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
Shaman build
Enhancement Shaman
1 race · 20 / 31 / 0 build
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
Dwarf
Best result
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
768.6 DPS± 1.1Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Dwarf, standard gear
- Melee29.3%
- Windfury Weapon18.7%
- Stormstrike11.9%
- Fire Nova11.8%
- Earth Shock8.1%
- Flame Shock6.5%
- Lightning Bolt5.9%
- Everything else7.8%
Talents and links
20 / 31 / 0 · as Dwarf
- 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
Dwarf, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +1.9%
- Gear 10% better
- +4.9%
- Gear 50% better
- +25.7%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 16.7%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never