Alliance
Night Elf
Night Elves gain Elune's Light, a 10% crit burst, on top of Shadowmeld and Quickness. Shadowmeld can now drop threat in combat, which hunters and casters can use.
- Faction
- Alliance
- Starting zone
- Teldrassil
- Capital
- Darnassus
- Classes
- 5
Racial abilities
From the WoW Forever client, with values at level 60. Hover or tap an icon for the in-game tooltip.
Elune's Light
Increases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 10% for 15 sec.
10% critical strike chance for 15 sec on a 3 min cooldown. A burst window to line up with trinkets and other cooldowns.
Shadowmeld
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.
Stealth while standing still. Out of combat it lets you drink or skip packs; in combat it makes enemies lose interest, which works as a threat drop at the cost of a 2 min cooldown.
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.
Quickness
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.
1% dodge and 2% movement speed. Night Elf rogues and druids also stealth as if they were one level higher.
Classic Era: Dodge chance increased by 1%.
Wisp Spirit
Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing movement speed by 75%.
75% faster as a wisp after death, so corpse runs are shorter.
Classic Era: Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing speed by 50%.
Removed since Classic
These Classic racials are no longer in the WoW Forever client.
Nature Resistance · Nature Resistance increased by 10.
Classes
Night Elf can play 5 classes in WoW Forever.
Best for
Burst damage specs, hunters and feral druids; rogues and druids also get better stealth.
Specs that get the most from these racials
- Beast Mastery Hunter Elune's Light · Shadowmeld · Quickness
- Marksmanship Hunter Elune's Light · Shadowmeld · Quickness
- Survival Hunter Elune's Light · Shadowmeld · Quickness
- Assassination Rogue Elune's Light · Quickness · Shadowmeld
- Combat Rogue Elune's Light · Quickness · Shadowmeld
Race description from the game
Ten thousand years ago, the night elves founded a vast empire, but their reckless use of primal magic brought them to ruin. In grief, they withdrew to the forests and remained isolated there until the return of their ancient enemy, the Burning Legion. With no other choice, the night elves emerged at last from their seclusion to fight for their place in the new world.