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
Warrior build
Fury (Sunder) WarriorVariant
5 races · 17 / 34 / 0 build · 3.62% 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.
Fury that builds and keeps up its own five Sunder Armor stacks; no other player reduces the target's armor.
The simulator’s caveat: This Warrior personally builds and refreshes five Sunder stacks. External Sunder and Expose Armor are disabled only for this row; its initial armor ramp and lost globals are included. The provisional Warrior rage model still applies.
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
Orc
Best result
- Axe Specialization
- Hardiness
1160.2 DPS± 1.1Open in the sim - S2tied
Tauren
0.83% behind · 9.6 DPS
- Endurance
- Plainsrunning
1150.5 DPS± 1.1Open in the sim - S2tied
Troll
0.99% behind · 11.5 DPS
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
1148.6 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim - A4
Undead
1.90% behind · 22.0 DPS
- Touch of the Grave
- Underwater Breathing
1138.1 DPS± 1.1Open in the sim - B5
Windshaper Skyborne
3.49% behind · 40.5 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
1119.7 DPS± 1.0Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Orc, standard gear
- Melee40.5%
- Heroic Strike16.6%
- Bloodthirst14.2%
- Execute11.4%
- Whirlwind7.5%
- Overpower5.1%
- Slam3.1%
- Everything else1.7%
Talents and links
17 / 34 / 0 · as Orc
- These talents spend 3 points on a talent this site’s Forever tree does not list, so they cannot open in the calculator yet.
- Plan this character
- 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
Orc, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +0.8%
- Gear 10% better
- +6.6%
- Gear 50% better
- +33.8%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 19.5%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never