WoW Forever Class Tier List

Beast Mastery Hunter scores best across all our lists. It depends on the goal though: Retribution Paladin, Beast Mastery Hunter and Frost Mage lead leveling, Survival Hunter and Retribution Paladin lead raids and Demonology Warlock lead PvP.

Beast Mastery Hunter and Retribution Paladin. The pet tanks while you learn your rotation from range.

Retribution Paladin, Beast Mastery Hunter and Frost Mage. Heavy armor, self heals and Seal damage make it the fastest leveler of the first beta week. Holy Strike hits harder since the September 24 build.

In dungeons Beast Mastery Hunter, Protection Paladin, Discipline Priest, Enhancement Shaman and Marksmanship Hunter, in raids Survival Hunter and Retribution Paladin. Survival stays in S: first of our 20 damage specs in the raid sim of November 6 with 1264 from a record of November 4 that the sim did not re-run, still far ahead of everyone else. That number weaves Auto Shots between melee hits, and pure melee did 921 on November 3, just above the middle of the field. Low confidence, because one sim backs it and no level 60 raid has been tested.

Protection Paladin. The best tank in WoW Forever right now, in dungeons and raids. Every public list puts Protection Paladin first. Plate, Holy Shield, Consecration and Lay on Hands cover trash packs and long boss fights alike. The launch changes of November 2 raise threat for every tank: Righteous Fury adds 33% to all threat plus 90% on Holy damage, a Warrior's Defensive Stance 80% and Bear Form 115%. In the raid sim of November 3 it makes 1517 threat per second on one boss, behind the bear (2543) and Protection Warrior (1919). Threat on one boss is not survival and says nothing about holding a pack, so the order of the tanks stays.

Discipline Priest. Discipline sits at the top of every list, for dungeons and raids. Blizzard calls the Priest the most versatile healer, and Power Infusion boosts a caster on top. Shields and Penance cover spike damage and steady raid damage. Penance was toned down on October 8, it had paid out like a 3 sec channel instead of 2 sec.

Demonology Warlock. Soul Link sends 30% of the damage you take to your demon and adds 3% damage. It sits on the 20 point row, so a Demonology Warlock has it at level 30. With Fear, Death Coil, a Felhunter's Spell Lock or a Succubus' Seduction you control most fights and take far less damage while you do it. The launch changes of November 2 give Warlock pets 2 Health per point of your Stamina (was 7.5), so the demon that soaks your Soul Link damage has far less health, and there are no PvP results with the build yet. Warlocks won the Forever Open at level 30: the grand final was Warlockguy against Neepzen, both Demonology Warlocks with Soul Link, and Warlocks won 60% of qualifier duels, second only to Paladins. LePrestore grades Demonology S for duels at level 30 and WoW Forever Info for level 60, Mobalytics grades Warlocks as a class S, and on the overall boards ConquestCapped has it in S, wowforevertierlist and RankedBoost in B. The overall boards split, but the only results that name the spec, the two Demonology finalists, back it, so it stays the only S overall. In the open world it falls from A to B, both world lists grade it B, LePrestore for level 30 and WoW Forever DB for level 60.

Beast Mastery Hunter. The pet eats the pull instead of you, the safest first Hardcore character.

Each list grades something else: how leveling feels in the beta, damage at 60 or the design of the talents. That is why we split our lists into leveling, dungeons, raids and PvP.

With every patch. This version is checked against the live client 1.60.1.70790, the beta stopped at level 30. No big tuning is planned before the raids open on December 9, only fixes for bugs and serious outliers, then a larger pass once enough players are past level 30, a plan, not a promise. We rank again for level 60 as level 60 results come in.