Forever race tier list
Choose a class and build to rank every race it can be by simulated damage. Talents, rotation and the fight stay fixed; the simulator chose each race’s gear for that race.
- Classes
- 9
- Builds
- 31
- Race results
- 201
- Fights per result
- 5,000
- Snapshot
- 2 Oct 2026
Racials are partly modelled
Some racials are only partly modelled, and one the simulator leaves out can matter more than the gaps below. Treat this as a snapshot of the current model, not advice on which race to play.
Choose your class
Rogue build
Combat Rogue
9 races · 18 / 33 / 0 build · 4.17% between the best and the last race
Level 60 against one level 63 dragonkin with 3,731 armor · 5 minutes · single target · projected level-65 gear with Tier 1 set bonuses.
Bands use the gap behind the best race. A race marked tied overlaps another race’s 95% interval, so the simulation cannot put the two in order, and its rank counts only the races that beat it beyond that range. A tie covers simulation randomness only, not mechanics the simulator may model wrong.
- S1
Undead
Best result
- Touch of the Grave
- Underwater Breathing
708.2 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B2
Human
2.56% behind · 18.1 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
690.1 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B3tied
Night Elf
2.81% behind · 19.9 DPS
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
688.3 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B3tied
High Order Skyborne
2.82% behind · 20.0 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
688.2 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B3tied
Windshaper Skyborne
2.82% behind · 20.0 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
688.2 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B6
Orc
3.04% behind · 21.5 DPS
- Axe Specialization
- Hardiness
686.6 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B7tied
Gnome
3.21% behind · 22.8 DPS
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
685.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B7tied
Troll
3.23% behind · 22.9 DPS
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
685.3 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B9
Dwarf
4.00% behind · 28.3 DPS
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
679.9 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Melee52.3%
- Sinister Strike18.1%
- Eviscerate12.1%
- Deadly Poison V5.4%
- Touch of the Grave4.1%
- Instant Poison VI3.3%
- Everything else4.7%
Talents and links
18 / 33 / 0 · as Undead
- Open these talents in the calculator
- Plan this character, talents included
- Run this exact setup in the WoW: Forever sim
The simulator’s live site can be newer than this snapshot. The planner starts with sample gear; its export uses the snapshot’s commit.
Gear and set bonuses
Undead, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +2.0%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.9%
- Gear 50% better
- +28.7%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 27.4%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never