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
Priest build
Smite Priest
2 races · 31 / 17 / 3 build · 3.53% 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 10% higher.
The simulator’s caveat: The rank-2 Smite fallback depends on the modeled low-rank spell-power coefficient.
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
Undead
Best result
- Touch of the Grave
- Underwater Breathing
505.0 DPS± 0.4Open in the sim - B2
Troll
3.41% behind · 17.2 DPS
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
487.7 DPS± 0.4Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Smite48.3%
- Holy Fire25.5%
- Penance24.4%
- Everything else1.8%
Talents and links
31 / 17 / 3 · as Undead
- 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
Undead, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +2.7%
- Gear 10% better
- +5.3%
- Gear 50% better
- +27.9%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 9.8%
- Out of mana, per fight
- 44.5 s