Allied Races Overview

Racials: Dungeon Delver, Fireblood, Forged in Flames, Mass Production
Mole Machine is an additional fun racial. Players discover Mole Machines around the world, unlocking additional teleports.

Tabard of the Dark IronReady for WarKul Tiras HumanComplete Kul Tiras Human Guide

Customization Options: Kul Tiras Male, Kul Tiras Female

Heritage Armor: Kul Tiran Set

Mount: Kul Tiran Charger

Racials:
Brush It Off: Increase Versatility and regenerate a portion of damage taken.

Child of the Sea: Hold your breath longer and swim faster.

Haymaker: Haul off and punch an enemy, stunning and knocking them back.

Jack of All Trades: Increases skill in every tradeskill.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Reduces Frost and Nature damage taken.

Tabard of Kul TirasA Nation UnitedZandalari TrollsComplete Zandalari Troll Guide

Customization Options: Zandalari Male, Zandalari Female

Heritage Armor: Zandalari Armor

Mount: Zandalari Direhorn

Racials:
Embrace the Loa: Pray to a Loa and gain their favor.

City of Gold: Loot additional coin from monsters.

Regeneratin’: Concentrate to heal quickly over a short time.

Pterrordax Swoop: Can whistle up a Pterrordax to glide you to the ground.

Tabard of the ZandalariZandalar Forever!MechagnomeComplete Mechagnome Guide

Customization Options: Mechagnome Male, Mechagnome Female

Heritage Armor: Mechagnome Armor

Mount: Mechagon Mechanostrider

Racials:
Hyper Organic Light Originator: Summon 2 Organic Light duplicates to distract your foes. 3 minute cooldown.

Combat Analysis: You gather and analyze combat data every 5 sec, increasing your primary stat by 50, stacking up to 8 times. The data decays while out of combat.

Master Craft: You function as a personal Blacksmithing Anvil, Cooking Fire, and Mining Forge. In addition, your limbs include every profession tool.

Re-Arm: When you fall below 20% health, heal for 20% of your maximum health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 2.5 min.

Skeleton Pinkie: Allows opening of locked chests and doors on a level similar to yours.

Mechagonian TabardThe Mechagonian ThreatVulperaComplete Vulpera Guide

Customization Options: Vulpera Male, Vulpera Female

Heritage Armor: Vulpera Armor

Mount: Caravan Hyena

Racials:
Bag of Tricks: Pull your chosen trick from the bag and use it on target enemy or ally. Enemies take damage, while allies are healed. 1.5 minute cooldown.

Rummage Your Bag:: Change the contents of your Bag of Tricks.

Make Camp: Make a camp at this location. Can only be used outdoors.

Return to Camp: Return to your camp. 1 hour cooldown.

Fire Resistance: Reduces Fire damage taken by 1%.

Nose For Trouble: When you first take damage from an enemy, reduce that damage by 5% of your maximum health.

Tabard of the VulperaSecrets in the SandsEarthenComplete Earthen Guide

Customization Options: Earthen Male, Earthen Female

Heritage Armor: Vulpera Armor

Mount: Slatestone Ramolith

Racials:
Azerite Surge: Draw upon your inner strength. Release to invoke the power of Azerite on a cone in front of you, dealing Fire damage. 2-minute cooldown. This is an empowered spell that gains additional effects as you empower it:

I: Deals Fire damage.

II: Heals allies hit by the effect.

III: Deals additional Fire damage to the highest health enemy hit by the effect.

Quiet Contemplation:Hyper Productive:Ingest Minerals:

Amber: Stamina

Emerald: Haste

Onyx: Mastery

Ruby: Critical Strike

Sapphire: Versatility

Titan-Wrought Frame:Wide-Eyed WonderDornogal TabardAllied Races: Earthen

Comments

Comment by 1835829

What I would love to figure out is if I can do a paid race change to one of the allied races with a character that's already 110? I want to change my rogue to a void elf and my paladin to a lightforged draenei. BOTH being level 110.

I used a horde as my main for Legion, but will be playing alliance in BoA. I'm pretty sure that my horde character has already met all of the requirements to unlock both of the allied races I want to race change to and if not, it'll be fairly easy to complete. So I'm also wondering if I'll need to do the special quest achievement with the horde character that is exalted and has completely the 'You Are Now Prepared' achievement or if because all of this is supposed to be account-wide, I'll just be able to do the special quests on my alliance characters?

Any info, ESPECIALLY regarding the race changes would me much appeciated. Thanks!

Comment by Waterfuzz

It's all about getting both kinds of elves for both factions, slight color variations aside.
Who cares about the rest.

Comment by AhriBot

Feels like the Alliance got the short straw on this. All their new races are just recolors and pretty bland ones at that. I mean if thats all they were going to do, why not just give us High Elves instead of these Void Elves. Their story could be about preserving their race and proving their loyalty to the Alliance. Still, I would have preferred something more interesting....like the Furbolgs or the Rockpool Murlocs. Give us something unique, because it feels like we keep getting shafted in the last few expansions.

