Optimize and Rank Gear - Ask Mr. Robot (2024)

There is no longer any way to play WotLK Classic.
If Blizzard ever adds a WotLK Era server, we will enable this portion of the site again.

We are not creating a Cataclysm Classic optimizer :(
For more details read the cataclysm classic forum post.

Best in Bags

Pick your best gear, gems and enchants.
Answers in seconds.

Upgrade Finder

Find better gear from raiding, dungeons, and other sources

Worst in Bags

Search through your bags for items that can safely be discarded

Best in Slot

Find the best gear sets using any item in the game

2023-10-10

Site updated for Phase 4! Full details in the WotLK Phase 4 forum post.

2022-09-27

The WotLK optimizer is now live! Some things still need tweaking though, please read this forum post.

You need to load a real character to use Best in Bags.

The order matters
Setups are optimized in order from top to bottom. Drag and drop to re-order.

Set Up Best in Bags

Customize

Results

Pick a Gearing Strategy

Toughness Level (the optimizer only picks DPS gear after reaching your toughness level)

Mostly DPS

Some DPS

Some TUF

Mostly TUF

Pick Talents

Click any icon to show the full talent tree

Major Glyphs
Minor Glyphs

Set Options

Epic

Rare

Uncommon

None

All

No Abyss Crystals

None

If changing gems or enchants would not increase your score by at least this much, leave them as-is.

Disabled

0.10%

0.20%

0.30%

0.40%

0.50%

0.75%

1.00%

Many people don't like the extra buttons.

No Limit

3

2

1

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in seconds from 30 to 600

None

None

None

If e.g. multiple flasks are chosen, we'll only apply the best one.

Iceblade (91.5 DPS)

Saronite (67.5 DPS)

Vendor (46.5 DPS)

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90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

No Pet

Mage Armor

Molten Armor

Blood

Frost

Unholy

Battle

Berserker

Defensive

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Best. In. Bags.

Mr. Robot will search through every single combination of gear in your bag. Give him a couple seconds to find the best setup for you.

Stat Thresholds

Read the short stat threshold tutorial for details and examples.

None

Melee Hit

Ranged Hit

Spell Hit

Expertise

Crit Immune

Total Avoidance

Armor

Stamina

Spell Haste

Haste

Armor Penetration

Arcane Resistance

Fire Resistance

Frost Resistance

Nature Resistance

Shadow Resistance

None

Melee Hit

Ranged Hit

Spell Hit

Expertise

Crit Immune

Total Avoidance

Armor

Stamina

Spell Haste

Haste

Armor Penetration

Arcane Resistance

Fire Resistance

Frost Resistance

Nature Resistance

Shadow Resistance

Feedback

Is there something that you want to customize that you can't do with the default options and locking/excluding items or locking gems/enchants? Let us know! Make a post on our forum with a description of what you would like to do.

Enchants

Healer Spell Breakdown

% casts

% overheal

Create Heal Spell Rule

Set Bonuses

Click the checkbox to the left of a set bonus to override its value. Type "custom" in the search to see only values that you have modified.

Special Items

Click the checkbox to the left of an item to override its value. We will handle scaling your custom value up/down based on item level automatically. Type "custom" in the search to see only values that you have modified.

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Change Gem in Socket

by name/color/unique/quality/stat etc.

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Customize Gear

Click an item to lock it in. Then close this list and press 'Update' to optimize around your choice.

by name/slot/source/stat/azerite power etc. (comma separated)

Main Hand

Off Hand

Ranged

Head

Neck

Shoulder

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Finger 1

Finger 2

Trinket 1

Trinket 2

Phase 1 (Naxx)

Phase 2 (Ulduar)

Phase 3 (Trial)

Phase 4 (ICC)

Phase 5 (Ruby)

%

Char Sheet

Char Sheet

Change

From Gear

Override

Strength

Agility

Intellect

Stamina

Spirit

Mana

Melee AP

Ranged AP

MH Damage

MH Speed

OH Damage

OH Speed

Ranged Dmg

Ranged Spd

Spell Damage

Healing Power

Arcane SP

Fire SP

Frost SP

Holy SP

Nature SP

Shadow SP

Melee Crit

Ranged Crit

Spell Crit

Melee Haste

Ranged Haste

Spell Haste

Expertise

Hit Melee

Yellow Miss

MH White Miss

OH White Miss

Ranged Hit

Ranged Miss

Spell Hit

Armor Pen

Armor

Defense

Dodge

Parry

Block

Block Amount

Resilience

You need to load a real character to use the Upgrade Finder.

