Horde · Retail Midnight

Orc race and class path.

Choose a supported class, understand the racial utility, then continue into the full specialization roadmap.

Current as of July 26, 2026Retail race and class access can change; verify the character-creation screen after major patches.
Racial utility

What Orc brings

Blood Fury provides an on-demand throughput button, Hardiness improves control resilience, and Command supports pet users.

A natural fit for Hunters, Warlocks, Enhancement Shaman, Warriors, and other burst-oriented specs.

Available classes

9 class choices

Death KnightHunterMageMonkPriestRogueShamanWarlockWarrior

Start-to-Hero

A purposeful five-stage path.

  1. Create: choose a supported class and decide the primary role.
  2. Level: use correct armor, primary stat, and weapons; replace heirlooms when they stop scaling.
  3. Practice: bind the interrupt, defensive, movement, and class utility before endgame.
  4. Gear: follow the selected specialization page for tier, weapons, trinkets, gems, enchants, and consumables.
  5. Hero audit: finish the build, then compare performance and utility rather than race alone.

Supported specialization guides

Pick the exact build.

Each linked page contains the gearing, talents, rotation framework, consumables, addons, macros, and final audit for that specialization.

Frost Death Knight DPSUnholy Death Knight DPSBlood Death Knight TankBeast Mastery Hunter DPSMarksmanship Hunter DPSSurvival Hunter DPSArcane Mage DPSFire Mage DPSFrost Mage DPSWindwalker Monk DPSMistweaver Monk HealerBrewmaster Monk TankShadow Priest DPSDiscipline Priest HealerHoly Priest HealerAssassination Rogue DPSOutlaw Rogue DPSSubtlety Rogue DPSElemental Shaman DPSEnhancement Shaman DPSRestoration Shaman HealerAffliction Warlock DPSDemonology Warlock DPSDestruction Warlock DPSArms Warrior DPSFury Warrior DPSProtection Warrior Tank