Comment by Kritter

So not really sure what they mean by no leveling boost? Does that mean just the paid for level 100 boost and stuff like that? And what about flasks and stuff that give short experience boosts or even wearing heirloom armor that gives extra experience not allowed as well? I kinda know the answer but it's not really clear to me...

Comment by Xioo

You can update this, with the playable classes as they are now listed on the blue page here

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/battle-for-azeroth/features/allied-races

Comment by Cinlailiel

You do NOT need a level 110 on the server you would like to make the allied race on, you just need to unlock the race. Just made a Nightborne on a server that I do not have anything past level 21.

Comment by Mudmug

Do you guys know if the mount count increases if you still get the oppossing races mounts?

For example, I am Horde but if I want that sweet +2, I should also get the Alliance allied races mounts? Or it wouldn’t work because my Horde cannot use Alliance mounts?

Comment by fitsou

Guys I have all the Requirement to get the Horde races but the game says it is still locked! do i need a 110 lvl char on the horde side?

Comment by Tyrexx99

Ok bear with me. I have a 100 paladin that I plane to change to Lightforged. Let's call him A. I'm leveling a Lightforge so I can get the heritage armor. Let's call him B.
Can I can level B to 110 then level A to 120 and still get the heritage armor?

Comment by SilverDragon234

We all know the Horde does not deserve the Nightborne. Really! Liadrin showed no sympathy to the nightborne whatsoever!

Comment by kbeach

Will these allied races require the rep when Battle for Azeroth is released? I would think there would be some sort of change that would help out some of the returning players like myself. I wouldn't enjoy going back to a legion zone just to farm rep to play the new races.

Comment by 1004646

Can I get all the four mounts on the same character? I play on Alliance.

Comment by Tygokoth

Not everything in the grind is account-wide. I completed "Good Suramaritan" on my Alliance main, but when I went to unlock Nightborne on my Horde main, it showed that I needed to complete that achievement on that character as well.

Comment by Korwynd

What about linked accounts? If you have something that is account bound, that usually includes linked accounts like as currently the case with heirloom gear, mounts, pets, toys and achievements, so does this include the allied races unlocks?

Comment by Korwynd

So you can create a monk with 3 of the 4 allied races, but still not with Goblins nor Worgen? If the excuse is that it doesn't fit in with the lore, then the allied races should be excluded there as well since they appear much later in the game.

Comment by korval

I don't understand what Blizzard is doing here. The level of grind to unacceptable. They should introduce players to the allied classes through a quest line, and not a crazy ass quest line like Balance of Power.

Comment by LiunaDodgers

we are asking for Ogre and Naga Races for years, we need something different and blizzard wastes time and resources to make a Tauren with different horns.

Comment by cshellyb

Question - I race changed my existing 110 hunter to Nightborne. Obviously I cannot earn the Heritage armor on this character.

However, if I was to level another Nightborne from 20 to 110, is my 110 hunter able to use the Heritage armor mog set ?

I haven't been able to find any definitive answers anywhere :(

Thanks!

Comment by nomad3d

So, I'm exalted with the Nightfallen. I completed Insurrection. I pre-purchased Battle for Azeroth... but still can't create a Nightborne. Not sure why... Is there a step that I'm missing somewhere?

Comment by sisterbiglips

Is it possible to build both a night borne and a high mountain tauren? I have leveled up a night borne and went to build a tauren and am unable to make that work. So that is my question>

Comment by Zythor

Someone stop the GCD changes in BFA before it is to late!
The Global Cool Down or GCD is being altered so dramatically that one of the foundational aspects of the game will be removed ability macros. They allow a player to SOMETIMES link 2-5 abilities together on one keystroke. The more abilities you attempt to link together the harder it is to get them to work correctly. They are one of the coolest, most unique, and wonderful aspects of WoW. They are one the reasons some people still play the game today. So not only would the pace of the game be slowed by the GCD change but one of the core elements will be totally removed. Please assist me in stopping this from happening. With either a constructive comment or up vote.

If you remove a element from the foundation of a building what happens? The building falls down.

Comment by Nighteye

Why does the horde get two of the allied races being able to be druid but only one for alliance and thats the only class option they have?

Comment by VictorFisk

So, let me get this straight. If I want my already existing Human Paladin lvl110 to be Lightforged with the heritage armor set, I will not only need to pay for a race change, but also level another Lightforged Paladin to 110?

Comment by freebird33

so you need to lvl from 20 to 110 with out heirlooms just to unlock cosmetice gear no thank would take forever

Comment by lycanthropic

Blizzard needs to make more Horde races with paladins. Battle for Azeroth introduces 2 new Alliance races that can roll pally, bringing their total to five (Human, Draenei, Dwarf, Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarf) while Horde is still stuck with just two (Blood Elf and Tauren). And yes, I know Dark Iron and Lightforged are technically races that already have paladins, but isn't it time for some Undead pally action yet?

Comment by Phits

I just completed all the Saumar stuff and yet nothing in Insurrection is counted. Is it Faction locked or something? I am on Alliance do I need to be Horde?

