The BEST Version of WoW is COMING! Conquest of Azeroth is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting World of Warcraft custom expansions, offering dozens of brand-new classes, unique specializations, and completely reimagined roles that don't exist in retail WoW. In this Ascension Conquest of Azeroth tier list, we rank the best tank, healer, support and dps in CoA.
Conquest of Azerot Best Class - COA Tank, Healer, Support & DPS Tier List
With the latest Alpha updates introducing major class tuning, talent adjustments, and role redesigns, the endgame meta is beginning to take shape across DPS, Tank, Healer, and Support categories. While classes like Templar, Felsworn, Primalist, and Runemaster are emerging as dominant choices thanks to their exceptional damage, survivability, and utility, many other classes remain highly competitive with unique strengths that shine in specific raid and dungeon environments. In this WOW COA Tier List, we'll break down the current rankings for every role, explain why certain classes sit at the top of the meta, and help you decide which class is worth investing in as the project moves closer to its next major testing phase.
Conquest of Azeroth Tank Tier List (Alpha)
Conquest of Azeroth's tank balance looks surprisingly healthy right now, but several classes clearly stand out due to their combination of survivability, self-healing, utility, mobility, and damage output. Unlike traditional tier lists focused purely on raw mitigation, this ranking heavily values how complete a tank's toolkit feels for both raids and Mythic+.
S-Tier
Templar
Templar is currently viewed as the strongest tank in the Alpha. Even after previous nerfs, it remains extremely difficult to kill thanks to powerful stagger mechanics, excellent self-healing, multiple defensive cooldowns, and surprisingly high damage. Dust Warden believes Templar could potentially complete Mythic+ keys 5-10 levels higher than most competitors. The class simply has answers to almost every situation while maintaining elite survivability.
Felsworn
Felsworn is the complete package. It combines top-tier AoE damage, strong single-target damage, excellent mobility, reliable threat generation, crowd control, and solid self-sustain. It may even become the highest damage tank at level 60. The only notable weakness is lacking a traditional interrupt, but everything else about the kit screams endgame meta.
Reaper
Reaper has become one of the tankiest classes in the game. Its massive health pool rivals Venomancer while retaining good mobility, strong cooldowns, crowd control, and reliable self-sustain. Even though its healing is lower than previous versions, its sheer durability makes it incredibly forgiving and powerful for both raids and Mythic+.
Primalist
Primalist benefits from both strong tank mechanics and the overall strength of the Primalist class. Mountain King improvements have added more self-healing, better survivability, and easier resource management. It also brings valuable raid buffs, party defensives, fear totems, mobility, and even immunity to certain bleed mechanics.
A-Tier
Witch Hunter
Witch Hunter narrowly misses S-Tier. It offers some of the best self-healing in the game, excellent crowd control, AoE grip, silence, stun, strong damage, and highly desirable buffs. However, recent defensive cooldown changes have made it slightly more vulnerable to heavy physical damage encounters.
Cultist
Cultist excels through absorption shields and effective health scaling. While it doesn't look flashy, skilled players can survive mechanics that would kill other tanks. Strong defensive cooldowns and excellent magic mitigation make it particularly attractive for raid content.
Venomancer
Venomancer remains one of the tankiest specs in the game, capable of reaching absurd HP totals. However, recent rage-generation and cooldown changes have introduced consistency concerns. If these issues are resolved, it could easily move into S-Tier.
Guardian
Guardian specializes in pure mitigation and is one of the lowest damage-taken tanks available. Strong interrupts, solid utility, good damage potential, and reliable defenses keep it competitive, although its self-healing remains weaker than many rivals.
Knight of Xoroth
Knight of Xoroth sits at the bottom of A-Tier but remains highly viable. The class offers incredible crowd control, AoE grip, ranged interrupts, strong raid buffs, and decent survivability. However, it relies heavily on gear and lacks the consistent self-sustain of higher-ranked tanks.
