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
Mage build
Arcane Mage
3 races · 33 / 3 / 15 build · 1.05% 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
Gnome
Best result
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
732.5 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - S2tied
High Order Skyborne
0.91% behind · 6.7 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
725.9 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - A2tied
Human
1.04% behind · 7.6 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
724.9 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Arcane Missiles47.1%
- Arcane Blast43.9%
- Frostbolt6.1%
- Touch of the Grave2.9%
Talents and links
33 / 3 / 15 · as Gnome
- 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
Gnome, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +1.0%
- Gear 10% better
- +4.0%
- Gear 50% better
- +20.9%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 11%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never