Dwarf

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

The stout dwarves of Ironforge are famed explorers who delve into the world's ancient secrets.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionAlliance

Model keyDwarf

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 (5)

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

What Each Racial Does

Explorer
You find additional fragments when looting archaeological finds and you can survey faster than normal archaeologists.
Frost Resistance
Reduces Frost damage taken by 1%.
Might of the Mountain
Your critical strikes now deal 204% damage and healing instead of the usual 200%.
Stoneform
Removes all harmful Poison, Disease, Curse, Magic, and Bleed effects and reduces all physical damage taken by 10% for 8 sec. This effect shares a 30 sec cooldown with other similar effects.

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 Hunter as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Dwarf under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 15 distinct appearance options for Dwarf, 14 on Body Type 1 and 11 on Body Type 2, worth 364 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 195 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 169 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 47 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Mustache, Beard, Nose Ring and Eyebrows.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Piercings.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Eye Color, Earrings, Tattoo, Tattoo Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face20
Skin Color30
Hair Style22
Hair Color21
Mustache10
Beard11
Eye Color47
Earrings8
Nose Ring6
Eyebrows1
Tattoo8
Tattoo Color4
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 Dwarf

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 6,941 Dwarf characters, the 9th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Shaman (2,288, 33%), Paladin (1,269, 18%), Hunter (883, 13%), Warrior (529, 8%) and Monk (463, 7%).
10 different classes appear on Dwarf characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 77% male and 23% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 594 ranked runs were set by Dwarf characters, the deepest key among them a plus 18 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,585.

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.