B-Tier
Bloodmage
Bloodmage functions as a giant health sponge with decent self-healing, especially in dungeons. However, its defensive cooldowns are weaker than other tanks, and its performance often drops in raid environments where self-healing becomes less valuable.
Sun Cleric
Sun Cleric suffers primarily from inconsistency. Its core self-sustain mechanic relies on random avoidance procs to trigger healing and shielding. This works well in Mythic+ but becomes unreliable during raid encounters with slower boss attack timers. Combined with mediocre defensive cooldowns, the class feels less complete than the competition.
Conquest of Azeroth Healer Tier List (Alpha)
Unlike the tank rankings where most classes are relatively close, the current Conquest of Azeroth healer meta has several standout performers thanks to their healing throughput, raid utility, flexibility, and cooldown power. Based on Dust Warden's analysis, the strongest healers are the ones that can handle multiple healing profiles while bringing valuable utility to both raids and Mythic+.
S-Tier
Venomancer
Venomancer is one of the most complete healers currently available. It delivers exceptional healing output, strong cooldowns, excellent utility, and even offers the flexibility to contribute damage by shifting into other forms when healing requirements are low. The class retains much of the powerful Venomancer toolkit while providing some of the highest overall healing numbers seen in testing.
Chronomancer
Chronomancer may be the most versatile healer in the entire game. Its biggest strength is adaptability. Through different stances and talent setups, players can tailor their healing profile to fit almost any encounter, whether that means burst healing, sustained healing, raid-wide healing, party healing, or focused single-target support.
Starcaller
Starcaller continues to be one of the safest healer choices in Conquest of Azeroth. Its AoE healing remains incredibly powerful and easy to execute, making it one of the most reliable raid healers. Combined with strong raid buffs and defensive cooldowns, Starcaller offers tremendous value in every group composition.
Witch Doctor
Witch Doctor has quietly emerged as one of the strongest healers thanks to its powerful ingredient-based mechanics. The class offers excellent healing profiles, strong cooldown interactions, and valuable reset mechanics that allow players to maximize healing uptime throughout encounters.
A-Tier
Tinker
Tinker may not produce the raw healing numbers of the S-Tier healers, but its utility is unmatched. The class brings unique support tools similar to Shaman totems, including mana regeneration effects, fear-cleansing utility, and various group-support mechanics that make it valuable in organized content.
Pyromancer
Pyromancer has benefited greatly from recent healing redesigns. The class now offers solid healing output, strong absorb shields, and a fun playstyle that many testers enjoy. However, historical survivability concerns and limited endgame testing prevent it from reaching S-Tier for now.
Conquest of Azeroth Support Tier List (Alpha)
Support classes in Conquest of Azeroth occupy a unique role between DPS and healers. Their value isn't measured purely by damage, but by the raid buffs, utility, off-healing, defensive cooldowns, and group-wide benefits they provide. According to Dust Warden's analysis, every support is viable, but a few stand out as near-mandatory picks for optimized raid groups.
S-Tier
Barbarian
Barbarian is arguably the strongest support in the game right now, primarily because of its interaction with Nightfall, one of the most powerful raid debuff weapons available.
The recent addition of Titan's Grip allows Barbarians to dual-wield two-handed weapons, meaning they can potentially maintain nearly 100% uptime on Nightfall's magic damage amplification effect. Since most raid compositions deal a large percentage of their damage through magic, Barbarian effectively increases total raid DPS by a massive amount.
Primalist (Growthkeeper)
Growthkeeper earns its place at the top because it functions as a hybrid support-healer while retaining all the strengths of the Primalist class. One of its biggest advantages is flexibility. While not a full healer, it can redirect resources into powerful emergency healing when necessary, making raid compositions significantly safer.
