WoW Forever Race Tier List

What This Page Answers

This page asks how much race moves a simulated number, and which races lead the published boards. It doesn't choose your race. For one Alliance and one Horde pick per class, use the best race for each class guide.

No race ranking built from logged fights exists yet. New raids unlock December 9, and we found no published level 60 log data split by race on November 8.

How Much Race Moves Damage

MythicSim's Survival Hunter board is the example its race page opens with. Each race keeps the same gear, talents, rotation and fight, against a level 63 target for 120 seconds, give or take 15.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: MythicSim: Race tier list, Survival (weave) Hunter, engine aa4123f, 10,000 iterations per race, snapshot Nov 8, 2026, level 60.

Rows are sorted alphabetically by race, so position says nothing about strength.

Swipe sideways to see all columns.

The full spread here is 2.33%, or 29.8 DPS. MythicSim's own bands are narrow: S is within 1% of the top, A is over 1% to 2%, B is over 2% to 3%, and C is over 3%. It says those bands "only describe this preset."

Our read: on this board, a change of gear or playstyle moves the number more than race does. MythicSim's DPS board shows Survival losing roughly a quarter of its damage if played in full melee instead of weaving, which dwarfs the race spread.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: MythicSim: DPS tier list, Nov 8, 2026 snapshot, level 60.

This is one spec's board. Other specs have their own spreads, and we only checked this one in detail.

Which Races Lead the Most Boards

MythicSim counts how many of its 34 preset boards each race tops, ties included, so the counts add up to more than 34. Rows are sorted alphabetically by race.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: MythicSim: Race tier list, Winners and losers, client 70630 to 70707, Nov 8, 2026 snapshot.

Tauren and Troll don't appear in MythicSim's change list, so the page gives no count for them. A count of boards also favors races that can play many of the simulated classes, and it includes experimental hybrids. A Paladin board has only three eligible races, for example.

What These Sims Leave Out

The biggest race arguments are about things no damage sim measures. MythicSim says survivability, control, utility, PvP and healing sit outside this comparison, and that creature-specific bonuses are inactive on its neutral target.

• Survivability and control are not ranked.
• Shadowmeld is not ranked.
• Stoneform is not ranked.
• Beast damage bonuses are inactive here.
• Tauren's 5% health isn't counted as damage.

MythicSim also warns that some racials "are only partly modelled and can matter more than the DPS gaps below."Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: MythicSim: Race tier list, Nov 8, 2026 snapshot.

PvP race data is thin as well. The Forever Open duel tournament was Horde only at level 30, so it can't compare the two factions' racials.

Racial Tuning Has Been Moving

The numbers above describe one build of a game that's still changing. Blizzard's November 2 notes fixed base stats for all races, for example giving Tauren Warriors the correct +5 Strength relative to Human Warriors (was incorrectly +2). High Order and Windshaper Skyborne got the same fix.Confirmed, a first-party sourceSource: Blizzard: Beta Development Notes, post 9, Bug Fixes, checked Nov 8, 2026.

MythicSim's race count shifted across that same update, with Gnome rising from 5 boards to 8. Current racial wording lives on our racials guide, and the race and class combos tool shows which pairings exist.

Blizzard plans further class changes on November 10.Confirmed, a first-party sourceSource: Blizzard: Class Tuning Incoming, Kaivax, Nov 6, 2026, checked Nov 8, 2026. Those named changes target classes rather than racials, but any change to a spec's stats can change which racial suits it.

How to Use This

Treat race as a tie-breaker on damage and a real choice on utility. Pick your class first, then:

1. Read your class row in the best race guide.
2. Check the tooltips on the racials guide.
3. Confirm the pairing in the combos tool.
4. Weigh control and survival above a small damage gap.

Race doesn't change which route you level on. Compare RestedXP and Zygor Guides in Zygor vs RestedXP.