How TBC Raid Consumables works
Pick a spec and see what to bring to a raid — flask, food, potions, oils and the rest — with the reason each one is on the list. It is a checklist, not a measurement, and this page says exactly whose checklist it is.
Where the list comes from
Each spec’s rows are Wowhead’s own consumables recommendations for that spec in Burning Crusade Classic, transcribed into this site’s data at build time with the guide’s title credited under every list. The “why” beside each line is the guide’s reasoning, kept short. Nothing here was chosen by this site and nothing here was simulated: the BiS lists and the gear checker measure gear with a combat simulator, and this page deliberately does not borrow their bordered numbers for things it did not measure.
What the icons and hover text are
Where an item has an icon and a hover bubble, both are Blizzard’s own — the art and the item’s effect text, fetched once from their game-data API at build time and served from here, so a visitor never contacts Blizzard. Where Blizzard did not answer (Flask of Chromatic Wonder returns nothing in every classic namespace; Master Healthstone carries no effect text), the row renders the name alone rather than an invented tooltip. A name with a dotted underline has no item id in any table this project ships, so it opens a Wowhead search instead of a specific item — better than opening the wrong item confidently.
How to read it
- Skipping one is not a mistake. The guides are deliberately thorough; a raid’s consumable culture, the fight, and the gold in your bag all matter more than completeness here.
- “or” means either. Two names joined by or are alternatives the guide rates as interchangeable; joined by and, both are carried.
- “(when …)” is the guide’s condition — a potion for a specific phase, a protection potion for a specific boss.
What it is not
It is not a ranking, it does not know your raid’s buffs, and it does not know which consumables you already used in a log — the raider lookup and the raid gear checker read a log; this page reads a guide. If a guide is revised, the list here changes when the site is next built, not before.
Ads, and what they pay for
There are two ad slots: one in the side rail on wide screens, one below the results. They are never put between a raider and their data, they hold their space so nothing jumps under your cursor, and the side one disappears on narrow screens rather than squashing the table. All of that describes what happens once an ad unit is approved. None is, so today neither slot is filled and neither one takes up any space at all.
They pay the bills. Simulating a full raid is a couple of minutes of computing time per report, and that costs real money. There is no paywall and no account, and nothing about the audit changes depending on whether an ad loads — block them and the tool works exactly the same.
Credit where it is due
The audits, the checks, and every choice about how a number is read, labelled and shown are this site's own. The raw material underneath has earned its credit: every dps number here is produced by wowsims' simulator — their simulator, their rotations, their talent builds — and the item database comes from them too. It is open source under the MIT licence, which is what makes a tool like this possible at all.
The best-in-slot lists and item scores are wowtbc.gg's. Where their score and their own pick disagree, this tool goes with the pick — they chose that item knowing what it does.
Game data and item art come from Blizzard Entertainment's official API. World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade Classic are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard, wowsims or wowtbc.gg.
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