A-Tier
Ranger (Farstrider)
Farstrider remains a highly reliable support choice.Being ranged is a major advantage in raids, allowing Farstrider to avoid many mechanics that melee supports must deal with. While it doesn't offer the game-changing utility of Barbarian or Growthkeeper, it remains one of the safest support picks. Strong overall performance without any major weaknesses, but lacks the raid-warping power of S-Tier supports.
Stormbringer
Stormbringer has traditionally been a utility-focused support.Although it hasn't dominated recent testing, it continues to provide valuable support for caster-heavy raid groups. Reliable utility and caster synergy, but lacks the extraordinary impact of top-tier supports.
Guardian (Inspiration Guardian)
Guardian excels as a defensive support. Among supports, Guardian may offer the strongest tank-support capabilities. If a raid's tanks are struggling with survivability, Guardian becomes significantly more valuable. Excellent defensive utility, but lacks the offensive power and off-healing flexibility found in S-Tier supports.
Conquest of Azeroth DPS Tier List
Unlike the Tank, Healer, and Support rankings, the DPS tier list is heavily influenced by three factors:
• Raw damage output (single-target and AoE)
• Utility and raid contribution
• Scaling at level 60 and endgame gear
The current Alpha balance shows that most DPS classes are surprisingly competitive, with only a few falling behind due to weaker utility, lower scaling, or less impressive endgame performance.
S-Tier
These are the classes expected to define the PvE meta.
Runemaster
Runemaster is currently one of the strongest pure DPS options in Conquest of Azeroth. Runemaster has very few weaknesses and consistently delivers top-end numbers regardless of encounter type.
Primalist
Primalist continues its tradition of being one of the most complete classes in the game. The class simply has everything. Even outside of its Support role, Primalist DPS specs perform extremely well and benefit from one of the strongest overall class kits in Conquest of Azeroth.
Knight of Xoroth
Knight of Xoroth combines powerful melee damage with some of the best utility among DPS classes. Its toolkit makes it valuable in virtually every type of content.
A-Tier
These classes are highly competitive and fully capable of topping damage meters, but they lack the complete package offered by the S-Tier classes.
Felsworn
Felsworn already dominates the tank rankings, and its DPS version is equally impressive. Its only real weakness is slightly less utility than the S-Tier classes.
Venomancer
Venomancer remains one of the safest DPS picks. Venomancer's consistency makes it valuable in all PvE content.
Cultist
Cultist brings powerful pet-based gameplay and excellent raid utility. While not flashy, it is a dependable performer.
Barbarian
Barbarian benefits heavily from the Ancestor mechanics and Nightfall synergy. In organized groups, Barbarian's value extends beyond personal DPS.
Necromancer
Necromancer continues to be one of the strongest sustained-damage casters.
Templar
Templars are powerful regardless of role.
Witch Hunter
A very complete DPS package. The combination of utility and damage keeps Witch Hunter highly competitive.
Witch Doctor
One of the most versatile casters.
Pyromancer
A classic ranged damage dealer with strong burst potential.
Tinker
Tinker continues to provide unique utility alongside respectable DPS.
Starcaller
Starcaller remains one of the strongest hybrid damage casters.
Bloodmage
Bloodmage sits near the bottom of A-Tier. Still a perfectly viable endgame choice.
Stormbringer
Stormbringer remains a balanced and reliable DPS option. Its versatility keeps it comfortably in A-Tier.
Chronomancer
Chronomancer offers unique gameplay and utility. While not topping meters, it brings plenty of value to groups.
B-Tier
These classes are absolutely playable, but currently provide less overall value compared to higher-ranked options.
Sun Cleric
Sun Cleric's damage output simply doesn't compete with the stronger DPS classes.
While the class offers utility and survivability, it lacks the offensive power needed to move into A-Tier.
Ranger
Ranger is still a solid ranged option, but compared to top performers. It's reliable but not exceptional.
Reaper
Interestingly, Reaper is one of the strongest tanks in the game but doesn't reach the same heights as a DPS. While durable and capable of respectable damage, it lacks the explosive output and utility offered by many A-Tier classes.