Racial abilities
Elune's Light
ActiveIncreases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 10% for 15 sec.
Shadowmeld
ActiveSlip into the shadows until you move. Usable in combat: enemies are discouraged from attacking you, but the cooldown becomes 2 min.
Quickness
Passive+1% Dodge, +2% run speed. Night Elf Rogues and Druids are harder to detect in Stealth as if 1 level higher. The speed bonus stacks with other movement speed increases.
Wisp Spirit
Passive+75% speed while dead.
Priest racials
Additional abilities available to Night Elf Priests. Fear Ward is now baseline for every Priest.
Elune's Grace
ActiveReduces your chance to be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for 15 sec, ending after 3 attacks miss you.
This is the Priest ability, separate from the racial Elune's Light.
Starshards
ActiveRains starshards on the target, dealing 762 base Arcane damage over 6 sec, increased by spell damage bonuses.
Rank 4 is learned at level 34. The base damage is six ticks of 127, before spell damage and talent bonuses.
Playable classes
5 classesClass synergies
Likely benefits based on the documented racial effects.
Rogue
Quickness makes a Night Elf Rogue harder to detect in Stealth as if one level higher. Elune's Light adds a temporary critical strike bonus for attacks.
Druid
Quickness makes a Night Elf Druid harder to detect in Stealth as if one level higher, while also adding dodge and run speed.
Hunter
Elune's Light boosts attack critical strike chance for 15 seconds, while Quickness adds run speed that helps with repositioning and keeping distance.
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.