Mythic+ Tank Rankings: A Tier List for The War Within (Patch 11.2 / Season 3)
From the weakest to the strongest tank specialization, each provide unique character distinction and add value toward shaping the Season 3 "meta" of Mythic+ in The War Within. The Tank specialization rankings provided for The War Within's Season 2 of Mythic+ are based on pure tanking strength and group-added-value such as utility, survivability, mobility, damage and self-sustain.
This list will be updated as new tuning and class changes come out over the course of the season.
About the Tier List
This tier list is NOT FINAL; it will change and will be updated regularly during The War Within Season 3. There are often moments of tier set and class tuning, as well as talent changes and secondary stat scaling that will impact the placement of the specs.
The below tier list is a result of numerous hours of testing on both the PTR and live servers. It will be entirely focused on Mythic+ performance in The War Within Season 3, and is based on empirical evidence more so than simulations or aggregated data analysis, with the ranking based on both my own personal point of view, as well as that of many of my peers.
LAST UPDATED - 14th of September
DPS and Healer Class Rankings
If you are interested in our other rankings for Mythic+ in The War Within, Season 3, please click the links below.
This tier list is entirely based on several factors, such as tank durability, group composition synergy, mobility, damage profile, self-sustain and external party-wide cooldowns.
Tank Tier List for Season 3 of Mythic+ in The War Within
Below, you can find the full rankings for Tank specializations in The War Within Mythic+. We encourage you to read further and understand why some classes are placed lower or higher than expected, with several factors taken into consideration.
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Full Tank Class Rankings
S-tier
Protection Warrior
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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Temporary increasing the health of your raid/party. |
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Extra 5% attack power. |
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Usable in niche situations. |
Protection Paladin
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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Extra interrupt option that has a follow-up silence effect. |
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Permanent 3% group/raid-wide damage reduction aura. |
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Heals a member of your party/raid to full health. |
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Combat-resurrection |
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Granting magical damage immunity for 10 sec on a chosen ally. |
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Helps a single member of your raid in a
critical situation. This can be further improved by talenting
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Physical immunity, which can help you with some boss encounters. |
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Immunity to movement impairing effects. |
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Be able to fear any Undead, Aberration or Demon, which is an additional form of crowd control. |
Best-Candidate
Brewmaster Monk
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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5% extra Physical damage for your raid. |
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3 sec stun effect. |
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Removes all roots and snares. |
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It can be used to help your tank kite and as a AoE disturb effect. |
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Single-target disturb effect & ![]() |
A-tier
Vengeance Demon Hunter
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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3% extra Magical damage |
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% chance to avoid all damage from an attack. |
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Silences all enemies affected by the Sigil for a short time. |
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All enemies affected by the Sigil are pulled to its center and snared. |
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Single-target out of combat crowd-control. |
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Remove 1 beneficial Magic effect. |
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AoE disturb effect. |
A-tier
Guardian Druid
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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Increasing the Versatility of your raid/party by 3%. |
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Allowing 1 friendly healer to cast spells without spending mana for 8 sec. |
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Increasing the movement speed to all raid members by 60% for 8 sec. |
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Dispelling all Enrage Effects from an enemy target. |
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Single-target crowd-control effects against beasts and dragonkins. |
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You have the choice between AoE disturb effect or a single-target stun. |
Optional | ![]() | Aoe knockback. |
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You have the choice between AoE root effect or AoE wind-of-vortex, pulling all the mobs to one location. |
Blood Death Knight
Utility Package
Functionality | Spells | Notes |
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Provides extra durability against heavy magical damage. |
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Repositions an enemy of your choice. |
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Combat-resurrection. |
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AoE disturb effect. |
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Mass-grip. |
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Reduces the auto-attack speed of your target by 5% stacking up 4 times. |
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Mind-control an undead enemy to fight on your side. |
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5 sec single-target stun. |
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Changelog
- 14 Sep. 2025: Tierlist Updated.
- 07 Sep. 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 17 Aug. 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 10 Aug. 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2 Season 3 of The War within.
- 14 Jun. 2025: No further changes required for 11.1.7 Patch.
- 27 May 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 05 May 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 27 Apr. 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 14 Apr. 2025: Reviewed and updated for patch 11.1.5.
- 23 Mar. 2025: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 15 Mar. 2025: First update for Season 2 - Patch 11.1.
- 02 Mar. 2025: The final Update before TWW Season 2 - Progressive tierlist.
- 23 Feb. 2025: Pre-Season Update of the Progressive TWW Season 2 tierlist.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 12 Dec. 2024: Reviewed and updated for 11.0.7 Patch.
- 02 Dec. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 14 Nov. 2024: Updated based on the most recent class hotfixes.
- 28 Oct. 2024: Updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 20 Oct. 2024: Reviewed and update for 11.0.5 Patch.
- 09 Oct. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 15 Sep. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 01 Sep. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Fully Updated for Season 1 of The War Within.
- 02 Jun. 2024: Reviewed and updated based on the most recent class changes.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed and updated for 10.2.7 Patch.
- 23 Apr. 2024: Reviewed and updated for Season 4.
- 25 Mar. 2024: Reviewed and updated for 10.2.6 Patch.
- 12 Mar. 2024: No changes needed.
- 28 Jan. 2024: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed and updated for 10.2.5 Patch.
- 18 Dec. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 04 Dec. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 12 Nov. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 05 Nov. 2023: Reviewed and Updated for 10.2 Patch.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed and Updated for 10.1.7 Patch.
- 22 Aug. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 09 Aug. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 25 Jul. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent class hotfix.
- 17 Jul. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the 10.1.5 Patch.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the 10.1.5 Patch.
- 27 Jun. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent hotfixes.
- 06 Jun. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent hotfixes.
- 23 May 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent Patch.
- 07 May 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent hotfixes.
- 01 May 2023: Fully Updated for Season 2 of Dragonflight.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated based on the most recent changes for 10.0.7. Patch.
- 04 Mar. 2023: Further Adjustments based .
- 14 Feb. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the most recent Patch.
- 25 Jan. 2023: Further Adjustments based on the upcoming 10.0.5 Patch.
- 21 Dec. 2022: Further Adjustments based on the latest class changes.
- 18 Nov. 2022: Updated with the initial iteration for Season 1 of Dragonflight.
This guide has been written by Petko, one of the top Mythic+ players of all time. He has accomplished several Rank 1 World & Europe Team and Solo seasonal rankings, with multiple classes over the span of multiple expansions. You can catch his daily streams on Twitch, and find many of his educational videos on YouTube and TikTok.
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