They support their allied on the front lines with advanced healing spells, but can wield the power of Light to smite their enemies. Priests are devoted to the spiritual, and express their faith by serving the people. These mercenaries rely on brutal and efficient tactics to sneak, backstab, and deal massive damage.
They build lifelong partners through their pets and drop their foes with ranged combat.įor rogues, the only code is the contract.
Hunters are drawn to the wilds and endure in the unforgiving primal world. The call of the Paladin is to protect the weak, bring justice to the unjust, and vanquish evil from the darkest corners of the world. Warriors combine strength, leadership, and a vast knowledge of arms and armor to wreak havoc in glorious combat. For the Horde there are: Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Mag'har Orc, Zandalari Troll, and Vulpera races. For the Alliance there are: Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarf, Kul Tiran, and Mechagnome races. The following races need to be recruited to your faction’s cause in-game before you can play them. Allied Races | Both Alliance and Horde heroes can discover new allies by exploring faraway lands.Alliance | The Grand Alliance faction is set to bring the Light to the less civilized races of Azeroth, and have gathered the Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Draenei, and Worgen under their banner, along with the Pandaren who choose to join them.Horde | Once they were the ‘bad guys’ in the Warcraft RTS games now they are a powerful faction made up of the Orc, Troll, Tauren, Undead, Blood Elf, and Goblin races, along with the Pandaren who choose to join them.NPC quest givers may be found throughout Azeroth, from busy city streets, to dungeons, battlegrounds, raid locations, to out in the open world. Magic, Mystery, and Adventure | At the core, WoW is about obtaining and completing quests, of which there is no shortage to be found.
As characters advance in level, so do their skills, weapons, armor, equipment, locations discovered, monsters defeated, NPCs met, quests completed, and adventures had, all with no worry of ever reaching ‘the end’.
Created by Blizzard Entertainment, and based on the Warcraftseries of RTS games first released in the mid 1990s, WoW expanded on the early Warcraft single player franchise and is now a vibrant multiplayer world, where players may engage in roleplaying, PvE, PvP, dungeon instances, battlegrounds, arenas, and raids.Īzeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion's crusade - but even as the world's wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove hardest to mend. Players enter the world of Azeroth, a fantasy realm of swords and sorcery, exotic races, mystical creatures, world turmoil, high adventure, and war. World of Warcraft is one of the premier subscription MMORPGs, and has helped spread the entire genre into mass markets across the globe.