About Reins of Pain
World of Warcraft Collections & PvE Companion
About
Reins of Pain is an unofficial World of Warcraft companion for tracking collections, planning farm sessions, comparing current PvE rankings and builds, and turning a character's live gear into practical upgrade choices. Collections and PvE share the same saved character so progress carries across both parts of the site.
It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Blizzard Entertainment in any way.
World of Warcraft®, Warcraft®, and Blizzard Entertainment® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All in-game images, names, and data are property of Blizzard Entertainment.
This Site uses the Blizzard API in compliance with its Terms of Use.
Some collection acquisition guides are generated with the assistance of AI language models from public game data and community knowledge. PvE rankings, gear, simulations, and observed player choices retain their source type, freshness, and coverage rather than being inferred by AI. Always verify irreversible in-game spending and final loadouts with a character simulation.
This site is free, has no ads, collects no emails, and uses no tracking cookies. Analytics are handled by Umami(privacy-friendly, cookieless). If you log in with Battle.net, an encrypted session cookie is set for 8 hours to fetch your collections — no personal data is stored on the server.
Data & methods
Reins of Pain uses the following public game, collection, and PvE data providers.
Collection data, character profiles and equipped gear, talents, items, spells, and game metadata.
Collection acquisition details and icons, plus current specialization guides, explicitly published Overall BiS lists, upgrade focus, preparation recommendations, and item metadata. Editorial recommendations are labeled separately from observed player data.
Icon name mapping (spell icons from WoW DBC files). MIT License — Kevin Clement.
Mount ownership statistics used to calculate difficulty scores and farming priority.
Current-season Mythic+ score data, world top-800 run representation, top-character scores, observed top-profile gear, and dungeon-specific talent exports. Profile observations are not presented as theoretical BiS.
Current-partition leaderboard rankings power Raid output and boss-specific talent observations. Launch-partition Mythic kill rosters power the separate Progression ranking.
SimulationCraft-based single-target and five-target trinket charts where a current supported chart exists. Rankings show their fixed-profile context, relative result, update time, and any observed Raider.IO fallback.
PvE ranking method
- Mythic+ tiers rank each role by current-season representation in the world top 800 completed runs. Highest key, average key, and top character score stay separate from representation.
- Raid Output averages the top 10 current-partition personal-best Heroic rankings for every specialization on each boss, then weights those boss results equally. The displayed DPS or HPS determines rank and tier within each role.
- Raid Progression uses verified 20-player rosters from the earliest launch-partition Mythic kills of the deepest current boss. Kill presence determines rank within each role; total seats break ties. A snapshot requires at least 80% of its source cohort to verify.
- Builds and gear distinguish explicitly published guide BiS from guide picks and observed top-profile use. Talents retain their dungeon or boss context.
- Trinkets and freshness keep simulations separate from observed usage. Results show their sample size, coverage, and update time, and unsupported values are not estimated.
Archon is a design reference only and is not a data provider.
Site Logo
Dragon icon by Egor Polyakov
Licensed from Flaticon (Free license with attribution). Used as the official site logo and favicon for Reins of Pain.
Icons & Assets
In-game icons (mounts, pets, toys, achievements, factions, spells) served from the Wowhead CDN. All in-game assets are property of Blizzard Entertainment.
Battle.net icon by Icons8 (free license with attribution).
Icon name mapping — via SimpleArmory by Kevin Clement (MIT License).
UI and class icons licensed from Flaticon (Free license with attribution). Designed by:
Navigation & category icons
Source type icons
Mount subcategory icons
Other UI icons
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