WoW Forever Shaman
All three Shaman capstones are new, which is only true of Shaman and Warlock. Lava Burst caps Elemental and deals 20% more damage while your Flame Shock is on the target. Riptide caps Restoration. Rage of the Farseer caps Enhancement, which is rebuilt around the removal of its weapon talents. Spirit Weapons now modulates threat depending on whether Rockbiter is active, and Water Shield restores mana when you are hit or a heal crits, so it competes with the other shields rather than sitting idle.
Sim status
Shaman for Forever: Quick Sim live in beta
MythicSim is integrating the open-source wowsims engine, via its community Forever fork, as a second backend. The engine is theirs; MythicSim adds the hosting and the one-click front end. Quick Sim ships first, checked against live beta data from 17 September 2026. Stat priorities, trinket boards and a droptimizer follow once beta gear and loot tables exist. Retail Midnight sims are unaffected.
What changes for Shaman
Dwarf Shamans are new to the Alliance and the Skyborne can be Shamans on the Horde side. That ends the era of Shaman being a Horde-only class outside of the Draenei timeline, and it means Alliance raids get Windfury Totem at launch.
Two-Handed Axes and Maces and Weapon Mastery are removed, which with Expertise replacing weapon skill means an Enhancement Shaman's weapon choice is decided by the sim, not by which talents unlock the weapon.
Specs
- Elemental ShamanDPS
Lava Burst gives the caster tree a hard-hitting cooldown instead of a Lightning Bolt loop, and its capstone is new.
Capstone: Lava Burst
- Enhancement ShamanDPS
Two-Handed Axes and Maces and Weapon Mastery are gone; the tree is rebuilt around a new capstone.
Capstone: Rage of the Farseer
- Restoration ShamanHealer
Riptide adds an instant heal-over-time and a new capstone closes the tree.
Capstone: Riptide
New spells and talents
New spells
- Lava Burst
- Riptide
New talents
- Rage of the Farseer
Removed
- Two-Handed Axes and Maces
- Weapon Mastery
From the BlizzCon 2026 demo build via the community talent calculators. Beta will change some of this; the page is updated as it does.
Races
Dwarf, Orc, Tauren, Troll, Skyborne (Horde). Dwarf Shaman is new to Forever. The Skyborne can be Shamans on the Horde side. Racials are rebuilt so no two races share a passive and weapon skill racials are gone, which is why race is a real sim input in Forever.
What the Shaman sim has to model
Beyond the engine-wide changes (unified hit and crit, Expertise, bonus healing as spell damage, periodic crits), these are the Shaman-specific pieces the Forever engine needs before a stat weight for this class means anything.
- Lava Burst in the Elemental rotation with a new capstone effect.
- An Enhancement build with no weapon-type talents and Expertise instead of weapon skill.
- Bonus healing counting toward spell damage for Elemental gearing.
Shaman trinket boards
One board per spec, ranked on the Forever engine once beta data lands. Each page already lists every trinket a Shaman can equip at 60 and where it drops.
Other Forever classes
Common questions
Is there a WoW Forever Shaman sim?
A beta one, at /wow-forever/sim. MythicSim runs the open-source wowsims Forever engine (a community fork of wowsims/classic, not a MythicSim engine) as a second backend, with Shaman on its new talent trees. Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number. Talent values are being checked against beta data from 17 September 2026; launch is 4 November 2026.
What new spells does Shaman get in WoW Forever?
Lava Burst, Riptide. New talents include Rage of the Farseer.
Which races can be a Shaman in WoW Forever?
Shaman can be played by Dwarf, Orc, Tauren, Troll, Skyborne (Horde) in World of Warcraft: Forever. Dwarf Shaman is new in Forever. The new Skyborne race can be a Shaman on the Horde side only.
What are the Shaman specs in WoW Forever?
Elemental (DPS), Enhancement (DPS), Restoration (Healer). Forever keeps the three Classic trees for every class and reworks their contents; there are no new specs.
Do I need a /simc string to sim a Forever Shaman?
No. The SimulationCraft addon is retail-only. Forever sims will use a Classic-style character export addon that MythicSim ships with the sim. Until it is live, this page is reference material for the class changes.
Beta
Sim your Forever Shaman
Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number for your talent spec. Progress is posted in the MythicSim Discord and the changelog.