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
Rogue build
Mutilate Rogue
5 races · 31 / 20 / 0 build · 1.29% 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.
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
Gnome
Best result
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
676.0 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - S1tied
Night Elf
0.11% behind · 0.7 DPS
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
675.3 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - S2tied
High Order Skyborne
0.22% behind · 1.5 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
674.6 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - A4tied
Dwarf
1.16% behind · 7.8 DPS
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
668.2 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - A4tied
Human
1.28% behind · 8.6 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
667.4 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Melee41.6%
- Eviscerate22.1%
- Mutilate12.8%
- Deadly Poison V7.2%
- Instant Poison VI5.7%
- Touch of the Grave5.2%
- Fiery Weapon2.2%
- Everything else3.2%
Talents and links
31 / 20 / 0 · as Gnome
- 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
Gnome, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +2.8%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.1%
- Gear 50% better
- +25.3%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 27.4%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never