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
Beast Mastery Hunter
4 races · 31 / 20 / 0 build · 1.19% 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 10% higher.
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
Night Elf
Best result
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
976.7 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - S2
High Order Skyborne
0.46% behind · 4.5 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
972.2 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - S3
Human
0.88% behind · 8.6 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
968.1 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - A4
Dwarf
1.17% behind · 11.4 DPS
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
965.3 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Night Elf, standard gear
- Auto Shot37.5%
- Catpet30.2%
- Aimed Shot12.8%
- Serpent Sting7.8%
- Summon Hawk7.4%
- Arcane Shot3.5%
- Everything else0.9%
Talents and links
31 / 20 / 0 · as Night Elf
- 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
Night Elf, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +2.6%
- Gear 10% better
- +3.9%
- Gear 50% better
- +20.1%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 23.4%
- Out of mana, per fight
- 37.7 s