WoW Forever Races

What changes for races

• Official Every race has four racial abilities: two active and two passive, tuned to give a similar amount of offensive power while keeping each race's signature utility. Blizzard Entertainment
• Official Six new class and race combinations: Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock and Undead Paladin, with more planned in future updates. Blizzard Entertainment
• Official The Skyborne are a new playable race from Zephras Isle; you choose Horde or Alliance at character creation. Blizzard News
• Official A final racial pass landed on October 26, a week before launch, and it partly reverses the October 15 one. Blizzard says some of the new traits felt too generic while others were objectively stronger, so this pass prioritises racial identity and rolls back places where a role- or class-focused racial had been replaced by a generic one. Some races will therefore be slightly better at certain combat roles, which Blizzard states as a deliberate choice. Blizzard Entertainment (forums)
• Official The weapon racials are not coming back, and this is the one exception to the rollback. Blizzard's reason: however strong the fantasy, it is not healthy in the long run for future raid and dungeon loot tables to be evaluated through the lens of "required" weapon types. Human Sword Specialization is still Ruthless, now 1% critical strike chance with anything. Blizzard Entertainment (forums)
• Official Two racials announced on October 26 are removals with replacements: Dwarf Earth Fury goes, replaced by Artisan's Precision (1% hit chance with spells and attacks), and Orc Savage goes, with Command returning in its place (5% more Warlock and Hunter pet damage). In the live client (build 1.60.1.70707 with its server hotfixes) the Dwarf racial already gives 1% hit but is still named Earth Fury, and the Orc still has Savage, with no Command. Blizzard Entertainment (forums) · wago.tools
• Official The October 15 pass, now partly superseded: Human Sword Specialization became Ruthless, Orc Axe Specialization became Savage and Dwarf Mace Specialization became Earth Fury, all working regardless of the weapon you wield. Blizzard Entertainment (forums) · wago.tools
• Official The same October 15 update raised Tauren Endurance to 2% critical damage and healing (from 1% hit), Skyborne Wind Blessed to 3% Haste (from 1%) and Troll Regeneration to 20%, cut Orc Shatter Curse to a 5% Magic damage reduction and made Gnome Eureka! an 8-second buff. October 26 moved Endurance and Wind Blessed again; Regeneration, Shatter Curse and Eureka! were left alone. Blizzard Entertainment (forums) · Blizzard Entertainment (forums)
• Official The October 26 tuning in one list: Human Ruthless to 1% crit and The Human Spirit to 10% Spirit; Tauren Plainsrunning to 2% per stack and a 60% maximum with no mounted bonus, and Endurance back to 5% Health only; Orc Blood Fury back to a 2-minute cooldown; Troll Berserking to 15 seconds; Undead Touch of the Grave to a 15-second internal cooldown; Skyborne Wind Blessed to 2% Haste, Read Leyline to 50% regeneration with an hour of Attuned at a ley line restoring 100%, and Skysight to 15% speed with an hour of Charged at an elemental convergence raising it to 30%. Blizzard Entertainment (forums)

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