Races

ALLIANCE

Night Elf

Alliance race that keeps its Classic class combinations. Its racials are reworked into two active and two passive abilities.

Racials

  • Elune's Light

    Instant · 3 min cooldown. Increases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 10% for 15 sec.

    New in Forever

  • Shadowmeld

    Instant · 10 sec cooldown. Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Using this ability in combat discourages enemies from attacking you, but increases the cooldown to 2 min.

    In Classic: Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Night Elf Rogues and Druids with Shadowmeld are more difficult to detect while stealthed or prowling.

  • Quickness

    Passive. Dodge chance increased by 1% and movement speed increased by 2%, which stacks with other increases since October 15. Night Elf Rogues and Druids are harder to detect in Stealth as if they were 1 level higher.

    In Classic: Dodge chance increased by 1%.

  • Wisp Spirit

    Passive. Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing movement speed by 75%.

    In Classic: Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing speed by 50%.

If you play a Priest

  • Elune's Grace

    Instant · 5 min cooldown. Reduces the chance you'll be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for 15 sec or until you are missed 3 times.

    1 rank · level 20

  • Starshards

    Instant · 30 sec cooldown. Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 1800 Arcane damage over 6 sec.

    7 ranks · levels 10 to 58

Lore

The kaldorei, guardians of Kalimdor's forests, make their home in Teldrassil.

Available classes

Status
Confirmed
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What changes from Classic

What it was in Classic and what it is now, row by row.

—ClassicWoW Forever
ClassesClassic
  • Warrior
  • Hunter
  • Rogue
  • Priest
  • Druid
WoW Forever
RacialsClassic
  • Shadowmeld
  • Quickness
  • Wisp Spirit
  • Nature Resistance (removed)
WoW Forever
  • Elune's LightNew
  • Shadowmeld
  • Quickness
  • Wisp Spirit
Active and passiveClassicActive: 1 · passive: 3WoW ForeverActive: 2 · passive: 2

Classic data: wago.tools — SpellName and Spell from the Classic Era 1.15.9 client (patch 1.12)

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Data from beta client 1.60.1.70685, updated 29 Oct 2026.

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