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
Hunter build
Marksmanship Hunter
8 races · 5 / 35 / 11 build · 3.13% between the best and the last race
Level 60 against one level 63 dragonkin with 3,731 armor · 5 minutes · single target · every item's stats and weapon damage 50% higher.
The simulator’s caveat: Lone Wolf requires no active pet. Improved Tracking assumes tracking matches the Dragonkin reference target.
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.
- S1tied
Troll
Best result
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
1004.6 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - S1tied
High Order Skyborne
0.13% behind · 1.3 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
1003.3 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - S1tied
Windshaper Skyborne
0.13% behind · 1.3 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
1003.3 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - A4
Human
1.10% behind · 11.0 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
993.5 DPS± 0.9Open in the sim - A5
Orc
1.35% behind · 13.6 DPS
- Axe Specialization
- Hardiness
991.0 DPS± 0.9Open in the sim - A6
Night Elf
1.58% behind · 15.9 DPS
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
988.7 DPS± 0.9Open in the sim - B7tied
Dwarf
3.03% behind · 30.5 DPS
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
974.1 DPS± 0.9Open in the sim - B7tied
Tauren
3.03% behind · 30.5 DPS
- Endurance
- Plainsrunning
974.1 DPS± 0.9Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Troll, standard gear
- Auto Shot50.4%
- Aimed Shot23.5%
- Serpent Sting10.2%
- Arcane Shot8.6%
- Sniper Shot6.1%
- Everything else1.3%
Talents and links
5 / 35 / 11 · as Troll
- 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
Troll, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +5.9%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.5%
- Gear 50% better
- +28.5%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 21.3%
- Out of mana, per fight
- 4.6 s