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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 27 Oct 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 3,489 DPS ·
Best boss Anetheron #1 4,115 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #4 2,579 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 3,489
Full guide Open BiS list
Fury Warrior 3,164 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #1 3,548 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #5 2,476 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 3,164
Full guide Open BiS list
Destruction Warlock 3,000 DPS ·
Best boss Shade of Akama #1 3,550 DPS
Hardest boss Azgalor #10 2,806 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #4 2,927
  2. Gruul & Mag #6 2,963
  3. SSC & TK #4 2,521
  4. BT & Hyjal #3 3,000
Full guide Open BiS list
Arcane Mage 2,975 DPS ·
Best boss Kaz'rogal #2 3,422 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #10 2,119 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #1 4,289
  2. Gruul & Mag #3 3,276
  3. SSC & TK #3 2,918
  4. BT & Hyjal #4 2,975
Full guide Open BiS list
Combat Rogue 2,749 DPS ·
Best boss Azgalor #3 3,065 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #7 2,282 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #7 2,525
  2. Gruul & Mag #5 3,031
  3. SSC & TK #6 2,356
  4. BT & Hyjal #5 2,749
Full guide Open BiS list
Survival Hunter 2,703 DPS ↑1
Best boss Teron Gorefiend #5 3,151 DPS
Hardest boss Supremus #9 2,440 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #14 2,043
  2. Gruul & Mag #9 2,368
  3. SSC & TK #8 2,275
  4. BT & Hyjal #6 2,703
Full guide Open BiS list
Retribution Paladin 2,703 DPS ↓1
Best boss Azgalor #4 2,969 DPS
Hardest boss Mother Shahraz #9 2,587 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #8 2,511
  2. Gruul & Mag #7 2,755
  3. SSC & TK #5 2,413
  4. BT & Hyjal #7 2,703
Full guide Open BiS list
Enhancement Shaman 2,560 DPS ·
Best boss Azgalor #5 2,930 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #10 1,605 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #11 2,242
  2. Gruul & Mag #8 2,390
  3. SSC & TK #9 2,223
  4. BT & Hyjal #8 2,560
Full guide Open BiS list
Arms Warrior 2,555 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #4 2,774 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #11 1,521 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #5 2,835
  2. Gruul & Mag #4 3,238
  3. SSC & TK #7 2,305
  4. BT & Hyjal #9 2,555
Full guide Open BiS list
Feral DPS Druid 2,532 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #6 2,621 DPS
Hardest boss Shade of Akama #12 1,950 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #12 2,090
  2. Gruul & Mag #12 2,188
  3. SSC & TK #10 2,134
  4. BT & Hyjal #10 2,532
Full guide Open BiS list
Affliction Warlock 2,366 DPS ·
Best boss Shade of Akama #2 3,007 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #12 1,784 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 2,366
Full guide Open BiS list
Elemental Shaman 2,102 DPS ·
Best boss Teron Gorefiend #12 2,405 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #15 2,061 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 2,102
Full guide Open BiS list
Fire Mage 1,984 DPS ↑1
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #10 2,425 DPS
Hardest boss Supremus #16 1,612 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #6 2,585
  2. Gruul & Mag #14 1,971
  3. SSC & TK #15 1,657
  4. BT & Hyjal #13 1,984
Full guide Open BiS list
Balance Druid 1,976 DPS ↓1
Best boss Supremus #13 2,107 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #16 1,549 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #15 1,994
  2. Gruul & Mag #16 1,881
  3. SSC & TK #13 1,853
  4. BT & Hyjal #14 1,976
Full guide Open BiS list
Demonology Warlock 1,852 DPS ·
Best boss Shade of Akama #11 1,957 DPS
Hardest boss Azgalor #18 1,508 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #16 1,923
  2. Gruul & Mag #13 1,984
  3. SSC & TK #14 1,780
  4. BT & Hyjal #15 1,852
Full guide Open BiS list
Shadow Priest 1,779 DPS ·
Best boss Supremus #14 1,862 DPS
Hardest boss Reliquary of Souls #18 1,695 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #17 1,878
  2. Gruul & Mag #15 1,959
  3. SSC & TK #16 1,643
  4. BT & Hyjal #16 1,779
Full guide Open BiS list
Marksmanship Hunter 1,737 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #11 1,846 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #18 1,149 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 1,737
Full guide Open BiS list
Frost Mage 1,575 DPS ·
Best boss Reliquary of Souls #17 1,991 DPS
Hardest boss Archimonde #19 1,284 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 1,575
Full guide Open BiS list
Assassination Rogue 1,534 DPS ·
Best boss Azgalor #16 1,688 DPS
Hardest boss The Illidari Council #20 875 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 1,534
Full guide Open BiS list
Subtlety Rogue 1,005 DPS ·
Best boss The Illidari Council #19 1,090 DPS
Hardest boss Illidan Stormrage #20 652 DPS
Across the tiers
  1. Karazhan #20 833
  2. Gruul & Mag #20 1,006
  3. SSC & TK #20 1,143
  4. BT & Hyjal #20 1,005
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

≈ +2,460 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

≈ +1,810 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

≈ +1,070 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

≈ +940 raid DPS

One Arms Warrior supplies this raid-wide.

Windfury Totem

Enhancement Shaman

Extra melee swings for the totem party

≈ +890 raid DPS

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

Improved Scorch

Fire Mage

+15% fire spell crit chance on the target

≈ +810 raid DPS

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

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.

Ferocious Inspiration

Beast Mastery Hunter

+3% damage for the party while the pet crits

≈ +520 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

≈ +340 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

≈ +260 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

≈ +220 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.