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
10 races · 4 / 6 / 41 build · 3.97% 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. 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
Undead
Best result
- Touch of the Grave
- Underwater Breathing
395.9 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - A2
Human
2.33% behind · 9.2 DPS
- Sword Specialization
- The Human Spirit
386.7 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B3tied
Tauren
2.90% behind · 11.5 DPS · own talent tweak
- Endurance
- Plainsrunning
384.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B3tied
Gnome
2.92% behind · 11.6 DPS
- Engineering Specialization
- Expansive Mind
384.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B5tied
High Order Skyborne
3.42% behind · 13.6 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
382.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B5tied
Windshaper Skyborne
3.42% behind · 13.6 DPS
- Elemental Insight
- Wind Blessed
382.4 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B5tied
Orc
3.56% behind · 14.1 DPS · own talent tweak
- Axe Specialization
- Hardiness
381.8 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B5tied
Night Elf
3.61% behind · 14.3 DPS
- Quickness
- Wisp Spirit
381.6 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B5tied
Dwarf
3.68% behind · 14.6 DPS · own talent tweak
- Big Game Hunter
- Mace Specialization
381.3 DPS± 0.6Open in the sim - B7tied
Troll
3.82% behind · 15.1 DPS · own talent tweak
- Beast Slaying
- Regeneration
380.8 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 Undead
- 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
Undead, the simulator’s replays of the same character
- Tier 1 set bonuses
- +3.4%
- Gear 10% better
- +4.4%
- Gear 50% better
- +20.2%
- Hit from gear and talents
- 16.8%
- Out of mana, per fight
- Never