Pick your class
The Alliance classes in WoW Forever and their talent trees, each ranked for single-target raid boss fights.
WarriorBefore launch
PaladinBefore launch
HunterBefore launch
RogueBefore launch
Priest2 answers
ShamanBefore launch
MageBefore launch
WarlockBefore launch
DruidBefore launch
Warrior
- Arms damageBefore launch
- Fury damageBefore launch
- Protection tankBefore launch
Paladin
- Holy healingBefore launch
- Protection tankBefore launch
- Retribution damageBefore launch
Hunter
- Beast Mastery damageBefore launch
- Marksmanship damageBefore launch
- Survival damageBefore launch
Rogue
- Assassination damageBefore launch
- Combat damageBefore launch
- Subtlety damageBefore launch
Priest
- Shadow damage
Human94%ResultsFull proof - Holy and Discipline healing
Gnome79%ResultsFull proof
Shaman
- Elemental damageBefore launch
- Enhancement damageBefore launch
- Restoration healingBefore launch
Mage
- Arcane damageBefore launch
- Fire damageBefore launch
- Frost damageBefore launch
Warlock
- Affliction damageBefore launch
- Demonology damageBefore launch
- Destruction damageBefore launch
Druid
- Balance damageBefore launch
- Feral tank or damageBefore launch
- Restoration healingBefore launch
Priest · damage
Shadow Priest
Human wins 9 in 10 of our 10,000 simulated raid fights (94%).
| Place | Race | Scenarios won | Range | Racial worth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Human | 94% | 52–96% | +1.7% |
| #2 |  Night elf | 5% | 3–30% | +0.9% |
| #3 | Gnome | 1% | 1–18% | +0.5% |
| #4 |  Dwarf | 0% | 0% | +0.3% |
- Why Human: Ruthless, +2% crit that is always on. It beats the Night elf's 15-second burst in any fight longer than about 1 min 30 s.
- If damage-over-time can't crit in WoW Forever, Human wins just over half: 52%, Night elf 30%, Gnome 18%. We test it on launch day.
- How much it matters: about 1.7% more damage. Pick what you love.
Priest · healing, Holy and Discipline
Holy Priest
Gnome wins 8 in 10 of our 10,000 simulated raid fights (79%).
| Place | Race | Scenarios won | Range | Racial worth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Gnome | 79% | 52–84% | +3.4% |
| #2 | Human | 21% | 16–48% | +2.1% |
| #3 | Night elf | 0% | 0% | +0.3% |
| #4 | Dwarf | 0% | 0% | +0.0% |
- Why Gnome: mana. 73% of our healing fights run out of mana before the boss dies, and the Gnome has the most of it.
- If MP5 on gear pays every second in WoW Forever, mana stops mattering and it's nearly a coin flip: Gnome 52%, Human 48%. We test it on launch day.
- How much it matters: about 3.4% more healing. Pick what you love.
How we do it
- Our own model, from the game files. Spells, talents and racials are read from the newest WoW Forever build (now 1.60.1.70450). Nothing is copied from a guide.
- 10,000 simulated raid fights per spec. Each draws a fight length, a raid, gear, buffs and every game value nobody has confirmed yet, and every race plays every fight.
- The open question, tested on launch day. Each page names the one unconfirmed mechanic that could change its answer, and how we test it.
- Checked against the open simulator. Where we disagree, the page says why.
- Locked before launch, graded after. After 9 December we grade every prediction against our own raid logs.
- Open data. Every result as a file, free to reuse with credit (CC BY 4.0): Shadow Priest (CSV, JSON); Holy Priest (CSV, JSON).