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
Marksmanship Hunter
4 races · 5 / 35 / 11 build · 2.72% 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.
The simulator’s caveat: Lone Wolf requires no active pet. Improved Tracking assumes tracking matches the Dragonkin reference target.
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.
- S1tied
Troll
Best result
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
782.0 DPS± 0.8Open in the sim - S1tied
Windshaper Skyborne
0.06% behind · 0.5 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
781.5 DPS± 0.7Open in the sim - S3
Orc
0.83% behind · 6.5 DPS
- Axe Specialization
- Hardiness
775.5 DPS± 0.7Open in the sim - B4
Tauren
2.65% behind · 20.7 DPS
- Endurance
- Plainsrunning
761.3 DPS± 0.7Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Troll, standard gear
- Auto Shot50.4%
- Aimed Shot23.5%
- Serpent Sting10.2%
- Arcane Shot8.6%
- Sniper Shot6.1%
- Everything else1.3%
Talents and links
5 / 35 / 11 · as Troll
- 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
Troll, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +5.9%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.5%
- Gear 50% better
- +28.5%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 21.3%
- Out of mana, per fight
- 4.6 s