Search for potential upgrades from raids, dungeons, crafting, and more

Set Up a Search

Results

Pick a Best in Bags Setup

Pick a Search

Raid

Dungeons

Titan Rune Currency

Emblems

Crafted

Rep Vendors

PvP

Purchased

Add to my Bag

Set Options

No additional options for this search type

Normal

Heroic

Normal and Heroic

Titan Rune: Alpha

Titan Rune: Beta/Gamma

Savage

Hateful

Deadly

Furious

Relentless

Wrathful

All

Any

Emblem of Heroism

Emblem of Valor

Emblem of Conquest

Emblem of Triumph

Emblem of Frost

Sidereal Essence

Defiler's Scourgestone

Phase 4 (ICC)

Phase 5 (Ruby)

Click 'Add Items' to add any item to your inventory (up to 10 total). Use the trash can icon to remove an item from the list.

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Add Items

Click an item to add it to the list. Change slot on the right, and use the down arrow to the left of an item to choose a variant, etc.

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Main Hand

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Head

Neck

Shoulder

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Finger 1

Finger 2

Trinket 1

Trinket 2

Phase 1 (Naxx)

Phase 2 (Ulduar)

Phase 3 (Trial)

Phase 4 (ICC)

Phase 5 (Ruby)

Boss Filters

The Ruby Sanctum

Halion

Icecrown Citadel

Lord Marrowgar

Lady Deathwhisper

Icecrown Gunship Battle

Deathbringer Saurfang

Festergut

Rotface

Professor Putricide

Blood Prince Council

Blood-Queen Lana'thel

Valithria Dreamwalker

Sindragosa

The Lich King

Onyxia's Lair

Onyxia

Trial of the Crusader

The Northrend Beasts

Lord Jaraxxus

Champions of the Alliance

Champions of the Horde

Twin Val'kyr

Anub'arak

Tribute Chest

Ulduar

Flame Leviathan

Ignis the Furnace Master

Razorscale

XT-002 Deconstructor

The Assembly of Iron

Kologarn

Auriaya

Hodir

Thorim

Freya

Mimiron

General Vezax

Yogg-Saron

Algalon the Observer

The Obsidian Sanctum

Sartharion

The Eye of Eternity

Malygos

Naxxramas

Anub'Rekhan

Grand Widow Faerlina

Maexxna

Noth the Plaguebringer

Heigan the Unclean

Loatheb

Instructor Razuvious

Gothik the Harvester

The Four Horsem*n

Patchwerk

Grobbulus

Gluth

Thaddius

Sapphiron

Kel'Thuzad

Dungeons

Utgarde Keep

The Nexus

Azjol-Nerub

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom

Drak'Tharon Keep

The Violet Hold

Gundrak

Halls of Stone

Halls of Lightning

The Culling of Stratholme

The Oculus

Utgarde Pinnacle

The Forge of Souls

Pit of Saron

Halls of Reflection

Trial of the Champion

Toughness Level (the optimizer only picks DPS gear after reaching your toughness level)

Mostly DPS

Some DPS

Some TUF

Mostly TUF

Find better stuff

This ranking is special! Please read this forum post about how it works and how to make the most of it.

This ranking is special! Please read this forum post about how it works.

This ranking is special! Please read this forum post about how it works.

by name/slot/source/stat/azerite power etc. (comma separated)

There is no right answer, pick your favorite

Weighted Average

Average of upgrade scores, weighted by your chance to get an upgrade

Biggest Upgrade

Rank by the score of the biggest upgrade that drops

Highest Chance

Rank by your chance to get an upgrade, regardless of the size of the upgrade

You need to load a real character to use Worst in Bags.

Find gear that you no longer need.
Fully configure how aggressive you want to be with cleaning out your unused gear.

Set Up Your Options

Results

Set options

Discard items that are...

(How do we decide?)

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

55

60

item levels below your best item in that slot

Development

Check any items that you never want to discard

by name/slot/source/stat etc. (comma separated)

Start cleaning house

You have items to discard
You have no Best in Bags setups for . If you don't want to discard items for those specs, create a Best in Bags setup for each spec and run Worst in Bags again.

by name/slot/source/stat etc. (comma separated)

Reason

Relevant for these specs

Find an optimal set of gear, choosing from any item in the game.

Set Up Best in Slot

Customize

Results

Pick a Gearing Strategy

Toughness Level (the optimizer only picks DPS gear after reaching your toughness level)

Mostly DPS

Some DPS

Some TUF

Mostly TUF

Pick Talents

Click any icon to show the full talent tree

Major Glyphs
Minor Glyphs

Set Options

Phase 4 (ICC)

Phase 5 (Ruby)

None

Savage

Hateful

Deadly

Furious

Relentless

Wrathful

All

All

Frost

Triumph

Conquest

Valor

Heroism

None

Epic

Rare

Uncommon

None

All

No Abyss Crystals

None

Many people don't like the extra buttons.

