal · Phase 3

Top-100-per-boss average — Black Temple & Hyjal · snapshot 15 Sep 2026

Observed parses, not a forecast — early rankings can move as raids gear into Tier 6, and thin specs carry small samples.

Beast Mastery Hunter 3,084 DPS ·
Best boss Teron Gorefiend #1 3,643 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #4 2,373 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #3 2,935
  2. Gruul & Mag #2 3,445
  3. SSC & TK #1 3,004
  4. BT & Hyjal #1 3,084
Full guide Open BiS list
Fury Warrior 2,788 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #1 3,110 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #5 2,313 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #2 3,497
  2. Gruul & Mag #1 4,263
  3. SSC & TK #2 2,927
  4. BT & Hyjal #2 2,788
Full guide Open BiS list
Arcane Mage 2,661 DPS ·
Best boss Supremus #1 2,684 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #10 1,883 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #1 4,289
  2. Gruul & Mag #3 3,276
  3. SSC & TK #3 2,918
  4. BT & Hyjal #3 2,661
Full guide Open BiS list
Enhancement Shaman 2,626 DPS ↑4
Best boss Gurtogg Bloodboil #2 2,680 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #7 2,206 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #11 2,242
  2. Gruul & Mag #8 2,390
  3. SSC & TK #9 2,223
  4. BT & Hyjal #4 2,626
Full guide Open BiS list
Destruction Warlock 2,548 DPS ↓1
Best boss Shade of Akama #1 3,162 DPS
Hardest boss Azgalor #10 2,304 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #4 2,927
  2. Gruul & Mag #6 2,963
  3. SSC & TK #4 2,521
  4. BT & Hyjal #5 2,548
Full guide Open BiS list
Retribution Paladin 2,439 DPS ↓1
Best boss Anetheron #5 2,897 DPS
Hardest boss Mother Shahraz #8 2,299 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #8 2,511
  2. Gruul & Mag #7 2,755
  3. SSC & TK #5 2,413
  4. BT & Hyjal #6 2,439
Full guide Open BiS list
Combat Rogue 2,414 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #3 2,510 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #9 2,358 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #7 2,525
  2. Gruul & Mag #5 3,031
  3. SSC & TK #6 2,356
  4. BT & Hyjal #7 2,414
Full guide Open BiS list
Survival Hunter 2,405 DPS ↓2
Best boss Teron Gorefiend #5 2,869 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #10 1,928 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #14 2,043
  2. Gruul & Mag #9 2,368
  3. SSC & TK #8 2,275
  4. BT & Hyjal #8 2,405
Full guide Open BiS list
Feral DPS Druid 2,288 DPS ·
Best boss Azgalor #6 2,591 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #11 1,816 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #12 2,090
  2. Gruul & Mag #12 2,188
  3. SSC & TK #10 2,134
  4. BT & Hyjal #9 2,288
Full guide Open BiS list
Arms Warrior 2,236 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #4 2,452 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #11 1,396 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #5 2,835
  2. Gruul & Mag #4 3,238
  3. SSC & TK #7 2,305
  4. BT & Hyjal #10 2,236
Full guide Open BiS list
Affliction Warlock 2,046 DPS ·
Best boss Shade of Akama #2 2,739 DPS
Hardest boss Azgalor #12 1,810 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #10 2,245
  2. Gruul & Mag #11 2,286
  3. SSC & TK #11 2,057
  4. BT & Hyjal #11 2,046
Full guide Open BiS list
Elemental Shaman 1,841 DPS ·
Best boss Azgalor #11 2,252 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #16 1,823 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #9 2,352
  2. Gruul & Mag #10 2,287
  3. SSC & TK #12 1,895
  4. BT & Hyjal #12 1,841
Full guide Open BiS list
Balance Druid 1,755 DPS ·
Best boss Rage Winterchill #13 2,046 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #15 1,374 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #15 1,994
  2. Gruul & Mag #16 1,881
  3. SSC & TK #13 1,853
  4. BT & Hyjal #13 1,755
Full guide Open BiS list
Fire Mage 1,666 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #12 2,022 DPS
Hardest boss Supremus #16 1,306 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #6 2,585
  2. Gruul & Mag #14 1,971
  3. SSC & TK #15 1,657
  4. BT & Hyjal #14 1,666
Full guide Open BiS list
Shadow Priest 1,607 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #13 1,449 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #18 1,578 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #17 1,878
  2. Gruul & Mag #15 1,959
  3. SSC & TK #16 1,643
  4. BT & Hyjal #15 1,607
Full guide Open BiS list
Demonology Warlock 1,581 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #14 1,869 DPS
Hardest boss Azgalor #18 1,300 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #16 1,923
  2. Gruul & Mag #13 1,984
  3. SSC & TK #14 1,780
  4. BT & Hyjal #16 1,581
Full guide Open BiS list
Marksmanship Hunter 1,470 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #12 1,517 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #18 912 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #18 1,259
  2. Gruul & Mag #18 1,354
  3. SSC & TK #17 1,482
  4. BT & Hyjal #17 1,470
Full guide Open BiS list
Frost Mage 1,309 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #17 1,638 DPS
Hardest boss Archimonde #19 1,068 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #13 2,064
  2. Gruul & Mag #17 1,691
  3. SSC & TK #19 1,349
  4. BT & Hyjal #18 1,309
Full guide Open BiS list
Assassination Rogue 1,218 DPS ·
Best boss Archimonde #16 1,358 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #20 1,324 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #19 1,097
  2. Gruul & Mag #19 1,215
  3. SSC & TK #18 1,380
  4. BT & Hyjal #19 1,218
Full guide Open BiS list
Subtlety Rogue 931 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #19 1,339 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #20 486 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #20 833
  2. Gruul & Mag #20 1,006
  3. SSC & TK #20 1,143
  4. BT & Hyjal #20 931
Full guide Open BiS list

Bring the raid: what support is worth

Raid buffs and debuffs priced in raid DPS from this week's live board. The numbers move with the weekly refresh.

