WoW Forever: best Druid race after the October racial changes

Quick answer

For Balance and Restoration, pick Skyborne on either faction. For Feral, Night Elf stays the Alliance pick and Tauren the Horde pick, above all for bear tanking.

Why Skyborne for casters: 3% haste is permanent and speeds every cast; Elune’s Light lasts 15 s every 3 min and Tauren’s new crit bonus only works on crits.

What the October 15 racial changes mean for Druid

Values from Blizzard’s October 15 beta notes, checked against the Forever tooltips on Wowhead. Blizzard may still tune the game before launch on November 4.

Skyborne — Wind Blessed

Permanent melee, ranged and spellcasting haste raised to 3% (was 1%).

Night Elf — Elune's Light

Not changed on October 15: +10% critical strike chance for 15 s every 3 min. Quickness speed now stacks with other speed bonuses.

Tauren — Endurance, War Stomp

Endurance: +5% total health and +2% critical strike bonus to damage and healing; the 1% hit chance is gone. War Stomp: 90 s cooldown (was 2 min).

Alliance races for Druid

Horde races for Druid

By specialization, and what we cannot measure

Feral cat: Skyborne’s haste also speeds melee swings, so it is a fair alternative to Night Elf or Tauren. We have no measured logs to rank them.

Bear: Tauren’s 5% health is unchanged and War Stomp comes back faster. The hit chance we cited before is gone.