Racial abilities
Will of the Forsaken
ActiveRemoves all Charm, Fear and Sleep effects. No longer grants immunity to those effects.
Cannot be used while affected by Scatter Shot.
Cannibalize
ActiveRegenerates 7% of total Health and 7% of total Mana every 2 sec for 10 sec from a Humanoid or Undead corpse; moving, acting or taking damage cancels it.
Cannot be used while immune to Physical damage.
Underwater Breathing
PassiveBreathe underwater 300% longer.
Touch of the Grave
PassiveDamaging spells and attacks can drain Health from the target, up to 5% of your maximum Health. The chance is 30% for Mages, Priests and Warlocks, or 20% for Paladins, Rogues and Warriors.
Triggers on cast, not periodic ticks or non-damaging abilities, and does not break crowd control. Shadow damage bonuses and lower spell ranks do not change the drain.
Priest racials
Additional abilities available to Undead Priests. Fear Ward is now baseline for every Priest.
Dark Sacrifice
ActiveAt level 30, consumes 680 of your own Health over 15 sec to restore 680 Mana plus your Spirit.
Rank 2 is learned at level 30. Health consumed and base Mana restored each rise by 5 per character level, reaching 720 at level 38; Spirit is added to the total Mana restored. The health loss does not break crowd control that normally breaks on damage.
Touch of Weakness
ActiveThe next melee attack against you deals 8 base Shadow damage to the attacker, increased by spell damage bonuses, and reduces their melee Attack Power by 43 for 2 min.
Rank 1 is learned at level 10. The self-buff lasts up to 10 min while waiting for an attack. The listed Mana cost is before cost reductions.
Playable classes
6 classesClass synergies
Likely benefits based on the documented racial effects.
Mage
Cannibalize restores both Health and Mana from a nearby Humanoid or Undead corpse, helping a Mage recover between fights. Damage or movement interrupts the recovery.
Paladin
Cannibalize replenishes both resources used by a Paladin, while Touch of the Grave gives attacks and spells a chance to drain health from enemies.
Priest
Dark Sacrifice supplies an extra Mana source at a Health cost. Cannibalize offers recovery of both resources when a suitable corpse is available.
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.