No Limit

3

2

1

None

in seconds from 30 to 600

None

None

None

If e.g. multiple flasks are chosen, we'll only apply the best one.

Iceblade (91.5 DPS)

Saronite (67.5 DPS)

Vendor (46.5 DPS)

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

No Pet

Mage Armor

Molten Armor

Blood

Frost

Unholy

Battle

Berserker

Defensive

% of total healing done to your own 5-man party

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

1

2

3

4

5

Boss Filters

The Ruby Sanctum

Halion

Icecrown Citadel

Lord Marrowgar

Lady Deathwhisper

Icecrown Gunship Battle

Deathbringer Saurfang

Festergut

Rotface

Professor Putricide

Blood Prince Council

Blood-Queen Lana'thel

Valithria Dreamwalker

Sindragosa

The Lich King

Onyxia's Lair

Onyxia

Trial of the Crusader

The Northrend Beasts

Lord Jaraxxus

Champions of the Alliance

Champions of the Horde

Twin Val'kyr

Anub'arak

Tribute Chest

Ulduar

Flame Leviathan

Ignis the Furnace Master

Razorscale

XT-002 Deconstructor

The Assembly of Iron

Kologarn

Auriaya

Hodir

Thorim

Freya

Mimiron

General Vezax

Yogg-Saron

Algalon the Observer

The Obsidian Sanctum

Sartharion

The Eye of Eternity

Malygos

Naxxramas

Anub'Rekhan

Grand Widow Faerlina

Maexxna

Noth the Plaguebringer

Heigan the Unclean

Loatheb

Instructor Razuvious

Gothik the Harvester

The Four Horsem*n

Patchwerk

Grobbulus

Gluth

Thaddius

Sapphiron

Kel'Thuzad

Dungeons

Utgarde Keep

The Nexus

Azjol-Nerub

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom

Drak'Tharon Keep

The Violet Hold

Gundrak

Halls of Stone

Halls of Lightning

The Culling of Stratholme

The Oculus

Utgarde Pinnacle

The Forge of Souls

Pit of Saron

Halls of Reflection

Trial of the Champion

Cause math to happen

Stat Thresholds

Read the short stat threshold tutorial for details and examples.

None

Melee Hit

Ranged Hit

Spell Hit

Expertise

Crit Immune

Total Avoidance

Armor

Stamina

Spell Haste

Haste

Armor Penetration

Arcane Resistance

Fire Resistance

Frost Resistance

Nature Resistance

Shadow Resistance

None

Melee Hit

Ranged Hit

Spell Hit

Expertise

Crit Immune

Total Avoidance

Armor

Stamina

Spell Haste

Haste

Armor Penetration

Arcane Resistance

Fire Resistance

Frost Resistance

Nature Resistance

Shadow Resistance

Feedback

Is there something that you want to customize that you can't do with the default options and locking/excluding items or locking gems/enchants? Let us know! Make a post on our forum with a description of what you would like to do.

Enchants

Healer Spell Breakdown

% casts

% overheal

Create Heal Spell Rule

Set Bonuses

Click the checkbox to the left of a set bonus to override its value. Type "custom" in the search to see only values that you have modified.

Special Items

Click the checkbox to the left of an item to override its value. We will handle scaling your custom value up/down based on item level automatically. Type "custom" in the search to see only values that you have modified.

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Change Enchant

close

Change Gem in Socket

by name/color/unique/quality/stat etc.

close

Customize Gear

Click an item to lock it in. Then close this list and press 'Update' to optimized around your choice.

by name/slot/source/stat/azerite power etc. (comma separated)

Main Hand

Off Hand

Ranged

Head

Neck

Shoulder

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Finger 1

Finger 2

Trinket 1

Trinket 2

Phase 1 (Naxx)

Phase 2 (Ulduar)

Phase 3 (Trial)

Phase 4 (ICC)

Phase 5 (Ruby)

%

Char Sheet

Char Sheet

Change

From Gear

Override

Strength

Agility

Intellect

Stamina

Spirit

Health

Mana

Melee AP

Ranged AP

MH Damage

MH Speed

OH Damage

OH Speed

Ranged Dmg

Ranged Spd

Spell Damage

Healing Power

Arcane SP

Fire SP

Frost SP

Holy SP

Nature SP

Shadow SP

Melee Crit

Ranged Crit

Spell Crit

Melee Haste

Ranged Haste

Spell Haste

Expertise

Hit Melee

Yellow Miss

MH White Miss

OH White Miss

Ranged Hit

Ranged Miss

Spell Hit

Armor Pen

Armor

Defense

Dodge

Parry

Block

Block Amount

Resilience

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