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
Protection WarriorTank
5 races · 4 / 6 / 41 build · 1.46% 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. A raid boss hits this tank from the front, and its healing is modelled.
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
Human
Best result
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
370.7 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - S2
Gnome
0.73% behind · 2.7 DPS
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
368.0 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - A3tied
High Order Skyborne
1.24% behind · 4.6 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
366.1 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - A3tied
Night Elf
1.41% behind · 5.2 DPS
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
365.5 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - A3tied
Dwarf
1.44% behind · 5.3 DPS · own talent tweak
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
365.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim
Where the damage comes from
Undead, standard gear
- Heroic Strike33.2%
- Melee28.2%
- Shield Slam23.5%
- Revenge10.4%
- Touch of the Grave3.3%
- Everything else1.4%
Talents and links
4 / 6 / 41 · as Human
- These talents spend 5 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
Human, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +3.4%
- Gear 10% better
- +4.3%
- Gear 50% better
- +19.5%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 18.8%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never