Comment by Mykhayla

I've completed the quest chain and farmed rep with Army of the Light for weeks. I finally got to exalted today, but it's still saying I need to unlock an achievement. All of the allied races say this. The Attunement Tool says I'm 100% complete. Does anyone know what that achievment could be? I've been playing a draenei death knight and want to unlock the lightforged draenei.

Comment by SylvanElf

whoa...what? So, I've been busting my ass in suramar getting all these quests done on my Alliance character, and After Insurection is complete I won't be able to do the recruitment quest?

Comment by 1885216

Hey guys, I was just wondering if I have the rep and achievements done for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren on my alliance character do the races unlock or do I need to do the scenarios on a Horde character. Secondly if they do unlock am I able to make the characters on a different realm that has no Horde toons? Thanks for any help!

Comment by 1885780

hello you could say i'm new but i have just been using wowhead without an account but now i have an account i just thought i'd let ya'll know :3

Comment by Chibchub123

Un-subbed and got a full refund on pre-ordering BFA because they gated the allied races behind a pointless rep grind instead of behind a quest, as the pre-order page states. Just a little tip for anyone looking to get their money back after being tricked into buying an expansion, just to find out you have to do a lot of grinding to try out the new races. Genuinely only bought this next expansion because I wanted to level as the new races to check them out.

Comment by pelaaja0

Once earned, the heritage armors can be used by any alts of their race, including low level, boosted and race changed ones.

Comment by sempermaria

I have a lvl 110 ally character who has exalted rep with the Nightborne, and I finished the first part of A Call For Allies on a separate (but also 110) ally character in the same realm.

I wanted to unlock the Nightborne, so I got a 110 Horde character on a separate realm but the Nightborne still isn't unlocked.

I've finished the Suramar quests on the Ally character. (Insurrection achieve), but since the Nightborne isnt unlocked, does that mean it needs the Horde char to get that achieve or that rep too?

Comment by Mehazael

The quest A Choice of Allies didn't pop up for me, despite having the required achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain, having pre-purchased Battle for Azeroth, and completed War of Thorns quest chain. So I opened a ticket, and apparently you also have to complete the achievement Welcome to Zandalar. That information wasn't in the Blizzard support articles earlier, but it seems to be there now.

Comment by Niklicious

Now that BFA has launched support says:

"... you will likely need to complete the introduction quests to Zandalar/Kul TIras before you can unlock an allied race."

If anybody has details on what that entails more specifically that'd be great.

Comment by taxi4dave

So, it's safe to say that Bliz completely forgot about Hozen/Jinyu officially joining the Horde/Alliance?
I WANT MY ZORA DAMMIT!

Comment by Illiojo

Question: Example, if I unlock Dark Iron Dwarf, make a new D.I.Dwarf hunter at lvl 20, then level that D.I.Dwarf up to lvl 110 and get the heritage armor.
Can I then Race Change my lvl 120 human warrior to a D.I.Dwarf and still get the heritage armor?

Comment by 1916625

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Comment by 1917954

Cant seem to comment this on the dark iron specific guide but does anyone know if we will unlock the dark iron wepons from the dark iron allied race guide pictures when we get to 110 with a dark iron dwarf?

Comment by SirJibb

FYI for those who have more than one account, you will need to unlock the allied race(s) on each account if you want them on both.

Comment by BergyLettuce

I Have my own question if i get exatled with highmountain or get the achivement on my alliance and then move to my horde can i still unlock them?
i Really dont want to do the 11 chapters of suramar on my horde for nightborne.

Comment by Lance1582

If I have a 110 Rogue lvl'd from 1-110 with no boosts and change to Kul Tiran, will the heritage armor still be accessible?

Comment by BandX

Because you didn't start BfA unlocking the last two allied races it might be easy to forget to go to SW and start the quests at the Embassy. Even if you complete the above stated requirements, this is the first unmentioned one that has to be done prior to recruiting either race into your camp (you can't roll one).

Comment by drpimento

Is it just me or is the Ku Tiran humans more difficult than the other races to unlock? For some of the others by the time I got exalted with the appropriate faction I was just about ready to go to Stormwind to start the final process. But with the Kul Tiran humans I'm nowhere near close after getting exalted with proudmoore and it's very tedious trying to figure it all out as some requirements are listed under one heading another requirements are listed under another and some of them are listed under both and it's a pain in the ass.

Comment by Amatir

Is Heritage armour account wide for that allied race once unlocked?

Comment by Dhae

Weren't allied races added in Legion?

Comment by Preonix

Starting from patch 10.1.5, all restrictions for unlocking Allied Races have been removed, with the exception of a level requirement.
All Allied Races can now be unlocked once you have a level 40 character on your account (was level 50). Blue post

Original author: Povelitel

Comment by Viserate

Why no heritage armor of Pandarians?

Comment by NoahBody

This page needs to be updated with the Earthen race for both Alliance and Horde.

Allied Races Overview

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