Frequently asked questions

A free toolkit for World of Warcraft: Forever. It simulates your character with an engine built for your spec and shows which gear upgrades are worth it, your simulated DPS, HPS or effective health, BiS lists, talent builds and profession recipes. More on the About page.

Yes, everything is free, and there's no account or login.

No. Paste the public armory link of any character, or an export from our addon. If the armory is down, save the character page in your browser and upload the file.

No. Forever Upgrades is a fan-made site and isn't affiliated with, endorsed or approved by Blizzard Entertainment.

Yes. Every page works on phones and tablets as well as on a PC.

The number that matters when you pick gear is the difference: how much an item adds over the one you already wear. Your simulated total is shown once at the top of the results, and on the Sim DPS page.

They're simulations, so each has a small margin of error shown next to it, and some effects (mostly retail-only or location-only procs) are listed as “not simulated”. Use them to compare items and builds, not as a promise of what your meter will say.

Your character fights a boss 1,000 times in the sim - the rotation, spell ranks, mana, talents, procs, trinkets and set bonuses for your spec - and the result is the average. The same character and options always give the same result, so two items are compared fairly.

Healers by healing per second into a raid mix (a tank plus a five-player party) with mana that has to last the fight. Tanks by effective health against a boss three levels above them: dodge, parry, block, armor and Defense all count.

Under Options you can pick a fight of 1, 2, 3 or 5 minutes and a target that's a boss (your level +3), an elite (+2) or the same level as you. Short fights favour burst cooldowns; higher-level targets make hit and weapon skill worth more.

A default build for your spec and level - or your own build if you paste a talent calculator link under Options. An addon export already includes your talents, so they're used automatically.

An effect the sim can't model reliably, such as a proc that only works in one zone. Rather than guess, we list it with the result so you can judge it yourself.

It reads your character in game - class, spec, level, gear, enchants and talents - and turns it into a line of text you copy and paste into Find Upgrades or Sim DPS. Type /fup in game to open it. Get it on the Addon page.

The export is exactly what you're wearing right now, including talents, and it works even when the armory is slow, down or out of date.

Yes. It only reads your own character and shows the text in a box for you to copy. It doesn't send anything anywhere, and it doesn't change any game settings.

Yes. Exports from the earlier version of the addon are still accepted. New exports start with !FUP:.

At level 60, every spec wears its own BiS list - the Raid list (epic) or the Dungeon list (rare). At levels 50 and 30, every spec wears the same standard gear for its role. Then each one is simulated the same way. Click any spec in the rankings to see the gear, talents and buffs used.

For each slot, every item that spec can wear at that level is scored with the spec's simulated stat weights, and the best one wins - so it's ranked by the sim, not by guesswork. Pick a level of 30, 40, 50 or 60 on the BiS List page.

Your build is kept in the page link, so you can bookmark or share it, and in your browser so it's there next time. Nothing is saved on our server.

From the World of Warcraft: Forever game data files: every recipe's skill level, reagents and where to learn it.

Camping is a profession new to World of Warcraft: Forever. Its recipes build things for your camp, and other professions add their own camp features too. See it on the Professions page.

No. We use it only to answer your request and don't keep it afterwards. The site sets no cookies of its own. The privacy policy has the details.

Please report it with the armory link or addon export, the spec and what you expected. That's usually enough for us to reproduce and fix it.

Email support@foreverupgrades.com, or use the contact page.