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Night Elf Alliance

Five Alliance classes, with Shadowmeld, Elune's Light and increased running speed.

Racial abilities

Elune's Light

Active
Instant 3 min cooldown

Increases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 10% for 15 sec.

Shadowmeld

Active
Instant 10 sec cooldown

Slip 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

Active
3% base Mana Instant 5 min cooldown

Reduces 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

Active
Rank 4 190 Mana 30 yd range Channeled 30 sec cooldown

Rains 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 classes
Druid Hunter Priest Rogue Warrior

Class synergies

Likely benefits based on the documented racial effects.

Rogue
Quickness · Elune's Light

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

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 · Quickness

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.

Ability data adapted from TalentsForever by Chris Baldwin, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Game artwork belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.

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