Complete WoW RACE Picking Guide (What To Play in 2024?)

A world of Warcraft beginner's class guide, where I break down all the different Race you can play describing unique move sets and how they impact your experience. More of a WoW new player guide or a refresher as the next expansion dragonflight is coming out later in 2022 as choosing the right race to play is important.

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0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Orc
1:33 - Undead
2:26 - Tauren
3:08 - Troll
3:47 - Blood Elf
4:22 - Goblin
4:55 - Nightborne
5:35 - Highmountain Tauren
6:11 - Mag'har
6:50 - Zandalari
7:27 - Vulpera
8:17 - Pandaren
8:58 - Dracthyr
9:54 - Huaman
10:25 - Dwarf
11:09 - Night Elf
11:43 - Gnome
12:17 - Draenei
12:55 - Worgen
13:33 - Void Elf
14:20 - Lightforged Draenei
15:07 - Dark Iron Dwarf
15:52 - Kul Tiran
16:30 - Mechagnome

Orc Race Guides

Undead Race Guide

Tauren Race Guide

Troll Race Guide

Blood Elf Race Guide

Goblin Race Guide

Pandaren Race Guide

Dracthyr Race Guide

Nightborne Race Guide

Highmountain Tauren Race Guide

Mag'har Orc Race Guide

Zandalari Race Guide

Vulpera Race Guide

Human Race Guide

Dwarf Race Guide

Night Elf Race Guide

Gnome Race Guide

Draenei Race Guide

Worgen Race Guide

Void Elf Race Guide

Lightforged Draenei Race Guide

Dark Iron Dwarf Race Guide

Kul Tiran Race Guide

Mechagnome Race Guide

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[petter]

I always start playing a new class or race and switch after a short time. this is the only game where i cant decide this things.

[taasch]

Mag'har Orcs and Orcs are my favorite. The Mag'har for asthetics but regular for practicality. But I love WoW orcs. My next favorite is Undead. After that I like Highnorne and Worgen.

[thequestbro]

A lot of weird info in this guide. Tauren's racial does not increase crit chance. It increases crit damage and crit heals by 2%.

[garrettangelici]

Gf wants me to start playing. So after years of dnd, Starwars, warhammer, it’s time to start world of Warcraft lol

[Cheap_Coffee]

For anyone new to World of Warcraft, no, The Horde is not the antagonist/evil faction... Both factions are equally evil/good, and anyone who've played WoW for more than a few weeks will tell you this.

[Rohan_Trishan]

Man those new Zandalari trolls look awesome, and OP. A troll race that finally stands up straight and doesn't have a hunchback. Plus that racial looks pretty interesting if u can choose whatever buff u wanna get.... can just pick whatever suits your class/spec the best. Looks amazing.... might have to consider playing it for my shaman.

[tonywo]

I wish they never made all these "subspecies" classes. I also wish they did make gnoll, murloc, and naga for the Horde.

[avian]

Vulpera's 'Make Camp' is actually super useful and underrated. I like to speed level new characters pretty often and I've found that I'm actually leveling faster with Vulpera than I am with Troll or any other race. Only downside is having to explain why I'm playing Vulpera lol. Humans Best race tho you can't change my mind

[SSquirrel]

Played WoW at launch on the Alliance side and until Draenei were released, all my characters were Dwarf or Gnome bc the HUmans still look awful and not a NElf fan either. Quit in LEgion and came back a month ago playing Horde w/friends. Need to unlock the ALliance races sometime and I'm looking to unlock a Dark Iron Dwarf first then use one to unlock everything else. Mage sounds like crazy travel potential paired w/mole machines

[LvlCritters]

first ever char was a forsaken warlock, then played a blood elf death knight, now years later am seeing all these new races always wanted to play like the nightborne, void elves and dark iron dwarfs, they look so cool! also the zandalari... oml undead trolls, as if trolls couldn't get better, and yet they did

[Valcreee]

Love the video, always great when you have relevant videos with explanations

[TruthJuice]

Pick what looks good to you or what fits the RP. In the end all you really care about are the aesthetics.

[ShadowTheHedgehogCZ]

I am pretty sure the Orcish blood fury also increases magical damage. It didn't use to do that until like Wrath (don't remember exactly when it started doing magical boost for classes that could do magical damage). It also reduced healing you would take as a drawback for some time. Good it's no longer doing that.
Also Tauren passive doesn't give you extra 2% chance to crit, it gives you extra 2% crit damage or healing. Meaning your chance to crit stays the same, but if you crit, it deals a little bit more damage or healing. I like that on my Tauren Elemental Shaman, because Lava Burst spell which is the main source of damage is guaranteed to crit basically all the time. So it gets 2% more damage all the time.
Blood Elf active ability used to instead of removing magical effects silence up to 5 enemies around you for 1.5 seconds I think. Basically an AoE interrupt. It was really powerful and useful, and it was like this all the way till the end of Legion. It being basically removed was the greatest downgrade in racials that was ever done. I don't remember ever using that ability after the nerf, except for misclick or misremembering that it no longer interrupts. It almost never happens that you can remove powerful magical effect from the enemy. Most really powerful ones cannot be removed, and the weak ones are a waste of global cooldown to remove. Plus it only works in melee.

[briansheets]

Darkspear Trolls are my ultimate favorite. Followed by the Forsaken, Zandalari, Dwarves/Dark Iron, and Worgen.

[swampbillies]

Legendary beards
Tasty Ale
And black powder guns
Dwarf is the Master Race🍻⚒️

[NFlashy]

Troll, undead, Orc and Tauren are my favorite. I only play horde. If I played alliance I’d go dwarf all day

[Lupinemancer]

The races have had several changes over the years, some good, some bad. I sometimes miss the old Racial Abilities.

[Patrious_WoW]

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL

[owlface]

Pretty straight forward, I like this guide.

[twotamatos]

I go Balance & resto Druid worgan that 1% crit buff is something Moonkins can take n the extra speed boost does help a bit as a moonkin, I then play for guardian and PvP a troll Druid beserk does help u get that little extra haste that makes a difference in dps to me. I play undead priest because lichborn is such a nice trait fr the amount of times it’s helped my team from wiping when everyone’s at red health n u all get mass feared only 1 priest or healers got a escape card unless they prep with buffs n trinkets potions etc but most Don’t, I play a holy palidan Tauren the lil smidge of extra range is nice as a melee class that vesitility buff never hurt anybody and a shaman dreanai very nice class combos I think took me a while to pin down the 4 I wanted tried goblin warlock and demon Hunter but did not find very much in them worth playing for the long haul I will go back to goblin warlock one day but yah for now really enjoying getting back into wow n finding my mains in the future I may look at Ironforge dwarf rouge or the new troll/elf race if they add them probably as a hunter or some new class I wish demon Hunter wasn’t the dog water it is now maybe one day it can start getting what blood knight started getting but as of war within I see no reason to play it