About RaidComp

Raid composition is an important aspect of WoW PvE. RaidComp (from now on denoted as RC) aims to be to raid compositions what talent calculators are to talent specs; allowing everyone to play around with and share different raid compositions online. RC also helps raid leaders by giving an overview of the different buff and debuff categories. It won't do all the thinking for you, raid optimization is complex, however it should be able to do most of the grunt work and highlight some of the categories and abilities you need to look closer at.

RC marks categories and abilities in three different ways:


RC assumes that players are able to coordinate buffs on their own within their class but not between classes, that's where you, the raid leader, come into play. If there's any doubt that an ability, even though it can be provided by someone in the raid, might not be active all the time it's marked as "maybe". This is key for understanding how RC works.

An example: let's say you start with an empty raid and add a Shaman. You need at least two to ensure that both Windfury Totem and Wrath of Air Totem are active all the time and thus both spells (and their corresponding categories) are marked "maybe". You then add a frost Death Knight that provides Improved Icy Talons. Since Improved Icy Talons and Windfury Totem are in the same category and Improved Icy Talons is always active that category is now marked "active", the Spell Haste category that Wrath of Air Totem belongs to remains as "maybe". You check out the “maybe” category and come to the conclusion that the best move is to tell the Shaman to drop Wrath of Air Totem since the frost Death Knight got the other category covered.

The above example illustrates how RC is meant to be used. You can trust the "active" mark but as soon as you see a category or a spell get marked "maybe" it means there's something you need to look into.

There's a lot more to running an optimized raid than just making sure you cover every category; some abilities in the same category might be better than others, some can be improved by talents while others are just a pain in the ass to spec into. RC tries to cover some of these factors by adding short but informative tags next to abilities.

RC uses the following tags:


If you have any feedback or suggestions on how to improve RC, like a missing tag or bad assumptions, you’re welcome to comment over at RaidComp - Elitist Jerks.

Created by Nopher of Last Resort.