Phase 4 Icecrown Citadel Tier List Predictions - WotLK Classic
We've prepared PvE Class and Specialization Tier Lists for Phase 4 of Wrath of the Lich King Classic. Phase 4 Launches on October 10 and Icecrown Citadel launches globally on October 12. These Tier Lists for Tanks, Healers, and DPS Classes are broken down by specialization performance in Icecrown Citadel, based on throughput and utility. These Tier Lists go into much more depth in their own individual guides, which can be found below --
Tank PvE Tier List Healer PvE Tier List DPS PvE Tier List
Disclaimers About This Tier List
Tier lists can be very controversial, as no one wants to see their favorite spec rank poorly and because no two raid teams are optimizing for exactly the same thing when it comes to their class composition. For this reason, it is simply impossible to come up with a truly universal class ranking that is applicable for all raiding environments, so this list is deliberately narrow in scope based on the following criteria:
- Class rankings will be weighted with contributions from both the early phase performance of each specialization during Heroic Icecrown Citadel progression, as well as predictions for their late phase performance in full Phase 4 BiS gear. The reason for this is two-fold:
- Compared to Trial of the Crusader, which was comfortably on farm for most reasonably competent guilds within the first few weeks of Phase 3, Icecrown Citadel is considerably more difficult on 25-man Heroic difficulty, and several of the encounters will offer a meaty challenge for most Classic guilds to progress through over several months. As a result, when considering class compositions for a typical raid team that will lack the flexibility to constantly swap different specs into the roster as the phase
