Tank Spec Rankings: A Tier List for WoW Forever

This raiding tier list is NOT FINAL; it will change and will be updated regularly during World of Warcraft: Forever. Future class tuning, tier-set introductionm as well as talent changes and secondary stat scaling will impact the placement of the specs.

If you are interested in our other Raid rankings for World of Warcraft Forever, please click the links below.

When assessing the strength of each spec, we've looked at a couple of different factors:

• Durability & damage output are the prime factors when ranking the Tank specs: Who does the highest damage (and therefore threat), while being able to live comfortably against the toughest bosses.
• Unique utility also plays an important role.

TBD	Protection Paladin Protection Paladin Protection Warrior Protection Warrior Feral Druid Feral Druid

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Greater Blessing of Might	Raid-wide melee attack power buff.
Core	Mass Salvation	Raid-wide 30% reduction in threat. This is one of the most important raid buffs and is *EXCLUSIVE* with all Paladin's Blessings. This means that 1 Paladin can provide Mass Salvation and Greater Blessing of Kings, for example.
Core	Greater Blessing of Kings	Raid-wide 10% increase to *ALL* stats.
Core	Greater Blessing of Wisdom	Raid-wide Mana regeneration buff.
Core	Greater Blessing of Light	Increases the healing of Holy Light and Flash of Light on the target with this buff. If you have a lot of Paladins, this is a decent choice for a fourth buff.
Core	Blessing of Protection	Grants immunity to physical attacks and resets aggro. However, the target cannot attack or use physical abilities while the effect is active.
Core	Hammer of Justice	Single-target stun.
Core	Blessing of Freedom	Grants temporary immunity to movement-impairing effects.
Core	Cleanse	Dispels Poison, Disease, and Magic effects.
Core	Blessing of Sacrifice	Places a Blessing on a party member, transferring damage taken per hit to the caster.
Core	Lay on Hands	Heals a friendly target for an amount equal to the Paladin's maximum health. Drains all of the Paladin's remaining Mana when used.
Core	Turn Undead	Forces the targeted undead enemy to flee. Damage can break the effect.
Core	Fire Resistance Aura	Grants additional Fire resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Frost Resistance Aura	Grants additional Frost resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Shadow Resistance Aura	Grants additional Shadow resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Devotion Aura	Grants additional armor to party and raid members within 30 yards.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Battle Shout	Increases the melee attack power of all party and raid members.
Core	Challenging Shout	AoE taunt.
Core	Sunder Armor	Reduces the target's armor and stacks up to 5 times. One of the most powerful Warrior abilities.
Core	Shield Bash	Provides an additional interrupt. You can further improve it with Improved Shield Bash to add a 3 sec silence.
Optional	Concussion Blow	5 sec stun.
Useful	Demoralizing Shout	Reduces the melee attack power of all enemies. It is especially useful against bosses and non-boss enemies with hard-hitting auto-attacks.
Useful	Thunder Clap	Increases the time between enemy attacks (capped at 4 enemies). Useful for tanking multiple mobs.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Leader of the Pack	Increases raid-wide melee and ranged critical strike chance by 3%.
Core	Demoralizing Roar	Reduces the melee attack power of nearby enemies.
Core	Challenging Roar	Mass taunt that lasts 6 sec.
Core	Gift of the Wild	Increases the armor, attributes, and resistances of party and raid members for 1 hour.
Core	Thorns	Buffs a friendly target, causing Nature damage to attackers when they hit the target.
Core	Rebirth	Resurrects an ally during combat.
Core	Remove Curse	Dispels 1 Curse or Bane from a friendly target.
Core	Cure Poison	Removes Poison from a friendly target.
Core	Abolish Poison	Removes a Poison effect from a friendly target every 2 sec for 8 sec.
Core	Innervate	Increases the target's Mana regeneration by 400% and allows 100% of the target's Mana regeneration to continue while casting. Lasts 20 sec.
Core	Faerie Fire	Reduces the target's armor.
Core	Hibernate	Puts the enemy target to sleep for up to 20 sec. Usable only on Beasts and Dragonkin.
Useful	Entangling Roots	Roots the target in place and deals Nature damage over 27 sec. Quite handy for controlling large numbers of targets through soft crowd control.

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