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
Warlock build
DS/Ruin WarlockVariant
2 races · 21 / 11 / 19 build · 1.79% 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.
Demonic Sacrifice with Ruin: the demon is sacrificed for its buff.
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
Human
Best result
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
977.7 DPS± 1.2Open in the sim - A2
Gnome
1.76% behind · 17.2 DPS
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
960.5 DPS± 1.2Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Human, standard gear
- Shadow Bolt56.0%
- Corruption15.6%
- Curse of Doom13.6%
- Immolate11.2%
- Curse of Agony2.8%
- Everything else0.8%
Talents and links
21 / 11 / 19 · as Human
- 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
Human, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +2.7%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.0%
- Gear 50% better
- +25.7%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 16.2%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never