Allied races

This article concerns content exclusive to Battle for Azeroth.

Explore Azeroth as one of six new playable Allied Races, including four you've encountered in your campaign against the Legion. Embark on a quest to earn their favor and unlock each race, adding their strength to your faction. Create a new character and complete the full leveling experience to earn a distinctive Heritage Armor set.

Allied races are a new concept introduced with Battle for Azeroth, sometimes called "sub races", that allows players to play new races that are mechanically very similar to their parent races, but have additional separate lore and have an initial lore and quest campaign to complete before they are fully unlocked.

Allied races start at level 20; once unlocked, the race is unlocked across the player's entire account. Though players may elect to race change to an allied race and/or level boost, playing from 20 to max level will unlock a set of race-specific cosmetic gear (Heritage Armor). This gear is not able to be transmogrified outside the allied race it belongs to, but can be transmogged between armor types.

Though there are six allied races at the launch of Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard stated at BlizzCon 2017 they do intend to add more.

Requirements

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General

• Have purchased Battle for Azeroth (or preorder)
• Have a level 110 already on the realm where you want to play the Allied race
  • After you unlock the Allied race, you don't need a level 110 on other realms to create one^{[citation needed]}
• Complete a special scenario for the specific Allied race

Achievement and reputation

• Dark Iron Dwarves: Exalted with ? and completion of ?
• Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of  Ain't No Mountain High Enough
• Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of  You Are Now Prepared!
• Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of  Insurrection
• Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of  You Are Now Prepared!
• Zandalari Trolls: Exalted with ? and completion of ?

New allied races

Alliance Lightforged Draenei Dark Iron Dwarves Void Elves Horde Nightborne Highmountain Tauren Zandalari Trolls

Nightborne, Zandalari troll, and Highmountain tauren

Void elf, Dark Iron dwarf, and Lightforged draenei

Media

Videos

External links

Battle for Azeroth (US) Allied Races

Battle for Azeroth (EU) Allied Races

Guides

Wowhead Allied Races Overview by perculia

News

Official WoW Site (US) Building Reputation with Allied Races by Blizzard Entertainment February 1st, 2018