How the TBC Raider Lookup works
One raider, fully checked — yourself, or a pug you are deciding whether to invite. This page explains what each number on the card is, which source it came from, and which claims are this site’s own measurements versus other people’s numbers repeated with credit.
Two ways in
The TBC Raider Lookup runs the same audit as the TBC Raid Gear Checker, for one person — yourself, or a pug you are deciding whether to invite. There are two ways in, and they see different halves of a raider:
- By name, from their public Warcraft Logs — which also brings their level, their guild, and their parse history.
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From the in-game addon (
/rrr, copy, paste) — which reads exactly what they are wearing right now, plus the one thing no log can know: professions. An Enchanting skill of 360 or higher ticks the enchanter toggle by itself, because the profession is proof where a worn ring enchant was only evidence.
A pasted result's Copy link carries the export itself inside the link — the paste is read entirely in your browser and is never uploaded as a whole, which is also why the link keeps working forever. A simulation that runs on the server rather than in your browser is still sent that raider's equipment to be priced, with no name attached and only the resulting number kept — which is what the privacy page says of the same paste, and the two must not drift apart.
The gear audit is the TBC Raid Gear Checker’s, verbatim
Everything the card says about gear — missing enchants, empty sockets, BiS progress, and the simulated upgrade percentages with their margins — is produced by the same engine the TBC Raid Gear Checker runs, rule for rule. The same character showing up in a raid audit and looked up here gets the same numbers, because it is the same question asked of the same code. All of the deep print about those numbers — simulations versus stat scores, margins of error, why “too close to call” is a result and not a gap, why healers are never simulated — lives on how the TBC Raid Gear Checker works and applies here unchanged. What is genuinely new on this card is documented below.
Gear score
The gear score is TacoTip's number, reproduced exactly — the same formula, brackets and rounding as the addon players compare in trade chat, colour scale included. It is computed from the vendored item database; an item the database cannot resolve is left out and the tooltip says so, which means the score can read slightly low, never invented. It is a gearing yardstick, not a performance claim.
Parses
The parse panel is Warcraft Logs' own rankings, repeated with attribution — their best and median per boss, their colour brackets, their per-kill history when you open a row. This tool measures none of it. Healers are quoted from the healing leaderboard, everyone else from damage, and the tooltip names the board. Paladins get one extra courtesy: Warcraft Logs files their tank parses under a separate spec name ("Justicar"), and the panel merges both views so tank kills count as the history they are.
Parses are fetched from Warcraft Logs while you look, and none of them is saved here in advance — unlike the lists, scores and item database the gear checks run on. Rankings change as people raid, and a saved copy would go stale in a week. If Warcraft Logs does not answer, the panel says so and the audit is untouched.
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.
Privacy
No account and no user database; the server keeps one line per request for 14 days, plus a cache of the public Warcraft Logs responses it fetches. The privacy page spells out exactly what is recorded and what is not.