Gnome

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

The diminutive and ingenious gnomes are renowned for creating countless technological wonders.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionAlliance

Model keyGnome

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 (10)

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

What Each Racial Does

Arcane Resistance
Reduces Arcane damage taken by 1%.
Engineering Specialization
Engineering skill increased by 5.
Escape Artist
Escape the effects of any immobilization or movement speed reduction effect.
Expansive Mind
Maximum mana increased by 5%.
Nimble Fingers
Haste increased by 1%.

5 of the 6 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 Warlock as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Gnome under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 12 distinct appearance options for Gnome, 10 on Body Type 1 and 9 on Body Type 2, worth 274 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 135 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 139 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 34 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Mustache, Beard and Eyebrows.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Earrings and Earring Color.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Eye Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face14
Skin Color14
Hair Style18
Hair Color19
Mustache11
Beard9
Eyebrows9
Eye Color34
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 Gnome

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 6,785 Gnome characters, the 10th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Warrior (3,292, 49%), Mage (754, 11%), Priest (700, 10%), Monk (610, 9%) and Warlock (533, 8%).
8 different classes appear on Gnome characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 61% male and 39% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 457 ranked runs were set by Gnome characters, the deepest key among them a plus 16 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,299.

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.