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Races

During character creation, you’ll need to select a race.

Alliance

Human

Humans are something of the benchmark race, as they’re fairly average stat-wise. They have the ability to select from more classes than any other Alliance race, though.

Dwarf

This stout race possesses the highest natural strength and stamina of all the Alliance races, undoubtably due to the centuries spent mining and excavating. They do suffer from low agility scores, though.

Gnomes

The much-maligned gnomes are a race that have been exiled from their city of Gnomeregan due to the influx of Troggs and Dark Dwarves, who’ve burst up from even further below the already underground capital and taken it over. As such, the survivors have now banded together with the Dwarves of Ironforge and now devise plans to take back their city from its invaders.Gnomes possess preternatural intellect and agility, but possess less strength and stamina than other races, due to their slight frames.

Night Elf

Although no longer immortal after the fall of the World Tree, the Night Elves still put up barriers between themselves and the other mortal races, even if they do consider themselves to be part of the Alliance against the Horde. This is represented in-game by the fact that the Night Elves’ starting area is located halfway across the world from that of the Humans and Dwarves; it’s quite difficult to make it from Darnassus to either Ironforge or Stormwind, so if you’re planning on creating characters and playing with your friends, you’ll probably want to either all be Night Elves or have no one be one.Statistically speaking, Night Elves gain large bonuses to their agility upon character creation, making them naturally suited for players who want to become rogues or hunters.

Horde

Tauren

The Tauren are perhaps the least familiar race in the Warcraft universe, having made their first appearance only in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Regardless, this noble species has made an alliance with the Orcs and the Trolls of the Horde, pledging to defend their common borders against external threats.Tauren receive a large bonus to strength upon character creation, making them ideal warriors, but they’re also the only Horde race that’s able to become druids. They are less agile and intellectual than other races, though.

Orc

Although the Orcs have freed themselves from the blood curse of the Burning Legion, their place in Azeroth is tenuous at best. They’ve situated themselves in a barren land, and are still beset by the Night Elves nearby and the traditional forces of the Alliance across the sea.Orcs are more average in their stat choices than most other races, with only a bonus to strength being out of the ordinary.

Troll

The Trolls of Azeroth are a diverse bunch, as you’ll see when you reach the jungles of Stranglethorn Vale. Although many stick to supersticious barbarism, the Darkspear Tribe has allied themselves with Thrall and the Orcs in their struggle to create a new Horde homeland, and, as such, have created a small village of their own in Durotar, near the Orcish starting area.Trolls are the most agile of the Horde races, making them natural hunters and rogues.

Undead

Although the Lich King still plans to turn all of Azeroth into undead minions, the birth of the Forsaken gives all races some kind of ironic hope; although the Forsaken is monstrously evil, and indeed is advancing in its own plans to initiate a new plague of undeath across all the lands, they at least have resisted the enthrallment of the Lich King and act autonomously of his rule, instead following the lead of their queen Sylvanas, a fallen High Elf.Undead characters gain the benefit of higher spirit and intellect than other Horde races, but are somewhat lacking in pure physical strength.