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
Subtlety Rogue
5 races · 20 / 0 / 31 build · 1.41% between the best and the last race
Level 60 against one level 63 dragonkin with 3,731 armor · 5 minutes · single target · the same gear without its 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
Night Elf
Best result
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
632.5 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - S1tied
Human
0.11% behind · 0.7 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
631.8 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - S2tied
Gnome
0.17% behind · 1.1 DPS
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
631.5 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - S2tied
High Order Skyborne
0.25% behind · 1.6 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
630.9 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim - A5
Dwarf
1.39% behind · 8.8 DPS
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
623.7 DPS± 0.5Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Melee46.2%
- Hemorrhage20.7%
- Rupture10.9%
- Deadly Poison V6.4%
- Instant Poison VI4.5%
- Touch of the Grave4.5%
- Everything else6.8%
Talents and links
20 / 0 / 31 · as Night Elf
- 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
Night Elf, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +0.6%
- Gear 10% better
- +7.2%
- Gear 50% better
- +32.4%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 24.4%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never