Blood Elf

Details

Playable RaceHorde

Survivors of a brutal war, the blood elves drew strength from the magical Sunwell to rebuild their kingdom.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyBloodElf

Read from ChrRaces in the current retail client build. The name forms, starting level and model key are the client's own fields; the portraits and body model are the client's own art; the racials come from the client's "Racial" skill line.

Racial Abilities (13)

Each one is a real spell in the current build. The client groups them as Racial - Blood Elf, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Arcane Acuity
Increases critical strike chance by 1%.
Arcane Affinity
Enchanting skill increased by 5.
Arcane Resistance
Reduces Arcane damage taken by 1%.
Arcane Torrent
Remove 1 beneficial effect from all enemies within yards and restore 3% of your Mana.

4 of the 5 racial abilities the client teaches this race carry tooltip text in the current build. The rest are passive hooks with no description of their own.

In the Character Creator

The client's own ChrRaces row names Mage as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Blood Elf under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 18 distinct appearance options for Blood Elf, 13 on Body Type 1 and 17 on Body Type 2, worth 389 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 183 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 206 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 35 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Facial Hair.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Earrings, Necklace, Armbands, Jewelry Color and Bracelets.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Ears, Horns, Blindfold, Tattoo, Tattoo Color, Eye Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face20
Skin Color31
Hair Style21
Hair Color21
Facial Hair13
Ears3
Horns7
Blindfold12
Tattoo7
Tattoo Color6
Eye Color35
Eyesight4
Eye Style3

Counted from the client's own ChrCustomizationOption and ChrCustomizationChoice records for this race's models. Blizzard labels the two records Body Type 1 and Body Type 2 in the creator itself.

Who Is Playing Blood Elf

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 21,678 Blood Elf characters, the 4th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Paladin (6,245, 29%), Demon Hunter (5,018, 23%), Priest (1,988, 9%), Death Knight (1,650, 8%) and Mage (1,526, 7%).
10 different classes appear on Blood Elf characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 51% male and 49% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 1,299 ranked runs were set by Blood Elf characters, the deepest key among them a plus 17 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,428.

These are counts from our own rated PvP and Mythic Plus crawls, last refreshed 2026-09-20. They say who is playing the race right now. They are not the character creator's list of allowed classes: the client keeps that in CharBaseInfo, which this datamine does not carry, so a class missing from the list above only means nobody in the sample is playing it.