The Best 25-Player Raid Composition for The Burning Crusade Anniversary Phase 1

Posted 2026/02/19 at 3:00 PM by Slesh

Balanced Group

Enhancement Shaman: Totem weave between Windfury Totem and Grace of Air Totem and provide Heroism/Bloodlust.

Retribution Paladin: Provide a Paladin Blessing along with Improved Seal of the Crusader, which increases the Critical Strike against the target it's applied to by 3%.

Arms Warrior: Blood Frenzy debuff, which increases all physical damage done to the target by 4% when Rend or Deep Wounds is applied.

Combat Rogue: Improved Expose Armor.

Survival Hunter: Expose Weakness debuff, which increases the attack power of all attackers against that target by 25% of your Agility for 7 sec.

Shadow Priest: Shadow Weaving debuff, which increases the Shadow damage dealt to your target by 2% and lasts 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times. Shadow Priests also provide Misery, which, with 5 talent points, causes the target to take 5% more spell damage.

Elemental Shaman: Totem of Wrath, which increases the chance to hit and critically strike with spells by 3% for all party members within 20 yards.

Balance Druid: Provide numerous buffs and debuffs, including Improved Faerie Fire, Insect Swarm, and Moonkin Form. Improved Faerie Fire increases the chance the target will be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 3%; Insect Swarm decreases chance to hit by 2%; Moonkin Form provides critical strike rating for casters in their group, which in this case includes the Elemental Shaman and three Destruction Warlocks.

Dreamstate Druid CompPrunes the DruidNo Holy Paladin Comp

Option A: Substitute the Combat Rogue/Fury Warrior and Holy Paladin for a Retribution Paladin and another healer (the current comp shows another Resto Shaman, but any other healer could work, including a Discipline Priest)

Option B: Run 4 healers, and move the Survival Hunter into Group 5 while keeping the Combat Rogue/Fury Warrior and bringing in another Retribution Paladin

Option Barmor bug fixed

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Comments

Comment by PootisPOWhaha

Imagine stacking raid comps for post-nerf content that is already pathetically easy to the point of pugs being able to clear it day 1

Comment by Yuzefov

Imagine 2 rogue kekw))) only 1

Comment by Kramsey95

These are the kind of Posts that are much better off not being posted about. It leads to and almost incentives the "Sweaty" mentality and makes people feel like they can not achieve completed raids and objectives throughout the game unless they are going into them based off the best comps, gear and otherwise.

Comment by Zaunter

Missed the "Stacked Fury Warrior" comp where you make sure only one person has fun out of 25

Comment by eadenoth

Ultimately, though, the best raid comp is having 25 like-minded players with the same goals who allow your group to complete content.

The people who need to know this won't read it but is the most important part of this article. Buffs in TBCC-A are supposed to be nice to have, no requirements. Run 4 rogues, 5 warlocks, 0 mages, 1 hunter, 3 holy paladins, 0 shamans. Just play the game with the people who help you have fun playing the game. Obv sweating is how a lot of people have fun but losing a buff shouldn't ruin the game for you.

Comment by Dimsumumum

Should stack 15 warlocks and then fill around them.

Comment by dr7swag

Delete this post, the classic community is already elitist enough...

Comment by Munj

one of the @#$%tiest post i ve seen on wowhead wtf point of this ?

Comment by messiah77

Yup, agree.

one of the @#$%tiest post i ve seen on wowhead wtf point of this ?

And agree again.

Comment by slatt5

bringing arms to anything is insane all these rogues on nightslayer all of them can improve expose armor

Comment by Ghande

Stuff like this is the reason this website is becoming disliked amongst the community. This does nothing but damage the community as a whole, the benefits are that one dude gets to say he contributed an article - thats literally it.

Man talent out the window on this website, useless min/max guides to further worsen the community. Just all around trash.

This website alone is gonna make me leave wow - and thats saying somethign cause Blizzard sucks too.

Comment by TheBirdOfAres

Glad WoWhead can so boldly ensure that forming raid comps gets 10x harder as the sweatiest nerds alive now refuse to do anything other than EXACTLY what's in this post and consider anything else literally throwing and mock you for it. If the writer truly believes the best thing you can do it bring 24 other likeminded individuals they should have never posted this article.

Comment by magicottermew

Posts like this just make the sweatlords cut out very useful classes just cause they aren’t listed. We need less of these posts for the good of the game.

Sweatlords are not looking at wowhead articles for information on how to play the game. The people who rely on posts like these for justification to kick out suboptimal classes are casuals. The people who aren't as good at the game and want an easy raid are the ones that benefit most from following the example of the best players.

Comment by wachu

No rogues, got it
:(

Comment by Ocisly

Well to all the haters above: I am really glad these comps are on wowhead - why? They have been proven legit.
I was in super awful pug raids in the last few days. Like in Maggy 6 tanks with 3 ferals in 1 group, 3 Warritanks in another, 2 shamans in 1 group, but none in the dirty rest group 5 (2 dudu healers +1 bm hunter and me 1 surv). Only 1 Pala in the raid. It feels so awful to overcome the absence of any supportive buffs/debuffs and to run out of mana and such stuff like super low raid damage overall (like in a UBRS with leveling greens),
I want to play this version of wow to have fun. Part of that is to know that i get support and i give support. Almost all specs do that in tbc. The above posted comps are well balanced (except for the locks. Maybe 1 destrolock less and a disci priest or something). It has nothing to do with "sweat lords" - i see at as a healthy raid setup where everyone feels valued and loot distribution is guaranteed to be in a reasonable state.
Hours to setup those raids? Are you kidding me? Those awfuls non-clue-pug raids take just as long.