Night Elf in WoW Forever: racials, classes and what's new

What are the Night Elf racials in WoW Forever?

Night elves have four racial traits in WoW Forever, two active and two passive: Elune's Light and Shadowmeld, which you activate, and Quickness and Wisp Spirit, always on. Compared with Classic Era: 1 new and 3 changed. The texts and numbers below come from the game files of the Forever beta (build 1.60.1.70532), the old ones from Classic Era 1.15.9.70003.

• Elune's Light

  New

  Active, instant, 3 min cooldown

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

  In practice: A damage cooldown: more critical strike chance for spells and attacks for a few seconds, for every class.

• Shadowmeld

  Changed

  Active, instant, 10 sec cooldown

  Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Using this ability in combat discourages enemies from attacking you, but increases the cooldown to 2 min.

  New values

  In Classic Era: Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Night Elf Rogues and Druids with Shadowmeld are more difficult to detect while stealthed or prowling.

  In practice: Hide out of combat, or make enemies drop you in combat at the cost of a longer cooldown; Blizzard says it works in druid forms.

• Quickness

  Changed

  Passive

  Dodge chance increased by 1% and movement speed increased by 2%. Night Elf Rogues and Druids are harder to detect in Stealth as if they were 1 level higher.

  New values

  In Classic Era: Dodge chance increased by 1%.

  In practice: A little dodge and movement speed, always on; night elf rogues and druids are also harder to spot in stealth.

• Wisp Spirit

  Changed

  Passive

  Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing movement speed by 75%.

  New values

  In Classic Era: Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing speed by 50%.

  In practice: Faster runs back to your corpse after a death.

What changed for night elves since Classic?

Night elves lose Nature Resistance and gain Elune's Light, an active trait that adds 10% critical strike chance to spells and attacks for 15 seconds. Their three other racials are stronger than in Classic Era: Quickness adds 2% movement speed to its 1% dodge, Wisp Spirit raises speed after death from 50% to 75%, and Shadowmeld can now make enemies drop you in combat.

Which classes can night elves play in WoW Forever?

Night elves can play five of the nine classes in WoW Forever: warrior, hunter, rogue, priest and druid. These are the same classes as in Classic Era. Each class links to its page and to its talent calculator, with the talent trees of the Forever beta.

• Warrior

  Class pageWarrior talents

• Hunter

  Class pageHunter talents

• Rogue

  Class pageRogue talents

• Priest

  Class pagePriest talents

• Druid

  Class pageDruid talents

Where do night elves start in WoW Forever?

Night elves start on Teldrassil, as in Classic: Blizzard keeps the original starting zones and adds new characters, quests, profession hooks and recipes to them. The Group Finder of the beta lists it for levels 1 to 14. Our leveling tool then shows which zones and dungeons fit each level.

Which priest racial spells do night elves get?

Night elf priests keep Starshards and Elune's Grace, both reworked. Starshards, from level 10, deals much more damage than in Classic Era (162 instead of 84 at rank 1) and now has a 30-second cooldown. Elune's Grace, from level 20, now lowers the chance to be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for 15 seconds or 3 misses.

• Starshards

  Changed

  Level 10, 7 ranks, active, instant, 30 sec cooldown

  Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 162 Arcane damage over 6 sec.

  New values. New cooldown

  In Classic Era: Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 84 Arcane damage over 6 sec.

• Elune's Grace

  Changed

  Level 20, 1 ranks, active, instant, 5 min cooldown

  Reduces the chance you'll be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for 15 sec or until you are missed 3 times.

  New values

  In Classic Era: Reduces ranged damage taken by 21 and increases chance to dodge by 10% for 15 sec.