Races and graphics

Characters

The old races on new models

Human, orc, dwarf, night elf, undead, tauren, gnome, troll, blood elf, draenei — all ten races have been redrawn. These are not repainted textures over the old models: new geometry, new animation, real facial expressions.

Armour and weapons sit right. Helmets, shoulders, cloaks and weapons are fitted to the new models — nothing pokes through the plate and nothing floats in the air.

Pick a side

15 new races

Fourteen races per side instead of five. Worgen, goblin, pandaren, dracthyr, vulpera, Zandalari, mechagnome, earthen and the rest — the ones that arrived in the expansions after Wrath.

Every race is the real thing, not a repainted human: its own model, its own animation, its own set of classes. The worgen has a druid, the mechagnome has no shaman — exactly as it should be.

Character creation

A new creation screen

Twenty-eight races simply did not fit the old window, so the creation screen was rebuilt: factions on the sides, classes in a strip below, and a scene of its own behind every race.

The appearance options are the familiar ones: skin, face, hairstyle, hair colour, beard. Fifty sliders per race would not be Wrath any more.

Collections

1,415 mounts and 2,822 pets

There used to be 303 and 187. Now the game has the mounts and pets from all the later expansions, with their models and icons.

They work the usual way: learn one and it goes into your collection, and stays there for good. No macros needed to ride.

Getting started

How to get into the game

You need the WotLK Classic 3.4.4 client and our archive from the Play now page. Unpack it into your game folder, launch — the new models and races download by themselves.