Bloodlust / Heroism

Enhancement Shaman

+30% haste for 40 seconds, raid-wide

≈ +2,170 raid DPS

Raid-wide on Anniversary, averaged over a 4-minute fight.

Curse of the Elements

Destruction Warlock

+10% arcane, fire, frost, and shadow damage taken

≈ +1,570 raid DPS

One curse slot covers the affected damage schools — and Malediction pushes it to +13%.

Misery

Shadow Priest

+5% spell damage taken on the target

≈ +920 raid DPS

Applied passively by Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, and Mind Flay — full uptime from the Shadow Priest's normal rotation.

Blood Frenzy

Arms Warrior

+4% physical damage on the target for everyone

≈ +850 raid DPS

One Arms Warrior supplies this raid-wide.

Windfury Totem

Enhancement Shaman

Extra melee swings for the totem party

≈ +790 raid DPS

Estimated at +8% throughput for the melee sharing the Enhancement Shaman's party.

Expose Weakness

Survival Hunter

25% of the hunter's Agility as attack power for every physical attacker

≈ +700 raid DPS

Roughly +250 AP at ~1,000 Agility and about 0.35 DPS per AP for raid-buffed physical damage dealers.

Improved Scorch

Fire Mage

+15% fire spell crit chance on the target

≈ +690 raid DPS

Roughly +9% damage for the remaining fire-school damage dealers once five stacks are rolling.

Ferocious Inspiration

Beast Mastery Hunter

+3% damage for the party while the pet crits

≈ +470 raid DPS

Near-constant uptime, stacking across the Beast Mastery Hunters in their party.

Leader of the Pack

Feral DPS Druid

+5% melee and ranged crit chance for the party

≈ +300 raid DPS

Estimated at ~0.7% damage per 1% crit for the physical damage dealers in the Feral's party.

Moonkin Aura

Balance Druid

+5% spell crit chance for the party

≈ +220 raid DPS

Estimated at ~0.5% damage per 1% crit for the casters in the Balance Druid's party.

Improved Sanctity Aura

Retribution Paladin

+2% damage done for the party

≈ +200 raid DPS

On top of +10% Holy damage from the base aura and the Paladin's own Judgements.

Trueshot Aura

Marksmanship Hunter

+125 attack power for the party

≈ +130 raid DPS

At ~0.35 DPS per AP for physical damage dealers sharing the Hunter's party.

On the roster, but not priced

How the TBC DPS rankings work

Every ranking on this page comes straight from the Warcraft Logs v2 API for the TBC Anniversary realms - no hand-tuned tier placements. For each spec and each boss we average the top 100 DPS parses, then average those per-boss numbers across the raid, so one padded fight cannot carry a spec up the tier list.

The Black Temple & Hyjal board refreshes automatically every week after the raid reset. Earlier raids are frozen where they ended: Karazhan and Gruul's Lair & Magtheridon show end-of-Phase-1 logs, and Serpentshrine Cavern & Tempest Keep shows end-of-Phase-2 logs, so each tier list reflects the gear that was actually available at the time.

Why each raid keeps its own tier list

Parses logged today in an old raid come from players in Tier 6 gear, which buries how specs really stacked up in that phase. Pinning every raid to its own phase partition keeps the Karazhan rankings honest to Phase 1 and the SSC & TK rankings honest to Phase 2.

Rankings are not raid spots

The DPS chart measures damage output, not raid value. Specs like Arms Warrior, Balance Druid, and Shadow Priest earn their slots through Blood Frenzy, Improved Faerie Fire, and mana return - check the class guides before benching a support spec over a bar chart.

Reading early-phase numbers

Fresh phases start with thin samples and undergeared raids, so the live Black Temple & Hyjal board moves week to week as guilds gear into Tier 6. Frozen boards no longer move: their phase partitions closed when the next phase opened.

TBC tier list questions

What is the best DPS class in TBC Phase 3?

The current board shows the latest order. Choose a boss to compare a particular encounter, and check the class guides for the buffs and utility each spec brings.

How often are these rankings updated?

The Black Temple & Hyjal rankings are pulled from the Warcraft Logs API automatically every week after the Tuesday reset. The snapshot date on each panel shows exactly when its data was captured.

Why do the Karazhan rankings look different from Black Temple?

Each raid's tier list is locked to its own phase, so it reflects the talents, gear, and hit caps of that era. Arcane Mage topped Karazhan in Phase 1 gear, while Beast Mastery Hunter and Fury Warrior pull ahead as armor penetration and weapon upgrades scale into Tier 6.

Is a DPS tier list the same as raid viability?

No. Raid buffs, debuffs, and utility affect the value of a raid spot. Use the rankings to compare damage output, then check the class guides and raid composition guide for the support each spec brings.