{
  "name": "Best Alliance race for Shadow Priest in WoW Forever raids",
  "question": "What is the best Alliance race for Shadow Priest in WoW Forever raids?",
  "answer": "Human is the best Alliance race for Shadow Priest in WoW Forever raids: it wins 94% of our 10,000 simulated raid boss fights (9 in 10) on build 1.60.1.70450, ahead of Night elf (5%), Gnome (1%) and Dwarf (0%).",
  "page": "https://finsembleforever.com/lab/shadow-priest",
  "publisher": "Finsemble Forever",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "game": "World of Warcraft: Forever",
  "faction": "Alliance",
  "build": "1.60.1.70450",
  "simulated": "2026-10-19",
  "scenarios": 10000,
  "seed": 20261104,
  "sampling_error_points": 0.8,
  "measure": "share of the 10,000 simulated raid boss fights in which each race did the most damage; shares rounded to whole percents adding up to 100; racial worth = % damage gained over a priest with no racial",
  "ranking": [
    {
      "place": 1,
      "race": "Human",
      "share_pct": 94,
      "share_exact_pct": 93.79,
      "ci95_pct": [
        93.3,
        94.29
      ],
      "range_over_deciding_question_pct": [
        52,
        96
      ],
      "racial_worth_pct": {
        "median": 1.74,
        "p10": 1.67,
        "p90": 1.81
      }
    },
    {
      "place": 2,
      "race": "Night elf",
      "share_pct": 5,
      "share_exact_pct": 4.78,
      "ci95_pct": [
        4.37,
        5.18
      ],
      "range_over_deciding_question_pct": [
        3,
        30
      ],
      "racial_worth_pct": {
        "median": 0.94,
        "p10": 0.69,
        "p90": 1.38
      }
    },
    {
      "place": 3,
      "race": "Gnome",
      "share_pct": 1,
      "share_exact_pct": 1.43,
      "ci95_pct": [
        1.2,
        1.67
      ],
      "range_over_deciding_question_pct": [
        1,
        18
      ],
      "racial_worth_pct": {
        "median": 0.51,
        "p10": 0.4,
        "p90": 0.71
      }
    },
    {
      "place": 4,
      "race": "Dwarf",
      "share_pct": 0,
      "share_exact_pct": 0,
      "ci95_pct": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "range_over_deciding_question_pct": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "racial_worth_pct": {
        "median": 0.35,
        "p10": 0.21,
        "p90": 0.51
      }
    }
  ],
  "deciding_question": {
    "question": "Can damage-over-time crit in WoW Forever?",
    "odds_yes_in_model": 0.95,
    "shares_if_yes_pct": {
      "Human": 96,
      "Dwarf": 0,
      "Night elf": 3,
      "Gnome": 1
    },
    "shares_if_no_pct": {
      "Human": 52,
      "Dwarf": 0,
      "Night elf": 30,
      "Gnome": 18
    }
  },
  "fight_length": {
    "scenarios_per_length": 2000,
    "shares_pct_by_seconds": [
      {
        "seconds": 30,
        "Human": 0,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 100,
        "Gnome": 0
      },
      {
        "seconds": 45,
        "Human": 0,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 100,
        "Gnome": 0
      },
      {
        "seconds": 60,
        "Human": 0,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 100,
        "Gnome": 0
      },
      {
        "seconds": 90,
        "Human": 95,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 5,
        "Gnome": 0
      },
      {
        "seconds": 120,
        "Human": 99,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 0
      },
      {
        "seconds": 150,
        "Human": 96,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 3
      },
      {
        "seconds": 180,
        "Human": 98,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 1
      },
      {
        "seconds": 240,
        "Human": 98,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 1
      },
      {
        "seconds": 300,
        "Human": 97,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 2
      },
      {
        "seconds": 360,
        "Human": 97,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 1,
        "Gnome": 2
      },
      {
        "seconds": 480,
        "Human": 98,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 0,
        "Gnome": 2
      },
      {
        "seconds": 600,
        "Human": 98,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 0,
        "Gnome": 2
      },
      {
        "seconds": 900,
        "Human": 97,
        "Dwarf": 0,
        "Night elf": 0,
        "Gnome": 3
      }
    ]
  },
  "changes": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-19",
      "text": "Stress-tested and corrected. Two fixes in the damage engine (the Night elf's Starshards was hardly ever cast, and it got a hit bonus it shouldn't), smaller fixes in the healing model, and the odds of two open questions raised from the game's own spell data: damage over time can crit, 75% to 95%; Eureka! boosts Mind Flay, 50% to 85%. Shadow: Human 80% to 94%. Healing: Gnome 82% to 79%. Same build, same seed."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-18",
      "text": "Simulated and written, on build 1.60.1.70450."
    }
  ]
}