Racial abilities
Stoneform
ActiveRemoves and grants immunity to all Bleed, Poison and Disease effects, and reduces all Physical damage taken by 10% for 8 sec.
Find Treasure
ActiveTrack nearby treasure on the minimap until cancelled, alongside other tracking abilities. Also gives a chance to find extra items in most chests.
Artisan's Precision
Passive+1% chance to hit with spells and attacks.
Big Game Hunter
Passive+5% damage vs Beasts.
Priest racials
Additional abilities available to Dwarf Priests. Fear Ward is now baseline for every Priest.
Chastise
ActiveDeals Holy damage averaging 46 before spell damage bonuses and roots a Humanoid target for up to 2 sec. Causes very little threat.
Rank 1 is learned at level 20. Damage varies with each cast and benefits from spell damage. Fear Ward is available to every Priest.
Desperate Prayer
ActiveHeals you for an average of 149 Health at level 10, before healing bonuses.
Rank 1 is learned at level 10. The healing roll varies, increases with character level up to level 16, and benefits from healing power.
Playable classes
6 classesClass synergies
Likely benefits based on the documented racial effects.
Paladin
Stoneform adds physical damage reduction for tanking. Artisan's Precision helps a Paladin's attacks and offensive spells hit, with no weapon requirement.
Shaman
Artisan's Precision helps a Shaman's melee attacks and offensive spells hit. Its hit bonus does not improve healing spells.
Priest
Stoneform and Desperate Prayer add personal defenses, while Chastise gives a short root against Humanoids. These complement a Priest's healing and control tools.
Sources Updated
Racials include Blizzard's October 27 updates. Spell ranks and costs were checked against Forever beta client 1.60.1.70707 and its hotfixes.
Class synergies are inferred from the interactions between racial effects and class abilities.
- Blizzard · October 27 racial additions and Skyborne clarification
- Blizzard · October 26 final racial tuning
- Blizzard · October 15–16 beta racial overhaul
- Blizzard · October 1 beta fixes
- Blizzard · September 24 beta changes
- Blizzard · Forever Deep Dive recap
- Blizzard · Forever What's Next recap
- Talents Forever · racial data (CC BY 4.0)
- Warcraft Tavern · racial catalogue
- Warcraft Tavern · Priest racial abilities
Ability data adapted from TalentsForever by Chris Baldwin, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Game artwork belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.