WoW Raid Boost and Carry

About WoW raid boosting

Raids are the largest group content in World of Warcraft: a long instance with a string of bosses that takes a full group to clear. They drop items you cannot get anywhere else, such as tier set pieces, unique trinkets and the mounts from the hardest difficulty. A WoW raid boost, or raid carry, puts you in a group of experienced players who clear the raid at the difficulty you choose, with you playing your own character or a booster playing it for you.

We list every raid carry on sale today with its starting price, so you can set a Normal clear next to a Heroic one, or a full run next to a single boss, before you order.

Why players buy a raid carry

• A raid clear is the main source of tier set pieces and of items that drop nowhere else, and each difficulty gives a character one shot at its loot per week. A carry makes sure that week is used, even when you cannot find a group.
• Ahead of the Curve shows on your profile, and many raid groups look for it before they invite. It can only be earned while the tier is current, so the window is limited.
• Some of the most wanted mounts sit behind raids: the reward for the expansion's raid meta-achievement and the mount that comes with Mythic.
• A raid asks for a full group at a set time for a whole evening. A boost puts you with a team that already knows the fights, so the clear happens on your schedule.

Current raids in Midnight Season 2

This season's raid carries cover two raids, each on Normal, Heroic and Mythic, plus single bosses from the raids of the season before.

The Venomous Abyss

The larger of the two raids: a full clear is eight bosses, and Ula'tek, the boss this season's Ahead of the Curve asks for, is one of them. Normal and Heroic are sold as full runs, and Heroic also as part of the raid. Mythic comes only in a bundle with Tidebound Grotto, priced by how many bosses you take. Every run is on the Venomous Abyss boost page.

Tidebound Grotto

We sell Tidebound Grotto as one kill, Nymrissa Wavecaller, on any difficulty. You can order it alone, add it to a full Normal or Heroic run of The Venomous Abyss, or take both raids in one bundle. The kill counts toward the Great Vault, so it also adds a raid boss to your week. See the Tidebound Grotto carry.

Season 1 raid bosses

Three bosses from the Season 1 raids are still sold one at a time, on Normal, Heroic or Mythic, with group loot. Their gear sits well below the current tier, so they suit transmog, achievements and collections more than item level.

Types of WoW raid boost and carry

Normal raid boost

Normal is the entry difficulty. The bosses use their full mechanics, but mistakes are forgiving, which makes it the cheapest full clear of the tier. It suits an alt, a returning player, or anyone who wants the tier set started before moving up a difficulty.

Heroic raid carry

Heroic keeps the mechanics and raises the damage, and the gear moves up a full step. The full Heroic run is the one that comes with Ahead of the Curve. If you only need part of the raid, Heroic is also sold as six of the eight bosses or as the last two, and the last-two run comes with group loot only.

Mythic raid boost

Mythic is the hardest difficulty: the group has to play almost without mistakes, and the best gear and the raid mount are the reward. For The Venomous Abyss it is sold in the bundle with Tidebound Grotto, from two of the eight bosses up to a full clear, always with full loot priority. Our bundle lists a mount on Mythic; see at checkout which boss count includes it.

Single boss kill

Not every order needs a full clear. The Tidebound Grotto kill, the Heroic run of the last two Venomous Abyss bosses and the three Season 1 bosses are all sold on their own. A single boss fits when you are missing one item, one achievement step or one boss for the week.

AOTC boost

This season's achievement is Ahead of the Curve: Ula'tek. It asks you to defeat Ula'tek in The Venomous Abyss on Heroic or higher during Midnight Season 2. We include it in the full Heroic run, so an AOTC boost here is a full Heroic clear with all the loot that comes with it. Once the season is over this tier's Ahead of the Curve can no longer be earned, but a character that has it keeps it.

Glory of the Midnight Raider boost

Glory of the Midnight Raider is the meta-achievement for a set of Midnight raid achievements, and its reward is the Tenebrous Harrower mount. We cover it across three Midnight raids and sell it whole or part by part, so you can order only the achievements you are still missing on the Glory of the Midnight Raider page.

Raid loot, item level and the Great Vault

Raid gear climbs with difficulty. A Normal clear of The Venomous Abyss drops item level 292 to 302 along with tier tokens, a Heroic clear 305 to 318, and the Mythic bundle goes up to 344. Tidebound Grotto drops 292 to 318, and the Season 1 bosses 250 to 279. Pick the difficulty by the item level you need for the content you play next.

Loot options in a raid boost

Each boss drops only a few items for the whole raid, and those items are shared out between everyone in it. That is why raid carries come with loot options. Group loot leaves it to the roll. With unsaved group loot, items the boosters do not need are passed to you. Armor type and token priority brings more boosters who wear your armor type into the raid, so more armor and tier tokens can be passed to you, though nothing is guaranteed. Full loot priority hands you everything that fits your character. The priority options state an expected number of items per boss; those are our estimates, not promises. Items can be traded to raid members for a short time after a kill, which is how the boosters pass them on.

The weekly raid reset and the Great Vault

Raid lockouts reset every week. Once a boss is down for you on a difficulty, it will not drop loot for you again until the reset, and that holds whether you played the kill or a booster did. The Great Vault adds one more item choice each week based on the raid bosses you killed, so even a kill that drops nothing for you still counts. Gearing a character fully from raids takes several weeks for that reason, whoever plays it.

How a WoW raid carry works

At checkout you choose the raid, the difficulty, the run, the loot option and the way to play, and pay there. We assign a raid team, and you agree on the time in the order chat, where you also follow progress and screenshots.

In self-play you are invited to the boosters' group and summoned into the raid. Most teams ask you to stay out of the mechanics and follow the raid leader, so the run goes smoothly. Piloted means a booster logs in and plays the run while you are away, and with remote control a booster plays through a session on your own computer. In each case the items your loot option covers are traded to your character after the kill.

Choosing a raid boost by your goal

• For gear on a fresh character or an alt, a Normal or Heroic full run with a loot option that sends drops your way.
• For Ahead of the Curve, the full Heroic run of The Venomous Abyss.
• For a mount, Glory of the Midnight Raider or the Mythic bundle.
• For one missing boss or item, a single kill or a partial Heroic run.
• For both current raids at once, the bundle on the difficulty you want.